Poshest children’s name’s you’ve heard?

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My DS is due to start school in Sept and we recently met his soon to be classmates at an intro session. I have never heard so many stereotypically posh names in one group of people in my life! (The school is close to a very wealthy village…that we don’t live in sadly!) there was an Arabella, a Tarquin, a Jaygo, a Henrietta. So that’s what inspired this thread…what do you consider the top 5 poshest names you’ve ever heard of?

Although Queen Victoria's eldest child was always known as Vicky and they were pretty posh.
Unless royalty are above posh perhaps. Hmmm...

I love both those, they are mainstream where I live!

Lady Louise's boyfriend is apparently called Felix da Silver-Clamp.

Sounds like a Harry Enfield character

That’s like the journalist Sophie Money-Coutts.

I thought it was a made up, sorta satirical name. Nope, her real name.

It is.

So much agree with this

The poshest elements of British society are said to look down on the royals as Germanic upstarts. Only those who can trace their lineage back to the Conqueror and possibly Anglo Saxon nobility can be said to be truly posh.

*spoonbillstretford *
My youngest stepson's mum wanted to call him Sebastian. They live in London but they're both working class, his dad's from a council estate in Manchester.
He put his foot down very firmly because "I'm not having him have seven shades of crap kicked out of him when l take him back up home."
Youngest has a lovely Irish name. Both parents' families are of Irish descent.

My posh friend is called Rupert Giles, his sister is called Arabella.

I grew up with an aristocratic family living nearby (kids went to the local primary school until they went to boarding school). Names included Walter, Percy and Barnabas

Yes agree Kate, William and so on compulsory for the genuinely posh in an old money way.

Ottilia is also lovely and very SW London new(ish) posh. I love Clementine and Monty too but couldn’t quite bring myself to do it to my own child! Clemmie is just too like clammy IMHO.

it is very Brit old wealth to hand down uniforms and so on, I did that with my kids but the money hasn’t flowed towards me in the same way despite my best efforts!

DS is Rupert and I've had the ''ohh, that's posh'' comment a few times when he was born and people were asking his name.

I would always have said I thought Giles was a mega posh name. I knew a Giles at university whose dad was a Lord.

Yet since settling in the far south west I've known loads of distinctly un-posh Gileses. One of them is even a crane operator at a boat yard 😁

I have this weird thing where if someone insists on the “full” name I view it as “posh”. I’ve no idea where it comes from but it basically gives a lot of names the potential to be posh…so there’s a boy in DD’s class whose mum insists on her son being called Timothy, even correcting other children. So I’ve decided that’s posh.

Clytemnestra

I never knew that! So Luh-Teese instead of "lettuce"?

My daughter had a Cordelia in her class, along with her sibling Herbert. They always had that scruffy look in the poshest way possible, very Boris Johnson-esque. Their mum frequently shared photos in the WhatsApp group of them playing tennis or tending the plants in their sprawling garden, casually mentioning that it was their private tennis court.

She never quite acknowledged the rest of us at the school gates and her children didn’t do playdates, to preserve the family lineage I presume.

Read Snobs by Julian Fellowes

Sounds like something that needs some strong antibiotics!

When the first born of King Felipe and Letizia was born and was called Leonor everyone raised an eyebrow. The name was so old, it had almost disappeared in Spain. Within 2 years, Sweden and Belgium had newborn princesses called Leonore and Eleanor.

Leonor was never a posh name, it became trendy in some European countries after Felipe and Letizia rescued the name from the history book.

Bonnie Connie Donnie Johnnie Lonnie Ronnie and Tammy Wynette.

(Bill Bryson said it first).

My dad was Kenneth. He was working class from Camberwell 😂

He might own the boat yard 😁 I would have thought that was a posh name too (with Miles and Niles).

My DS used to go to school with a Hercules/Ulysses and an Artemis all siblings!

@Pinepeak2434 I suppose nasty right wing racists could be posh but what do I know I'm pathetic apparently :)