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

[purpledaze24]

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?

that would be Clyamydia
yes, similar!

Not actually met as he was having lunch with his grandparents. Was about 9 years old.

Vincent makes me think of mobsters and Kenneth is always Ken to me.

Axl
Fitz
Yoby

Penelope sounds posh (I love this name).

I’ll add Persephone (which I don’t particularly love).

I’ll also add Prunella and Prudence.

I wouldn't say posh but I did raise an eyebrow and think "poor kid" when I heard a Mum call her snotty nosed toddler Atlas. If only I had one on me and not my London A-Z I would have lent it to her. Atlas!

I was reading through this thread thinking that it always used to be the case that the truly posh just had ridiculous nicknames rather than any particularly exciting names. Speaking as someone addicted to 20th century British history. I’m glad if this is still the case, and hope the Bunnies still run free. (Hard to imagine shagging a Bunny of a male persuasion but there you go.)

One of my children's names has managed to be mentioned on here in both ‘camps’, so to speak. Not sure what that says about my naming strategy but they were named for a beloved relative who was born to newly middle class parents who were both born poor. God bless what social mobility we used to have.

I’ve met a large number of the posh in my life, being posh adjacent for various reasons. I have worked with a real actual Tarquin for example. I don’t really register any names at any point now. Names that used to feel a bit out there get used in all sorts of ways by everyone now and isn’t that a good thing? Let’s have judges called Kayden soon. Society would be the better for it.

The current most tedious posh person in my orbit at the moment is called Tom but insists on being called by a version of his surname which makes a different name, in a way someone less (unreasonably) confident through a life of being blessed probably wouldn’t have. Rather than names, which end up I guess a proxy for the resentment many of us feel at watching such mediocre types succeed on the back of their background, maybe we could have a few threads about the most pointless class privilege we’ve ever seen? Or the worst faux middle-class posturing we’ve come across on MN?

BTW Arabella is surely Bella or Ari - never Arab???

I heard someone call “Oberon!” at the school gate this morning (a very ordinary state school, not normally full of Oberons!)

I overheard a mother refer to her child as Corinthian while at a dentist’s in Islington.

Given that the population was so small, many of us are probably related to them too. Just luck, bad or otherwise, brings us to where we are.
Many of the so called aristocracy arrived there via extra marital affairs. Certainly any family with Fitz at the beginning of their name for many centuries.

Vincent ? Vince ain't posh. Vince is playing darts and propping up the bar.

Girls: Flavia, Tacita, Minty, Olympia, Euthymia

All sound like good names for a mouthwash or toothpaste brand.

Exactly @Dabralor - the weird nicknames are something else. Either babyhood or boarding school conned I reckon.
I went to uni with all sort of Muffy and Loli and Clammie type nicknames and one was Bumpa. Seriously!

Vince gives out unsolicited advice while you’re on the fruit machines.

I met 2 boys recently called Horatio and Raphael. Raphael is a fab name but Horatio sounded very odd on a small boy.

I love Ottilie, Allegra and Tabitha but my husband won't let me go near them as names!! (Although now Allegra makes me think of Charlotte Du Jardin so it's put me off a bit).

@flyswats Axl is surely just Axl Rose or Axel Foley!!

Cecil
Roland
Peregrine
Benedict
Guy
Jocelyn
Oswald
Augustus
Felix
Marmaduke
Dominic
Fenella
Rufus
Vere
Claude
Aubrey

And runs off when he should be marrying Penny!!

They were just good friends, apparently!

Mines a Cosmo and he rolls in his own shite!

Money-Coutts? Crikey. Did her family found the bank? You couldn’t get a more appropriately matched double-barrell name. 😁

• Sorry, should've quoted the above in my message

Given that the population was so small, many of us are probably related to them too. Just luck, bad or otherwise, brings us to where we are.
Many of the so called aristocracy arrived there via extra marital affairs. Certainly any family with Fitz at the beginning of their name.

Oh noes!

If there was a thread laughing at ‘chav’ names that would be very much ‘punching down’ in a comedy context, as ‘chavs’ more often than not would have less money, access to education and general privilege. While a thread laughing at ‘posh’ names would be ‘punching up’ at those with money and privilege through birth etc.

I’m not saying either is ok, of course.

Vicente is a working class name in Spain. Funny how the same name spelled slightly differently can be considered posh in one country, and the opposite in another.

My friend has Horris and Ethel, 5 and 3 respectively. I met a Lydia the other day, about 14 and thought it was lovely