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?

Hugo, Jonty and Indigo.

Jaygo isn't posh. It's just an unusual spelling of Jago which is the Cornish variant of James.

Thank you all for this excellent list of names for animals, but never children.

Rupert, Olive

Atlanta is not at all posh.

Tuppence and Araminta (known as 'Minty') at DS's nursery. Big bro was called Percy I believe. Reasonably posh area in the home counties but everyone else called Hugo, James, Emily etc.

I had a great aunt called Atlanta (born in the 1880s), in the East End.
She definitely wasn’t posh, bless her.

Kingsley & Buckminster

(I have an aunt called Araminta - Minty for short)

My friend named her kid Octavia over twenty years ago. I thought it was ridiculously posh (which she is). Around the same time another friend had twins Otto and Miles, which I thought sounded like a couple of dobermans.

Ptolemy

Sixtus. Jacob Rees Mogg has a child with this name

Exactly it’s not the same kettle of fish

Araminta was on my baby name list! I loved moondial!

Three of the names in your post are in regular use in my children’s school so I don’t think they are necessarily posh.
The current trend here is for names that I haven’t hear outside of my parents generation really.
In the last few weeks i’ve met a Charles (not a Charlie) Mabel, Rosalind and Evangeline. I did wonder if they would go by the shortened once they properly enter school and their mates are shouting across the field at them.
Names like Jago are usually regional, we’re in the South West so I’ve met a couple.

I had a guinea pig once called Oberon. He was an absolute beast but my mum said that he reminded her of Danny Dyer so that's not posh at all.

Which would be a bit silly of them as the current Royal family go all the way back there too. Victoria was seen as irredeemably middle class because of her lifestyle rather than her lineage I thought? The Germans weren’t much liked post Anne as they were seen as dull and not at all the glamorous Jacobites, not to mention their general lack of integration with the British aristocracy for the first couple of generations and refusal to speak English, but not because they weren’t ‘posh’. George I was the great grandson of James I as much as Anne had been his great granddaughter.

SIL called her child Kale.

NOOOOO! Surely no one would do that??

Benedict is a saint name. Not common but not unusual. Has never been popular or unpopular. It's just posh now because of Cumberbatch

This in spades.

What a mean spirited thread.

The only Kingsley I knew was a thug who eventually was jailed for murder

I had a cousin called Moss, short for Maurice.....he certainly wasn't posh.

My son's class had both an Atlanta and a Georgia, which amused him as a geography fan.

Lydia is pretty main stream. Unfortunately it always reminds me of the song 'Lydia the Tattooed Lady' as my dad was a Marx Brothers fan.

Poor little Horris is going to be spelling his name a lot and it won't take much imagination for someone to change the last letter.

Rufus. My son asked me what the boy's "real name" was