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?

I checked the spelling and in this case it’s definitely Euthymia - the name obviously has the same Greek origins as the medical term so perhaps her parents are MH practitioners with an interest in Ancient Greece names (I know this not to be true so who knows why they picked it!).

Looking at Rees-Mogg’s children’s names Thomas, Alfred, Mary and Peter all perfectly normal. He just got a bit too adventurous with Sixtus and Anselm and should have let the Dominic and Charles be the first name. Those kids may just use those instead. That is what my DC would have done, used their normal name at school! By year 3 all of mine would have done just that and ignored what we gave them, had they considered it outrageous.

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You must be from the same place as me (my sons middle name is Cornelius after his grandad - my son loves it - but I wasnt brave enough to call it for his first name).

Most of these names are increasingly common, but one thing that has puzzled me is the resurgence over the past 10 years of what might be termed "Victorian scullery maid" names.

I worked with a ‘Jonty’ it was short for Jonathan … not posh at all

What a beautiful name.

Jonty is just short for Jonathan, isn't it?

I love it, though.

I have come across De Courcy as a first name. Attended a prestigious public school, naturally. I'm guessing it was an ancestral family name.

So many beautiful and interesting names here! Unfortunately where we are there’s tons and tons of Alex, Sophie, Chloe, Oliver. There’s nothing wrong with these names, there’s just sooo many of them. Likewise Isabella and Nicholas. Chav names here are Connor, Kieran, Dylan, Amber, Rosie.

The Times birth announcements are epic for this stuff.

They're all like 'Monty & Agatha are proud to announce the timely arrival of LILIPUT PONCE-PONCE LAVENDER, sister to Mandarin & Bordeaux'.

I scoff but we totally got our kid's name from there.

It's still a fun ride, though 😁

That's a lot better way of putting it rather than saying old lady names. Ada, Elsie, Betty, Florence, Iris, Mabel etc seem to be popular but you wouldn't call a baby Barbara, Gloria, Eileen, Marjorie, Carol or Shirley I don't think.

Surely it’s just the cycle of people using their grandparents’ names? (Many people, including me, coming from scullery maid heritage too). And then as those names become more used, other people like them and use them.

We are on the edge of the Barbara/Elaine/Moira/Lesley generation now I imagine as the babies of the 40s become the inspiration.

Sam Thompson (who I never knew, but liked him when I saw him in this) was on a family history show recently with Marvin Humes. De Courcy is his middle name and had been in the family for generations. Sam looked into if it was posh. It wasn't, his however many times grandad just made it up to sound posh.

Tbh reading this is hilarious

Beauchamp - pronounced 'Beecham'. I imagine if you didn't know how to say it the parents could tell you weren't out of the posh drawer.

Portia - DH thought it was 'Porsche' like the car when he heard it at the school LOL.

I give my dogs posh names, Rupert, Lottie and Hendrix.

Verity

Cosima and Peregrine 😊

Porsche! 😂

Cornelia, Demelza, Cressida, Cosmo, Rafferty, Willa, Winston, Coco, Henrietta, Beatrice, Clementine, Violet, Blanche, Marmaduke, Telesfora, a billion Jemimas and Matildas ...

Can you tell I was privately educated? 😂 Some 'notable' names at my schools included Michael Jackson's godchildren (Mark Lester of 'Oliver!' fame's kids), a family from some kind of Iranian royalty, Pandora and Max Vanderpump from Vanderpump Rules (though their surname was just 'Todd' back then), Tahliah Barnett aka FKA twigs, and someone to do with Jocelyn Wildenstein - possibly a grandchild?

Funny thing is, all those kids from ridiculously wealthy families had perfectly average names, except Pandora I guess. Seemed a pretty normal, nice girl, though. Tahliah, however, was very much NOT nice! 😂

There's a bit of a difference surely, as broadly speaking one of those groups is associated with economic and social disadvantage, limited opportunities etc and the other with inherent advantage and often privilege (arguably at the cost of the first group).

In one of those groups the association with the stereotype adds to the disadvantage, whereas in the other (i.e. if your name is associated with 'poshness') it adds to the advantage.

Boris Johnson

We have a Moss and a Cyrus at baby group. All lovely children and parents. We don’t live in a particularly posh area!

Maximilian.
Every syllable clearly enunciated, multiple times, in the supermarket.
"Maximilian! Maximilian! Where are you Maximilian? Oh, darling Maximilian, there you are, don't run away from mummy darling".