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?

Those are all pretty nouveau names - the "poshest" are usually the plainest, and in family traditions: James, Katherine, Anne, George, William, and so on.

Yes, you're right! Princess Diana's father was fond of saying that the Spencers were an older English family than the Windsors but of course that discounts all of the women who married into that family and became mothers of the next generation of sons to carry on the name. It's a very male-centric way of looking at ancestry to just focus on the male lineage.

The British Royal family are direct descendants of William the Conqueror and also of Saxon kings of England.

I have documented my ancestry back to the Conqueror and almost everyone with British heritage is descended from Saxon and Norman royalty. Most people with European heritage are descended from Charlemagne. The challenge is to trace and document it!

Theres a tonne of Ediths and Edies in my un-posh area. It was a huge trend about 6-8 years ago.

Don’t worry “chav” names or downmarket/ low rent in MN code are slated daily on here. We know they’re naughty boy and stripper names and the poor kids will never be taken seriously in middle class careers. I’m sure the posh named folk can deal with one thread pointing out their names are a bit posh.

I say that as someone who came on this thread to see if my DDs name appeared (because my naming tastes and bank balance do not align).

I get jeered at for being "posh" by my in-laws, despite growing up on the roughest council estate in Croydon, same as they did.

And they don't even know that my father's family name is a double-barrelled one. He dispensed with using the first bit when he left the navy in 1957, and my brother and I only have the second part on our birth certificates.

Xenophon

Augustinus

Bingham
Piers
Tarquin

Is that real???

Kingsley is the latest one I’ve heard at the school gate.

Has anyone said Ptolemy yet?

I used to work with a lot of posh people, the type that went to well known boarding schools and whose ancestors you could google (old money). We had a Rupert, Algernon, Constance, Persephone, Cuthbert, Hugo

The poshest person I know is called John

I know one. Known as Tolly. Fairly ordinary MC background, both parents in university admin.

Oh yes! The "Every Syllable" delivery of that name - and the look of utter fury when some unsuspecting person inadvertently calls them Max! 😂

They are not posh names. There's an extremely chavvy, cheerful, ungrammatical, tattoo'd family on youtube who exploit their gorgeous little daughter whose name is Arabella. The wife has an older child called 'Roman' from a previous relati8onship and they are shortly expecting another baby girl, I wonder what she will be called.

There's no such thing as a 'posh' name. Names go in and out of vogue. The best names are the ordinary, classic ones.

You are being chippy.

My grandmother always said that was a servant's name, together with Ruby and Pearl.

The Downton Effect.

Simeon
Benedict
Charles

This. DD's a midwife and has had some aristocratic gigs and these are the names of choice. Also Jane, Anne, Robert, James.

A former colleague told me that he used to work with a Ruperta in a previous job.

I always enjoy these threads (doesn't everyone?). SO many of my family's names come up on these threads and we're not posh at all.

My mum has a posh name becuase my granny was catholic and named her for the saint who's name day she happened to be born on. I think that gave us all airs and graces...

I was once at a very un-posh softplay where someone shouted "Ptolemy! Octoavian"; but that was in Brighton, no one turned a hair.

I have friends who are properly posh (landed gentry) and their children are standard top 50 UK kids names, nothing fancy.

Ogilvy

I don’t think the Spanish princess caused the trend elsewhere. Leonie has been popular in German speaking countries since the nineties, well before the princess was born, likewise Eleanor in the UK. It seems more likely that it was already becoming an increasingly popular name across Europe and they cottoned onto that.

Jasper, Cornelius, Hannibal, Fergus, Henriette, Artemis