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?

Also names like Tabby for Tabitha, Maude becomes Maudie or Momo, Fern, or names after birds like Wren - literally nobody bats an eyelid, neither at River and Ocean either. Or Coco.
However, if you planted these families somewhere else people may probably consider them really posh potentially. Whereas in London they are impoverished middle class whingeing about not being able to afford private school.

Isn't it 'r' that Jonathan Ross can't pronounce rather than 'c'?

You are changing what you said before. Leonie is a name with a different etymology from Leonor and while sounding "similar" are not the same at all.

I repeat it again. Leonie has an etymology from a Latin and Germanic background meaning "lion" while Leonor has always had a Spanish Greek etymology meaning "light". To put it simpler, Leonor comes from the Greek word "Helena".

Is 'Labby' short for Labia? Quite pretty really...

Her name is Spanish - Alicia. And the only way English speakers will say her name right is by phonetically change the "c" by a "th". English and Spanish (from Spain) have a similar alphabet, but are phonetically poles apart.

Napolean and Francis.

Definitely is. Lives in North Yorkshire. Maybe the same one.

Minty

Snow

Where are you based? I'm in Wales and Taliesin is not uncommon, and I don't think it's a marker of a particular background. It's also the name of a village a couple of miles from me.

Rollo.

But I went to a very ordinary middle class school and it was stuffed to the gunwales with Xanthes and Rowenas and Phaedras - widely read hippy parents, I think. Also Bristol, so inevitably a couple of Isambards.

Aristide
Olympe

I was going to say the same.
Taliesin is a Welsh name, maybe the person is just not used to hearing it.

Guy
I know. It’s probably not posh in England but I’m in Ireland and it would be considered posh here.
I don’t know of any Tarquins, Jontys, Aramintas or Arabellas etc.
I do know of one Clarissa but I think there was a tv programme with a Clarissa in it on around the time of her birth as the family aren’t posh at all but are lovely.

I've taught all of these 😆

I'll give you Bunty.

'we' poshos 😉

I dislike it when people say 'ee-ah' instead of 'shuh' with names like Alicia, Lucia, Patricia etc... certainly don't think it sounds classier.

Too me it sounds more uneducated, like a child learning to reading out loud by saying each individual letter rather than the combination sound.

yes I know what you said. I’m telling you that Leonie is used in Germany as a nickname for Leonora, which is the same name as Leonor. And that both the full version and the nickname were popular before the princess. It’s like Ellie and Eleanor. Maybe there is an alternative etymology for Ellie too, but in reality the reason Ellie became popular is as a nickname for Eleanor, peaking in popularity a few years after the full name.

Have been on MN for a long time; my kids are mid to late Gen Z as our my friends/colleagues'.

They went for:

George, Thomas, James, Ben (not Benedict, Benjamin, Benoit)
Mabel, Clare, Ella, Sophie et al.

I am talking about people whose own parents pass time in the House of Lords.

Not a stereotypical 'posh' name in sight.

More that case that most people with European heritage 'who can trace it back that far' are descended from Charlemagne. Pedigree collapse comes into effect.

I have my paternal grandmother's back to the 8th Century - and yes Charlemagne is there, along with most of the big names in the history books... but the amount of intermarrying is insane. I'm probably related to myself several hundred different ways. It did throw new light on history - we know the Wars of the Roses as the 'cousins' war' but pretty much all the nasty goings on for hundreds of years were between close relatives one way or another.

Other ancestor lines I get stuck in the 1500's if I even get that far back as there are no records before then because they were too poor/insignificant to feature.

The "poshest" people I know all have very normally named children generally biblical or family. The more flamboyant ones I hear tend to be arty middle-classes.

They had some hideous names in early times... anyone fancy Sprota, Hawise or Cunigunda for their next baby?

Just goes to show doesn’t it. They would all wince at ‘posh’. four of the above have titles.

The upper and working classes have more in common than is realised.

It is the try too hard of the nouveau riche and the strange /made up / Americanised names of other sections of society that stand out.

I no longer understand your posts and reasoning and prefer to end it here.

The proper pronunciation of Alicia is Alicia, not Aleesha.

Tuppence
Dorothea
Lucinda

Jonty
Hugo
Benedict

Just another middle/upper class bashing thread.