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?

IMHO properly posh people are more easily identified as such by bonkers nicknames used into adulthood. Eg. Bunny, Beano, Woody, A*se - things like that. The original names might be George, Henry, Elizabeth and other classics but the nicknames are wild.

Being named after somewhere you own is also a dead giveaway.

Doesn't it depend on the origin of the name?

Lucia is LuCHEEa because it is Italian (through from the Latin).

I don’t think they’re posh.

Haha to Tarquin - Tarquin is clearly a MN baby!

Recently we have kids from China and Hong Kong who have English names too, which they use at school. Lots of Henry, William, George’s and Sophies and Janes right there. Seems like they know what is actually posh?
But the arty farty middle class names are far more fun. They do not pick those, maybe not yet.

Quintessa

that's brilliant ...
was 'er old man a diamond geezer ...
I guess she was an only child ...

The thing is, it's the people who are posh/rich/MC or UC, not the names.

I know two girls called Willa - not a name I think of as 'posh'. One of them is plenty nice but called Willa b/c her parents liked it.
But the other one is v. posh but v modest. Willa is a shortened version of her old fashioned, passed down, distinctive (possibly outing) family name. Her older relatives (aunts, gp's) were good friends with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip and were close to King Charles when he was a boy.
And think of the name Harry. That boy could be a prince of the realm or a chimney sweep or anything in between.

Lots of the posh/rich/UC/MC boys I know have a traditional name and use the short form: Freddie for Frederick, Eddie for Edward, Charlie for Charles. Girls often have similarly traditional or straightforward names: Emma, Ella, Louisa, Alice, Florence, Chloe, Sophie. Some are more interesting: Esme, Aurelia, Arabella, Cosmo, Humphrey, Jasper, Ottilie, Eva/Evie, Oscar

The problem is English and Spanish (Spain) are phonetically poles apart languages. We can read, write and never get the pronunciation quite right unless we learned both languages as children.

Like my niece, I have a difficult name to pronounce in English. No one gets it right by reading it. I learned long ago that if I want to get my name correctly pronounced, I need to give a bit of feed back how it should be spelled in English to sound right in Spanish. The moment I phonetically spell my name, everybody gets it right.

Just to touch some basics, any word with a "cia" should be read as "thia"

This is Horrible, classist and judgy - would you comment on names from all backgrounds? Would you start a post about common names too?! This kind of weird reverse snobbery directed towards children is out of order.

Having taught for 40 years plus I don't believe there is such a thing as a posh name. Children are essentially all different and put their own individuality onto any name.

Marmeduke
Peregrine
Barnaby
Hugh
Miles
Tobias

Cressida
Portia
Beatrice
Allegra
Genevieve
Jocasta

Based on of origin it would not have been pronounced as 'ee-uh'.

That became more common when it made it to Spanish speaking areas (which have different language bases) but it did not originate there, it is a Germanic name originally.

John and Mary.

However "Plum" does it for me. A classmate of dd who is now grown up. Can anyone guess the actual name?

Jane, Clare, David, you what now?

I agree: its people who are posh, not names. Using a posh name doesn't suddenly make you posh.

Also, it comes down to what these threads always come down to: people have different ideas of posh.

Lots of these sound arty UMC to me not posh. Another poster's contribution sounded to me like a wealthy/celeb type school, but not posh as such.

Is Clare considered posh? I know loads fo Clare's of various ages and none are posh ha.

Cordelia and Octavia

Loveday
Auberon

Victoria
Plum was a usual nickname for Victoria

Meh hehe he. You can ALWAYS trust mumsnetters to correct any small detail, you fool.
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Ps
I would have spelled Lettice Lettuce as well. I have never came across such a name.

The ee ah for Alicia is apparently Italian and Spanish. I prefer it as I really dislike the name Alesha.

Why not?

My cat is called Atticus!

Arabella
Samson
Casper
Clarence
Arlo
Jasper
Jonah
Ophelia
Jemimah
St John

I know a Florence and Rafferty. Gorgeous names that would seem very out of place on my council estate!

Arabella isn't posh anymore. I hear it regularly along with Neveah, Jayden, Braden, Kayden, etc.

I only know how to say Beauchamp because the bus into a city near me goes up a road with that name and the bus has a speaker to say the name of the stop 😅