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?

I'm sure I've seen a common people name thread on here before. Can't be bothered to look it up though.

There’s a journalist called Plum Sykes (a Victoria). I used to think that was her real name and since Apple and Peaches nothing surprises me, yet Clementine doesn’t seem a silly fruit name, it sounds quite posh.

I think Adelaide sounds posh.

St John!? As a first name? Boy or girl....ffs

I've had cats called some of the names on this thread; Monty, Noddy, Hector, Ambrose and Heathcliff but I only named one of them and I was 9 😂

Nn minty lol

Yes, its pronounced Sin Gin and it is a name.

when i was a young teen I knew a Gervaise. he lived in a very posh village ... but in a very average house - well below average for that billage. I remember being astonished as i was sure he'd bein one of the 7 bed detached with a pool

We have some interlopers sneaking in 😁

English parents? Wondering if it's possibly common in another country....

I miss read this as Solitude and was thinking that it would be quite cool to be called Solitude but that may fit my lonely state of mind.

Peregrine is right up there.
Beatrice.
Bartholomew

and those stupid nicknames just barely suitable for a child that they keep using inappropriately into adulthood like Bufty Rufty Tuftington or Binky or Wiggy.

I remember that from, was it Tess of the D’urbervilles? We read it at school and I remember being dumbfounded that St John was actually Sinjun.

Really?? it makes me think of otters (which I do love tbf) or Utterly Butterly. 🤷‍♀️

When I used to go to horse-shows as a pony-mad pre-teen long ago in the 70s, there were two regular competitors whose names over the PA system raised a titter. They were twins named Annabelle and Tinkabell Bentley-Denton.

I’ve never heard anything to beat that!

Its is judgy though - and slightly pointless. Posh people use names that aren't posh and anyone can use a posh name. It doesnt change their poshness either way imo.

I think names that are older and established tend to be posher - and I guess for that reason things like Tarquin kind of slide in, though I do think they are often used more by aspirational types.

But then why shouldn't people be aspirational for their dc I guess?

The names I think are fundamentally not posh are really just the names that are much more recent - the Jaydens etc.

If a family of Diamond, Jayden, Kylie and Neveah also have an Elizabeth, Elizabeth is still a posh name.

I think the definition of posh is when the kid is known by a silly nick name eg Elizabeth known as Piggy & an Emily known as Dolly. It only seems to be the super rich that do this with Nick names

Or the reindeer reserve team.

It's to do with confidence.

You have to know your dc is perfectly clean, well-brought up and has perfect manners to not worry about calling them Piggy!

3 terraced bedrooms can still be posh territory. Depends where it is.

No it is to do with wealth and social status. Plenty of kids are perfectly clean, well brought up with perfect manners. But the teachers would be raising concerns about you if you met all these criteria, but were living in a council house and calling your kid piggy.

I still laugh about how a friend heard a posh dad in a play-park calling his son 'Lucien!' in a very deep voice! My kid helped a Jupiter and a Merlin at a nursery on work experience!

At one time I would have said Rupert but like a lot of names in seems to have filtered its way down to all classes.

Nimrod? I put that as a joke on one of these threads a few weeks ago because it's my dog's nickname 😄. Along with Barold and Nedmund...which are from a thread ages ago and I don't have a clue what it was about!

Nope

Hand on heart, there's a Thisbe at my DD's school!

One thing is old money posh, and the other is new money pretentious fake posh. Old money posh are things like Anthony, Charles, etc.

new money pretentious is stuff like Max, Hector etc