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?

Algernon 🥴

I have a pet rat called Ottilie - and we all call her Otty.

It was one of my top choices for DD and DH said no. At the time I would have had Tilly as a nn. DD is fuming that she wasn't called Ottilie... apparently it's much better than what we actually picked.

I know a couple of young Orions. Def not posh!

I suppose the pinnacle of aristocracy would count as 'posh' so looking at all the current English Dukes (non-royal), their children's names are:

Henry Miles
Rachel Rose
Thomas Jack
Isabel Serena
Philip
Catherine Sarah
George Dominic
Melissa Jane
Max Ralph
Sebastian Edward
Sophia Rose
Henrietta Charlotte
Charles Thomas George
Alexandra
Charles Henry
William Rupert Charles
Frederick Lysander Charles
Eloise Cordelia Sky
Alfred James Charles
Henry Robert Fitzroy
Isabella Elsa
Alexander
Emma Caroline
Charles Francis Topham
Alexandra Lucy Clare
Henry Robin Charles
William
Celina Imogen
Jasmine Nancy
George John Godolphin
Araminta Clementine Megan
Caspar Sasha Ivor
Violet Diana Louise
Alice Louisa Lily
Eliza Charlotte
Charles John Montague
Hugo William James

The Ducal heirs don't all have children yet but some names I found include:

Olympia
Leonora
Maude
James
Elinor Myrtle
Alexandra
Henry
Henry David Fitzroy
Lara Charlotte
Jack
James Malcolm Aubrey Edward

Nope, Sinjun is as English as they come.

I worked briefly with a Merlin in my 20s (mid-90s), I thought it was an unusal name then and his parents must've been hippies.

For a brief while DH toyed with the idea of Ptolemy for DS, I was not keen. Went for a name that was reasonably popular. However, we told DS when he was slightly older what he might have been called, so he called one of his teddies Ptolemy!

I was at school with a female Ptolemy - and have since met a couple of male ones.

It suited all of them.

I heard someone shouting for their kid 'Lysander' at the playground

@Shetlands - both my DD's names feature on that list - therefore we must be posh!!!

Icabod

@Calliopespa Nope. There are plenty of old classic names that are not posh at all. Joan for example.

Ottilie, Cressida, Cassius

Rupert is almost always posh. Hugo, I would have said was always posh, but I know some small, decidedly not posh Hugos now.

I met a very posh Thomasina once.

Ottelie/Ottilie/Ottolines are ten a penny round our way at the moment. I know at least four.

Just to clarify, Huxley and Moss aren't posh, they have attention seeking parents.

My DC class has

Magnus
Maximus
Atticus
Raphael
Leonardo

and a bit of a niche one..
Temple (!)

Ifs a private school and I do cringe inside at the try hard posh names

Please stop...my eyeballs are literally in pain from all the rolling.

How is your username Jane Eyre and you don't know of Sinjin??

Yet not one of those sound genuinely posh. MC aspirational, yes. posh no.

How funny, I'm in Wales and was just doing data entry on a list if addresses and that has taliesin in the address. I had no idea it was also a person's name.

Mungo is the patron saint of Glasgow! Though I don't think the name is widely used here. And Inigo Montoya....

For me its Rupert that is a bit dime a dozen now ... but that's kind of the takeaway from this thread really: names aren't the preserve of the posh. And the WC have traditionally copied posh names - and we had Alfred and Albert, but Alfie and Bert below stairs, along with Betty in the kitchen.

I think if a name is made-up its almost certainly not posh. Beyond that you honestly can't tell.

How do you pronounce Portia @ItsameLuigi?

I know a StJohn but it’s his surname (Sinjun)

Very ironic 😁

Ah it was Jane Eyre, I thought it was maybe Tess of the D’urbervilles as I'd read both at school (a long time ago).

Foxhounds would be Dreadnought, Dresden, Dapper, Dandy and Dinkum. Or Jaunty, Jesmond, Jaffa, Jacket and Jorrocks.

Bert - working class, cloth cap,

Bertie - anywhere from middle class to posh.

Burt - American, manly.

Funny how the same name can seem so different.