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?

Have you asked her if she likes the name (and nickname, out of curiosity?)

I quite like Persephone.

Allegra always sounds like she likes to get a leg over ...

Toby.

I always considered the name Mary to be posh……..probably because all the ‘Mary’s’ I knew were miserable, stuck-up, snooty cows who looked down their noses at everyone!
Apologies to any nice MNetters called Mary though, I obviously don’t know you 🤣

Ha. My kid has a name listed on here. Whoops.

Ha!!! I immediately thought of Two Pints of Larger and a Packet of Crisps. Janet and Johny’s son Corinthian McVitie.

We also have a nickname Piglet but that was very much AA Milne-inspired and I don't think is the same as calling your child Piggy?

I know chidren called: Ottilie, Philippa, Wilfred, Hugo, Albert, George, Cornelius and Clementine. For me Clementine sounds the poshest. And they are definitely solid old money types.

I agree the solid old money types go for something extravagantly feminine for their girls - then nickname them something like Bogroll

Ulysses and Hepzibah…love it! Beats the more common ones…was in the park once and heard a mother calling for her three kids I’m assuming with shortened versions of their names..”Jace, Trace and Stace” 😆 always with the loudest voices in public as if they’re expecting applause!

Wasn’t Clementine the name of Winston Churchill’s wife?

Calliope. A friend of a friend called their child that. Always reminds me of canterloupe.

As adults, yes. As kids though probably not. It's pretty shit when the parents of your class mates think it's ok to judge you for your name. Political correctness requires us all to fall over ourselves not to cause offence unless of course the target of the conversation is deemed to be posh. Fair game then...

This thread isn't nice. Shame on you OP.

A lot of these sound like aspirational names to me - names that ordinary people living ordinary lives give their children in the hope they’ll level up a bit.

The poshest (properly posh - landed and titled) people I know name their children after antecedents. Usually very traditional names (with conventional spelling!)

Really posh people (like, at the extreme, Elizabeth and Charles and William and Harry) often use classic rather than fancy names. But I suppose the poshest-sounding name I've come across personally was Atlanta; she did come from quite a wealthy background. I've also met a Philemon, but have no idea what his background was.

Letting you know about parental classics knowledge.

Jacob Rees-Mogg called his sixth child Sextus.

A common Roman name for a sixth child, clearly meaning 'Sixth'.

I've only ever come across Mungo in connection wirth the St Mungo's charity for homeless people, so my associations with the name are the opposite of posh.

Peregrine

I have to admit at a theoretical level I do kind of fancy doing the whole Sixtus, Septimus, Octavia thing. Just don't want to give birth that much.

The truth is, most little children end up suiting their name and you come to like the name because of them.

Aurelien, Antoine, Louis, Ernest, William for boys.

Ah, this reminds me of when I was pregnant and went to see my goddaughter's sports day. They had put some of the kids in groups of three (for something), and the teacher shouted over: "right, Jasper, Felix and Wilf, over on the red side; and Jayden, Jaxon and Kaylee, blue side". The mum next to me snorted and said "divided by class, I think", which I always thought was a bit brazen as I could have easily been Jayden's mum for all she knew.

Before I moved to the UK I had no idea people were so hung up posh vs chav names. I mean obs we have some pretentious names/spellings/straight plain names too but people are far less obsessed with it than in the UK. I find it quite fascinating.

I wouldn’t exactly call it the poshest, but at a pre-school in Abu Dhabi when dd1 was 3, a little American boy was saddled with Florian Finkbeiner, poor little bugger.

Which I found out only when she brought home an identical lunchbox with his name on it.

That's proper posh - she's in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage.

Yes I think it was. It’s quite nice.

I went to school with a Horacia. Horace is a dreadful name, and the feminine version wasn't any nicer.