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?

There’s an author with that name. There’s also a CEO of a company, seems it’s quite a common name in Germany 😁

'Lettuce' is a great name!

Surely Chilli isn't posh is it? Jalapeño or even Cucumber sound posher.

Unless your surname is Sprey...

I worked in an expensive school for years.
Ditty
Fifi
Plum
Cece
Jago
Rupert
Barnabas
Quentin
Ernestina
Albertina
Hector
Hubert

Let us pray for poor old Lettuce (Lettice) being saddled with such a name. My guess though is, if you’ve called your dd that you are very much a part of the aristo or upper sets and surrounded by equally posh names. No one from Eastenders is calling their kid Lettice.

Jacinta and Lucinda .

I know a pair of little girl twins called Philomena and Marley. Which has always struck me as a bit odd, as the names seem at opposite ends of the spectrum. Philomena very posh and marley maybe slightly chavvy. Or maybe they’re both posh? I don’t know anyone else with either name

Marnie would have made more sense.

Yes, but never pronounce it like the fruit.

Teen or tine? I pronounce the fruit tine.

Oh I thought if one more which dh thought was horrible but I liked: Marigold.

Edit: I also really like Clementine

Boris' daughter is called Lettice and she seems quite a nice girl who has not had an easy time of things with Daddy's antics.

It's quite a pretty sound were it not for the leafy veg association and Lettie is sweet. I know a little girl who spells it Letty and thought nothing more of it than if she had been Hetty or Betty. Though typing this has made me think Bedwetty.

reading through this there are some classic names though that transcend time and class, such as Charlotte

I am rewatching the Forsyte Saga - it is on Netflix. The Forsytes were considered upper middle class new money. The names would still be I think, but lots of names in there. Irene, Jolyon, Monty etc and of course, Soames, who is a Heathcliff type character.
I did go to school with a Heathcliff and a Jolyon. I always liked the name Jolyon but it is also a bit out there.

I would have called on of my boys Tristan after Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall, but DH vetoed it! I would have covered up and claimed it was after Wagner’s opera. Also loved the name Lorelei for a girl. Sadly, DH is just too conformist.
A lot of my friends have chosen names from books and films they like. I reckon that is more of a middle class thing. You can do what you want, do not have to carry some random title and bear 8 grandparent names kind of thing.

It is classic but its also beyond ubiquitous and very widely used in all classes - just as William came to be after Prince William was born.

We live rurally but DD goes to a Rainbow group in a posher village and there are a few unusual names. I wonder what the general names are in the village school there and if the boys are posh names also.

My only association with the name Marley is that he was Dead by the start of 'A Christmas Carol'.

Jago isn’t necessarily posh but Cornish. Allegedly the same root as Diego, a result of Cornish & Spanish fishermen meeting.

You make it sound like they copulated ...

Surely it’s of or pertaining to Letitia in some way

I mean, it’s a lonely job…

To me most of the names on here are either-

Classic names like Henry, James, William, Charlotte. Most are actually top 10 baby names so you will hear them everywhere and they will be used across the social spectrum.

Names people think are fancy like Ophelia, Penelope, Arabella, Ottilie but are actually rising sharply in popularity, have suddenly become top 100 names and are popular with all types and ages of parents.

Names that genuinely do make you think ‘oh wow that’s posh’ like Tarquin, Bartholomew, Araminta, Jocasta but, when you look at the stats, are actually vanishingly rare (often with 5 or less born per year, sometimes zero)

You might well be right actually.

I'm almost certain it has nothing to do with lettuces.

So ubiquitous, appealing or pretentious?