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?

Marigold makes me think of Hyacinth Bucket’s sister - IIRC the one with ‘room for a pony’ 😂.

I do like marigolds though - I have some self sown ones just coming into flower in the front garden. 🙂

I'm surprised a couple of posters have cited Jonty as being posh. It really isn't. It's a very old and well worn diminutive of John or Johnathan and was usually used by the working classes. I've generally heard it more often in Wales back in the day. Maybe it's morphed into something else.

I have some in my kitchen for the washing up 😊

Me too!

Tamsin and Helena

Don’t know about Molly but Earl Spencer is Diana’s brother.

But actually Mary, Peter and Thomas are all pretty normal names if not very common these days. And there are plenty of Alfie's around if not many Alfred's. It's only really at Anselm & Sixtus that they start becoming a bit eyebrow raising.

In my extremely small village school in a posh area we had a Clementine, a Tarquin, a Quentin, a Zephyr, a Barnaby and an Arabella. In a class of under 15 students (two years combined). The rest were the usual 80s names (Louise, Becky etc)

Although tbh my name comes across as very pretentious despite my family being working class as they come so who am I to judge 🤣

I wonder what I’d have been called if I had been at a very posh school. I was very thin so maybe Twiggy but not sure if that is posh school enough.

Perhaps ‘Bunny’ (even though that’s only for MN).

Jocelyn
Hugh / Hugo.
Lavinia

Now I want to know 😄

Really?? Genuine question. The only Jago I've met was EXTREMELY posh

We live next to a really posh area. Went to a very much not-posh playground yesterday and there was an Anastasia with her sister Penelope. I thought my daughter was going to wet herself laughing when their little brother turned out to be called Theodore-Albert.

I worked with a Jocelyn once. Only one I’ve ever met.

I grew up on a London council estate in the 60s were there a few Mandys (estate and school). In my twenties I worked in an office and the Amanda said never Mandy only Amanda, and I thought that seemed very posh 😁 Met several Amandas since and absolutely no Mandys.

I really like the name Amanda, seems classy.

What, my name? Jocelyn. I've only ever met three in my life and one was an elderly Sir Jocelyn 🤣

Ah, you’re a Jocelyn. You’re the second I’ve come across (one was in real life). A tall Scandinavian looking lady (very blond, Nordic like).

Joss Stone is a Joscelyn (just googled).

I'm missing the joke here, I think, as Theo and Albie are two a penny.

We know two Anastasias. One is known as Nannie, which initially confused me no end, and the other is pronounced aNASTaSEEa, which also caught me out.

I judge how posh people are by how they pronounce scone. Scone to rhyme with "gone" or scone to rhyme with "bone".

I’m a Scon does that make me not posh 😁

Before you eat it, it’s ‘scone (sc-owe-n) and once you’ve eaten it, it’s ‘sc-on’ 😝

😁

A friend called her daughter Araminta after she read the name in a book as a child. She’s 20 years old and known as Minty. They aren’t posh at all.

DD has a friend who goes by Lulu but is called Tallulah. Sounds posh because of the long a sound, but is of Irish and native North American descent. Most kids will find a nickname to tone it down to fit in or simply choose one of their middle names or yet another name. That’s my experience anyway. By secondary school at the very latest, they won’t stand for pretension. Before you join secondary you can tell the school how you want to be known. So the parents only get to enjoy the pretentiousness for a few years. Jocasta is Cassie anyway.

The Plum I knew was Victoria

His wife is possibly 'posh' but JRM is 'Trade' so I suspect he's being a little try hard!