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?

Makes me think of a quote from The Sloane Ranger Handbook:
" We called her Marigold in the hope that she will"

Jocelyn..not posh in my book
Poshest name I've known...Diggory

Wow, there are loads where I am -usually called Ollie for short. Wouldn't be thought of as odd at all.

@RainbowBagels his wife is very posh, she's old money - her grandfather was an earl.

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What made it funny was calling them in full across the playground. Penny, Albie, Zia - yeah, all nice. With such long first names, it sounded like the kids were being told off every time they were asked to do something! Guess you had to be there and I haven't explained it very well.

Torquil, Horatio, Benedict, Seraphina, Cosmo

It’s difficult to tell with JRM - according to his Wiki his mother was the daughter of a lorry driver who became a local politician. You can’t trust what any of these politicians present in their background, they will try and claim working class roots when it suits them and next they are somehow related to the King. In reality, most of them are solid very aspirational middle class. That’s why they got there in the first place.

Frederica and Fennella

The poshest names I have come across are always quite deprecating nicknames for the girls of the families. They are always named something like Tippy or Bumble or something else that sounds like a pet rabbit. Just so they don't start taking themselves too seriously and, you know, bore the chaps with their opinions and so on.

I know twins Horatio and Ludovic at nursery - Raish and Ludo - obvs

Ffiona

or if you are really posh

Fffiona

definitely need extra pointless letters so the plebs cannot spell it

Pandora
Hugo
Atticus
Arabella

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Totally agree!

There's also often something to imply they are well and truly shaggable ... like Tuppy or Buns.

Beanie , Persophene, Barnabee

Beatrice and Edward. The mum sounded like that posh mum character by Catherine Tate (gooseberry yoghurt). But this was last week on holiday.

I’d never have Arabella down as posh! Common as muck that name in Manchester.

My 6 1/2 year old grandson is called Rupert. When my daughter and her husband told me they’d chosen that name for the baby boy they were expecting I was horrified, I hated it. But I love his name now, and it suits him.
(They/me are neither posh or wealthy lol)

@ruethewhirl, was he Welsh? If so, not posh, just a regular name.

My DC's classmates are Caspian, Maximillian, Hugo, Theodore, Chrispian (with p), and another 10 names along these lines.

Rupert, Persephone,

Octavia, Hubert, Montgomery, Elspeth, Alberta, Horatio

Couldn’t agree with the more. I find the way it’s ok to say things like this about “posh” people so so rude, yet if anyone did the same about chav names everyone would go up in flames at the audacity of it!!

On the Forsyte Saga a pp

mentioned, Jolyon's not unusual but I've never come across Soames as a first name. They always said eye-reen-ey rather than eye-reen which was a very run of the mill woman's name.

Its what you call "green-eyed monster."