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?

Falcon would be such a cool name 😄

"My name is Smith, Falcon Smith"

My ex vetoed the name Gabriel if we had a son. In the end, I had 3 daughters.

She spelt it with a ph but I suspect it can also be spelt with an f.

@Calliopespa

Ptolemy (double-banger)

Yep, me too haha

There’s a boy in DD’s class called Cosmo!

Octavia and India

Jethro

Names of people I went to university with:
Clementina
Talitha
The full names were amazing five barreled things but I don't want to identify them. They came from lives I hadn't dreamt of.

Lettice is an old name. There was a famous lady at the Tudor court who was a rival of Elizabeth I -- she married the Queen's favourite Robert Dudley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LetticeKnollys

Orlando and Octavia

Merlin. I mean, for fucks sake.

I know a grown up Merlin. I think it's a great name.

The story goes that Prince Andrew wanted to name his daughter Annabella or Arabella and the Queen said it was too posh

I'm from the US...what exactly does 'posh' mean? I don't think we have a proper name for 'posh' here.

We have Upper class, Middle Class, and Lower class, and depending on income can be classed as Upper middle class, etc. We call men and women with higher paying jobs 'white collar' because they wear white collar shirts with their business attire.
The class system here, though, is pretty much a thing of the past since even a person born into a lower class family ( aka 'blue collar' because the men used to wear blue work shirts) is able to go to University and potentially become a high earner. Also, many of the lower class, small business owners or farmers have sent their children to University where they have come back to their home towns and turned Pop's local little farm or shop into global reaching businesses. Side note..I have a childhood friend who did just this. He has his own aeroplane, more rental properties than he can count, and other businesses. Last time I was home, I saw him driving by in his Cybertruck pulling a little trailer with a lawnmower on it because he'd been around mowing the lawns of some of his properties...and his name is Greg.

I know an Apollo & Adonis who are the very opposite of posh.

Thinking of children my DCs went to school with who were probably the “poshest”, I would say;

Fraser
Ruby
Hayley
Victoria
Joshua
Rose

People would possibly think my eldest sister is “posh” (big house in the middle of nowhere, high flying career, speaks nicely etc) but her DCs have definite “chav” names (as I have seen them described on MN). They were adopted & obviously already had their names.

I thought she said it was a nightclub!

I was at school in the 1970s with a girl named Petronella.

Just remembered that my mum was at university with a girl called Fidelis! Now that’s pretty posh!

Lancelot. He was Jamaican!

There is an Atlas in DC2's new reception class from September!

I quite like it actually. Wouldn't use it myself though.

And he probably earns more than most professionals.

Oooh I know a Fidelis, but male!

I think Merrick, Mungo and Ludo are the "poshest" I Know.

However truly posh folk have names like William, Catherine, George and Louis. ie totally ordinary.

Jane Eyre, I think.

What on earth is wrong with Gabriel?

Balthazar