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?

Some kids that used to come into my place of work were called Orion, Lysander, Hero and Mordecai. Home educated, posh hippy parents.

@AleynEivlys
Can you tell I was privately educated? 😂 Some 'notable' names at my schools included Michael Jackson's godchildren (Mark Lester of 'Oliver!' fame's kids), a family from some kind of Iranian royalty, Pandora and Max Vanderpump from Vanderpump Rules (though their surname was just 'Todd' back then), Tahliah Barnett aka FKA twigs, and someone to do with Jocelyn Wildenstein - possibly a grandchild?

Ha! I recognise some of those and my DSs also went to school with some of one of the families mentioned.

I think Venetia hasn't been mentioned yet.

Horatio

I mentioned it, it's very nice but alas I'm not posh enough to use it.

When we were arranging my mother's funeral 20+ years ago we sat down in the undertaker's office and he introduced himself as Heathcliff. We managed to hold it together until we were outside!

Judging by the various parent/child environments I find myself in, I think Pandora has definitely made the leap from 'posh' to mainstream, along with Ophelia/Ottilie/Monty/Penelope/Jonty/Hugo/Louis etc.

I agree that naming children has changed dramatically in recent times with the influence of social media.

I’ve got a friend with twin girls named Ruby and Pearl, cute, shiny, very “precious” (literally). I do actually like those names!
But then there was my midwife’s son… called Israel. Which, y’know, is just unfortunate timing these days. 😬

Names I absolutely cannot with:

Ottilie or Otto all I picture is a family of otters. 🦦

Arabella or Mirabelle — sounds like they should come with a tiara and a minor Disney subplot. 👑

Anything that screams aspirational branding
Mercedes, Chanel, Dolce… darling, I don’t even own those things, never mind naming a baby after them. 💅

And don’t get me started on names that sound like they’re straight out of a 1960s East End crime documentary: Ronnie, Reggie, Eddie, Tommy, Frankie (is that even a name?). Especially Tommy, which makes me wince because it’s also the name of a baby loss charity, and I just can't wrap my head around naming a child that. 😔

A popular name here in Norfolk!

Only acceptable if it's pronounced Sinjon.

Caspian is always mentioned on here as a posh name. Since when though? The only one I know has a raging heroin addict for a mother who's the polar opposite of posh.
Real posh people just give their kids regular names like Charlie, Harry, William etc

My DD and my Ddog names on here-at least I have a type 😂

On holiday I heard literally the plummiest voice I have ever heard-rivalling the Queen-call her DD who was named Tatiana. NN Tatty. Ridiculously posh.

Also know a dog named persephone-nn percy

Talking about shortening names, we used to say a lovely name was Virginia, Virgin for short but not for long!

In my old town, Herbert, Gulliver, Jasper, Quentin, Rufus
All seemed fairly posh to me at the time!

Can't think of 5 off the top of my head, but I once met two incredibly posh siblings named Peregrine and Peggotty. Peggotty was married to a Dave, which I thought rather let the side down.

Octavia.

My neighbours are Rupert and Tracy. always makes me smile-brilliant combination

I used to know a Heathcliff, he went by Heath. It's a perfectly nice name. He's not posh though.

I think there are a couple of people from my small town here as I recognise their list of names.

Interesting how different perceptions are. I see Jane and Clare on one post. Literally every other person in my generation had one of those names as a first or middle name. Not posh at all to me.

A la 4 weddings and a funeral!?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This has had me struggling for breath for the past 30 seconds 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Lettuce instead of Lettice omg

I don’t get out much at all

Harlequin. Only ever known one person (male) with the name.

Barnaby
rupert
arrabella
Eugenie
Piers

Oh there’s also a child named Casper at DD’s primary 👻

I’m from a mining village in the north east of England and we had a builder called Jonty so always thought it was a ‘common’ name. I actually really like it!