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?

I did know a very posh Rupert when I was a teen, also a posh Alasdair. But as others have said, the genuine upper classes/landed gentry have quite traditional names in the main. James, Richard, Edward, Tim, Elizabeth, Harriet, Anne, Jane etc.
The eccentric or theatrical names are almost all what used to be referred to as lower middle class.

It's very northern, I knew of a few Jonty's when I lived in Westmorland.

A few of my relatives’ names (and my own!) have been mentioned here. We’re pretty middle class now, but our parents and grandparents were poorly educated and in blue collar jobs.

The poshest names I’ve ever heard were Cunliffe (sorry, but hideous), Araminta (and she was very much what you’d expect an Araminta to be) and Mungo.

The actual poshest people I’ve ever met we’re underwhelmingly called Myria (pronounced Maria), Gareth and Michael.

Isn’t Jonty just a nickname for Jonathan? That’s a totally normal name.

There were tons of Jonathans when I was in school in the 80s so they all had different nicknames: Jon, Jonny, ‘Johnny with an H’ (true story), Jono, Jonty, Joff and Jay.

My 6'4" tall Gabriel has never been beaten up.

It is short for Jonathan yes, but I'd only heard that shortened to Jon or Jonno before so Jonty seemed odd, especially as most of them seemed to be quite elderly.

Quentin.

Agree, classic royal names like you have listed are posh. Some listed here are just weird. Who calls a child 'Fox'??

Lighten up for God's sake

Monty
Minty (Araminta which I LOVE)
Fitzgerald

Oh sorry I didn’t mean to tag you. I was going to say I love that name and that I know a minty! Sorry!

As a child/student I met people with these names and remember thinking that they sounded posh (amongst a sea of Lauras, Emmas, Pauls and Johns).

Quentin
Tarquin
Jemima
Isabella
Camilla
Olivia
Candida
Artemis
Charles

Obviously some are now very popular names but back then they all seemed posh to me!

Jago is a common Cornish name. Not that posh down here.

My ex's siblings were called Ludovik and Cordelia. They were very posh. But I have to agree with others here that names like Arabella and Rupert are what I refer to as "middle class wannabe" names. I'm a teacher and in middle class suburbs schools are full of them and it's a bit embarrassing. Tbh though I have a Margaux so I can't really talk 😂.

Anais
Atticus
Huxley
Juno

I have only come across it twice in my life, one in soft play of National Army Museum and the other, in a popular boys prep in SW London. :)) I agree with you re plain/traditional names though (people who have nothing to prove would choose Jack over Aurelius).

Oh goodness, I know chickens that have the same names as many commented here 😳

Omg I love Caspian so much. I'm not posh, I don't know why I love it. I've loved it since I was a child. I have 2 DS's and it was an automatic veto both times. I probably wouldn't have seriously used it anyway to be fair!

Plenty of dog & cat names here also, some of mine included 😆

Georgiana
Tertius
Persephone

Ah, I never knew Tristram was a Welsh name! Don't think this Tristram is Welsh though, or at any rate he doesn't have a Welsh accent.

Bartholomew, come across a Baxter, a Harriet, my RE teacher was called Bertram, my science teacher was called Kit, Ruth, Alexander always strikes me as posh ,Nancy, leopold, elenor, Sebastian, iris, I used to think Henry was a posh name but it’s become far more popular the last decade.

The poshest names are the classic names that don’t date and don’t define the owner - Anna, Jane, Sarah or James, Henry, Edward type names are much ‘posher’ than the Araminta, Cosmo and Adoplhus type names popular amongst the Chelsea type set.

I taught a Ptolemy. Nickname Tolly. He will be about 30 now. The school was a comp in a quite nice suburb in Yorkshire.

Any name in a Jilly Cooper book!