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?

Henrietta, lucienne, Lydia, Octavia, Monty, Gabriella

Anais, you mean like Noel Gallagher’s daughter? He’s very posh 😁

OMG memories of that! Fab!

I think they said she was named after the perfume

A lot of the names your great grand parents were given, many Mnsers are now saying are posh. These people had been named after their ancestors and were hard working people, nothing to do with money.

😀

The shop I work in has another branch in a posh part of town and they send me out there sometimes when they're understaffed.
A woman came in and saw that we had children's on sale that might fit her grandchildren.
She rang her daughter and asked Evelyn and Harrison's shoe sizes.

A friend of a friend at university was called Dickon.

I thought he was rather fabulous.

I knew an Atalanta (not Atlanta) who was from a very posh family going back to 1066 or something like that.

Don’t agree with this one bit. Teasing people about being posh (at workplace/school) is cowardly inverse snobbery at its worst. It’s still hugely humiliating and usually designed to be an escape-less situation … and the person responding could never retaliate with the opposite, so why is it even considered fair game?

During lockdown I joined Ancestry and found a forefather named Chichester Fortescue. Pretty certain the DC are glad I didn't know this 25 years ago!

And for the record, nobody who others consider to be ‘posh’ ever uses that word … that should tell you it’s aimed as an humiliating insult and a type of alienation.

Hortensia
Bartholomew
Julian
Cordelia

I have taught a Kitchener, Lenin and Minimus.
Middle class area.

I named my daughter Lettice in 1985, so obvs ahead of the game.
It’s a really old English name as in hundreds of years old and means the same as Letitia which is Joy/Joyous. She has lived up to her name I have to say.
A lot of the names mentioned are also quite old and have probably come in and out of fashion over the decades or centuries.

Each to their own eh?

I love the name Gabriel. Sadly it didn’t get past my husband for our son. But actually now not convinced it would’ve suited him.

I'd say they were both upper middle class, with Marley touching on the weird. Philomena means friend of strength. Nice name.

And Anty-gon

India Amanda Julian

Amanda just makes me think of Amanda Holden now ...

“Jaygo” is hardly posh! It’s Jago… mis-spelled names are not posh!
Miraphora is one of the poshest I’ve come across.

I just remember being in a play park, with a mum and a group of kids. As she was calling them to leave, they were Charles, Arthur, Harry and William. Just made me smile.

Sequoia
Palmyra
Ophelia, brother Orlando!
Lettice
Cordelia

Arabella
Gaius
Ptolemy
Cassian
Henrietta

How is Huxley as a first name posh? It's a surname and would fall into the weird fashion of giving your child a surname for a first name. Not so much posh as ridiculous.
Maybe Aldous. Or Thomas Henry.