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Poshest children’s name’s you’ve heard?

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purpledaze24 · 14/07/2025 08:40

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?

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CoubousAndTourmalet · 15/07/2025 00:16

softlyfallsthesnow · 15/07/2025 00:05

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.

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I agree. My surname is also now trending as a forename and it's really starting to irritate me.

Makingpeace · 15/07/2025 00:21

I love this thread @purpledaze24

Some great names.
I know an Allegra, Eletra,, Ettalie, Adeline (a-del-eye-n), Hugo, Barnabus, Atticus, Ulysses (nn Uli), Hatty, Jaygo, Bunty, Fox.

All under the age of 7.

DancyNancy · 15/07/2025 00:21

twistyizzy · 14/07/2025 08:50

OP how would you feel if you saw a thread about "chav" names? Cos they are stereotypical "posh" names they are fair game? Pretty sure you wouldn't be happy if I said "let's hear the chaviest names at a school"?

Beyonce and Shakira?

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Ellmau · 15/07/2025 00:23

Aloysius
Anselm
Peregrine
Piers
Hector
Edmund
Ferdinand
Rollo
Claudius
Julius

Araminta
Alethea
Petronella
Cressida
Camilla
Annabel

Gagaandgag · 15/07/2025 00:24

Butter, Monty, Tuppence and Bunny

Booboobagins · 15/07/2025 00:25

Im going to say Miles and Rupert were it names when I was younger.

I've no idea today, my kids are adults, so no school registers to peruse and at the private schools I've visited the kids have had normal names - Andrew, James, Lauren etc !!!

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 15/07/2025 00:31

MaRhodes · 14/07/2025 23:18

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.

Eh? What's "posh" about Evelyn and Harrison? Was Evelyn being used for a boy?

Eggybreadwithnuts · 15/07/2025 00:32

Araminta...they called her Minty
Candida

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 15/07/2025 00:32

wellingtonsandwaffles · 14/07/2025 23:49

Sequoia
Palmyra
Ophelia, brother Orlando!
Lettice
Cordelia

Sequoia is a tree.

itstrue · 15/07/2025 00:35

anotherwordforit · 14/07/2025 10:09

Looking at the darkgreener website, the name Tarquin is hardly used! Most years there are zero registered in the UK, at its peak there are 4 babies in one year. So it’s a bit of a myth really. Ditto names like Jocasta and Araminta, it seems very few of them in the past few decades.

I’m one of these - there are a few of us about.

Zellycat · 15/07/2025 00:47

Rollo

Phaedra

Lemonllama · 15/07/2025 00:50

Cornelius was a boy in my class.

Lemonllama · 15/07/2025 00:55

Makingpeace · 15/07/2025 00:21

I love this thread @purpledaze24

Some great names.
I know an Allegra, Eletra,, Ettalie, Adeline (a-del-eye-n), Hugo, Barnabus, Atticus, Ulysses (nn Uli), Hatty, Jaygo, Bunty, Fox.

All under the age of 7.

It's like calling the register at Hogwarts

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 15/07/2025 01:43

Viviennemary · 14/07/2025 09:27

Tarquin Persephone. Both dire unless you're landed gentry. Venetia - I quite like this one. Algernon. Eek awful. There's an Atticus in Downton abbey.

Most of my working life has involved clients who are aristocracy. I've never come across these names.

battgirlatheart · 15/07/2025 01:47

Shesellsseashellsnotinmystreet · 14/07/2025 09:06

I met a Huxley last week.

My massage therapist had a son called that. Was it around Buckinghamshire

2021x · 15/07/2025 01:50

Calliopespa · 14/07/2025 18:30

i had a great Aunt Lavinia and she was Venie.

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Its my middle name, and my mums and my grandmothers... I think she was named after a favourite sister.

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 15/07/2025 01:54

purpledaze24 · 14/07/2025 09:48

Knew one of these replies was coming 🤣 Great idea for a thread though! Hmm Princess (which is actually in the top 100 girls names right now 😬), Chardonnay, Mercedes. Anything named after a ‘classy’ brand basically.

So to answer your question I’d feel absolutely fine about it. The point of an anonymous forum is to be able to discuss things that we may not feel able to discuss IRL because of political correctness. If we’re not allowed to do that MN would be an extremely boring place

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Mercedes Benz the car was named after Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek one of one of the engineers who created the car. Mercedes pre-dates the car by 100s of years.

MsAmerica · 15/07/2025 02:50

Never in my life have I thought of a name as "posh." Pretentious, maybe.

upandleftthenright · 15/07/2025 05:09

It’s curious how posh names are also the perfect name for a cat

SantiagoShaming · 15/07/2025 05:11

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 15/07/2025 01:54

Mercedes Benz the car was named after Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek one of one of the engineers who created the car. Mercedes pre-dates the car by 100s of years.

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And a long-standing woman’s name in many Spanish-speaking countries.

Toddlerteaplease · 15/07/2025 05:24

Attenborough. Not great when there is a place of that name about 3 miles way!

CurlewKate · 15/07/2025 06:39

I know quite a lot of landed gentry. None of them are called Tarquin or Persephone. Think about the landed gentry we all know. William, George, Charlotte, Louis, Sarah, Louise, Peter, Edward, Charles, the occasional off-piste Zara …. I could go on, but you get my point. The Tarquins of this world are either fictional ( thank you , PG Wodehouse!) or aspirational. Guessing the primary school class rooms people are talking about fit into one or other of these categories…

KindLemur · 15/07/2025 06:47

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 15/07/2025 00:31

Eh? What's "posh" about Evelyn and Harrison? Was Evelyn being used for a boy?

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Evelyn and Harrison are absolutely bog standard names found in many solidly working class families, Evelyn shortened to Evie most of the time. Harrison is as popular as Jayden/Hayden round here. See also Luca, Tommy, Arlo

CurlewKate · 15/07/2025 06:51

Love the idea that Mercedes and Chardonnay are being put in the same box!

PrincessHoneysuckle · 15/07/2025 07:10

Georgette

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