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’m a Jocasta!

Nice! It must be lovely to have such an uncommon name.

Yeah, that Sir Harrison Birtwistle-so common. I wonder if he tried to redeem himself by using names of George Eliot novels for his sons.

Hugo
Charles
Cordelia
Spencer
Archibald
I used to work in a private nursery, my own child used to attend x

No problem, Hyacinth..

As I said. Not a single Tarquin in the Royal Family. All names that wouldn’t raise a comment anywhere. Except Eugenie and possibly Zara…

The poshest people I know, of that "old money, goes back 100s of years" class so loved by MN are called Charles, Edward, George, Richard, David, John and Andrew. They're not the Royal Family but they will all know the Royal Family.

The "Tarquin" stuff is MN inverted snobbery.

Well that proves my point.

There’s “look at me! I’m posh!” posh. And there’s “Goodness me! No, I’m not posh-perish the thought!”

Hyacinth couldn’t have been less posh if she tried. That was the joke. I think many people missed it.

I remember her!

Hyacinth was a great character

I think many of us, particularly if you are working class will have had a Hyacinth or two in your family/friends parent

It was my partner's name for my mother for years 🙄I saw it far more in her older sister, however.

I saw it in my Nanny. She was obsessed with what the neighbours thought of us and judged people on their net curtains and clean/tidy front gardens 😁

My Nanny and Granddad loved Keeping Up Appearances. My Nanny did not see herself as a Hyacinth but she was and adorable with it 😊

Because I had no idea what you were getting at 🤷‍♀️ thought that was quite clear.

Harrisons are ten a penny. I wouldn't say either of those were posh.

No, a sorry what do you mean sounds politer than ‘pardon?!’ Just saying 🤷‍♀️

Pardon on its own sounds abrupt, especially with an exclamation mark attached.

I think I’m missing your point sorry. Google tells me he was born in Accrington to shopkeeper parents Fred and Madge. He went to the local grammar school. He is no doubt talented and musically gifted but unlikely to be posh. Silas is a nice unusual name nowadays though.

Lovely name very unusual. I shared my name with 8 people in my small school year! I am very happy with it though.

That's the problem with written messages, no facial expression etc etc, I thought you were making a barbed comment hence the ?! And yes, I am aware it sounded abrupt, it was meant to. Sorry I guess I misunderstood.

I'm guessing Myra - a beautiful and historic name with Latin roots in many cultures. Unfortunate.

Karen's tend to be younger.

Does she have a sister called Leanda?

Valerie in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals is another Hyacinth Bucket. Rivals is on Disney Plus. Well worth watching for a class spoof, across the different classes in the 90s, for clarification. So nobody gets offended.
People from all classes and backgrounds can obviously be very kind human beings, or not nice at all. The class and social standing/wealth characteristics are just the “packaging”. It is best not to get fooled by the packaging/marketing either way.

The thing is if your family tradition is to have 5 long names and include both grandparents and one great grandparent maternal and you have a title and a long surname then you are going to have to go with a short simple Christian name like James or Peter or it becomes one massive mouthful.

If you have a short simple surname and just go with one middle name then you may be reaching for the long literary off the wall first name.

No. Not Myra. I did know of a Myra, but she was a lot older than me.

I had three classmates called Karen, so it isn't really a younger name. Karen goes along with Debbie, Gillian & Sandra as a 60s/70s name.