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

[purpledaze24]

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?

The poshest people I know (landed gentry, with titles) are called James, Mary, William, David and Matthew.

Names I think of as posh would be
Sholto
Cosmo
Fitzwilliam

Araminta
Jocasta
Octavia

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Hermione
Rupert

Harriette and Elliot

Tbf this was a trend a few months ago on Tiktok, people were discussing the most chavy baby names. I think these threads appear constantly on both sides

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I have to say, I love it when these threads turn into a poshness competition.

I'm sure somebody's going to see this poster's 'honourable' and raise them a 'his grace'. A couple more pages and Princess Kate herself may make an appearance (and yes I know she doesn't count as actually posh because she married in)

Jonty's just a diminutive of Jonathan.

It’s all in the classically posh names with ‘quirky’ nicknames around here, so Alexandra becomes Xa, Arabella is known as Ara etc

My niece has called her baby Aurora. They are possibly the least posh family I know.

Agatha

Xanthe

There's a family of tradespersons near me whose sons are all kinda Roman emperor names. There's a Julian and a Claudius

I don't think giving your children names from Greek literature or Shakespeare is necessarily posh, it just shows that you read. And if the ability to read anything more complicated than The Sun is enough to label you 'posh' then I despair.

Bobo, Dido, Tinks, Binky, Bunter, Ratty, Noddy, Swift, Ranger, Labby

My house painter is Sinclair, is that posh???

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Are they by any chance Jacob Rees-Mogg’s children?

Can you give us any examples of names you do think are posh, then?

Most actual posh people have fairly normal "boring" names because they are family names passed down.

Arabella is v popular in my very not posh, working class, reform voting town 😓

I do have "posh" (re poncey) taste in names, happily my husband is normal, and wouldn't let me give my son the middle name Falcon - after Scott of the Antarctic of course 😂

Agreed. So let’s do it.. Dave, Angela, Kevin , anything double-barrelled.. Amie-Mae, Amy- Lou etc, Archie, Ellie - Mai , Jack, Johnny, Charlie etc etc all chavvy

We have a Montgomery at my child’s school but he goes by ‘Monty’. I have never come across anybody else called Montgomery but he really suits his name

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

They sound like foxhounds.

At my school in a deprived area we have an Aurora, a Jemima and three Nathaniels. I don’t think they’re 'posh' names.

I once met a child called Solitaire.