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 love Arabella and Henrietta.

I've never understood the term posh regarding names. What some people consider posh is a solid good name for someone else.

Some names are trendier. Some names are old and become trendy. Some are traditional in families and many are popular in different countries.

As long as kids don't get some really stupid name like "X Æ A-Xii" that no one can pronounce, it's all good.

😂

Sebastian, Hector, Natalia, Rupert, Ophelia

Atticus Pund - as in Magpie Murders ?😀

(Spoiler alert - it's an anagram.)

Sigh. ‘Poshness’ is subjective from where you’re standing. My husband’s uncle once jeered at me for being ‘posh’. My dad is a retired binman.

The reason I said the two people I knew were Honourables is because they have an UC courtesy title as an index of ‘objective poshness’.

There's a Jemima in my family - I think she's 18 now though so no longer a child. I didn't know it was supposed to be posh, it just makes me think Puddle Duck.
I also have a family member (age 10) named Gabriel. The family isn't posh though, just religious.

I took my daughter to a play area and some children from a local nursery were there (in know because they were all wearing reflective vests with the name of the nursery on). One of the boys was named Ulysses, which seemed pretty posh to me. Ironically we actually looked at that nursery for my daughter and it's very much not the one rich parents would choose!.We decided against it because our daughter is disabled and it was the nursery with the lowest staff to child ratio in our town (which makes sense as it's also the cheapest). I live abroad but I'm pretty sure Ulysses is just as posh/unusual here as in the UK!

In the spirit of chavvy names (just to be inclusive lol) I can’t get over the fact I found the name Princess in the top 100 girls names the other day!! (Currently pregnant with my third so constantly looking at names lists!)

What does Reform have to do with a post about children’s names? How pathetic.

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.

The very first posh name I thought of before I opened the thread was Arabella . . . and there she was, first name up!😂

Ophelia and Atticus

Galahad.

Digby

A few years ago, in a very "naice" posh hotel, I met an Horatio and a Peregrine.

Never met any before or since.

Peregrine was shortened to Perry.

Tbf I see way more sneering at ‘chavvy’ (names that might be used by working-class families oh the horror) on mumsnet.

On baby names thread I’ve even seen the exact same poster/s call names chavvy and downmarket on one thread then get very upset on a different one because someone is laughing at ‘posh’ names

Isambard

Horatio, Octavius, Henry

Only child?

Sebastian, Theodore, Penelope

Lettice … the name is spelled Lettice 🤣

At my fairly average albeit middle class primary school.in the 80,s ,there was an Hermione and St John in my class
And a,Siegfried a couple of years,above me.

🤣 🤣 🤣

baxter, neveah, cooper, anything spelt "leigh" that should be "ley", brayden, kayden, okayden

Cromarty, Peregrine…

Sadly I love names like Persephone Xanthe and Atticus.
How can you not love Jemima Puddleduck?
And I am surprised noone has mentioned Penelope alongside Jemima.

As for the other end of the scale I'll add to Princess. Baron, King, Prince, Duke, Queen, Earl and anything else that could be an honorific as a first name.