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?

Taylor, Tyler, Mason, Kayson

Showing my age but if I heard Jemima ,I would immediately think of the rag doll in Playschool.

Arabella, Ophelia and Ottilie aren’t ‘posh’ to me. They are the sort of names I see a lot of instagrammers use- pretty vowel-y and feminine girl names that have gained a lot of popularity very quickly and are quite trendy.

All very lovely names.

Her parents must be James Bond fans.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Wow… some of these names are something else 😆
It’s like people are playing a game of “How to get my child roasted daily at school.”
Sure, if you live in southwest London, you can maybe get away with calling your kid something like Jonty it might even earn you points at the artisan sourdough market.

Vivienne, Venetia, Elizabeth, Catherine
Philip, Adrian, Peter, William, Julian

Jasper
Crispin
Melchior
Malachai

Inigo and Mungo. Fucking ridiculous names.

I also know a Horace.

Bunty

I am from a very NOT posh area in the north in an old forgotten pit town and Arabella isn't uncommon, I certainly wouldn't put it as posh. It simply replaced Isabella as a current trendy 'frilly' name.

While I don't know any Henriettas I wouldn't assume that posh either, its right on trendy for the 'feminised boy name', theres tonnes of Francesca, Thea and Charlottes etc... around, I known a couple Harriets which is the same vein.

These made me smile. Excellent names for a couple of Labradors.

Note: I did think (briefly) about the name Jago for DS. Then I read about the jago of London, which put a new spin on the name...

3 Tarquins born since 2016.

And us poshos can put up with a bit of reverse snobbery, TBH.

One of Grandma Pig's hens is called Jemima :D Doesn't sound very posh to be but I am a foreigner ;)

6 of my families names are on this, all ex-miners or their wives/daughters who lived in poverty. I just don't see how this is 'posh' at all they are just 'classic' names that where very common in the working class.

Phoebe, Sybil

Me! I would love to be posh. Yes not sure why that poster has assumed it’s a pejorative term?

Timon which stands out a mile considering they have siblings with much more common names, think Leanne, Mark, Timon and Rob.

Posh isn't an insult, it's a description, like traditional. People who use 'posh' names are aware that they are, and sometimes for that exact reason. While some people choose names that others find 'chavvy', no one is actively trying to choose a name that's chavvy.

Lily Savage’s fictional daughter is called Bunty.

I went to private school and there was a Marmaduke, Thorin and Lancelot just in my class!

I think we'd all love a thread like that. Wind your neck in, you humourless sod.

One of my daughter's nursery teachers is Penelope (or Pinelopi). She's not posh though, just Greek!

Some of these just sound like trends to me, I know a number of them and wouldn’t consider them posh.

I know a young Charles and Henry, and to me these are posh names.