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?

DH had a cat called Horatio. His parents were keen on the navy.

I have a posh name but am not posh. It’s funny lsighing at posh names. I don’t take it personally

If you want to know what Blur's Alex James children are called then that is your list - Artemis, Geronimo, Beatrix, Galileo and Sable - lovely kids as they went to same school as mine but boy their names!

Talitha
Erasmus

Iñigo is a very popular nickname in Spain for Ignacio (Ignatius)

Is Labby short for Labia?

I was at school with a Crispin. It was a very long time ago.

Siblings Arbuthnot and Japonica

Sounds like the shipping forecast.

I wonder if you know the same family as I know two brothers called that.

(They’re not stereotypically posh though, just educated and cultured).

I once knew a really posh family - old money, public schools, owned the village they lived in PLUS an island or two. Their names were certainly posh but the funny thing is, they never used them, and consistently referred to one another by loving nicknames, such as Niney, Dormouse, Teapot, etc.

(They were the loveliest family EVER. Genuinely nice people. And very practical, despite wealth. All uniform handed down to the next in line, etc.)

So did I. It was after Hamlet though not Nelson. He was not a very brave puss.

I love posh names.

Old money aristo posh:
William
Henry
Frederick
Arthur
Charles
Elizabeth
Mary
Charlotte
Victoria
Anne

Upper middle class posh:
Tristram (not Tristan)
Sebastian
Archie
Rollo
Honor
Olivia
India
Georgina

who on Earth calls their child lettuce/lettice 😅

Surely it is Letitia not Lettice and all the genuinely posh people with titles that I know call their kids John or Harry or Henry.

Tristan

Fantastic😂

Japonica? Were the parents keen gardeners?

I wax at school with a Perry.

Perdita, Cressida, Theodore, Pandora, Dorian (boy)

Exactly proper aristos are dull and stick to king and queen names. Wannabe upper middle outrageous types like Rees Mogg go for the unusual stuff.

Rupert
Cecilia
Lettice (I can’t imagine one on a council estate)
Octavia
Ophelia
Benedict
Cornelia
Cornelius

I like some posh names (even though I’m not posh).

Really posh people all have quite dull names like Charles, Elizabeth, Henry, Caroline and George. But they go by their inexplicably stupid nicknames from babyhood like:

Baffy, Tonto, Musher, Wiggy and Roops

Listen out for it next time you are at the Polo or Henley. Or read some PG Wodehouse!

Crispin.