posh/ pretentious boys names ?!

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Looking for help with 'snobby' boys names ! Apparently that's the type my OH and I like! We like Hugo & Leonard atm but really want something we Love, have nine weeks left,
would really appreciate any suggestions :)

Hermes.
Herpes.

Good for twins those two.

We used to holiday in Norfolk a lot few years back. Bewilderwood seemed to be full of small boys wearing Crew / Fatface called Diggory.

Hilary
Valentine
Evelyn

Even a common surname like Harrison sounds posh when it's used as a first name

No it doesn't. It just sounds like you're using a surname as a first name.

Currer
Ellis
Acton

I was once told that the real test is, does the name sound right with "King" or "Prince" in front of it, or " Duke of ..." after it....

Oh yeah i love it!!! Well old school huntin shootin boys names are where its at!!
Aloysius
Phinaeus
Rupert
Charles
Vincent
Frederick
Theodore
Miles
Montgomery
Peregrine
Tobias
Kit
Vivian
Fabian
Evelyn
Aldous
Bertram
Augustus
Silias
Gordon

I forgot
Clement
Winston
Lucien
Horatio
Phebus
Donald

OMG whoever said Isambard is a genius. That is a quality name right there.
You know this only works out if your baby comes out looking like a proud old man.
Luckily mine did as he has two of these names listed.

Sheriden

My dog's name has been mentioned several times, but poor DS's name didn't pop up until page 9. Clearly the dog is posher than DS!

I had Laurence and Leonidas rejected for DS1 who still has a posh name with a less.common spelling which means I have to say it's X with an E not an A . He's 5. He told me in the car the other day that he only likes people using his full name and not shortening it. I did think privately he's in for a world of trouble in that case...

Aether
Aitheras

Which do people prefer?

Charles
Andrew
Edward
George
Philip
Arthur
Henry
William

If you are genuinely posh the name will seem posh.

Leonard, Len Fairclough
Vincent, Vinnie Jones
Thug by association

I have a very posh, long name - please don't.

My DC have very classic names - their nn's are theirs and owned by then, conferred by friends - you can't contrive it OP, you have to go with what they are.

I'd go with Merlin if I were having a bit now

Cholmondeley, Featherstonehaugh, Beaufort, Ponsonby, Mountbatten, Uppingham and Spiffington.

Harrods fortnum-mason

Isambard is delightful!

Grannypants I love your useful suggestion .

Rollo

I have a Theodore and i can't believe that it is on the same list as Ptolemy.

I agree with PP that most really posh people have pretty everyday names like Charles and Henry - the fancy names are generally the province of people trying too hard. If you really want to sound posh then you could go for a girls name that is very occasionally used for a boy - perhaps Beverley - on the grounds that no one would lumber their poor child with it unless it was a posh family name.

I knew a boy called Ptolemy once - the most awful brat with truly pretentious parents.............

Nathaniel

Percival

I think people are failing to distinguish between what the majority of upper-class male children are actually called - which, as others have said is overwhelmingly rather ordinary, classic Thomas the Tank Engine type names, occasionally with a slightly more unusual family name thrown into the mix as one of multiple middle names - and 'names some people vaguely think are posh, or which might be used by a c-list celebrity, because people round here would snigger.'

Arlo, Harrison, Dexter, Theo and the like aren't remotely stereotypically 'posh'.

And names like Bede and Ambrose aren't so much 'posh' as just names you tend to get among a certain kind of quite trad English Catholic.

Isambard sounds to me as if he should emerge into the world wearing a stovepipe hat with a roll of blueprints under one tiny arm.

He could be Izzy for short...

biggles