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 :)

What's wrong with Michael, David, John, Peter etc?
There again, have whatever you like!

Clarence
Tarquin
Jolyon
Amadeus
Bartholomew

Also, pleeeease think about your child's future when you choose an unusual name! I have an androgynous name, which is extremely uncommon where I live....and I bloody hate it!!!!

Kitten. Evelyn was originally a boys name but I think the author Evelyn Waugh was in the last generation where it was much used for boys. Now days generally a girls name. Likewise Jocelyn which was used as a boys name from mediaeval times but unlikely to be used now as regarded as definitely a girls name. Other boys to girls names are Hilary, Shirley, Kim.
A number of the names used for both tend to be spelled differently but even so once the name becomes really popular for girls parents start to shun it for boys lest it appear too feminine. Leslie/Lesley not very popular now but more women bear it than men. Can see the same thing happening with Ashley/Ashleigh.

REX

Actually, I think a number of these names are quite chavvy, ie. Harrison. A very long way from posh imo.

Liz70 Fellatio?

I know it's not the done thing to take the piss out of baby namessage but ........

Wdigin -- surely too many of these? Unless there are family reasons for John it sounds almost as if the parents either couldn't be bothered to think of a name or were unable to agree on one. Good friend called John told me the latter circumstance was why he was named John.

Daily -- maybe it was autocorrect? I can't type DM without it automatically being changed to Adam,

There was a Horatio in one of my classes years ago. I don't know what nickname his parents used but at school he was affectionately known as Fellatio

Don't worry i wouldn't go with a name too wildly outside the norm, i don't dislike my child (!) and i think you definitely have to live and move within a certain circle to get away with some of these names ! :-D

I do love the way all th names sound though and greatly appreciate the suggestions, won't be going for Leonard anymore (cant remember the name of th poster but the description of their idea of a leonard- 'second hand car sales man with slip on shoes' had me and my OH in stitches! ):-D
But Hugo is still in the running :)

I don't know if Julian has already been mentioned. But that's one name I hear in the "wealthier" part of town.

Leopold
Silas
Miles/Milo

My ds goes to school with a few pretentiously poshly named boys including:

Barty
Herbert
Atticus (2 of those)
Hugo
Inigo
Rupert
and Angus.

There is also a Kyle in his class. I feel sorry for Kyle

I love naming pets because I can use the names I like and not worry about what the other kids at school may think -- I give "proper names". Was once a breeder of pedigree animals and had a ball. All the names That might have been considered too pouncey or old fashion etc etc.
Can I suggest this to folk who might be tempted to saddle a DD or DS with a doubtful name?

My baby DS is a Hugo and I've had so many compliments on it!! If I have another DS he will be Henry!

OP To me Hugo seems to reach the balance of being "well bred" but not too pretentious. I'd couple it up with Ptolemy or Alexander.
You need to have some other names to hand though just in case you look at him and know he just doesn't look like a Hugo.

Jolyon
Joceyln
Tristram
Rafe

Nigel

Stay away from Jayden, Brayden and Caiden and you'll be fine

Guy
Benedict
Peregrine
Gabriel
Dominic
Ralph

Columba and Ferrin

kitten

1. Evelyn can be both, I'm sure you didn't put your foot in it. Evelyn Waugh the author was a bloke

2. I absolutely love Isambard and for the same reasons. Great name.

I do also know a Jocelyn who's a boy though. (Joss for short, lovely name).)

Torquil
Homer
Angel
Plato
Cuthbert

Isambard

Frobisher