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 :)

I also think done other posters are completely missing the point talking about names like Jack etc when there are three or four in each class.

It's not really "posh" to call children the abbreviation of another name eg call a child Jack, rather than christen as John and shorten to Jack; ditto christen as Henry or Harold & shorten to Harry. It's not posh to christen as Jack or Harry ...

But the I knew a family who called their daughters Sally and Sarah. They really liked that name, to use twice!

Who are you, the name police?

I agree that the mark of poshness when it comes to names is to give your kids daft nicknames.
I've known a Jonathan shortened to Joff (aka Joff the Toff), a Crispin with the nickname of Tippy/Tip and a Lawrence nicknamed Lolly.

I think I will bow out now as I obviously don't fit in with the posters on this thread.
Call your children what you want because no, I am not the name police, but thought another opinion might be intersting. Obviously not.

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I have a pug pup named Hugo!

I think middle name is place for something more outlandish, simple and short for first name. Best of both worlds!

See i think differently about middle names. I think middle names are for honouring/tributes to others and as no one ever really knows your middle name aren't really important or your 'actual' name. My middle name is my nan's name and i don't use it and i certainly don't think of it as 'me' as i do my first name.

I think first names are for the name you want and the longer the better so many variations can be chosen if preferred. I am not keen on short first names a it gives no options to the child.

Both my kids have 3 names, most of which are a tribute to family and all of which are fairly unusual, but not made up and not "pretentious". Both have 1 distinctively Welsh name that is family.

I think it is really good for them to have a choice so they can reinvent themselves in their teens if they wish.

You could say that 3 names is a bit much in itself though!

You're giving me ideas for my next seeing as all 3 of ds's names on on here!

Each of my kids has 3 names too AND a double barrelled surname!

Ds1 has 33 letters in his full name and ds2 has 30.

My dad has always had lots of other oscars in his year and clubs he goes to. We chose Alessandro as a second name after an Italian friend who had helped my husband out with his business.
I'm a teacher and found naming my 4 children tricky as I always had am image of a child I'd taught. Not sure that now names are posh or not - there always seems to be a real mixture wherever I've been.

Yip my kids all have four names -

Firstname, Middlename, Mysurname, Husband's surname.

First were names we just liked and middle names are family names.

I think you should go alliterative - Barnaby Bentley is awesome!

Have a look at the family names of very aristocratic families

Dukes of Westminster

Dukes of Norfolk

Dukes of Somerset

Dukes of Richmond

Dukes of St Albans

Lots of James, Charles, Henry, George, William, Hugh...

Guy, Kit, St John, Rupert,

Duke seems very popular in aristocratic families, doesn't it? I think it's a dog's name though.

Oh I forgot to say Gaylord.

Ambrose.

I imagine you're looking more at names like Tristram, Crispin, Sebastian, Florian, Hilary, Evelyn, Aubrey, Bertram, Horace etc

Read a load of PG Wodehouse and take it from there

FWIW I have a nephew who is Leo. He's Leopold officially but has always been Leo. I don't see why anyone would shorten Leonard to Lenny or Len if you exclusively use Leo from the start

I like Hugo a lot

I can't really see the difference between Oscar, Harry and Matthew these days. Maybe Matthew would be the most unusual. It's impossible to predict future popularity - unusual quaint names come back in fashion. Outlandish names like Cloudsley are always going to be unusual though

I saw that 3 Day Nanny. There is no way of knowing if the couple had Italian heritage or not. It's not just posh people who do you know. Anyway what's a truly English name?

I've known (not in that sense) a Dickon, a Ptolemy and a milo. My poshest friend has an arlo. The Ptolemy has a sister with an equally pretentious name. They are both quite challenging.

Just watching the cycling. Cavendish would make a nice name.

Vivien is a girl's name. It's Vivian for a boy. The girl's name can also end with 'nne'.

Arlo may be a really old name, but it just sounds pretentious to me as to several of the names on this thread.

I once knew a Valerian, but he wasn't British.

Actually I think a fairly ordinary name with a more unusual nickname can sound posher.

I know a Xenophon, a Tristan, a Paris (whose brother is called Troy), a Giles and a Hereward

I was about to say, thank God they didn't go to the same school as me as it would be meat and drink for the bullies, then I remembered that the hardest lad two years above was called Paris. I think that he got quite handy with his fists out of necessity though.

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Bertie
Florian

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