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posh/ pretentious boys names ?!

492 replies

isitseptemberyet · 13/08/2016 12:07

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 :)

OP posts:
flissfloss65 · 13/08/2016 12:26

Augustine, Auggie nn

Familyof3or4 · 13/08/2016 12:26

I love Caspar too.

Archduke · 13/08/2016 12:27

Hector
Auberon
Inigo
Lucius
Tristram

liz70 · 13/08/2016 12:28

Jolyon
Jocelyn
Tarquin
Theodore

NickiFury · 13/08/2016 12:29

Humphrey. I actually know a little Humphrey. I do want to laugh every time I hear his Mum call him though.

CandODad · 13/08/2016 12:29

AntHony (for this to be pretentious you have to ensure every person that ever says the name pronounces the TH or it becomes common.

happypoobum · 13/08/2016 12:32

I have some vair posh friends.

Pongo
Quentin
Bertram
Peregrine
Randolph

WaitrosePigeon · 13/08/2016 12:33

Crispin

VioletVaccine · 13/08/2016 12:33

Benedict.

But it might remind people of eggs, or just get shortened to Benny...so maybe not

wineoclockthanks · 13/08/2016 12:33

Cosmo

liz70 · 13/08/2016 12:34

Anselm
Ignatius
Tobias
Piers

GrumpyOldBag · 13/08/2016 12:34

Jago
Duff
Joshua
Xander (abbreviation of Alexander)
Xavier
Kit (abbreviation of Christopher)

I know boys with all these names.

WaitrosePigeon · 13/08/2016 12:35

Percy
Magnus

Emmaroos · 13/08/2016 12:35

Isn't the 'h' in Anthony supposed to be silent?

LordRothermereBlackshirtCunt · 13/08/2016 12:36

Thibault
Maximillian

QueenUrsula · 13/08/2016 12:36

Jonty
Horatio
Fabian (pronounced as Faye-bee-un not Fab-ee-un)

MrsDeVere · 13/08/2016 12:37

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witsender · 13/08/2016 12:41

The poshest boys I knew (vair posh public school upbringing) had very normal names.

Alexander (shortened to Zander)
Nicholas
Piers
Charles
Henry
George
William
Etc

Most OTT names scream pretension.

witsender · 13/08/2016 12:43

Jonty
Monty
Tristan

BendydickCuminsnatch · 13/08/2016 12:44

PONGO???? DUFF???? Shock

At the park the other day there was a baby Django which I thought was rather posh.

Ernest?

LizzieVereker · 13/08/2016 12:45

Guy
Christy

DerelictMyBalls · 13/08/2016 12:47

Leonard??? Leonard is a fine working class name!

How about Torquil or Archibald.

happypoobum · 13/08/2016 12:47

Bendy I know!!!!

I thought it was a nickname at first but it wasn't!!!! Shock

Agree with PP, Jolyon is vair posh. and I quite like it

CrazyCatLaydee123 · 13/08/2016 12:49

Austin

Astley · 13/08/2016 12:49

Henry is really not a posh name.

2 of the absolute least posh people I know have a Henry.

It's like Alfie now.

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