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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:
SvalbardianPenguin · 13/08/2016 15:01

Timothy isn't a posh name, it's a drippy name - I know two and they are both the proverbial wet blankets.

Didyoumeantobesorude1 · 13/08/2016 15:01

Well if the surname is Bentley surely the obvious posh first name would be Rolls and middle name Royce?

Didyoumeantobesorude1 · 13/08/2016 15:03

Zeus
Findanus
Parsifal

LarrytheCucumber · 13/08/2016 15:08

Tarquin is a pretentious name, but probably not posh.

FinderofNeedles · 13/08/2016 15:11

Godfrey
Troilus
Giles
Gilles (hard 'G')
Augustine
Byron

theredjellybean · 13/08/2016 15:12

ptolomy
bartholomew ( the old english nickname is Tolley which i loved)
jaspar
rupert

theredjellybean · 13/08/2016 15:12

oh and Edmund

HelsinkiLights · 13/08/2016 15:18

Ferdinand (a family name & also several Emperors of Austria had Ferdinand as/in their name.) Btw I'm not related to Austrian royalty.......well as far as I know Smile

yougetme · 13/08/2016 15:24

Jocelyn
Rafe
Atticus
Oswald
Jesse ( I love this name)
Milo
Raphael
Blair
Torben
Fergus
Jago

angieloumc · 13/08/2016 15:35

It amuses me the person who said she'd studied 'Ptolomy' at uni spelt it and pronounced it wrong; Ptolemy with a silent P actually.

SingingSands · 13/08/2016 15:51

Valentine.

I think 'Val' sounds rather dashing in an old film star sort of way.

happypoobum · 13/08/2016 15:52

Oh gosh I have a Valentine too, but we call him Tino Grin

Snog · 13/08/2016 16:04

All boys names that end in the letter O
Cosmo, Milo, Edo etc

GrumpyOldBag · 13/08/2016 16:08

I think the most pretentious boy's name I have ever encountered was Bede.

Presumably named after "the venerable".

Coconutty · 13/08/2016 16:22

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herecomesthsun · 13/08/2016 16:22

You could turn to the arts - authors and characters

Theseus
Oberon
Benedick
Sebastian
Leander
Lysander
Demetrius
Percy (like Shelley)
Byron
Prospero
Hamlet (but that presages a bit too much of teenage angst)

Romeo of course the Beckhams used
and Dante and Leonardo are Ninja Turtles

LoloKazoloh · 13/08/2016 16:28

Roderick
Howard/Hereward
Kemys
Aubrey

dangerrabbit · 13/08/2016 16:30

Harthacnut

MrsMozart · 13/08/2016 16:33

Theo

purplespots1 · 13/08/2016 16:39

Bertie
Joseph (Joe)
Oliver
Juno
Bruno
Stanley
Leon but call him Leo

LoloKazoloh · 13/08/2016 16:40

Grin dangerrabbit wins

PedantPending · 13/08/2016 16:41

Giles
Hamish
Roderick
Edmund
Felix
Peregrine
Rudolph

Jubaloo442 · 13/08/2016 16:44

Poseidon

Toddlerteaplease · 13/08/2016 16:50

Tapis, I noticed that as well.

Alconleigh · 13/08/2016 16:55

Ptolemy
Rory. Ideally one of the complicated Irish or Scottish spellings but with complete RP accent.
Alexander abbreviated to Alec.