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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:
Bonywasawarriorwayayix · 13/08/2016 16:57

I didn't realise DS's name is posh Smile

Dashper
Timothy
Ludovich (Ludo for short)

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 13/08/2016 16:59

I knew a Peregrine. We called him Perry. He was terrifyingly grand...

herecomesthsun · 13/08/2016 17:09

Urban Dictionary: Rupert
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rupert

  1. Rupert. British Army slang for an Officer, but particularly an Officer that is upper-middle class or above, and has a total lack of skill or common-sense. What!
shockthemonkey · 13/08/2016 17:14

Peregrine! Perry for short

Paintedhandprints · 13/08/2016 17:23

Spencer
Francis
Marcus
James
Henry
William

SanityClause · 13/08/2016 17:26

Cyprian
Endymion
Jasper

Read some Georgette Heyer novels for some inspiration.

maisiejones · 13/08/2016 17:32

Looking at some of these I feel great sympathy for these poor bloody children.😟

LuluJakey1 · 13/08/2016 18:03

Sholto
Torquil
Valentine
Fergal

VioletVaccine · 13/08/2016 18:04

maisie me too.

Crispian, Jolyon and Peregrine (falcon) really grate on my teeth not posh enough evidently

OnlyTheWelshCanCwtch · 13/08/2016 18:18

Rupert
Montague

LuluJakey1 · 13/08/2016 18:25

Evelyn
Randolph
Loudon
Beauchamp
Roderick
Granville
Augustus
Fergus

Kanga59 · 13/08/2016 18:26

Ernest.

hope you're not planning on state school

sofato5miles · 13/08/2016 18:29

Jago
Sholto
Hugh
Alec (Alexander)
Alisdair
Gregory

CoraPirbright · 13/08/2016 18:32

Ralph (pronounced to rhyme with safe, not the american way with the short a)
Monty
Sebastian
Felix
George with the nn Geordie. Vair 'posh'.

piglover · 13/08/2016 18:48

Arthur, Archibald, Titus, Leo, Ambrose, Theodore (aka Teddy).

I have/have had some very poshly named boy cats in my time.

JasperDamerel · 13/08/2016 18:50

Plenty of those names at my kids' state school.

ephemeralfairy · 13/08/2016 19:08

Jonray
St John
Tobias
Gabriel
Raphael

elizabethdraper · 13/08/2016 19:22

Has to be Tobias. That is my son's name I love it

MeDownSouth · 13/08/2016 19:38

All that keeps going round my head is 'My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!'
And how is Ernest a posh name, he was a milkman!

HaveYouSeentheWritingontheWall · 13/08/2016 19:41

Haydn
Niles

PigletJohn · 13/08/2016 19:44

"Dave"

Wallykazam · 13/08/2016 19:45

Atticus

RebelandaStunner · 13/08/2016 19:53

Miles and Giles for twins!

Ramonaramona73 · 13/08/2016 19:55

Rafferty
Tristram

Doilooklikeatourist · 13/08/2016 19:56

Orlando