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To ask which names sound snobby in the English language?

145 replies

ConfusedWife1234 · 15/02/2018 13:58

I am just interested because I found the Chevy names thread interesting.

I have a friend called Annastasia, who is part Russian part Eastern German. She has been told her name sound snobby and wannabe in the US/UK, while in Russia it is very common and in what was Eastern Germany it is not to uncommon.

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silverteaspoon · 15/02/2018 15:56

The grandest people I know all have nicknames but are mostly called names like Victoria, Louisa, Johnny and Henry on their passports.

ReelingLush18 · 15/02/2018 15:57

Yes, Persephone is one of the very Ancient Greek names of which I was thinking upthread. Actually that's our cat's name (shortened to Percy)

What about Giles?

MyMarmitePurrs · 15/02/2018 15:59

I was going to called Zara Elizabeth !! Good job my father put his foot down considering the area I lived in !!

TheNoseyProject · 15/02/2018 16:00

What’s really snobby are the names which are not said how they are spelt I.e st John and Beauchief etc

And also the ridiculous nickname type names you wouldn’t get away with in any other walk of life I.e Pooky, Tink, etc

52FestiveRoad · 15/02/2018 16:01

What about Giles?
Posh.

WatercolourFlower · 15/02/2018 16:01

I know someone who is called Victoria, but everyone calls her Plum...I think that is very posh!

milliemolliemou · 15/02/2018 16:04

Xerxes! Darius! Julius. Septimus. I wish I'd had more DS!
Rufus for a red head, surely.

Cleopatra? Athene? I know a few Hebes. Now I wish I'd had more DDs.

Myheartbelongsto · 15/02/2018 16:06

When English people say my name it makes it sound posh.

ViceAdmiralAmilynHoldo · 15/02/2018 16:08

Jacob Rees-Mogg is not 'proper posh' but has married into it and has the money behind it. His kids have the following names:
Peter Theodore Alphege Rees-Mogg
Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg
Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan Rees-Mogg
Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam Rees-Mogg
Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius Rees-Mogg
Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg

ReelingLush18 · 15/02/2018 16:11

Jacob Rees-Mogg's daughter has got off lightly compared with her brothers. A combo of very Catholic, traditional and some with historical relevance. I love Theodore though (but not Theo so much).

yawning801 · 15/02/2018 16:13

I just keep my ears peeled. I've heard so many things like "Focaccia-Baguette! Please trot back here and help Cosmo find his organic everything-free invisible rice cakes! Oh yes, we are so healthy and we even do yoga! " Grin

I think names like Tarquin and Maximilian looking at you Katie Hopkins are quite "snobby" because that's the kind of thing you'd hear in one of the above mentioned sentences. There's a bit in Miranda Hart's book that actually says about names and people like that and it's quite funny actually!

x2boys · 15/02/2018 16:15

I used to go to school with at St John they called him Sinny and we had an Hermione in our class at primary school (long before Harry Potter)

MerryMarigold · 15/02/2018 16:16

Jacob Rees-Mogg's daughter has got off lightly compared with her brothers.

Probably not important enough to worry about naming after Very Important Men in the family.

LastNightMyWifeHooveredMyHead · 15/02/2018 16:17

Rose, Lily and Violet aren't posh at all - very typical housemaid names from the Victorian/Edwardian period, now revitalised by the chattering classes... Grin

VladmirsPoutine · 15/02/2018 16:19

Tabitha is a lovely name and cats can be called whatever their owner fancies. However, this is a TAAT.

ReelingLush18 · 15/02/2018 16:20

I don't think Katie Hopkins is posh at all, although she tries very hard to be (remembering how her parents came across when I saw them on TV once, on The Apprentice, years ago). I think she has assumed a 'Sloaney' persona that isn't the real her at all.

Chicken1970 · 15/02/2018 16:28

You want posh/snobby names go on the Daily Telegraph births section. A real eye opener. Ottilie, Rafferty, Clementine and Rupert etc.

JulyAphrodite · 15/02/2018 16:30

Ilaria

MerryMarigold · 15/02/2018 16:34

Algernon
Ralph pronounced Rafe
Horatia nn. Tiggy out some such

TokyoKyoto · 15/02/2018 16:40

Bit of an outlier but Helen and Charlotte.
Pronounced Hellin and Shah-lot.

pepperpot99 · 15/02/2018 16:48

Tyrees jor'elle dwayne-mason ReesMogg has a good ring to it.

Or for a girl B'anka Chantelle mikeyla-jade ReesMogg.

Dljlr · 15/02/2018 16:49

There was a very posh sounding mummy yelling at a Rafferty in town recently. When she got really annoyed it came out like Rafferty, to rhyme with graffiti, which sort of undermined the poshness a bit.

If I'd had a DD I'd have called her Florence Octavia. Probably lucky I didn't...

ReelingLush18 · 15/02/2018 16:52

Ralph pronounced Rafe I know one. he's proper pukka Irish.

OutyMcOutface · 15/02/2018 16:54

Anastasia mispronounced the English way is a 'chevy' where I come from. Pronounced correctly it's just another foreign name. Names certainly don't sound snobby-did your friend maybe mean upper class? Or eccentric?

EatingSatsumas · 15/02/2018 16:56

The really posh people that I know tend to name their children Thomas, George, Henry, Alice, Clementine, Charlotte etc.