The most posh/classy names in top 100

[MrsMae]

In your humble opinion, what names (both boys and girls) are the most classy in the top 100.

Here is the link to the latest National Statistics list.

www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=15282

Old ladyish in the sense that nobody had used it since Victorian times!

In answer to your question, in the order they appear in the list IMO names which are not so much posh as classy and classic and bridge social divides:

Thomas, William, James, George, Joseph, Benjamin, Alexander, Henry, Matthew, Edward, Michael, Charles, Sebastian, David, John, Robert, Christopher, Frederick

Olivia, Emily, Sophie, Grace, Charlotte, Isabella/Isabelle/Isobel, Hannah, Imogen, Emma, Elizabeth, Matilda, Alice, Georgia, Eleanor, Anna, Rebecca, Sarah/Sara, Martha, Alexandra, Harriet, Lydia, Maria

Just IMHO of course.

I'll play - In my very humble opinion.....

Charlotte, Elizabeth, Imogen, Georgia, Sophia, Amelia

and

William, George, Alexander, James, Charles and Sebastian

all have a certain amount of class.

Well I want to play but I don't see the list!

In my oh so humble opinion, Samuel and Eleanora are the best names ever. :o

Trouble is the names most people associate as 'posh' are actually middle class names rather than aristocratic names, which tend to be much more ordinary.

Here are a few names from Debrett's guide to heirs to the throne (outside the immediate royal family), so Aristocratic and therefore, I would count as posh

Charles
Samuel
Arthur
Columbus
Cassius
Frederick
There should also be a Nicholas here, but he's now Catholic so no longer in line.

Margarita
Sarah
Davina
Rose
Amelia
Helen
Eloise
Estella

Not a Tarquin or a Persephone in sight!! (Although Cassius sails close to the middle class wind). But truly posh people have ordinary names. 'Posh' names tend not to belong to posh people at all, just mere wannabes!!

Incidentally, didn't Sarah Ferguson want to name one of her daughters Annabel, but it was rejected by the queen for being too 'common'?

It was Beatrice.

No, I can't let Eloise through. That's a hideously common name, if we're debating that sort of thing

But as there is now a Savannah in line to the throne, albeit way down the list, I don't think we can rely on the royals anymore :o

It's all them commoners marrying in innit

It is. Since they abandoned the blue blooded virgins it's all gone tits up

Not many of them around anymore methinks. Well, of an appropriate marrying age that be. Tut tut tut indeed. Commoners eh? They're bleeding everywhere

"No, I can't let Eloise through. That's a hideously common name, if we're debating that sort of thing"

Hmm - Lady Eloise Taylor - daughter of Lady Helen Taylor Grand daughter to the Duke and Duchess of Kent, 29th in sucession to the throne.

Lady Eloise Anson - Aristocratic model, daughter of the late Lord Litchfield.

And of course - "Her highborn Countess Eloise Sophie Beatrix Laurence of Orange-Nassau", member of the Dutch royal household and 6th in line for the Dutch throne.

But of course, Gwendoline - by all means go ahead and tell these women that they're chavs hideously common. .

Of course, this goes to prove my original point that true posh upper class have normal names - of which Eloise is one!

PS. None of these Eloise's are married in, they're all born Aristocrats!

Have you got their email addresses? :o

Dear Eloises

I'm afraid it is my sad duty to inform you that your name has been voted most common name in the top 100 2011 (by a jury of one). We will will be in touch in the next day or two to arrange the collection of your title and associated coats of arms. In the meantime, please refrain from using the headed notepaper.

Kind regards
Gwen.

unless you're going to pass yourself off as an aristocrat though, why give your child a name from a check list of about 8 names.

Princess Anne didn't give her daughter an aristocratic name! (i think. NOT sure tbh)

"Princess Anne didn't give her daughter an aristocratic name!"

Agreed, she gave her daughter a normal name, just like William, Peter, Louise and so many of the other royals and aristocrats do. Nothing particularly posh about any of them!

Actually...Zara is a "common" name here.

And Savannah is extremely "trailer trash" .

It's odd. Here Savannah is "trashy" and Sienna could be, unless the parents are very artsy. But Susannah is "classy" . Why is that, I wonder?

No such thing as a posh name, there are classic names that will never date, for example Alexandra, Elizabeth, Catharine, Victoria etc... 'Poshness' is to do with the person and their upbringing, not the name they were given at birth

I think the rise in popularity of Sienna is down to a certain Miss Miller, and coincidentally her sister's name is Savannah ...both hideous!

I agree - a person might be considered 'posh' based on their upbringing or attitudes, and even that is a very British concept imo.

A name is just that, a name. A person can make of his/her name whatever he/she wants. Let's not judge people purely on the name his/her parents chose when he/she was a baby.