Which names are would you consider 'too posh/try-hard/odd' to be used?

[AKMD]

Having seen a few names pop up which, when read out to my office colleagues, have caused great hilarity, I was wondering which names poeple on MN generally consider too posh/try hard/odd to be passed off in RL. I absolutely love Arabella but have been told that DH and I aren't posh enough to use it :( Ditto Lucinda.

I have to admit I did laugh at Mungo. Sorry to any Mungos/parents of Mungos out there!

I only got to page 3 before ds2's name was mentioned. I didn't realise Milo was a posh name. That's just how posh I am! They also have two middle names. Maybe I am aspiring to be posh?! I've always thought Sebastion is posh.

Spanky - I got as far as post number 17! (for DS, DD's isn't here at all )

I love Milo, Dh wouldn't let me as it was the name of a hot milky drink in Hong Kong where he grew up!

ooh ooh I forgot the Ariadne and Dante from nursery!

I live in constant fear of spelling a birthday card wrongly and never being spoken to again....

I did notice that some of the mean people who criticised some MNers choice of name were not brave enough to tell us their own DCs' names... Pathetic really. FWIW I also love Rex and it would go quite well with our surname which is pretty common. I didn't know Rory meant king as well, but now I do I am even more tempted to use it if DC2 is a boy (DS is Tom, undistinctive but timeless).

I find most boys names too effeminate fir my taste, but Rex is sexy and about as masculine as you can get. The poshest girls name I know is Thomasina - depends where you live and what circles you move in, but I had to supress a smirk as I was introduced to one a few years ago... Apologies in advance if anyone has a Thomasina.

Cressida
Persephone
Ophelia
Codelia
Shakesperian names generally(am pretty sure I have spelt that wrong)

Have been so entranched with this thread that it actually got me to log back on to MN, years after joining. (Well, and I have a bit more time now that my 3-under-3 are now, almost, finally, in school.)

1. Surely all names used for humans existed before they were used for pets? Or did the first human to name a pet (not an animal) just make up a series of sounds?

1. All names can be/and are fine names, even if they seem odd at the time. I've no problem with Apple, Harper Seven, Tarquin, Araminta, Wycombe, Robertisha, etc. They're names, and they have meaning to those who possess them, those who gave them, and (yes) society. But really, it's just a bunch of sounds in the end.

Cheers,
Sprink,
(whose own 3 are DS1 "normal" name, DS2 "normal" name, DD "unusual" name in the UK)

spanky My DS3 name mentioned 4x on the first page and a few more times throughout thread. DS1 mentioned on page 8. All my dc also have 2 middle names. 1 Maori and 1 family/close friends name.

Like i said earlyer i couldn't care less what others think. We are happy with our choices. We love them and thats alll that matters.

Besides DS3 name was the mners top choice when i posted a list a few months back so i dont think that the name is so bad that he is likely to be laughed at or teased............... ds1 has never been teased about his name, in fact he gets the opposite, as everyone in his school thinks its realy cool.

I'm pleased mners like it. Maybe we are abit posh as so many of us have given our dc 'posh'names!

cressida

cressida

Some of the comments about Rex have been really rude. Having said that, my best friend growing up had a dog called Luke and I loved the name so called DS1 Luke :) So IMO nothing wrong with clalling a baby a name you might call a dog

I thought of naming DS Hector. Love the name, but it doesn't go with the family names, so I gave up (part of me still thinks it is a "trying too hard" name)

Hugo
Oscar

Phooey to you all

I have a goddess for a daughter and a world conquering king for a son. Only my daughter would cause you raise your eyebrows in query, and in her eight years on the planet she has never encountered anything but inquisitiveness followed by grins and approval/acceptance.

Much better than the 'make it up yourself' technique I see a lot of in my local area

My lab x is a Sophie. Should I now snigger if I meet a child named Sophie?

If my DD had been a boy she would have been named Arlo. Not because I was trying to be posh but from years of my hippy mother showing me Woodstock. Arlo Guthrie singing about drug smuggling must have entered my subconscious as a child. Now Arlo is going to be the new pup's name.

The only name I really loathe is Ishbel. Trying to hard to be posh Scottish.

I like the way that although it's a cardinal sin to make judgemental comments on mumsnet, it's okay to assume unusual names are posh and normal names are common.

Meant to mention the section in the book Freakonomics about baby names. US-centric (so not quite so much "posh this, common that") and talks about how long it takes names to go from being top-end to bottom-end (so to speak).

For those interested, here's a link to an excerpt:

www.slate.com/id/2116505/

Cheers,
Sprink,
(who meant to say "entranced" in her earlier post, not "entranched" (which is, of course, the name of my next child))

Everything on this blog today is hilarious & what I would consider odd/try-hard;

STFUParents

In real life, I know the following (mostly from Uni):
Peregrine
Muffy
Camilla
Eton
Barty
Romilly
(at least 2 are Rt.Hons., and most of them are achingly posh!)

There has been a real trend here (in Glasgow) of Struan being very popular, but as it was the name of the Westie dog next door to us as kids, it makes me giggle a bit! Also, I really wish I'd had the nerve to call DD Allegra, as I really wanted to (because of a favourite poem of mine), but chickened out and went for something safe. Used it as her middle name, though!

I got a few pages in before DS2's name (Stanley) was mentioned fwiw; I'm happy to shout it across any playground. We are so not posh, it's not even funny, DH chose it after Stan Lee, and it's a more popular name where we are because it's the name of a famous local footballer.

All the really posh people I have met have been called things like James, John and Thomas.

hee hee redheadbedhead - our DS's nickname before (and since) he was born is "Baby Muffin"! He is still more often referred to as "Muffin" than his actual name Marcel (which is on "the list") .

His big sister has shortened (or actually lengthened) this to "muffy muff muff" - poor bloody kid!

Athelstan.
Yes, really.
He's 12

33goingon64 Of course the people who criticised names aren't going to divulge the names they've given to their children. They are far too cowardly to do that.

Jenstar21 (I have a Romilly)

Hey! Just had a thought! I love Rex, actually. And DH loves Alexander and I want to incorporate Frederick for our next one as it was my Grandfather's name. So I could name a DS Frederick Alexander but call him Rex, couldn't I? F RE derick Ale X ander .

Couldn't I?!

Sigh...