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

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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!

Rex rocks. I think it is a really cool name.

Am allergic to Milo.

I like it cheerful yank. Love Frederick, and I actually love Fritz as well. What does the mn Jury think of that? I know I know, very nutcracker, but I like it.

I also like Red as well as Rex. Perhaps short for Redmond, but tbh, I wouldn't bother unless I wasn't 'brave' enough to just use Red.

Redmond Alexander could be Rex too?

at Atticus being posh.

That's my DS's name and I named him after Atticus Finch cos I loved the name and character since I read the book when I was barely a teenager and always wanted to use the name if I had a boy.

I think Atticus is gonna get super popular now though after Harper Seven!

I think a lot depends on the context and the family. I live in the heart of the Cotswolds and there are loads of "posh" names around here such as Orlando and Lysander and Hugo and Sebastian. However they all sound perfectly normal and lovely and suit the children in question. If a child had been called any of those names in the area I grew up (Northern town) they would have been laughed out of school.

I think the daftest names are those that are not actually names like the infamous Chardonnay. I also knew someone whose daughter was called Porsche (but pronounced Portia).

Reminds me of the time I was in Primark in Cheltenham and heard this little toddler whining and grizzling. Eventually the chav-tastic mother (who had been ignoring it) turned round and in the deepest Gloucestershire accent said "Serenity! Will you shut up!". Did make me chuckle.

We named our daughter Jasmine - she's 12 now.

What do you all think ? We really wanted a flower name, and Jasmine had lovely associations from our wedding and honeymoon, as well as smelling fabulous. Also seemed more modern than some of the older flower names, such as Iris etc. But sometimes I think it's gone a bit bottom-end these days ( I'm such a terrible snob on the quiet ) and think we might have chosen April as she arrived on April 1st, ten days late. Or as someone suggested on here Allegra would have really suited her personality.
Also, now I've done more family research, I sometimes have a wish we'd chosen an old family name, like Rose or Sarah, at least for a middle name.

Perhaps I should have had more than one daughter to use all my ideas. But I'm very lucky to have her, I know !
She seems to like her name, and it's a good one to shorten to Jaz or jazzie, which also sounds quite musical which I like

Perhaps I should start a new thread for any reflections on our choice of DC's names ?

Anything that's not a REAL name, like Flower, Apple, generally just nouns that someone has thought they would be clever with and call their poor child by. You know the child will have the piss ripped and it is so attention seeking

Well, I really have to thank this thread for giving me some great ideas for future DC's names! .

For some reason that Friends episode where Phoebe changed her name to Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock springs to mind. I wonder if I could persuade DH to name our next DC Crap Bag...

Oh, I've met a Porsche too. Older brother called Mercedes (shortened to Des). I did mention to the mum that I thought it was normally a girl's name and she seemed quite suprised.

Was Porsche a boy as well?

No, a girl!

Phew! Mercedes is quite a well known Spanish girl's name. Can't quite see it as a boy's name.

Me neither! However I live in North London so if I was surpised at every unusual child's name I heard my face would permanently look like .

thereisalightanditnevergoesout - I don't dislike the name Romillly, I just think it was pretty posh, but suited the girl..... She's now on the telly, and her accent is way less posh than it used to be. I wonder if they asked her to tone it down?! :)

Jenstar21 - it was for info, really - It doesn't matter if you don't like it (I forgot to do a friendly emoticon!!) - I really wasn't offended - sorry, I didn't mean for you to feel like you had to explain yourself :)

Reminds me of the time I was in Primark in Cheltenham and heard this little toddler whining and grizzling. Eventually the chav-tastic mother (who had been ignoring it) turned round and in the deepest Gloucestershire accent said "Serenity! Will you shut up!". Did make me chuckle.

I actually love the name Serenity

thereisalightanditnevergoesout :)

Greythorne, your list is too long and includes the names of 2 of my offspring! We definitely not middleclass (ugh), these names are in our families histories.

I love Callista, my friend has this name and is pronounced to rhyme with 'Alister' rather than the Flockhart woman with the emphasis on 'Lis'. Its Greek innit.

What about Gabriel? Is that try hard?

Gabriel is wonderful! Rex reminds me of a tall, successful and very sexy man, wouldn't even occur to me that someone would use it for a dog or that that would matter.

I made it to page 8 before seeing DS1's name!

I was much more interested in meanings when naming my kids; Xavier, meaning 'a new house/fresh start' and Eliana meaning 'God has answered' considering they have a very long Greek surname I
think we did ok.

When DS2 arrived as a lovely chubby blonde chap we went for Finn - 'fair haired warrior', who incidentally has a lovely Irish surname!

I really don't care what people call their kids; to the people around them they are more than a name. Besides, in my experience you're more likely to hear 'smelly Ellie' in a playground rather than 'woof woof Rex'

I like Rex, can't see a problem with it being a human or a dog name but then again we have had a cat called Cassie (short for Cassandra) and our current cat is called Sarah. A name's a name...

I also have children with try-too-hard classical Greek names, well their middle names are anyway - they match their not-trying-too-hard Anglo-Greek first names which match their very, very Greek-Cypriot surname. ( Lysander and Athene fwiw)

Well it's not helped me narrow down my name choices for our second child...My favourite name is one that definitely causes opinions. I don't really care, possibly because I dislike so many names that I think it is normal for people not to agree but I do find myself looking at the names on our list from the outside. People do judge after all.
I am still laughing out loud though at the comment on the 2nd page... 'oh no, quentin, we can't have sebastian over, his mummy is pretending he is one of us...'
I love that, has really tickled me..

My MIL uses the posh names she likes but wasn't allowed to use by her dh for the pets :o So they've had a Dylan, Monty, Eddison, and now we have a Rupert to keep with tradition!