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!

My ds is Guy and my uncle told me I was 'getting above myself' and should have called him Robert [his name]!

I think Pontus is a swedish name: there's one in Wallander.

I never saw Reuben like that. I saw it as a solid classless bible name. Not posh not common, not too obscurely bible-ish...

me too re Reuben - i know a few and they're both normal and working class, one scottish. think it's quite a standard name.

Any old lady/man names

Trying to be oh so trendy and failing

Antigone's out, then?

I liked Amber and Ursula for DD1. Ursula means 'she bear' which I thought was sweet.

I don't think 'old lady/man' names are trying to be trendy, a lot of them are classic names which parents hope will be timeless/ageless. They will age better than all the misspelt made up names that's for sure.

I bet when all those kids were being named Susan, Stephen, James, Sarah etc in the 60s and 70s the previous generation though that was weird/trendy/naff too.

I asked myself two questions when naming my children. Would it sound ok as a name of a king/queen? Not that I have pretentions to royalty but it may be some indication as to daftness. Secondly, can I shout it across a playground without feeling stupid?

I love Ursula too insomnia - def a contender for any future DDs. Also like Ophelia, but not a great role model, perhaps.

Love Ralph, Theodore and Tobias for boys. Don't think they're posh, but then I do want a Sophie la Giraffe .

Would much rather these so-called try-hard names than anything chavvy newly-coined.

I would feel pretty stupid shouting Stanley or Ethel across a playground round here tbh

I really like Cassius. Im very unposh. I loathe all the others mentioned. Apart from Henry.Henry is nice but also a bit posh sounding.

I know a Cassius hes a very cool teenager ,not the slightest bit posh

I've got two sophie la giraffes. Can I use clytemnaestra for my next DD?

is it just me or do some of these try too hard names not sound a bit "da Bronx"?

I just see some kid with oversized pants hanging half off, playing basketball in a rundown court in the Bronx with some of these names....

OK, excuse me for being dim but is Ludo a girl or a boy? It's just a board game to me .

My name choices are usually criticised for being "common" in a top-10-babynames-of-the-year-since-year-dot kind of way although we rarely meet other children in RL with their names & neither DS has a child with the same name in their class at school.

Your name choice should be just that surely - your choice. Sod what anyone else thinks! Mind you, where we live you really wouldn't find a Rex, Ralph, Rafe etc. in the playground - think Riley, Macey, Morgan etc. and you'd be closer .

haha! emma my area has an abundance of rileys morgans jaydens and rihannas not much chance of an esther or gregor or some such round my way!

not only is Ludo the board game but isn't it also that big hairy ginger beast in the film Labyrinth? a sweet big hairy beast, but a big hairy beast nonetheless.

i went to school with a st john a seighfried [cant remember how to spell it] and a hermione it was in a reasonably middle class area but not that posh

My as yet non-existant DC3's boy and girl names are on the above list. And I couldn't give a flying tbh, because we love the names and that's all that matters.

DP's middle name is mentioned. His dad is a bit posh though, so I suppose he's okay.

It's up to the individual whether they make a name work and depends on the surname as well.
I see Tristan and Crispin as a bit wet posh.
I knew a Sheridan (surname Gladstone) who thought she was mighty royal and was anything but. Also a Camille and a Camilla but both def not posh.
Hortensia - posh on paper, and posh in RL, and she was very sweet too.

I think you can make it work with a girls name more than boys, or even just use a nn? (less teasing with a girls name imo).
I don't think of names being posh but I do think certain names can be priggish.

There are a lot of unusual names in DD's nursery - in fact I really like that a lot of people have gone for the names they love, rather than the 'safe' names. That includes us, by the way! As someone who was given a safe boring ten-a-penny name instead of the one my mum really wanted, I can categorically state that I wish she'd been braver.

DD was known as Mungo before she was born .

I have never felt brave enough to use Inigo, it is very posh IMO. However, I do love it and am getting braver with names so who knows!
For me the 'try too hard' names are probably the old fashioned names such as Percy, Enid, Elsie etc. However, I would rather be seen as 'trying too hard' than give my child a name that's been in the top 5 for a few years.

I met a three year old called Rex the other day. Poor little mite!

I'm afraid to say that my friend and I had a giggle. It says either: "Son, you are a king among men" BOAK or "Here boy! Good dog!".