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 was the nanny for a posh family (Daddy had been to Eton)
Their youngest was "Angus"
I don't think I'm posh enough to choose that name for one of mine !

My DS is an Edward, but I usually end up shortening it to "Eddie"
Only his posh Uncle regularly calls him "Edward" !
(and occasionally his Father)
Think we'll use Ed more as he enters teenage years.

Ooops, sorry lockets. I've just read that you named your DS Rex. Apologies.

Too posh - Tarquin and Octavia
Too try hard - Baxter and Ptolemy
Too odd - Zevon and Ozrick

'basically, babies will be adults one day. unless you are some sort of high flyer middle class bugaboo pushing sophie toy chewing mummy your kid needs a normal bloody name'.

Is the infant chewing a sophie toy OR called Sophie and chewing a toy OR is the mummy chewing a sophie toy?

(OR's in capitals in an attempt to make the sentence more clear.)

And depending upon the above - is Sophie really considered posh, or WTF is a sophie toy?

Just remembered - Giles and Gideon for the too posh list.

Sophie toy

My youngests name is mentioned several times on here. I couldn't care less what other people think or what 'image' the name conjures up. We chose our dcs names because we loved them. Some people love our dc names but I expect others hate them. If they dont like my dc names then thats their problem.

A name dosent 'make' a person and I think its ridiculous how people have pre conceptions about a person, based on their name before they have even meet them.

It IS a toy! I thought you were going to laugh me off the site for thinking it might be. 3 children later I have never heard of this. Does this mean I have to refute my middle class status?

Strangely find myself wanting a giraffe now...

I understand people choose name for their DC because they love them, but surely the opinions of other people matter as it's the child who has to live with the name. Giving a pompous (for example) name could be a real problem throughout a person's life. It doesn't seem fair to me.

I am called Philippa and have two Bugaboos - no Sophie la Giraffe though! I know several Ruperts! I am NOT posh (and find people who refer to themselves as posh a bit unposh really). My hubby works in a profession that is overwhelmingly populated by public school boys (though he went to a comp) and most of them are called John, Alex and Will, peppered with the odd aforementioned Rupert! In fact there are 4 John's in our little circle and we call them by their last names to differeniate! We went through the contacts list on his iphone for baby name inspiration and found it an utterley dull and fruitless task! Most of his colleagues appear to call their children top 10 names - Harry, Charlie and more Isabellas/Isabelles than I can tot up!

i knew as i wrote it it didnt make 100% sense but its the sophie giraffe toy for teething

Augustus. One of my best friends fell in love with this name and was determined to use it- baby would have been Augusta if he had been a girl. I guess he will be the only one in school, particularly since they have moved from the US to the country of Georgia. I suppose it would seen "try hard" in Britain, but it is so much better than the -aydon names topping the charts and tons of Alfies, Archies, etc?

I knew a 'posh' family in the 70's, brothers called Crispin, Julian, Lucien and Simon. We knew they were posh because they were the only family in the entire village to go to a private school! Poor old Simon dipped out, though on the posh name front.

Well, where do we stand, then?!

So far we have: DS (Jack - achingly unposh, right? in fact, a bit common, innit )

And DD: Margot Elizabeth (which is apparently too reminiscent of the Penelope Keith character in that show.)

So what are we? Common or posh - I'll leave it to the MN jury to decide....

I know a family who've named their DCs:
Tyger (pronounced "Tiger")
Rex
Dido
I genuinely feel sorry for them. One little boy already has a hard time in the playground.

greyhorn.....what names do you like? i think that reveals more. i like all the names on your list so just curious?

lockets but wait till I tell you that I'm married to... an American... whose name is completely unpronouncable (bwa ha ha.... goes off to claim special mumsnet prize..... or to go and do something more constructive with time....)

Cherry
I like trad names and slightly foreign names:

Laurence
Edward
Raphael

Alicia
Lucia
Anastasia