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!

At the risk of sounding overly-harsh, if you call your DS Rex you should expect a bit of stick for it. Unfortunately I think he might have to. The Rex we know is laughed at for his name. Of course this is terrible and cruel, but the playground can be. I'd not like to set a child up for ridicule.

OK, I negatively criticised the name Rex earlier in the thread before realising it's what Lockets has named her DS. Of course people have opinions about the name and this is a thread asking for preferences and thoughts on names, but could we please stop going on about it now? It's not fair.

I can't believe how rude people are being about the perfectly nice and normal name, Rex. If you read the whole thread you will see that the same ridiculous comments are being made over and over again. Please stop it. And for what it's worth, I have been a teacher at an all boys' school for over 10 years and teasing and bullying are rarely focused on names.

And it's the boys named Tom and Jack who get fed up of only being known by the surnames.

Rex is a great name.

I just actually wet myself laughing at North Elvis.

I looked up who lived in our house in the 1901 census, and the family had a live-in housemaid called Boadicea. Might sound posh or try-hard now, but it clearly wasn't back then. Times change.

Horatio
Algernon

Mimi
Tallulah

Rex That's not a normal name; it's incredibly pretentious. Good name for a staffordshire bull terrier though, I suppose.

Disclaimer: my DC all have names that'd be considered 'posh', I think. Family names, so I didn't really think about it too much. Might not go down too well with some people though. No, I'm not going to tell!

Yay rainbowtoenails has finally mentioned my DS' name in her extensive list, but no-one has yet listed DD's name - Fabiola - probably because it is soooo unusual [preens].

Actually it's not posh at all, but rather humble, being derived from the latin for broad bean. Anyway the fact I know that probably makes me middle class enough to get away with it ...

I view the fact that some do not like unusual name choices as a good thing - to me my children are the most special things in the world (as I'm sure yours are to you) and I wanted them to be a little bit unique. I am realistic to appreciate that they may not discover the cure for AIDS or some such, and so a name with a difference might be as far as that uniqueness is shown to the rest of the world .

Obviously there is going too far in the quest for unique names (I have my own views, which I will not share as I do not wish to offend). I quite like Rex, though, and it would be quite appropriate in my house as the kids do seem to be in charge .

I love the name Rex. It means "King". It reminds me of Rex Harrison, never met a dog called Rex in my life.

Of course it means "King". That's one of the reasons it's so laughable that someone would bestow such a title on their poor little baby! It's hilarious!

Sorry lockets :( I assume you are talking about Rex. I have to admit I associate it with dogs as my aunt and uncle had one (he was lovely though so it's a good thing) however it's one of those things, as soon as you got to know the person the association would be with them, iyswim.

My DS's name is DH's middle name, I also had a friend whose brother was called it, I loved his name and his nn she called him. It never occured to me then it was 'posh', and actually didn't until a fairly horsey university friend brayed at the thought of it :)

I don't see why you wouldn't call a child a name that meant king. Surely most name meanings aren't applicable to a puking, pooing newborn?

Although DS's name means "noisy" - why did no one mention that before we gave him permission to live up to it?

sooooo many names i love mentioned here, obviously am achingly try hard :-)

ludo... oh how i love ludo, am having name envy, my poor little boring Leo, a compromise name to please two cultures... but i am looking at him and thinking LUDO would have been perfect, or caspar, rafferty (ahhh), tolly... oh poooh, i want to rename him ....

I always think threads where people get together specifically to slag off names for being too posh, chavvy, try-hard, popular, trendy or whatever are pretty grim reading but this one has managed to plumb new depths with the repeated attacks on one poster's son's name.

No wonder some children become bullies when you look at some of the mothers on this site.

I've met many Rexs as I volunteered for a while at an animal shelter. Without exception they were staffies or german shepherds.

Lockets, yes this is rough but I'm sure the majority of people will think "Dog's name" when they meet your DS.

Can't I distract you with my real Aunty Clytemnestra?

My aunt's dog was a lovely golden retriever. Always a wag in that tail.

Goldenhaze, do you actually know you are repeatedly mocking the name of lockets' newborn son? Not just the name as an abstract? I can hardly believe you're being so insensitive and hurtful.

Although my parents did have a shetland sheepdog (like a collie only smaller and quite dainty) which they called "Butch".
So maybe in my family we have form for inappropriate dog names.

My grandma and grandad had a crossbreed almost completely black dog they called snowy. only joking, he was actually called Jet, which makes much more sense

Well said, PelvicFloorOfSteel - children don't care what their friends are called, this suggests what I always suspected - that children hear this from the grown ups around them.

Oh, I've just seen that you do know and actually are being that vile. Couldn't agree with mimitwo and pelvic more.