slightly kooky 'posh' names? boys or girls?

[ihateshopping]

I wanted a slighty kooky 'posh' name for boys or girls. I really like tarquin, DH is not impressed. Ideas??

[LineRunner]

Yes, and I dreamt I was on this thread last night and suggested Mildew.

[Trazzletoes]

I desperately wanted to call DD Xanthe but DH said it was too chavvy I thought she would sound like a pro skier! Instead she has a common Biblical name.

[Kaekae]

Marmaduke.

[Lady75]

I have a Rufus, he is amazing :-)

[Mopswerver]

Love it Linerunner I have a few suggestions of my own but I think I'll swallow them down

[Mopswerver]

Does anyone remember 'The New Statesman'?. Alan B'stard had a daughter called Portia (spelt Porsche)

[zipzap]

Ptolemy for a boy

Hester for a girl

[LineRunner]

Yes! I remember that!

Tbh most long babyname threads end up going a bit silly at the end. People suggest names like Kenwood, Target and Carolgees.

[Mopswerver]

at Ptolemy. Now I know this is a joke. I remember a friend & I bumping into a couple we knew in a park in London. The woman was heavily preg and my Northern friend asked did they have any names. "Yes, Fanny for a girl and Squire for a boy" came the reply, to which my dry friend remarked "Well let's hope it's a boy then!"

[alwaysanauntie]

As my own name has popped up a couple of times (in the earlier posts, so no I'm not called Target etc) thought I'd share some of my family ones.

Girls:
Rosalind
Vivienne (Vivian is boy's spelling imo - see the young ones!)
Jemima
Eleanora (anglicised version of a popular Italian name nn Ellie in UK & Nora in Italy)
Jane
Linda
Belle

Boys:
Linton
Gavin (was going to be Casper but dm changed her mind when she saw him!)
Geoffrey
Hamish
Callum
Brody (yes we're Scottish!)

Have fun choosing! :)

[fridakahlo]

I was musing about Absinthe, to my oh, as a girls name last night. We are not having any more children, so won't be using it. Might have to get a hamster.

[LineRunner]

I think a hamster, or indeed any tiny mammal, called Absinthe sounds grand.

[threeleftfeet]

Mopswerver I know a little Ptolemy.

[EssentialFattyAcid]

Caesar
Dorian
Ophelia

[Chocol8]

Barnaby. Barnabus. Titus...lol!

[Chocol8]

Barnaby...Barnabus...?

Rosey...Rosemary...?

[PrunellaDeVille]

Mildew
i always thought Tarpaulin for a boy would be simply splendid

[LineRunner]

Did I mean Mildred?

[Mopswerver]

Love Tarpaulin and Mildew. Twins anyone?

[JoInScotland]

My DS is friends with a boy at his nursery named Platon - Russian version of Plato. Pronounced Platt - on. He's the only one we know/have ever heard of!

[CandthePickle]

Torquil maybe instead of tarquin?

[RomyMadison]

Arabella
Sol(boy)
Ralph
Minty
Astala(peaches baby's name)

[ShowOfHands]

Is Raphael really posh? I have one. He is Raphael Erasmus. He is known as Rafa, Rafe, Raffie and Rastus depending on who is saying it. DD calls him Rafty Dafty Doo. It's a great, versatile name. We also liked...

Emrys
Amos
Sacha
Atticus
Bram (Abraham)
Caspar
Solomon

A girl would have been Josephine Aphra Mirabel. Aphra I LOVE.

I like slightly different, slightly interesting names. Some brilliant ones on here.

[lloydie500]

I was at school with a Titus and have never met anyone else with that name! Always quite liked it.

[iguanadonna]

Cecily is lovely. Classic, pretty, posh - not trying-too-hard-middle-class like all this Ptolemy and Octavian nonsense. For me it's a bit weakly girly - Cecily doesn't sound like a ball-breaking business woman. But I expect she'll read classics, do rather well, marry someone rich, and be awfully good at making slightly quirky picnics for Glyndebourne.