Posh GIRL Names Wanted Please!

[EmilyRoo]

I know, I know. It's who you are/how you act, not your name that makes you. But I adore those posh, fancy names like Cressida,Romilly, Araminta, Jemima etc. They're pretty, with history, but are underused. I already have a list of boy names I love (Willoughby, Hugo, Julius, Montgomery, Caspian, and Atticus) so just girl names are needed!

Note: I also am fond of the slightly ridiculous names like Digby and Osbert, Zelda and Hebe. But that is for another thread, another time!)

Arabella
Candida
Artemis
Tabitha
Cosima
India
Cassandra
Allegra

Adriana
Azaria
Bernice
Othella (sp)

Penelope
Otterly
Tamara
Meridith
Felicity

Octavia, Cressida, Philomena, Cosima

Callisto
Isabella
Jacquetta
Amelia
Anoushka
Josephine
Annabelle
Verity

Buy a copy of Harpers & Queen and flick through the society pages for names! :)

Antonia
Valentina
Seraphina

Sorry for any repeats, I'm afraid I'm too lazy to check!

Anastasia, Annabella, Arabella, Araminta, Athena, Beatrice, Cordelia, Clarissa, Cassandra, Camilla, Candida, Constance, Carolina, Cecaelia, Cynthia, Daniella, Delilah, Dorothea, Emmeline, Evangeline, Elisaveta, Elizabeth, Eleanora, Eloisa, Evelina, Francesca, Felicity, Florence, Gabriella, Genevieve, Giovanna, Guinevere, Henrietta, Harriet, Hermione, Isabella, Isadora, Julianna, Juliette, Katherina, Lilianna, Louisa, Lavinia, Lavender, Marianna, Madeleine, Miranda, Matilda, Natalia, Natasha, Ophelia, Octavia, Penelope, Philippa, Peronelle, Petrova, Rebecca, Rhianna, Rosemary, Rosalie, Rosalind, Rosanna, Sophia, Seraphina, Serena, Tabitha, Tallulah, Victoria, Vanessa, Veronica, Virginia, Valentina, Wilhemina, Ximena, Yolanda, Zipporah.

Seems that 'posh' names are really beautiful, long, feminine, often European, names. I love them all!!

Particularly Antonia, Arabella, Carolina, Cecilia, Dorothea, Eleonora, Louisa, Seraphina, Valentina - really beautiful!!

In fact, I don't think they are 'posh' but just beautiful!!

Thanks manicinsomniac, you have included my real first name in your
posh list!

I had Antoinette, nn Ani, on our list.

What manic said

Also - Calypso.

PS - I love Hebe.

These are what I call '1930s boarding school names'. They were the names of the characters in a lot of the books I read as a child, which I inherited from my mum.

My three favourites are Anastasia (pronounced Anna-star-zee-a), Petrova and Marguerite (strange, because I hate the name Margaret)

Ooh, I've remembered another one I like - Mahala.

Cordelia is another one - I had a bear called that.

I'm not sure if what you want is "posh" or just long and feminine? I went to an all-girls boarding school and I can list some of the names of my class mates... I've also met plenty of people with these names since. The really unusual ones - only one or two girls with that name are in italics. Personally, with the exception of Meredith (and possibly Miranda), I wouldn't consider any of them... they are either boys names with-an-a or too try-hard. If I had a daughter I would go for one of the more classic names on this list or similar (and she would be going to a similar school to me - sadly a consideration when choosing a more 'flowery' name I think)

Anna/Annabel
Antonia
Abigail
Alice
Beatrice
Catherine and every possible shortened version
Claire
Davinia
Diana
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Emma
Emily - tonnes of 'Millys' although some were also called Camilla or Amelia
Frances/Francesca
Georgina/Georgia
Hannah
Harriet
Henrietta
Helen/Helena
Hermione
Isobel/Isabella
Jessica
Laura
Lucy
Martha/Marcia/Marsha
Meredith
Miranda
Natasha
Octavia
Phillipa (Pippa)
Rebecca
Roberta
Rose/Rosalind/Rosemary/Rosamond/Rosanna
Rowena
Ruth
Sarah/Sara
Sophie/Sophia
Stephanie
Tabitha
Tamsin
Victoria
Yvonne

Oh, forgot - Charlotte and Theresa/Tessa

Not posh but pretty, if i have another dd she will be either, Beatrice, Darcy, Arabella or Antonia.

Is there still such a thing as a 'posh' name anyway .

There is much more movement and names seem to move 'downmarket' over time. I think all of these names are simply 'pretty', feminine and not overused names.

Clarissa. Pandora. I've never met a single Pandora. I think it's a lovely name.

Sorry if any duplicates:

Phillipa
Florence
Portia
Hyacinth
Francesca
Arrabella
Verity
Hermione
Valentina
Clemency
Persephone
Violet
Ottilie
Cordelia
Juliette
Imogen
Claudia
Honor
Opal
Clementine

I do love the name Rhona my Grandmother's name.

I believe that she may have been quite posh since there was great disapproval of her choice of husband. He was not well to do enough or some such apparently.

Love Ottilie what a beautiful name.

I agree with Tremolo that that some of the really, fancy names do come across as "try hard". Really classy are understated names IMO: Jane, Rachel, Anna, Kate etc, but I know many would see these as a bit meh.

Eugenie
Georgiana
Suzannah
Letitia
Amabel
Persephone
Maud
Frederika
Birgitte
Marina

Persephone (pronounced Per-se-fo-nee) - Percy for short. I love it!