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!)

Alexandria
Georgiana
Larissa
Celeste
Mariella
Emilia
Christina

Ermintrude

Hope, Unity, Bridget...

Marina is a posh birds name ennit.

I'm not sure any names are posh any more.

Names I like tend to be considered "posh", then suddenly become really popular.

So I give you;
Genevieve
Ophelia
Ottilie
Celeste

Hebe, Diggy and Zelda are nowhere near ridiculous.

Osbert is quite ridiculous.

I went to an all girls boarding school, and there were mostly just tratitional names, such as elizabeth, victoria, margaret (maggie/meg), eleanor, charlotte, etc, but I've listed a few of the 'posher'

pandora
petrina
atlanta
ursula
georgia
harriet (hattie)
camilla
zara
evelyn
genevieve
clio
fernella

hth

Oh, and I don't know why, but I always think of Clara as a posh name too.

Clemency. I want another dd so I can call her clemency. Let's overlook the fact that I hate being pregnant and can barely cope with two Dcs.

Have you given up on Clementine? (that was you wasn't it?). Is this for someone else?

lottiegb That was me and yes I'm giving up in Clementine - beautiful name but it means "mercy", sort of a weak meaning IMO, and people tend to start humming "Darling Clementine" automatically.

So this is for me, I'm changing my name.

I like too many names suggested here to actually list all of them! I'm not goin for flowery but I am aiming for a name with roots that isn't morbidly popular. Ottilie is a good example, also Pandora (except those bracelets...) Most of the more unusual names in the Telegraph appeal, although I guess those are also of the aspirational types. But Elizabeth/Anna/Beatrice while lovely are just too conventional for me!

LynetteScavo I didn't quite mean ridiculous, but they do sound like they would belong to some memorable PG Wodehouse characters...

Osbert has a divinely brilliant meaning though!

I do love Wodehouse. How 'about Honoria?

Josephine? Isadora (love that, as it has built in nicknames ala Izzy and Sadie, if you're so inclined).

What part of the states are you in again?

Has anyone mentioned Jocasta yet?

Funnily enough my daughters are Hebe and Jemima and I would never have thought of them to be posh.

I pronounce that per-sef-on-ne like in upstairs downstairs

I'm in CA, so even if I did use Jemima it wouldn't be met with raised eyebrows. Jocasta is not an option because of Oedipus!

@neveroffduty: there is a lovable Hebe in Mary Wesley's novel Harnessing Peacocks! Not sure if there are any cool lit references for Jemima outside the Bible/Potter.

Seems I've got most of the "posh" girl names...now can we talk about Zelda, Hebe and Hyacinth? ;) Not to mention Digby, Rollo or Horatio...

Jemima Puddleduck and Jemima from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, of course!

Anywhere in the States it's going to be immediately connected with syrup though...you know this. :o

Hyacinth is nice but very Keeping Up Appearances.

I think you've had some great suggestions here and previously but ok, I give you Hespera (nice mythical link). I considered it momentarily for dd but we weren't going to be that unusual.

@CheerfulYank: Yes I know, but I absolutely love it! Also if we can have a black president with the middle name of Hussein....I think it would be all right.

Are "posh" names like this different than "Sloane Ranger" type names? Read an article recently about the simultaneous birth of Kate Middleton and the Sloane Ranger handbook, piqued my interest. Also Princess Diana was one apparently.

Sloane rangers were an 80s phenomenon. They may still exist but people don't talk about them anymore (I think). They were a very specific subset of posh.

Marianne, Juliana, Camilla, Hermione, Araminta.

Not Candida - isn't that Thrush?

what about Candia ?
I love Hebe
Thea