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!)

The titled girls I know are called rosanagh viola and Isabella may.

I think this is subjective. Two of my children's names appeared multiple times on this thread and I never considered (or wanted them to be) 'posh' when I chose them.

Names I consider 'posh'

Camilla
Poppy
Arabella
Viola
Talia
Cordelia
Saskia
Astrid
Caroline
Artemis
Ursula

I think there's a fine line between actual posh names and Hyacinth Bucket names, if you are picking the names to convey something rather than because you very much like the styles of name. All the truly posh ladies/girls I know have names like Victoria, Mary, Elizabeth, Harriet, Jane, Susan, Margaret, Katherine, Louise, Frances, all of which I like but are probably considered a lot more boring/mainstream than some of the names on this thread.

Emma, Laura, Lucy and Kirsty are all girls I know who are 'aristocracy' personally these aren't 'posh' names...

Maybe anything ending in 'Bella'

Disclaimer: I am considered posh by some and I have a name mentioned several times

What about Alina

What's posh about candida? Just makes me think of yeast infections

But, so I can make a constructive contribution too, names that I would consider 'posh' (though not necessarily names if choose myself) are:

Persephone
Pia
Hermione
Araminta
Alexandria
Valentina
Evangeline
Lucille
Freya
Andrina

My daughter goes to a boarding school. I have noticed names like

Odette
Henrietta
Tiggy

But also lots of usual names like

Eleanor
Lucy
Libby

Cassandra, Thisbe, Quintana, Lucinda,

YYY to that fine line. Many of the more statement names convey parental aspirations rather than reality. When you meet Nicola and Steve with their daughters Araminta and Saskia, it does jar.

And truly posh girls have nicknames better suited to lapdogs, like Ticky and Buffy. Their own parents become confused if you ask for 'Diana' instead of Tuppy.

Posh boys have rude nicknames such as Pie, Fatty, Stoker. NOT what you'd choose to call your son.

Clarissa
Erica
Andromeda
Juliette
Hyacinth

Aliya is a beautiful one, IMO - an Arabic girl's name.

The poshest person I know is the grand-daughter of a Duke. She's called...

Emma

here you go

Allegra and Cressida would not be posh names in the US as they are brands of medicine and cars.

Nor would Octavia, Cassandra, Aalliyah, Quintana, Aliya, Alexssia, Pixiphersia, Ammeliah & Irisxandra and maybe even Priscilla, for different reasons that are as close to the question of class as American gets.

'Posh' names in the US tend to be along the lines of Martha, Rachel, Caroline, Esther, Edith, Margaret (plain, waspish names) and surnamey names that are given to girls as long as they refer to literature, so names like Alcott and even Harper but not Peyton or McKenzie.

Importing British sensibilities of what constitutes 'posh' isn't always going to be a successful enterprise.

I saw Yvonne in here somewhere. It never occurred to me that it was 'posh'.

IMHO, if you have to consider whether a name might/might not be posh, then it probably isn't.
I'm ABSOLUTELY NOT saying that this is good, or defending the system; I'm just describing. The OP did ask ....

I always thought Matilda was the ultimate "upper class" name, any of the toddler Matilda's we have come accross in the park are all of a certain poshness! Oh & Beatrice too not that we have come accross many in our travels, always thought this was fairly posh

Eliza- classic but beautiful

I love Romilly but then the Romilly I know is a lovely girl

Persephone
Artemis
Antigone
Hermione

'Abigail' was never a posh name. Until the mid-20th century it was the slang term for the housemaid just above the 'tweenie' (the scullery maid).

Posh boys are never called Oliver as it's considered an anti-royalist name.

Yvonne is also not a posh name - all Francophile names and spellings fell out of upper class usage following the Napoleonic wars.

In the US, upper class names are usually just traditional names:

Anne
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Helen
Julia
Katherine

William
Charles
Thomas
Henry
Benjamin

etc etc