What's your favorite posh name?

[Poppy03]

Share your favorite posh name, and nickname : )

[scarlettsmummy2]

Teddy

[crypes]

Fabian and Marina

[Lebkuchenlover]

Some lovely names on this thread!

Most names that used to be 'posh' generally become quite mainstream as more and more people use them (explained well in Freakonomics). At the moment I really like Raphael, Quentin, Hugo, Monty, Cordelia, Antonia, Lucia - are they 'posh'?

[MyLastDuchess]

Poppy My cousin is an Edward and is known as Ned.

[Poppy03]

What about Beatrice - posh or not? Nickname besides Bee? and Winifred?

[TheSandstoneCat]

Magnus, Cornelius, Augustus. Clementine, Frances, Tabitha, Hester (I am posh and I wouldn't use any of these names ( except Frances) though I do love them all!)

[Lebkuchenlover]

"I am posh"

Really - do people really consider themselves posh or chav . What makes you posh? I mean do classes really still in this day and age?!

[Lebkuchenlover]

forgot the word exist above, sorry.

[Lebkuchenlover]

But yes, Magnus and Cornelius are lovely names. Not posh imo and in fact very widely used in Scandinavia and Germany.

[DystopianReality]

Jolyon

[marriedinwhite]

Gawain for a boy - as in the green knight
Perdita for a girl

[Lebkuchenlover]

Perdita reminds me of perdu, lost, so not a nice association. Not sure why it is considered posh actually. Penelope is lovely thoug - is that posh?

[Badvocsanta]

Neat posh nn def buffy
Love octavia, Helena, Julia, Lydia, elinor, Ariadne....

[Lebkuchenlover]

buffy

[almapudden]

Perdita is Latin for 'lost', Lebkuchen. I think it's lovely, but I also love Dolores, which means 'sorrows' :)

[TheSandstoneCat]

Sorry - forgot that humour and irony are banned!

[BoyMeetsWorld]

Plum as a nn for Victoria. Other posh people I know are called Hugo, Alice, Ptolomy, Hortensia, Camilla...& a lot of Edwards!

[FIFIBEBE]

Lovely thread. Agree the really posh people I know have very boring names.

[henryscatoscar]

Surely any name from that made in Chelsea . Hugo or similar will have to be in the top 5 names in Agee years.

[ellesabe]

Arabella and Montgomery

[FloralWellies]

Sebastian although DP won't let me call another (imaginary ) DS that as he does not like nn Seb

[sillymillyb]

Oooh, all the names I wanted for ds were "posh" i blame my hormones my favourites were Hugo, Barnaby or Fergus. He ended up being a Henry though, which was my compromise!

[Frikadellen]

well I learnt from this thread dh and I are posh as many of our short listed names have been mentioned here..

My personal favourites are

Sholto and Hector (1st shortlisted 2nd dh didn't want)
for girls
Serafina and Persephone (1st one short listed for dd3 and was only just moved off when she was born as she didnt look like a Serafina)

I also like
Ramona, Honoria, Barnaby and Reginald.

[suburbophobe]

Tallulah Bankhead

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead

[insanityscratching]

I love Arabella and Romilly and Raif and Hugo.