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What are the Sloane Rangers calling their kids these days??

47 replies

vinobaroness · 01/07/2013 21:46

Just out of pure nosiness Im wondering what the Sloane set are calling their kids these days? Do Violet, Arabella, Victoria, Henry,Oscar etc still reign supreme?

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quoteunquote · 02/07/2013 13:00

Isabel

GoodTouchBadTouch · 02/07/2013 15:57

What is the sloane set? Never heard that expression. Londoners? As in Sloane Square? Ive used one of those names and am considering another. They are not at all common where I live (Midlands)

AmberSocks · 02/07/2013 16:03

definitley not Isabel!Isabel has got to be the new Sharon surely?

squoosh · 02/07/2013 16:04

The ultra poshos probably stick with Tom and Johnny and such like.

The Telegraph birth announcements is where you'll find your answer. Although be aware some frightful middle class babies have their births announced there too. Wink

announcements.telegraph.co.uk/births/announcements

squoosh · 02/07/2013 16:06

Just had a quick browse. Someone had a daughter called Xanthippe Phyllis Elizabeth. There won't be two of those in her class at school!

vinobaroness · 02/07/2013 16:15

Lol sqooch definitly an original! Love the telegraph birth announcements!

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farmersdaughter · 02/07/2013 16:21

All the properly posh couples I know ie) daddy owns half of Suffolk etc or Grandpa sits in sits in The House of Lords all have children called, Harry, Fred, Lucy and Sarah for example.

ChunkyMonkeyMother · 02/07/2013 16:30

Tobias Montague - amazing

TheMagicKeyCanFuckOff · 03/07/2013 21:38

squoosh there's a George, brother to Fred(die) in there! Not twins otherwise that would be too crazy...

I know a posh person who had twins called Cressida and Ximena.

TheRabbitCatcher · 04/07/2013 22:36

Lots of seriously Sloaney mums in our village- Lucy, Elizabeth and Beatrice are very popular for girls. I know a little 'the honourable' Edmund, although his family is not really Sloaney at all.

2tired2bewitty · 04/07/2013 22:40

Someone on here was asking about xanthippe the other day. I wonder if it's the same baby

TheRabbitCatcher · 04/07/2013 22:40

Just read post above- my children's grandpa sits (snoozes?) in the House of Lords. I'd better dust off my blue loafers and get myself a Ximena!

AuntieStella · 04/07/2013 22:51

Wiki on what a Sloane Ranger is

Solid, traditional names, but outrageous nns, would still be the characteristics.

Rhubarbgarden · 04/07/2013 23:11

I recently came across a baby Eugenia who lived in a Knightsbridge garden square.

rainbowfeet · 04/07/2013 23:17

Well according to Katie Hopkins (re: this morning debate yesterday)!! It shouldn't be anything geographical or a variety of wine or she will not allow her children to play with them!!!!! Wink

I actually love some of the older Sloanie names ie; Camilla, Cressida, Rupert etc... But would be very out of place where I live!!

raisah · 05/07/2013 04:21

Isn't Katie Hopkins daughter named India? The last time I checked it was a country in Asia, full of people with undesirable practices & of opposite appearance to her darling little blonde India. My goodness, how would Katie cope if little India actually married an Indian?! She comes across as the "I am not racist but" type.

DolomitesDonkey · 05/07/2013 05:13

Oh FGS raisah, it's not a racist statement - it's a message to the nobs who name their child "Brooklyn", "Clapham" or "Alleyway".

squoosh · 05/07/2013 10:27

Katie Hopkins is a colossal twat. Not letting her children play with kids named after places even though her child is named after a ummmm, place.

She's really offering her kids up for total isolation from their peers by making these ridiulous statements, hope the £1000 appearance fee makes it all worthwhile.

squoosh · 05/07/2013 10:28

How is Ximena pronounced?

Shimena, Himena, Zimena?

I'm clearly too common to know Grin

farmersdaughter · 05/07/2013 13:41

rabbit - it was an example, but yes I do know one family who's grandfather sits in the HOL. In all honesty they quite boring, very nice family but boring Wink

My childrens grandfather is a famer Grin

Hedgehogger · 06/07/2013 15:46

squoosh I am Xanthippe's Mummy. It was a brave decision but I didn't want her to be one of 6 kids in her class with the same name. I do get that look sometimes, "You called your daughter what??? Shock". We call her Pippa for short. And we're not sloanes. We're probably those frightful middle class types Wink.

curlew · 06/07/2013 15:48

The same names they have called their children for 500 years.

Luluhearn · 07/07/2013 08:31

Ambersocks, could I pick your brains, as I'm a bit new to this? Why is Isabel the new Sharon...? Thank you!

MortifiedAdams · 07/07/2013 08:36

Jonty and Bathsheba.

invicta · 07/07/2013 08:39

Just looked at the list - love Montgomery as a name