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

[vinobaroness]

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?

[ScarletSienna]

I know this is a zombie thread but it got me looking at the announcements and spotted the quite wonderful name-
Zsa Zsa Hermione Christobel (+double barrelled surname)

[Katelocks]

It's the surname

[Lireal]

Zombie thread? But, I just looked at the telegraph birth announcements. Did I really see a kid called Organ?

[LumelaMme]

The posh kids round here are called things like Freddie and Flora.

I remember seeing a wedding in the Torygraph where a Xandra (or perhaps it was Zandra) Legge-Bourke married a Rupert Ernle-Erle-Drax. This was decades ago and I've never quite got over it.

[Corialanusburt]

Cosima (shortened to Mimi darling).

[pettyprudence]

im now hooked on the telegraph announcements! how many freddies?????

[DoItTooJulia]

Love, love, love Xanthippe!

[HarumScarum]

Or maybe Rose.

[HarumScarum]

The new Sharon is probably Ruby, tbh. The new Louise is Lily.

[BettyBi0]

I just watched the Katie Hopkins clip - She is vile! I thought Holly Whatsherchops looked ready to lamp her.

I'm gutted if Isobel is the new Sharon as I love that name. Not sure about the new spelling though. I've met a couple of really posh Sharons in their 50s so its all swings and round abouts.

[squoosh]

VJsmom she sounds like she's just a bit too keen to make sure everyone knows she's posh. She must have a relative who was in trade that she's desperately afraid of people finding out about.

[ExcuseTypos]

I know a very posh person whose Dd is called Calypso


The poshest people I know, have DSs Sam and Ben.

[VJsmom]

I know one sloane who actually called her baby girl sloane! wtf!!!

[Mouseymouseface]

Surely Katie Hopkins not letting her kids play with yours is something to aim for

[maja00]

Montgomery/Monty is going the way of Archie though and becoming terribly common...

Lucinda, Camilla, Beatrice, Frederick, George.

[Choccyhobnob]

Brilliant, there is a Theobald, Montgomery, a Tarquin and a Cosima.....

[squoosh]

Hello Hedeghogger aka Xanthippe's Mum!

Did your radar beep when I posted? I wasn't making fun of your daughter's name (well maybe a teeeeny bit), it's just the trio of Xanthippe Phyllis Elizabeth is certainly eye catching. Is Xanthippe pronounced Zan-tippy? It does have a very pretty sound.

[Greythorne]

Isabel is very popular but does not have the downmarket connotations Sharon came to have.

[AuntieStella]

Isabel isn't the new Sharon. Possibly because it is a Sloaney name? It's a centuries old, traditional Royal, pan-European name. A couple of years popularity isn't going to dent that.

It's names which are novel or reciving from disuse that risk becoming the generation markers. Kylie and Courtney perhaps?

[RustyBear]

I really shouldn't have looked at that page without my glasses - was wondering why people were holding a large baked potato in some of the pictures....

Twins Tarquin and Cosima really live up to the stereotype, don't they?

[MildredH]

Oh Monty is on our short list!

What does that say about me?

I'd like to say, it was picked up on meeting a delightful 92 year old patient during a weekend on call a month back not by scouring broadsheet birth announcements..!

[UpTheFRIGGinDuff]

I love Xanthippe

[invicta]

Just looked at the list - love Montgomery as a name

[MortifiedAdams]

Jonty and Bathsheba.

[Luluhearn]

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