Total toff/posh boys names anyone?

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I really like them! But, the ones I can think of have to many fault, despite my love for them.

Piers - reminds me too much of Piers Morgan

Rupert - Reminds me of Rupert the bear, plus, you can only shorten it to Roo!

Any ideas?

P.S, please not Tarquin

Algernon

Also St.John which is so posh I had to look up how to pronounce it before I called them (Sinjun) as I didn't believe it was an actual name.

Caspar!
You MUST use it, because I can't!

Has there ever been an uglier name than Algernon?

I agree with Texan.

The poshest person I know has sons called George and Hugh.

The next poshest has Albert.

Also Charlie, Fergus, Hector, Ivo, James, and Angus.

"Reuben"

Really? I thought that was a gypsy/Romani name?

kit
will/william
freddie
james/jamie/jack
charlie
Archie
Heath
Hylton
Hector
Ben
Harry/henry
Seb(astian)
charles/charlie
thomas
jeremy/jed
felix
ludo
Edward/ted/ned

Reuben is a Jewish name. And in the US, it's a popular sandwich.

Otto
Tobias
Theodore
Monty
Albert
Jules
Ralph
Edwin
Jasper
Ernest

Barnaby
Percy
Wilbur
Spencer
Wilfred
Miles
Jonty
Dominic

Mungo.

And speaking of Baldrick, Rupert is shortened to Rupe in Blackadder goes Forth.

Julian
Florian
Ernest
Valentine

Nearly everything I wanted to mention is already listed here .

Hugh is lovely, nice choice!

There's also:

Torquil
Montague (Monty)
Augustus (Gus)
Theodoric (wish I'd had the guts for this!)

It's funny how different it is in the States.

Dominic definitely down market (except if you're of Italian heritage), same with Dante, Octavia etc. (Mostly because they're mostly used in the black community which is quite terrible if you think about it )

I love Octavia anyway. But that is a girl's name. As is Aubrey. And Brynn.

Brynn? That doesn't sound like a name at all

Or Bryn. Either way. Girl. :)

I have a friend called Rupert. Everyone calls him Poopot. We're all over 40

I have a Rupert

My sister and her boyfriend want to call their first child Vladimir or Wolfgang (although their hamster is called Vladimir so think that's crossed off the list now)

I love Rupert :) It's basically unheard of here , though.

Both Ruperts I know are known to most people as Bear. We are in our mid-30s, so they were really pissed off when Bear Ghrylls suddenly got so popular.

As PPs have said, many of the so called toff names are old family names so if your DP has a 'posh' background, rather than picking a name just because you think it sounds posh, why not ask your MIL if she has a copy of the family tree and start there for inspiration?

I went to uni with a Rupert who was known as Roops.

I went out with a Rupert for 5 years. I called him Rupee ; most of his friends called him Rupes. Not especially posh. He had a friend called Julian who also wasn't especially posh. just thought he was

The poshest people I know/knew have such ridiculous names they are known by nicknames or massive shortenings.

Bryn is a boys name as in Bryn Parry - cartoonist and with his wife Emma, founder of Help for Heros

For most posh people their name is irrelevant as they will go through life known by some ridiculous nick-name such as Bumble given to them in the nursery or at boarding school ;)