If you're looking for a fabulous, unusual or super posh name ...

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... look no further:

I found all these in an online school magazine that's freely available on the internet with their printed class lists so I don't imagine there's an issue with selecting some to name here. If there is then please delete, of course (it's not a class list, I've chosen a few from a school list of what looks like 400 or so children)!

Best read alongside some of their truly incredible surnames along the lines of Duke-Hunterville and Hamilton-Waterford (not real, made those up) but still stand alone as quite wonderful. I don't even know which sex some of them are for so haven't divided them!:

Quitterie, Santa, Montgomery, Algie, Hebe, Jago, Kiki, Rafe, Griffin, Wolfie, Mungo, Artie, Indigo, Magnus, Havana, Clementine, Lochy, Breezy, Atticus, Clova, Rollo, Octavia, Ivory, Edgar, Red, Maximus, Monty, Herbie, Vaughan, Capucine, Basil, Wilf, Cassius, Iolanthe, Sholto, Rafferty, Inigo, Ozy, Tinks

I'm in name heaven - would never be brave enough though!

common? not round here they're not. Tinks is just ridiculous.
it's obviously not a posh school in Scotland....where are Hamish, Ruaridh, Angus, Flora?
Some of the names on that list are just trying too hard and are nouveau rich. I only know one very very posh person. think titled parents, landed gentry, serious money, and his kids are Alexander and Jamie.

Quitterie is seriously posh in French too, as it happens :-) Capucine less so, but still up there. It means Nasturtium, fact fans.

Kiki and Rafe are Greek names

I found a similar set of names once - we were invited to somebody's 40th birthday party in a village hall. Very naice classy village (if you get my drift), and in the cloakroom there was a row of coat hooks, clearly used by the pre-school nursery. Some truly posh names on the labels under the pegs there

@ butterfliesareweird which of the names do you think are fairly common? I’m not being goady, I’m genuinely interested as to me, they’re all weird names.

I know a Magnus, nick name Mag, a Hebe and a Jago, all lovely.

I wanted Red for ds1 or 2 but dp said no

I like Artie. Is that a name in itself? Or is it short for something?

With the Iolanthe and Hebe I suspect a parent likes Gilbert and Sullivan.

At least ten of those names I recognise from my daughter's state school - but it is a fairly posh state school I suppose....

Artie - usually short for Arthur.

I love these. I was reading the list of mum and baby names for our swim school a couple of weeks ago (it was pinned up on the wall and I was bored) and there were some amazing names on there (I’m not listed them because it would be quite outing but there’s an Ottoline and a Zachariah, both of which are great).

Two Jacobs but aside from that no duplications in about 40 names. We are obviously a uniquely creative group!

Both my children, and their cousin (DN) have their names on that list. We're not "posh" whatever that may be classed as!

Ds2's middle name is Rafferty, I still wish we had used it as his first name.

My boy is on that list. Little Herbie everyone loves his name.

I'm going to guess that this is a school where quite a few of the children have foreign parents. Jago is just the Spanish version of James. Capucine is French.

Octavia - yeah, that is quite unusual.

The (probably?) ‘smartest’ / ‘poshest’ people I know have children named Hannah, David and Alexander. I also know an imo rather ‘posh’ man named Magnus (he’s Scottish, btw).

I know a Lochy who is just Lochy. It's not a nickname but his full given name.

I worked at a school once with a Mable and a Meadow amongst others. I'd love to have a Mable....

Atticus would get DD seal of approval so long as middle name was catticus and surname claw!

My baby's first and middle names are in that list! 😳. I didn't think they were THAT posh!

I was at a rather posh children's event over the weekend - outside my usual circles - where I overheard the following names: Artemis, Atticus, Persephone, Augustus. And lots of Jameses.

DH works with a Sholto. He wemt to Sandhurst (but failed), drinks exclusively Ceylon tea, "has land" and a land rover. So many boxes ticked re. my preconceptions of that name, but DH likes him so much he wants Sholto on the theoretical list.

I love Santa but it would never work.

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I used to look after a Rollo. Lovely boy.

Jago is super popular where we are. Not posh at all. I also know a couple of rafferty's, magnus' and wilfs. And one wolfie who is a Wolfgang! Great list of naked!

*names obv!

Breakfast

To Rebecca and Mark ;)