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!

My son's name is there a (Inigo). In guess we're upper middle class. There is another boy in his school with the same name.

Also Jago is not the Spanish version of James. It's a cornish name but possibly derived from similar sounding Spanish names. In the same way that Inigo in the UK is Welsh but probably derived from the Spanish name Iñigo.

They sound too attention
-seeking. Arent posh men just called Peter John James Charlie George Patrick Richard David etc Thought having a trendy name like artie or rollo was a bit (shsh middle class - shudder)

This reads like a list from DC's school

Jago isn't posh, it's a traditional Cornish name brought over by Spanish smugglers. It's an awesome name though!

I thought Jago was a Galacian form of Jacob, it's common in Portuguese as Iago, it's a lovely name.
The Spanish form of James is Diego. Some of those names are fantastic, I wouldn't be brave enough either.

Thanks OP, these names are great. I'm not even expecting but just love a good name! I bet all of them have utterly boring birth certificate names.

People give their children like this are not posh, they just have more money than sense.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_the_Bank_of_England#Governors_of_the_Bank_of_England_(1694%E2%80%93present)

Now these are people who were succesful in life, have look at the names on the list.....

I know the Forbes one is more recent for women, but here it is.

www.forbes.com/power-women/list/2/#tab:overall

I wanted DS2 to be a Griffin, but I couldn't get past the Family Guy connection & heard 'Bird is the Word' every time I wrote it down.

Inigo isn't Welsh. If it was Welsh it would be pronounced Ineego.
Jago is Cornish for James/Jacob. The welsh for James is Iago and it is pronounced Yaggo with the o like the o in the English word 'of'.
The welsh for Jacob is Iacob (YAK-ob) but Jacob (JACK-ob) is more popular.

I have just met Quitterie first time in my life, a lovely french girl. She says her name is not unusual in the part of France she is from.

Posh women are always known by something trivial like Tiggy or Bumble.

I love the name Rollo, it reminds me of Rollo the Gypsy in the Rupert stories. (Sorry for non-PC ness there).

Reminds me of King Rollo

Ginger and they refer to people you don't know and have never met as "Chigley" "Dear old Bonce" and "Poppsie"

As though you're meant to feel the same level as affection for these people as they do!

Mummmy I looked at that list and it includes

Stamp
Delillers
Horatio
Henry Lancelot

So not all normal

CheapSausage, yes but they were the exception not the rule.

It's well know employers smile over unusual names... Having worked in banking and finance for years, I can tell you I don't know one person with an unusual name in charge of major departments that I have worked in and that covers 35 years of working..
I did know a Tarquin, but that was a Scotish man and a Family name..

mummy that’s one of the issues imo. We might be a bit when we see an - in our opinion - unusual name. But the name might be a family name, common in an other culture etc...

On my thread about baby / sibling names somebody thought that the name of DD2 “isn't even a dog's name!!”. But it’s actually a family name (currently a but uncommon in the U.K. but not particularly ‘foreign’ sounding imo...)

Having worked in banking and finance for years, I can tell you I don't know one person with an unusual name in charge of major departments that I have worked in

Well maybe if our banking and finance sector had a more inclusive approach to diversity it wouldn't have made such a monumental fuckup of the British economy

And there’s nothing wrong with a ‘foreign’ sounding name, btw.

But if a name that isn’t hard to spell or pronounce (for native English speakers) gets a response like that? Idk. It’s just sad (imo). The name an employer ‘smiles’ about might be the name of an extremely intelligent and dedicated worker...

What a fantastic list!! We should have more names like that. Might dilute all the boring Ella’s and Jacks.

“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die”

How is Jago pronounced? Phonetically or Yago?

Phonetically for Spanish phonetic rules so yes Yago. That's why it has an I or Y in portuguese, otherwise it would be jar-go.

Both Mungo & Magnus were on our list before we knew DD was a girl. Both ace names as far as I am concerned.