Bunty?

[crunchymint]

What do you think of this for a girl?

Dear god no.

Lettice is quite posh (and also awful).

Why do want a 'posh' name?

sirlee66 Bunty as the shorted nick name.. don't know what the full name would be? Buntrice?

Arf

Posh in what way, OP? Birth announcements in the broadsheets May give some ideas.

Last name I chose (Zak) is still a name that DP and I love, but is often described as 'chavvy'. I want a name we love, but that is not seen in a negative way.

Op id judge someone way more for calling their kid Lettuce than Zak! Just choose the name you both like (except Bunty)

Zak is a nice name. I wouldn't call it chavvy at all. The ones I know are posh! Bunty I think is pretty awful. Lettice, not Lettuce, is a normal English name, though not very common these days - it's related to Letitia, I think.

I hate Lettice.

Araminta with nickname of Minty? My best friend has used this name!

I quite like Bunty. There's a character in the show 'Father Brown' called Lady Penelope and her nickname is Bunty (not sure why tbh) but that show has made me like that name a bit more.

Bunty is terrible.

Arabella?

It's less pretentious than Araminta, but it's still "posh".

I hate the name Arabella. Sorry if anyone reading this is called that.

Antigone nn Tiggy

I agree Bunty is too Made in Chelsea as a main name BUT I have been known to call my DS Bunty boy on occasion (he's only one).
It is thought to come from the verb to bunt meaning to butt gently (like head butt) and was used to describe lambs, i.e., Bunty lamb. So similar to cheeky monkey etc as a nickname (in my head anyway).

I was at Boarding School with a Bunty but it was her nickname.

The only Bunty I have ever known was a King Charles Spaniel. It suited her, but I don't like it as a name for a human child.

I like it

Absolutely terrible. It's a posho nickname from several decades ago, dated and try-hard at the same time. Don't saddle a beautiful new baby with that, I beg you.

Some more posh names

Jemima
Beatrice
Camilla
Elizabeth
Francesca
Octavia
Tuppence
Cordelia
Verity

All are imaginary people I went to boarding school with.

There was also

Darrell
Alicia
Sally
Gwendoline
And Felicity

but they were in different set

My aunt was a bunty. Not posh or short or fat, short for Elizabeth.

Betty or Betsy? Hetty?

OY! Nothing wrong with Bunty my lovelies 😂

Maura
Audra/Audrey
Lydia

It makes me think of someone who was born on tea plantation and returned to England only to waste and wither away in a dank, gloomy Bayswater bedsit in the 1950s.

I don’t like it. It sounds quite clunky