Upper class baby names

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Not to be confused with crushed velvet sofa and annual holiday to Dubai names (inspired by another poster).

Hit me with your upper class/well to do baby girl names that are still used today!

Fenella, Arabella, Eleanore

Why does this matter to you? If you were upper class you would call your child what you like and not give a hoot

Chlamydia, Cuntella, Turbot

Thanks @MissMouse101

I have a soft spot for Araminta but DH vetoed it....

Banter

Ophelia
Serephenia
Persephone

Fucks But that's not true, is it?

I've never met a rich and old money Hallie-Mai

Although funnily enough, the richest and poshest person I've ever met was called John...

So are you old money and posh or wanting to be pretentious? Call your kid a name you like.

Boys name with a ‘wet’ vibe. Cuthbert, Rupert, Peregrine, Timothy etc.

Alotta-Fagina or Jenna-Talia

Hyphenate all three, job done. Nowt posher

Jocasta le plume puffball

Henrietta Dubois phlange a rillo

Cosima Urqhuart Upwardly Smytherooni

Cordelia Phwar Phwar Rha Oiks erson

Something like Victoria but then never call them that, use an hilarious nickname like Tory or Tocky or Bumble.

I’ve met a few Arabellas and they definitely have not fit the description.

However the little Ophelia I knew certainly did!

St John is one I feel speaks to a certain class. Maybe Tarquin?
Girls names are much harder I think.

Posh people calls their girls Cuthbert and Timothy?!

Fucksgiven - I think you really do give too many fucks

Chlamydia, Cuntella, Turbot

Turbot made me laugh out loud.

Camilla, Lucinda, Octavia, Bunty

There was a documentary on last night about the artist Tacita Dean her brother is called Ptolemy and her sister is called Antigone but gets called Tiggy for short. Those are the sort of names you can only pull off if you are properly posh.

Having said that most aristocrats have very classic names like Charles James etc.

Audrey - not a single one.

Fairly normal classic names but with quirky shortening originating from a child's mispronunciation. Or something a bit foreign, after a great-aunt.

I have taught Bunny, Clementine, Ophelia, Wren, Rupert, Peregrine, Caleb, Winter, Alexander, Hugo.... ole hen I remember more will add. These were all at a private boarding school so more likely to have money than not.

Pick a Mitford name if you care about that sort of thing.

So agree with the child mispronounciation nick name!
It doesn’t matter what the official name is, you just use a nick name darling.
Ducky, shrimpy, bumble, minty, button.
You get the gist.

Candida. Obviously you are refined enough to know it means bright white. Only the plebs would think of a yeast infection.

idk if there's a set rule on what names the upper classes use or even what constitutes the upper classes. But I have taught in a private boarding school for more than a decade and have taught such a mixture of names, from all stereotyped categories and cultures. A selection for illustration:

Antigone, Sydney, Anastasia, Georgina, Harriet, Rebecca, Chantelle, Dakota, Jemima, Fenella, Atlanta, Hailie, Sarah, Charlotte, Deborah, Rhiannon, Iona, Amelia, Chloe, Nina, Carmen, Tallulah, Lili-Kitty, Millicent, Henrietta, Skye, Macarena, Chelsey, Arabella, Adesuwa, Christiana, Lola, Ellie, Clemency, Ava, Sorcha, Phoebe, Tongqiao, Fabia, Amreeta, Amber

Bailey, Ptolemy, George, Riley, Montgomery, Harrison, Rafi, Hugo, Hugh, Gennardy, Shea, Oluwatoni, Sebastian, Albert, Daniel, Cosmo, Frederick, Orlando, Gavin, Leopoldo, Toby, Felix, Charlie, Alfie, Ibrahim, Phineas, London, Teddy, Oliver, Maximillian, Laurence, Drew, Ashton, Jolyon, Arthur, Hardy, Guy, Lawson