Upper class baby names

[lovetpwonder]

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!

I am wealthy old money kid and only about 4 people I know still use their nn unless they’re with old school friends. Was at Cambridge too - so what?

So many people make that claim without personal experience - that’s why it pertains to myth.

“Cressida” screams POSH to me

Ptolemy, St John, Lettice and Clementine.

Orchid, you got my DD’s name.

Why not just have a look at lists of famous alumni of boarding schools? e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Old_Etonians_born_in_the_20th_century
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downe_House_School#Notable_former_pupils
Or look at society pages in Tatler, Vogue etc and see what you like?

Steve, for a girl

Returning to my first post, Tatiana, to paraphrase Margaret Thatcher: if you have to tell people you're "wealthy old money", you're not.

The proper posh old money family I know have grandchildren and children called

Monty (not Montgomery)
Isla
Charlie (though I think she really is Charlotte - though sister to Monty so perhaps not)
Daniel
Hugo
George
Henrietta
and Richard

Araminta
Tatiana
Fenella
Cressida
Hector
Ludo
Caspar
Mostly they have 'normal' middle class names
Lara
Flora
Molly
Sofia
Harriet
Florence
Clementine
Alice
Eliza
Charlotte
Daisy
Rosie
Coco
Harry
Henry
Freddie
Arthur
Edward
John
James
Charles
Philip
etc

Isolda

if you have to tell people you're "wealthy old money", you're not

And you could say exactly the same about Cambridge.

Tarquin
Rufus
Rupert
Araminta
Lettice
Giles
Camilla
Hugo
Magnus

I met someone around Christmas time called Plum (her real name is Victoria), in fact I started a thread about it, as I thought it was so unusual. She is posh!

Cosmo
Jacinda
Lettuce

re Plum. I just looked up the fashion journalist Plum Sykes on Wikipedia, assuming she was an example - and found out her real name is Victoria and that Plum is a nickname.

Lettice not Lettuce.

Thatcher was not posh and well aware of that herself; she capitalised on being a grocer's daughter.

The above wasn't what she said, it was a was a paraphrase of a well-known quotation of hers: 'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.'

"To paraphrase..."

Yeah, I was only repeating it because the subsequent poster appeared to have missed that bit.

I know the family who patriarch is the Equerry to HRH, is that Upper class?

They’re all named for ancestors, Thomas, Rupert and Persephone (Percy).

*who’s

I would class these boys' names as posh: -

Rupert
Mungo
Piers
Neville
Geoffrey
Walter
Victor
Crispin
Raymond
Desmond
Emmet
Edmund
Edgar
Fergus

The most upper class people I knew (auntie was a Dukes daughter) were called Joe and Daisy.

Jane
Anna
Elizabeth
Catherine
Lucy

Frederick
Patrick
David
Andrew
George

Bruno Hugo tuppence clarissa camille calliope clover loveday artemis Athena Bernard benedict elijah Lawrence englebert humpfry gertrude Vivien Gisele Clarence Claudia alexandrine percival magnus Augustus galahad lancelot

If you have to ask ... well, really