Posh names?

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I've seen this week Crispin and Rupert as posh names, what others would you group as quite posh? Boys or girls names.

Humphrey. Never met a working class Humphrey.
Eustace.

Olympia, Cressida, Allegra, Antigone, Lettice, Saskia

Charles, St John, Peregrine, Aloysius, Vivian, Caspian, Florian, Fabian, Timothy?

Portia
Persephone
Guiniveire

Florian
Drystan
St John

The poshest people I actually knows are called Stephen, James and Tim though.

I forgot Toby and Christopher shortened to Kit!

St John? Is there a boy who's actually named St John??? And Toby, really?

What does 'posh' mean? Elegant, classic?

Sebastian, Hugo, Rupert, Arabella, Aurelia often get mentioned but I find those names really nice. Maybe I like 'posh' names?

St John Yes. I know one. It's pronounced Sinjun. There's also a St John in Jane Eyre (St John Rivers, who proposes to Jane before she returns to Rochester).

Posh means when you travel to India your cabin is on the port side of the ship and when you travel back to Britain from India your cabin is on the starboard side :p

Continuing from DieAntword’s reminder if the origin of the term “POSH” - cabins which were “Portside Out, Starboard Home” were largeky in the shade for the journeys to/from India, and so we’re more desirable and expensive. Posh became used as a descriptor for people who could afford the finer things in life - not just the journey, not just cabins, but the best ones.

Well, I’ve learnt something today! Thank you Bike
I also know a St John and was thoroughly perplexed when I saw his name written down. Guess I’m showing my class

Thanks Die Antword and Bike! I had no idea where the word came from!

Apparently it’s probably just a folk etymology but it is a compelling one. They think it might actually come from a Roma word but no one really knows.

Piers
Ptolemy
Horatio
Quentin
Rufus
Ludo
Cosmo
Barnaby
Monty
Lysander
Inigo
Jolyon
Rollo
Guy
Jonty
Hugo
Rafe
Digby
Ranulph
Tobias
Lucian
Rex
Gideon
Tristram
Giles
Otto
Sholto
Jago

Araminta
Venetia
Ottilie
Antigone
Pandora
Arabella
Clemency
Saskia
Cordelia
Camilla
Cressida
Felicity
Lucinda
Marina
Ophelia
Portia
Tabitha
Xanthe
Miranda
Verity

Poshest people I know are called:

Benedict
Rupert
Gavin
Venetia

" if the origin of the term “POSH” - cabins which were “Portside Out, Starboard Home” were largeky in the shade for the journeys to/from India, and so we’re more desirable and expensive. Posh became used as a descriptor for people who could afford the finer things in life - "

that is just made up. There is no evidence at all for this.

back to the thread subject..
Lucinda
Felicity
Amabel
Pandora

Sholto
Rollo
Cosmo
etc . IN fact any boy's name ending in O other than Arlo.

Gavin? That sounds the opposite of posh!

Posh was used as a slang term for money. So it's more likely that it, over time, came to be used to describe someone with lots of money.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/3322256-upper-class-baby-names

This thread might be helpful to you.

I know Sunflower, it’s an odd choice isn’t it? But he is super, proper upper class.