What are the upper classes calling their boys nowadays?

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So apparently naming trends in the UK often follow a step behind the upper classes. This may or may not be true, I don't know, but if so what does that mean for the next crop of popular names that will replace Jack, Oliver etc at the top of the lists? I don't know many 'upper class' people but those I do have only really used classic names like George and William.

Do you think there's truth in that idea and if so what's due a surge in popularity over the next decade?

Disclaimer: I'm expecting a boy but just posting for fun/interest. I'm neither desperate to make my little one sound posh nor to be on the leading edge of a new trend!

Well... this is not a very "PC" thing to say... but generally speaking rich people are more attractive, not just because they can spend more money on clothes and grooming, but also because in the past when more people married for money, rich people could choose attractive partners, so wealth and looks were often combined in families.

OTOH I suppose in-breeding among the aristocracy didn't always produce great results

Agreed Emma.

Very un pc but leading on from Emma’s post dh and I noticed this in different parts of the country. We visited friends in one region and it was starkly obvious that broadly people were far less conventionally attractive than they were where we were living at the time. Once you’ve noticed it you can’t unnotice it.

I have a friend who recently left London to move back to her home town. She semi-jokingly says that she is a six or a seven in London but an eight (or even a nine on a good day) at home.

I remember being struck at how tall everyone was when I first started spending time in London. I was six foot at sixteen and it was absolute bliss not to be the tallest person in every room.

My husband is a Lord and he's called Matthew and everyone calls him Matt, which is pretty bog standard to me tbf

Yes Chorley but what are your children's names, the question is about the current generation rather than the oldies

Jake, Grace and Aston, very normal I think.

That’s why I went to London in my late twenties to find a tall handsome successful husband

How is Meghan lower class? She would certainly not be considered lower class within the class system of the US. Are all foreigners lower class?

She's "new money" isn't she - like most Americans. Haven't you watched any period dramas

OTOH I suppose in-breeding among the aristocracy didn't always produce great results grin

Wow that’s pretty spiteful. Can you give some examples of this in breeding apart from the Spanish royal family a few centuries ago?

Jeeez. I'm trying to be lighthearted, not spiteful.

Ok well can you give some examples of this inbreeding?

No because it was a fucking joke

Weren't Albert and Victoria first cousins? Wasn't marrying a cousin who was a member of another royal family pretty common? That's inbreeding.

A lot of the people who star in the high-brow televisual feast that is Made in Chelsea would be considered 'posh', even though many of them seem to have their roots in..........trade. e.g one of them is the ancestor of Mr McVitie, another comes from the McIntosh toffee family. They may not be considered to be quite top drawer by England's truly aristocratic families, but I don't think you can claim to be working class just because a grandparent was.

My great grandfather was a renowned consultant surgeon, he has a sea named after him. He’s still considered working class. Education has nothing to do with class.

Who exactly considered this renowned consultant surgeon 'working class'?

@DeloresJaneUmbridge oh, JRM has some crackers names - 'Tom Wentworth Somerset' 'Anselm Charles FitzWilloam' and his sister is Annunziata 😂

My great grandfather was a renowned consultant surgeon, he has a sea named after him. He’s still considered working class.

I was wondering exactly the same! Surely most people wouldn't consider him 'working class'

Is Benedictine's brother Cistercian?

How is Meghan lower class? She would certainly not be considered lower class within the class system of the US. Are all foreigners lower class?

It's the superfluous "h"

He considered himself working class because his parents were a farmer and a librarian. And if HE considered himself of working class, that’s what he is.

He was of working class origins then. His became middle class. His children will have been firmly middle class.

Or may I, by your 'self-ID system of class', identify as peasantry on Tuesdays, aristocracy on Thursdays (and expect to be 'considered so' by others)?

Obviously at weekends I'm a tree-dwelling primate.

ALL of my 10,000xgreat grandparents were tree-dwelling primates, so you cannot possibly tell me I am wrong.

Oh @Keener ! Your post made me burst out laughing! So, there's this world class surgeon performing top notch life saving and altering operations and there's also a rustle in the mines and the hospital staff common room that