What names do you consider to be posh?

[MrsM36]

After reading a post on here earlier, I am genuinely intrigued as to what names people consider to be "posh"? One of the commentators on the original post I was reading stated that they considered the name of my second daughter to be posh - to me it's a classic name but I wouldn't say especially posh (although it is shared with a certain young member of the Royal family, so perhaps it is)? Anyway enough of my random ramblings... come on hit me with the poshest name you can think of.

Araminta
Jemima
Octavia
Rupert
Hugo
Tarquin
Ptolemy
Jacob Rees-Mogg

Posh is a moving feast because if they are people adopt them and the ones at the top move on.

There’s a couple that get left in the posh group but most listed here have become more popular.

Hugo
Camilla

Boris!

Ptolemy
Tarquin
Penelope
Lucinda
Camilla
Plum
Charles
Peregrine
Quentin
Margot

Hugo, Sebastian, Rupert...and I knew a woman whose son was called Rolo/Rollo which I thought sounded posh.

Jonty
Atticus
Aelred
Hugh
Jeremy
James
Basil

Jocasta
Tamsin
Cressida
Honor
Cordelia
Lavinia
Prue/Prudence/Prunella

Interestingly I think the young royals have names which arent particularly posh but are still classic. To be honest, you could find an Archie, Louis, Charlotte or George anywhere from a council estate to a top public school and wouldn't raise an eyebrow...

Some of the names on here like Persephone are achingly try hard middle class.

The poshest people I know have been called: Will (William), Mark (universally known as Pilks - abbreviation of his surname), Harry and Mary. Nothing “try hard” at all.

Hugo
Humphrey
Hector
Cuthbert
Hermione
Rupert
Octavia
Penelope
Camilla

The Queen is obviously posh but her name is not especially. The queen and princess Margaret could have been Betty and Peg, which are not automatically seen as posh.

The poshest people I know all have dull, royal-type names. So Charles, Edward, Alice, Elizabeth, Caroline, Henry.

I’ve never met anyone who isn’t posh called Piers or Camilla.

Names like Persephone, Tarquin are a bit try-hard middle class.

Rupert
Hugo
Tarquin
Montgomery
Barnaby
Guy
Leopold

Persephone
Arabella
Tatiana
Camilla
Cressida
Allegra
Cecily
Octavia
Marina
Maud

My husband worked with a frightfully posh woman (her father was a famous High Court judge) and her name is Perpetua (known at work as “Peppy”).

Anastasia
Hugo
Hugh

Elizabeth
Georgia
Miranda
Jocasta

Edward
Alexander

Tatiana is not posh in the uk...it's a common russian name.

Cosmo is beautiful but i couldn't possibly use it...

I dont mix with many landed gentry these days but they seemed to havd either classic king queen names or bible nams (more michael, than Ezekiel) or names that were out of fashion because they are traditional in their family or something off the wall.
That said i would assume a ptolemy or a perdita was fairly posh.

Poshest person I know is called Amanda

I also know a Perpetua but her family were religious, not posh

Wouldn’t it be something that sounds like a nickname? Like in P G Wodehouse?

Plug
Beefy
Pongo
Duckface

Sorry but moat of these are 'aspiring to be posh middle class'.

Truly 'posh' names...hmm..Emma..Lucy and Damaris.

Fir boys...Cosmo Rollo...Alexander

Yes dangerous rabbit!

'Piggy' for girls and 'stinko' fir boys. Picked up ar expensive boarding school and never shaken off. .

I guess there are two categories, the classic royal names:

Victoria
Edward
Andrew
Alexander
Elizabeth
Henry
Alexandra

And then the only if you were privately educated and went to the polo every week set!

Tarquin
Giles
Hugo
Tatiana
Octavia

HA DS name has been mentioned 6 times on this tread... We live in a council flat and are as far from posh can be!!!!
Our options for dc2 has also been mentioned lol!
To me, Theodore is posh but I think that's because people I know that have used the name are posh or like to think of themselves as posh

I think people are confusing posh names (as in classy and beautiful) and posh people (whatever that means ).

So a very rich gentleman may have quite a boring unposh name (eg Tom, Steve or Nark).

Whereas posh names imo include beautiful names like Penelope, Clarissa, Clara, Caspar, Sebastian, Quentin, Hugo etc imo.

I love posh names . But maybe we should call them 'classy and beautiful' instead?

Benedict
Mungo
Marmaduke
Jonty
Tarquin
Monty

Octavia
Araminta
Cordelia
Cressida
Pandora
Venetia