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.

Miles
Giles
Tristan
Arabella
Cecily

The posh people I know have dc with the following names
Amelia
Annabelle
Sebastian
Benedict
Hugo
Atticus
Catherine
William
Louise
Constance
Oliver

Just seen that my name has appeared here a couple of times! I’m not remotely posh!

I grew up in a small working class town. People at school were called things like Katie, Stephanie, Kirsty, Kayleigh and Hayley.

Went to Uni and encountered people called names like Phyllida, Cressida, Clarissa, Frances and Elyssia who had been privately educated. So I would see those names as posh.

For boys things like Tarquin, Ptolemy, Jolyon, Peregrine and StJohn.

I think very classic names like James and Charlotte are relatively classless - I've known people with those names who are from both middle class and working class backgrounds.

I encountered a StJohn for the first time at work and was glad someone warned me in advance that it was pronounced 'Sin Gin', as I would have assumed 'Saint John' and made a tit of myself!

Posh doesn't mean class.

Anyone from any background can have a 'posh' (as in classy and beautiful) name.

Many of the names mentioned here aren't 'posh' at all. Several are just popular, standard baby names, or what the aspirational middle class think are posh names.

Poshest family I know have 3 kids, called Rose Amelia, Alexander William and James Stanley. Just good, solid names.

Sophia
George
Tarquin
Henrietta
Arabella
Lucinda
Lucia

Wouldn’t it be something that sounds like a nickname? Like in P G Wodehouse?
*Plug
**Beefy
Pongo
*Duckface

That's what I always think of as posh.
My Dad's school chums we're called things like Squiffy, Bingo, Lumpy and Ledders. His
school masters were called names like Old Bluffer Middlemarch, Fizzy Fitshugh-Boswell-Montgomery or Father Nobby Rumbles.

Slightly off topic but hasnt Jacob Reece mogg got 5 boys with about 4 very posh sounding names each.....and a girl called Mary?

Come to think if it one of the poshest people I know has a really ordinary name and so do all his children. (Peter, phillip, Michael etc)

I'm not convinced names are as tied to class as they once were and that maybe to do with the internet and access to more variety, celeb culture and an increase in using unusual names.

I used to think of names like Sienna, Arabella and India as posh but I don't anymore as they've all become so popular. Plus names like James, Charlotte and Elizabeth are pretty classless and just very normal across the board.

I have to say though some of the poshest people I've met have the most ridiculous names that you can only get away with at private schools.

3 kids, called Rose Amelia, Alexander William and James Stanley. Just good, solid names.

Well, then they're not 'posh' names that this thread is about!

Many posters mix up posh names (beautiful classy etc) with so called 'posh' people.

Well quite. Meaning to my mind, that some posh sounding names aren't posh at all, but are purely aspirational.

My daughter’s name has been mentioned a few times, but it reflects my love of Beatrix Potter books, rather than our being ‘posh’.

In my line of work I come across some very wealthy people. Usually old family money. Is that what is meant by 'posh?' All these names are wealthy families and privately educated.
Names vary greatly as someone else said from the classic, 'classless' names, to the 'usually-found-playing-polo' names.

Nicola/Nicky
Wendy
Ann
Caroline
Emily
Christian
Crispin
Louise
Emma
Florence/flo
Sarah
Venetia
Verena
Toby
Sara
Daniel
Clementine/Clemmie
Corisande
Fergus
Hugo
Harriet/Hetty
Bryony
Merlin
Polly
Coco
Rupert
Antigone/tiggy
Henry
Tryphaena

Meaning to my mind, that some posh sounding names aren't posh at all, but are purely aspirational.

Sure let's called 'aspirational'. But that seems to have a negative connotation, or am I wrong?

Maybe we should find another way of describing these names, if 'posh' means aspirational rather than 'classy, elegant and beautiful'. Because I love these types of names hate being described as 'posh' (whatever that means anyway)

Araminta.
Mortimer.

Genuinely posh people usually name their children perfectly ordinary names like; James, Katharine, Emma, Elizabeth, Thomas etc

Lettice.

Genuinely posh people usually name their children perfectly ordinary names

But this thread isn't about posh people at all. They can be called Tom, Harry or Steve or whatever!

It's about a type of name.

*But this thread isn't about posh people at all. They can be called Tom, Harry or Steve or whatever!

It's about a type of name.*

Maybe I'm being a bit thick but is a posh name not what a posh person would be called?

I think people are confusing 'posh' people - although what exactly makes someone posh remains a mystery to me, and 'posh' names.

Posh names to me are elegant, old, classy names. Anyone can use these!

I know people from all backgrounds called Hugo, Sebastian, Quentin or Cecily. Not just so called 'posh' people.

The debate over 'Posh' names as in posh or not is making me and smile at some of the comments - 'some names are not posh' vein
If we flipped the thread to 'unposh', would we all be so keen to come up a few? Would be take offence?