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Fancy boys names!

31 replies

namehuntingfulltime · 12/01/2021 12:56

Hi!
Looking for fancy/upper class/posh boys names!
I know I know, 'class,' but need them for a middle name list.
Thank you :-)
Examples include Rupert etc.

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gillybombilly · 12/01/2021 13:04

Tarquin
Tristan
Percy
Jasper
Hector
Crispin
Jolyon
Horatio

BlueChampagne · 12/01/2021 13:05

Piers
Ambrose
Quentin
Percival
Montgomery
Montmorency
Montague
Roland
St John

Twickerhun · 12/01/2021 13:07

Digby
Bertie

BlueChampagne · 12/01/2021 13:08

Algernon
Aloysius

Read some P G Wodehouse for inspiration?

FATEdestiny · 12/01/2021 13:11

Ptolemy (nn Tolly)

My absolute favourite bonkers posh name. I don't have the guts to use it. Nice name for a cat too.

ElaineMarieBenes · 12/01/2021 13:25

Ooh I love Ptolemy too!

Also love Tasker (think is welsh posh so maybe not so posh!)

namehuntingfulltime · 12/01/2021 13:41

@FATEdestiny

Ptolemy (nn Tolly)

My absolute favourite bonkers posh name. I don't have the guts to use it. Nice name for a cat too.

Love this too! I'd never be brave enough though!
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MagicSummer · 12/01/2021 13:53

Guy
Hugo
Phaon
Hector
Humphrey
Miles

Courtney555 · 12/01/2021 14:00

Merlin
Alexander (Prince George)
Hillary
Arthur
Percy

@BlueChampagne ....Excellent list.

I think things that have become "comically posh" now (Tarquin, Rupert etc) now sound really crass.

IckleBear · 12/01/2021 14:00

Vincent
Caspian
Zebedee
Augustus
Ezekiel

TopBants · 12/01/2021 14:03

Cuthbert
Bertrand
Bertram
Benedict

VenusClapTrap · 12/01/2021 14:13

Peregrine
Kim

GirlCalledJames · 12/01/2021 14:14

Leander

joystir59 · 12/01/2021 14:16

Julian
Monty
Jonty
Cecil
Hugo

JemimaTiggywinkle · 12/01/2021 14:17

You can also have Tolly from Bartholomew if Ptolemy is a bridge too far

Angel2702 · 12/01/2021 14:17

Edwin

DuchenneParent · 12/01/2021 14:45

I always liked Phineas, which I think fits the category!

Although, I think traditional names like James, Edward, George, etc sound just as, or often, more actual upper class. Names like Tarquin are often used aspirationally.

namehuntingfulltime · 12/01/2021 14:50

@DuchenneParent

I always liked Phineas, which I think fits the category!

Although, I think traditional names like James, Edward, George, etc sound just as, or often, more actual upper class. Names like Tarquin are often used aspirationally.

Phineas is very brave but pretty cool :)
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Bluesername · 12/01/2021 14:54

Ernest
Pascal
Aubrey
Rafferty
Fabian
Ozymandias
Tobias
Sebastian
Titus
Maximilian
Xavier
Roderick
Egbert
Leopold
Archibald
Clement
Orlando
Mungo
Lawrence
Ignatius
Phineas
Cyril
Atticus
Edmund
Randolph
Clarence
Horace

Trer · 12/01/2021 15:29

Horatio
Percival
Hector
Edmund
Finbar
Lysander
Hubert
Edgar
Ptolemy

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 12/01/2021 17:14

Anything not especially popular and generally at least 3 syllables tends to sound "fancy" to me (particularly older Classical names) eg. Thaddeus, Octavian, Balthazar, Ulysses, Cornelius, Nicodemus, Mordecai, Septimus, Augustus, Aurelius etc

grassisjeweled · 13/01/2021 02:32

Let's face it, there are no rough Peregrines wandering around

MagicSummer · 13/01/2021 09:19

I couldn't sleep last night and thought of loads more!

Ambrose
Bartholomew
Cosmo
Tristram
St, John
Geoffrey
Axel
Nicholas
Richard
Hamish
Dominic
Hilary
Sylvester

Scarby9 · 13/01/2021 09:26

Some fabulous names on this thread.
Cosmo
Otto
Barnaby
Algernon
Augustus
Montmorency
Felix
Ignacio
Julius

OddsNSodsBitsNBobs · 13/01/2021 09:45

Augustus
Benoit
Clemente
Darwin
Edgar
Florent
Giles
Horatio
Ivor
Jonty
K
Lucian
Montague
N
Octavia
Percival
Quentin
Ralph (rafe)
Solomon
Theobald
U
V
Wilbur
X
Y
Z

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