If you had to give your baby boy an aristocratic /posh name, what would it be?

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Aristocratic/posh names for boys
Middle names too would be great!
Examples
St John
Ptolemy
Rufus
Crispin
Edward

Hector
Tristram
Quentin
Aristotle
Algernon
Hugo
Miles
Montgomery
Sebastian

I know a Rufus and Montagu as they are my DC best friends.

I close family relative has an Edward, and insists on Edward he is 12 and hates it. Wants to be Ed and she won't allow it.

Anything Latin or Latin-based, like Sixtus, Octavian, Xavier or Fabian.

I can imagine members of the landed gentry weeping and gnashing every time somebody mishears their beloved Xavier's name and calls him Dave

Also, anything that is (or sounds like it could be) a small place name. Something like, say, Brocklington carries the clear implication that his family (notably Lord & Lady Brocklington) established and own most of the whole exclusive village that bears their name.

Ordinary plebs like me have a house/flat with an address that includes a city/town/village name; for the truly posh, Brocklington-cum-Cringlesby IS the family seat.

Not that the place itself is particularly posh, but I always think that De-La-Zouch sounds like it would be a perfect, fittingly strong, confident name to give your son, if you are of a certain echelon

Jolyon
Mungo
Aloysius

It's also about the middle names - family surnames rather than first names. But think de Lacy rather than Jackson.

Cholmondley
St John
Peregrine

I can imagine members of the landed gentry weeping and gnashing every time somebody mishears their beloved Xavier's name and calls him Dave

Let of an issue with the posh za-V-air pronunciation but someone once misheard Xavier as Saviour (zay-V-uh) but was terrifically polite about it

Willoughby
Peregrine
Carruthers
Arbuthnot

Anything (non-Welsh) that begins with two or more Fs.

Roly and Ludo

Jasper

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Willoughby Peregrine Carruthers Arbuthnot

Anything (non-Welsh) that begins with two or more Fs.

I think of Carruthers as the butler or the agent, and so addressed by his surname.

'yes Carruthers'
'very good m' lord'

What starts with 2 Fs but isn't Welsh?

Some form of Max so Maximilian / Maxwell probably. No idea if this is actually aristocratic or just my idea of posh though :o

Sebastian

XaviersMum1

Wow, that's me definitely identified as non-posh!! I didn't know there were different pronunciations of it. Then again, names fully meaning 'Saviour', like Salvatore and Salvador, are quite common in some countries/cultures.

I actually think Xavier is one of those crossover names - like Edward in the OP - which could be posh or just normal and strong. It probably also makes a difference whether your surname is de Fffarquar or Robinson

Anything Jacob Rees-Mogg thought to bestow on his poor kids..

Kim

What starts with 2 Fs but isn't Welsh?

Mainly surnames, but they often get carried forward into first/middle names before long as part of the family line. Names like Ffrench or Fforest.

Tristan is not posh

I know a lot of very posh people & they all picked classic names eg Henry, William, Edward, Alexander

John

Or Charles, Andrew, Edward, William, Henry, George, James, Peter, Louis

The people who picked names like Atticus, Horatio are more pretentious, trying to be posh types

Would choose Ashley. Really like it.

Oberon
Montmorency
Digby
Horace
Horatio
Merlin

Rupert
Giles
Henry
Hugo
Benedict
Jasper

Inigo

Ds has a name from the posh list, it sticks out a mile in a school where the catchment is partly families full of children with hyphenated, made up, phonetically spelt names. We give not a fuck.