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

@Toffeefee23 agreed!

Henry , Charlotte that kind of thing. Kings or Queens, the occasional old family name.

The landed gentry near me are called Hugh, Viola and Tamara!

Florian, I really like it since I heard the name on Hey Duggee but it's far too fancy for my family. Especially as my married surname essentially means tramp

Caspian
Sebastian
Tristan
Crispin

@Toffeefee23

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

Or they're just picking beautiful names. Are they too common to be allowed beautiful names??

And it quite funny when we meet actual posh families with sons of the same name and they look us up and down our scruffy existence. One mum even has number plate on her Evoke with the boys name on it. Quite a push present!

Hector

William

Atticus

@BertieBotts ooh Max De Winter definitely posh!

I am SO hoping that there is somebody out there called G. K. Ffarquar who takes huge advantage of their friends' butlers and 'borrows' and sells priceless old masters or family heirlooms!

Proper poshos I knew were called Peter, David, Lucy and John.

Jonty!

When I was at school the roughest child was called Tristan so it’s definitely never been a posh name to me. Julian was really popular in the 70s as well

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll we knew there was the ex-zay-V-er pronunciation like on X Men (I picked the name, I never watched the movies, k just like it) but his surgeon when he was tiny is Italian so used the za-V-air pronunciation and then did his incredibly posh doctor. We also get za-V-ay which I hate.

Love Rollo.
Also Sholto, Diggory and Dickon.

Maximilian
Montgomery (monty)
Names of the royal family....you can't get much more aristocratic than that!

Dickon

Christopher, BUT never known as Chris for short - always Topher or Kester

X-posted with Rick there.

Isn't Tristan one of those that used to be exclusively posh, but has since trickled 'down' into general usage - like with Oscar?

Why would you go out of your way to give your kid a name chosen simply because you want it to sound 'posh'?

Choose a name you like and/or that has a real meaning to you.

There is nothing truly less aristocratic/posh than to give your kid a random name just to keep up with the joneses...that screams middle-class, pretentious snobbery to me.

Aloysius

Algernon
Peregrine
Godfrey
Lucien

With St John many people won't know that it has a completely different pronunciation to the way it is written. There will be constant confusion.

Rafe

Sholto

Fabian

Merlin

@Dowermouse

And it quite funny when we meet actual posh families with sons of the same name and they look us up and down our scruffy existence. One mum even has number plate on her Evoke with the boys name on it. Quite a push present!

Do you find people struggle to pronounce Ptolemy though? 😁. I love Persephone but had the fear (and three boys...)