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

I was planning to name a son Ralph (pronounced Rafe) after a relative, but we adopted DS so he came with a name (which meant he was the same name as a different relative).

The poshest person I know is called Dave.

@CoronaIsWatching. Are you aristocratic and not happy with the plebs getting above themselves?

I have a failsafe rule: any boys’ name ending in ‘o’ immediately says, “Not as posh as I’d like to be.”

The upper class men I know have names obviously chosen quite deliberately to help them hide in plain sight: Will, James, Ed, John.

According to some old article in Tatler, Patrick is up there in terms of posh. I suppose it would be helpful to have at least some Irish ancestry though.

My DC has one of those names not because we're posh or wannabe posh but because we liked it.

Caspar/Caspian

I love Ptolemy!

Please can someone explain the pronunciation of Ptolemy to me? My sleep deprived brain can't work it out

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.

I realise I'm showing my age and that children born now will probably never see it (or at least won't have it as a familiar point of cultural reference), but I just can't hear St John without instantly thinking of Goodness Gracious Me's Surjit and Veena Rabindranath, who pretentiously adopt the more English-sounding St John and Vanessa Robinson!

@Rangoon

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.

Yep I’m confused 🤣 it’s not said as in St. John’s ambulance? Clearly there’s nothing posh about me 🤣

Piers
Laurence

Ptolemy is usually just 'TOLLER-mee', with a silent 'P'.

@OhMsBeliever

I have a son called Barnaby. Definitely not posh, and I don't think I'm pretentious. I just chose a name I liked (from one of my favourite childhood books that I was re-reading when I was pregnant with him) as I did with all my children.

I also loved Ptolemy, but wasn't brave enough for that!

The Dark is Rising? Or was that Barnabas?

@Catty1720
I think it’s pronounced sinjun when it’s a first name.

Just give your kid a name you like. Most posh people I know have quite traditional names not on that list.

Henry
Charles
Giles
Rupert
Sebastian
Frederick
Benedict

Tarquin- no I wouldn't ever but as a joke that's the name that's most wanky!

Ah I see thank you, I never knew that

Just go with a name you like my only personal rules when picking my DC names is how will it sound when they are an adult. And will it cause them problems in schools/interviews when someone can’t pronounce it. Even my name I’ve always had ‘is that with a c or a k’

My brain has completely short-circuited, having read Crispin and Ptolemy and smooshed them together, so I've now got Crispian St Peters going around in my head, singing "Hey, come on, babe, Ptolemy - I'm the Pied Piper"

Youngsters: ask your grandparents....

Alastair

Sleepingstandingup oh bugger, you've outed me.

Cornelius
Lancelot

@Dowermouse

Sleepingstandingup oh bugger, you've outed me.

😂

I really wanted Thaddeus and Balthazar for the twins but I wasn't sure I could pull it off with my black country state school kids

Jolyon

I’m loving this thread. It’s cracking me up 😂 The thought of all those little Tarquins and St Johns running out of primary school into the loving arms of parents, Ryan and Jade is hilarious. Sorry if it’s not meant to be funny but prole drift is always funny 😳