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

Carruthers was my maiden name and it's always the name of a bloody butler!
I think its quite posh

John, David or Toby.

I did actually know a Peregrine when I was younger. He detested it and always went by Perry

Rollo!

Sebastian
Percival Percy
Charles
Rupert
Ralph/ Rafe

Is it bad to admit that I LOVE LOVE LOVE all of these names! Dh didn't sadly so we compromised on 'classic English', but I'd love to have had a Bartholomew (Barty) and a Meredith (Merry).

Sebastian. I love it

Atticus

I think Hugo is the only one I could really embrace with enthusiasm.

Especially as my married surname essentially means tramp

Am I the only one who is desperate to know what it is?!

Vagrant
Hobo
Bum
Vagabond
Downer-Nowt
Panhandler
King-o'-The-Road
Knight-Wanderer

Or did you mean tramp as a verb - so something like Amble or Trudge?

I was amused when I first heard of the dynamic, trendy New Jersey city pronounced 'huh-BOW-kuhn'. I read it before I heard anybody say it and couldn't for the life of me imagine why somebody would name an entire city in honour of a hobo called Ken!

I really wanted Thaddeus and Balthazar for the twins

Balthazar is a great name. I'd like quads named Balthazar, Methuselah, Nebuchadnezzar and Magnum, but you'd probably get Social Services assuming you were rather too fond of the sauce to be in charge of children

I knew a Ffarquhar but he wasn't posh. I would definitely call my fictional posh baby Ffarquhar though.

@FlyingSquid yes, The Dark Is Rising. It is Barnabas in the book but our surname begins with S and it sounded too hissy to me so I used Barnaby instead. He's only ever called Barney anyway, so I do sometimes wish I'd used Barnabas.

Earnest. Definitely the best name

I think most aristocratic boys are called standard trad names like William, George, Henry, Arthur, Hugh blah blah

Can I just ask why people are trying to find so-called 'posh' names for their offspring? Is it because you hope they'll get into Oxbridge if they are called Horatio or that they'll land a top job in the city solely by virtue of their name being Ptolemy? Got to say that is one of the ugliest names I've ever heard 😧Can a name make this much difference to a child's future? Do you have to add in private education and elocution lessons too? Dress them in Mini Boden at all times? Buy them their first pony whilst they are still in utero?

I am genuinely interested how this all works, or indeed, if it works at all. My own children are named after older relatives and I have to confess that I didn't torture myself over whether or not they would be successful social climbers as a result. Maybe I am in the minority here and have let poor Kylie and Wayne down?

Georgie. I've loved it ever since I read 'The Amazing Mr Blunden' as a child.

Earnest is a very Important Name 😂

@webuiltthisbuffetonsausageroll it is none of those. I won't post it as it is unusual, but the proper meaning is 'dweller of the hedge' so I suppose it could be tramp or drunkard?

I know a ten year old Lord. He's called Tristan.

Can I just ask why people are trying to find so-called 'posh' names for their offspring?

1. it's a light hearted hypothetical thread
2. Few people actually pick names because they think it'll somehow elevate their specialness. They just pick names they like. I've been told my name's are try hard. But the only thing we tried hard to do was pick names we liked

[quote Jigglyjugs]@webuiltthisbuffetonsausageroll it is none of those. I won't post it as it is unusual, but the proper meaning is 'dweller of the hedge' so I suppose it could be tramp or drunkard?[/quote]
Maybe you're just a Hedgehog

Someone beat me was going to say Rupert or Hugo

Or Fenton

Monty

William

Theobald