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Names for boys (aristocratic/posh/fancy)

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RellyRoad9 · 06/02/2021 11:11

Hi All!
Looking for a fancy sounding middle name for our son.
We're from a family who're used to really quite fancy names - but we chose to go for something pretty middle of the road by their standards for our boy. Because of this, it'd be great to find a sophisticated middle name for him instead.
And before you start with comments about 'posh' and upper class and 'why would you want your son to have a posh name' and all the class warrior stuff, there's no need. Preferences are preferences and we don't need to get into a debate on the ridiculous class system in this country, we get it.
Names we considered Hugo, Montgomery, Rafferty, etc. Nothing too extreme like Ptolemy or anything - they're not THAT posh!
DS name begins with L.
Thanks for your help :-)

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Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 06/02/2021 14:46

I know a posh Jasper and Julian.

Bluesername · 06/02/2021 14:48

Orlando
Alaric
Marmaduke
Xerxes
Claudius
Lawrence
Maximilian
Cornelius
Oswald
Hector
Raymond
Atticus
Clarence
Tristan
Herbert
Rufus
Ferdinand
Augustus
Orson
Xavier
Nathaniel
Barnaby
Constantine

MagnusMama · 06/02/2021 14:49

All the boys in my family have names on this thread.
I like Hector and Phineas too.

partyatthepalace · 06/02/2021 15:01

Augustus
Diggory
Isambard
Horacio
Inigo

bitheby · 06/02/2021 15:05

One of my relatives had Horatio as a middle name. He and we are not posh in the slightest.

morninglive · 06/02/2021 15:06

Hugh

ValpolicellaPrimitivo · 06/02/2021 15:15

Gideon
Marcus
Dominic
Timothy
Gregory
Peter
Robert
Hector
Leonard
Sebastian
Julian
Jonathan
Vincent
Charles
Richard
Magnus
Wilbur
Maxim
Benedict
Nathaniel
Andrew
Quentin
Victor
Simeon
George
Henry
Tobias
Jasper
Caspar
Eric
Roderick
Louis
Michael
Elliot
Jethro

PatsyStone39 · 06/02/2021 15:44

Caspian?

TreacleHart · 06/02/2021 15:46

Quentin
Theobald
Rufus
Tarquin

TempsPerdu · 06/02/2021 15:47

Probably more ‘intellectual posh’ than standard posh, but I love Cassian and Ambrose.

FizzingWhizzbee123 · 06/02/2021 15:49

My guilty pleasure name that I was not brave enough to use.

Lysander

Tuscadero · 06/02/2021 15:52

Nothing wrong with Lysander but I would 100% feel like a ninny shouting that in public.

ghislaine · 06/02/2021 15:56

Mungo
Esmond (or Edmond or Edmund)
Rollo
Ludovic

flossiegrippiter · 06/02/2021 16:01

Digby

personwomanmancameratv · 06/02/2021 16:11

Jolyon
Benedict
Rhodri
Milo
Raphael
Theodore
Sebastian
Atticus
Gabriel
Jude
Arlo
Kingsley
Ivo

Floralnomad · 06/02/2021 16:14

Niles is nicer than Miles
Fabian
Crispin
Christian
Simeon

NoAuthorityHereJackieWeaver · 06/02/2021 17:00

Magnus
Frederick
Tobias

caringcarer · 06/02/2021 17:03

Francis
Xavier
Rupert
Edward
Sebastian

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 06/02/2021 17:36

I always associate Tarquin with an otter. Hmm

FlyingByTheSeatof · 06/02/2021 17:37

Peregrine or Perry for short

IggyAce · 06/02/2021 17:40

Tristan
Marcus
Rupert
Percy
Balthazar
Montgomery

Cissyandflora · 06/02/2021 17:42

Percy

Ellmau · 06/02/2021 19:03

Sebastian
Rufus
Rupert
Julian
Julius
Jasper
Octavian
Octavius
Septimus
Augustus
Roderick
Demetrius
Orlando
Ranulph
Rudolph
Waldo
St John (pronounced Sinjun)
Corin
Tristram
Gawain
Peregrine
Marius
Everard
Benedict
Aubrey
Aloysius
Alured
Ferdinand
Maximilian
Aurelian
Aurelius
Claudius
Hadrian
Hector
Horatio

FuriousWithTheNHS · 06/02/2021 19:06

Is Rafferty posh? Confused

I think not.

florascotia2 · 06/02/2021 19:11

John, Peter, Hugh, James, Francis, George, Albert - for the rest, if you have to ask, it isn't. That doesn't mean that some names in the past haven't been 'posh', from Ivo and Torquil (not Tarquin) to Humphrey to Miles. It just means that now they are less exclusive (if that's what 'posh' means); many more people know about them and choose them. That is of course not a bad thing. It just changes the dynamic, somewhat. I am NOT making judgements, just a statistics-based comment.

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