Names for boys (aristocratic/posh/fancy)

[RellyRoad9]

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 :-)

how about using your own family name, or your mother's ?

that will help with tracing the bloodline. for pedigree.

Floyd
Benedict
Bertram

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Titus.

... But it might sound a bit pretentious if you are not part of the right circle.

Raphael
Alexandre
Xavier
Alphonse
Fernando

@KarmaNoMore

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Titus.

... But it might sound a bit pretentious if you are not part of the right circle.

the right circle being the Flavian dynasty?

Tristram

I've always thought Basil is due a revival

Anyone mentioned Mungo yet

OP, why not just look back through both sides of the family tree when choosing names, to find something classic that you like?

My wife and I love the name Hugo but we just aren't posh enough to pull it off haha!

Hello OP.
Posh here.
I have a Sebastian, and a Gabriel.

@LindaCartersBun

Think of the posh men I know:

Gilbert
Gideon
StJohn (Singe-un)
Edgar
Nicholas (never Nick!)

@LindaCartersBun do you actually know a st John? What is he like? What are his family’s names like? I’m quite jealous, I love it but would never dare use it!!

Mungo's the patron Saint of Glasgow. Is it posh?

Hello OP
Posh here
Love it

Did someone really just suggest Cyril?! 😂

Go to the Telegraph’s birth announcement section.

Plenty of posh names there (and ones who sound as if they’ve been named for a favourite golden retriever)

How posh are we talking?

Peerage posh? If so, choose the name of a king, or one of Jane Austen’s brothers.

Grandfather grew up dirt poor but made a mint and sent his sons - including your husband - to public school posh? Sholto, Cosmo, Hugo, Inigo, Jago.

Country gentry but not quite posh? One of Jesus’s disciples.

I know it’s a cartoon character but I love the names Sterling or Archer

If you want posh AND different:

Ichabod