Girls names like Angus, Casper, Hugh, Monty, Benedict

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Basically posh names that aren't very common. I can't think of what the girls names equivalents would be. Ideas?

Aurelia, Beatrice, Victoria, Arabella,Georgina,

Imogen, Zara, Alexia, Juliet, Sophia, Elizabeth, Ophelia, Peta, Annabel, Nora, Belinda, Margot, Coco, Prudence, Winifred.

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Is Dido posh? It sounds quite the opposite (but then I've never met one).

Definitely. I know two. Three if you count a childhood friend called Dido Boothroyd Brooks. 😂

Beatrice, Margot, Elspeth, Rosina, Gwendoline, Miriam, Joy, Diana, Helene/Helena, Constance, Camilla, Pippa/phillipa, Jinny, Harriet, Alexandra, Jessamine, Anna.

Three if you count a childhood friend called Dido Boothroyd Brooks. 😂
No question about it, then 😂

Dido Harding has killed that name for me. Useless woman.

She is posh though.

Pereira
Francesca

I don’t give a fuck about that stupid woman. She’s not who I associate with the name at all.

Should have been Perdita (auto correct)

Perdita reminds me of 101 Dalmatians. (That attempt autocorrected to predator )

Jacintha
Jocelyn
Thomasina
Vanessa

Antigone. Florianna. Florabelle. Valentina. Trixibelle. Therese.
Martiana. Penelope. Arabella. Octavia. Calliope. Fabienne. Henrietta.
Elizabetta. Josephina. Thomasina. Dorothea. Evangeline. Miriam.

The two Didos I know really are very posh (one in her 60s and one aged two!) I do think it’s a cute toddler name though.

Names can change though, so beware…remember how Chloe was really unusual and super-posh in the 80s and 90s? And then it suddenly became massively, massively popular and…a bit the reverse. Or Isabella in the last decade or so - once was unusual, now every reception cohort has at least three.

So if you really want to go posh you have to choose something you think really won’t suddenly leap in popularity…

My own DD’s name is mentioned by a poster upthread and I had liked it for years - then around the time DD was born it had a little burst of popularity! I was well pissed off - but I called her it anyway

I've never met a posh one but I've always thought of Catherine as quite a posh name.

Antoinette
Georgeanne.
Anastasia.

Names can change though

Agreed. In the 80s the only Olivias I knew were UMC friends of my mum.

Theodora (Teddie)
Arabella
Clemmie

Bunty
Clarissa
Helena
Jocelyn
Philippa

Sybil
Isadora
Jocasta
Iris
Adeline
Darcey
Augustine
Christiana
Penelope
Ophelia
Guinevere
Genevieve
Phaedra
Eleanor
Letitia
Artemis
Vivienne

Lettice, Fenella,Fleur, Jemima, Elektra

Zara

Angus - Flora
Casper - Onyx
Hugh - Edith
Monty - Georgie (either Georgia or Georgiana)
Benedict - Therese

Arbella
Ottilie
Lettice

Allegra
Alexandra
Alessia
Amelia
Antoinette
Antonia
Anastasia
Arabella
Araminta
Ariadne
Astrid
Athena
Aurelia
Aurora
Camilla
Camellia
Cecile
Celeste
Celestine
Clarissa
Clementine/a
Cordelia
Cosima
Delphine
Delilah
Eleanor
Elise
Elodie
Eloise
Emelia
Emmeline
Esmeralda
Estelle/a
Evangeline
Felicity
Fenella
Jemima
Lavinia
Leonora
Lilly
Lucinda
Madeleine
Matilda
Octavia
Olympia
Ophelia
Pandora
Perdita
Persephone
Petra
Petronella
Saskia
Serena
Seraphina
Sistine
Sylvia
Tabitha
Tatiana
Theodora
Valentina
Violet/ta
Yasmine

Sheila, Helen/Helena, Irene, Isabell/Isabella, Nancy, Charlotte/Lottie.

There are some seriously OTT suggestions above, and some names that are just obscure not posh... it’s harder w girls because a wider range of names are used, so they are less class bound, but the ones below might fit the bill

Hero
Frances
Viola
Henrietta
Leonora
Diana
Cressida
Jemima
Georgiana
Lavinia
Honor
Augusta
Gwendoline
Edwina
Sybil / Sybilla
Eugenia / Eugenie
Dido
Maud/e

V frilly posh names eg Arabella, Ophelia are getting v pop so won’t stand out. And others eg Imogen, Beatrice, Helena, Serena, are quite mainstream. Also think you want to avoid mid century timewarp names like Camilla, Lucinda, Fenella, Tamara or it’s all just a bit Jilly Cooper.