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?

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

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

Florabelle and Trixiebelle are not posh, they are stripper names. As is Sistine above. Not quite sure what to make of Sheila 🤣 be careful Op! You might want to stick with Elizabeth or Jane

Sheila! 😂

Davinia
Edwina
Hyacinth
Piggy
Lucinda

Godiva
Goldilocks
Borgiana
Belgravia
Bountiful (must marry a lord though)

Toilettebrushe

The poshest girls I know are called Squeak, Pip (not short for Philippa, in fact have no idea what her real name is) and Cricket, so if it’s posh you’re going for I’d point you there-wards.

@AnotherSunrise

Various totally non U names here - Darcy, Vivienne, Sheila, Irene

Persephone

Pandora
Camilla
Cecilia
Mirabelle
Xanthe
Anastasia
Georgiana
Caroline
Emilia
Allegra
Evangeline
Philippa

@TatianaBis

Various totally non U names here - Darcy, Vivienne, Sheila, Irene

Lady Irene Mountbatten would have your guts for garters en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Mountbatten,_Marchioness_of_Carisbrooke As would Lady Sheila Mary Holroyd www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp131225/lady-sheila-mary-holroyd-nee-cairns Yes I have been Googling! I'll give you Darcy though.

Piggy, Tiggy, Pompom, Plum, Bish and Lilah.

Hilarious thread! like reading one of my Evelyn Waugh novels

Dominic Lawson named his daughters Nigella, Horatia and Thomasina didn't he? so presumably any male name can be feminised by altering the ending.

• Casparina
• Jamesina
• Cuthbertina
• Cedricina
• Jasparina
• Conradina
• Jeremina
• Maxmillianna

etc etc

@TatianaBis

Various totally non U names here - Darcy, Vivienne, Sheila, Irene

Depends how you spell Vivien

Or perhaps go for some of the lesser known Shakespearian names?
Volumnia is a personal fave.

Some of these are pretentious rather than posh.

Posh girls names are irrelevant because they'll have a nickname all their lives anyway

Some great suggestions here! It does seem like there are a lack of female equivalents of those sort of posh names that also aren't quite Jilly Cooper territory like someone said 😂.

Honor is basically my all time favourite but DH vetoed it without telling me why. Turns out he vetoed it because when combined with our surname it can have an obscene meaning that she would get bullied for! Gutted!! Someone else mentioned Kitty which is currently my top fave apart from Honor and we already have a Violet and a cat Pandora. Some of the others - Arabella, Lucinda etc are just a bit too frilly and over the top for me!

Just realised that post basically outs me completely! Whoops!!

How does it out you?

All of my children's names are in this thread !
I didn't realise I was so posh

@GreyhoundG1rl well I suppose you would have to know me to know my daughters name and my cats name and to take a guess at the surname with Honor issue but if you do know me then it would be quite obvious I think! Ah well!

Depends how you spell Vivien

It really doesn't.

@StyleAndLasers

Irene was born in 1890, Sheila was born in 1905.

[quote TatianaBis]@StyleAndLasers

Irene was born in 1890, Sheila was born in 1905.[/quote]
Well I would have thought that just makes them even more established!