Privately Educated Names

[Flamingosnbears]

What comes to your mind...

Why?

In my experience mostly the same as state educated children although I haven’t come across any crazy spellings at my DD’s school

Monty
Felix
Alexander
Theo
Jude
Rupert
David
Isaac

Matilda
Harriet
Florence
Hetty

My son’s private school;
Alister,
Rupert,
William,
James,
John,
Sebastian

Children I know of who are privately educated:

Hugo
Sebastian
George
Monty
Barnaby
Arthur
Edward

Holly
Dorothy
Charlotte
Lily
Monique

80s. Mixture of Sophie, Emma, Kate, Emily, Joanna, Camilla, Becky, Sarah etc and Araminta, Venetia, Anoushka, Allegra, Felicia etc and Hero, Dido, Topaz, Xanthe, Oriel

@Seashor

My son’s private school; Alister, Rupert, William, James, John, Sebastian

They are good names, not out of the ordinary. I know and have known some of each. I'm not sure that they are more 'private school' than state though, however it's not something to which I've given much thought. I gave my two quite ordinary, classic names because 1. I liked the names and 2. I didn't want them to have the mick taken out of them; so no Aphrodites or Honeysuckles from me (though I do actually quite like those names).

Nice to see 'John' on your list. It's not so popular these days except as a second name, though you do still see Jonathan, shortened to 'Jon'. It's a good solid name (my nephew is a John), nobody would ever complain about being called John.

Darrell
Sally
Gwendoline
Alicia
Mary-Lou
Betty
Daphne
Felicity

Don't forget Mam'zelle, Carlotta and Queenie lalliella

Well back in the nineties it was;
Jennifer/Jenny
Rebecca/Becky
Alexandra/Alex
Eleanor
Sophie
Laura
Rachael
Victoria/Vicky
Sarah
Joanne
Hannah
Verity

Nothing unusual at all.

There was an identical thread a few days ago where I posted some of the more memorable names from my boarding school days but I forgot the poshest; Fabienne.

What, do you think they’re a different species?

Exactly.

They have the same names as other children

There wasn't even a single Tarquin born recently....!

And Fabian (boy) or Fabienne (girl) are perfectly normal (international) names.

What a bizarre thread!

There wasn't even a single Tarquin born recently!

Indeed, it is not very popular at all, probably due to the stereotype. Tarquin has only shown up in name rankings for England & Wales 4 times since 1996, ie there have only been 4 years since then where at least 3 Tarquins were born. These were 1996, 2004, 2008 and 2010.

Just as you’d expect, lots of classic, nice, normal names - George, Thomas, Olivia etc.

I do not come across children with double barrelled names really ever. Usually (although not always) “nicknamey” names are just nicknames and the children have traditional full names. As an example, I (and the rest of the U.K.) probably know about 10 girls called Evie. All of the Evies I know are actually Evelyn.

We’ve had our DC in both private and state schools, and there’s a lot of overlap in the sort of names used.

Lots of well established, ordinary, popular sort of names in both schools.
There’s more kids with a “normal name with a unique spelling” at the state school, but there were also a few kids with that sort of name at the private school.

Gwen
Clarissa
Charlotte
Elizabeth

George
James
Charles
Archie

DS has a friend named Hippo. He is always, always called Hippo. I believe he has an alternative name on the register though.

Hieronymous
Zeus
Lucifer
Balaam
Jacaranthus
Mortimer
Montgomery
Cuthbert

Yes, privately educated children are a different species and are called Hieronymous, Zeus or Hermione, Wilhelmina etc

Why?

Strikes me as being pretentious way to name a child

My DDs went to private school. They and their friends had pretty standard names.

[quote PattyPan]Maybe look at the Telegraph birth announcements for inspiration as I imagine that’s the demographic announcements.telegraph.co.uk/births/announcements[/quote]
Some total gems in there

My children were/are at private school and they have normal names. All within the top 200 or so at the times they were born. Quite likely top 100.

There's a wide range of names at their school. I teach there and at another private school which also has a wide range of times - just as a random selection across the two schools from the last few years (ie this isn't a class list!): Arabella, Charlotte, Jack, Lily, Ibrahim, Ellie, Jaxon, Chloe, Hunter, London, Henry, Isabella, Chantelle, Oladipo, Hugo, Dakota, Ademola