Which of these sounds poshest?

[Dramagirl22]

for a fictional character which of these names sounds the poshest/most aristocratic?

Clara Winthrop Scott
Beatrice Winthrop Scott
Sophie Winthrop Scott

Thank you!! And please feel free to make other suggestions.

Agree that Winthrop is awful. Beatrice the poshest.

I think Beatrice sounds poshest.

If she's quite Sloane Square-y, she'd also need an awful nickname like 'Tiggy', 'Bump' or 'Binky' though. Those kind of nicknames really mark someone out as posh for me.

When is it set? Some names were posh in the past but aren't as posh nowadays.

Not Clara - maid’s name

Clarissa is posher than Clara. But what variety of posh do you want? Intellectual posh? Related to Royalty posh? Old money landed gentry posh? Fallen on hard times (often arty or barmy) posh? All will go for different posho names.

Clara. For some reason it also seems the most believable to me.

But what variety of posh do you want? Intellectual posh? Related to Royalty posh? Old money landed gentry posh? Fallen on hard times (often arty or barmy) posh?

Are you serious

Only in the UK could names be so categorised!?

It’s set in London in the early 2000’s! I’m looking for old-money style posh. Arabella, Araminta, Ophelia type stuff.

Of those I'd say Beatrice, but Fenella, Cressida, Felicity, Ariadne, Penelope etc are possibly more so to me.

You could watch the early seasons of Made in Chelsea, lots of posh folk.

Binky is Alexandra
amber
Catherine is Cathy
Francesca
funda
Gabriella
Louise
Millie
Rosie

Are you serious

Yes

Clara or better still, Clarissa

Cordelia Winthrop Scott

Name of one of the Flyte children in Brideshead, must be posh

It’s set in London in the early 2000’s

How old is this character?

Mid 20s, youngest of 3 with an older sister and older brother, Arabella and Hugo.

Rather than Sophie, Sophia: pronounced so-fye-a.

I was at university with some very posh twenty-somethings in the early 2000s. Some of the poshest were named:

Cici (see-see)
Molly
India
Imogen
Pia
Anastasia

Name of one of the Flyte children in Brideshead, must be posh

Brideshead is Catholic posh, deep waters. (St Cordelia was a companion of St Ursula, martyred at the hands of the Huns.)

@Dramagirl22

It’s set in London in the early 2000’s! I’m looking for old-money style posh. Arabella, Araminta, Ophelia type stuff.

In that case, none of your suggestions are quite posh enough. Beatrice almost gets there.

How about Cordelia, Henrietta, Cecily, Fenella, Fabia, Leonie etc.

Also pro tip for the very posh. Throw in a very unusual middle name. It’s not uncommon for mother’s maiden names to be given as a middle name to ‘keep up the name’ if no sons and an already double barrelled name.

How old is this character supposed to be in ~2003, OP?
What was a posh baby name at time of their putative birth?

Francesca, nn Frankie.

I know these people 😂

Sophie definitely, although I actually think the other names are probably ‘posher’ Sophie Winthrop Scott just has a telegraph baby announcement ring. Especially if her nickname is something like Topsy or Biffle.

Sophie ...

Winthrop is more of an American Pilgrim name. I wouldn't consider it aristocratic.

Aristocratic surnames tend to have Norman/French origins.

Candida - I knew a super posh one in the mid 2000s :)