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.

Cressida (cressy), Charlotte (lottie), Henrietta (hattie). Catherine and Alexandra are classics. Aramintas popped up a bit in that time period bit less so ftom what i can tell. Id go for a simple classes c. They never leave more upper class families and are forever in use. More frilly, fancy even foreign names like francesca and Anastasia aren't used unless a family has associations with the country of the names origin in a very upper class English family. You are more likely to find a mary!

Beatrice - Clara is reasonably common here and Sophie very common everywhere. A posh person might be something like Sophiana. (Probably not , I've made that example up but lots of girl with long 'a' ending names in my pony club such as Jordana, Arianna etc)

Callista?

How about 'Sterling Winthrop'?

(I had a job with them a long time ago! )

@borntobequiet

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.)

Do you mean deep waters as in a dangerous place to go?

I don't think anybody is going to read the name Cordelia and think 'oh my, she's taking a pop at the Catholics'.

Cressida, Cordelia, Candida, Henrietta, Octavia and Charlotte are all good and still read as posh now, apart from maybe Charlotte. But actually, in 1980 you'd have found a lot of posh girls called things like Sarah, Emma, Rebecca, Alexandra so things that read as a bit more ordinary these days.

I don't know if there is an archive somewhere, but I'd suggest looking at baby name announcements from the 80s in something like the Times or Telegraph.

Don't use candida - I don't think posh when I here it I just think of yeast infection 😆

I don't think anybody is going to read the name Cordelia and think 'oh my, she's taking a pop at the Catholics

Neither do I. Just that if anyone is referencing Brideshead, they should be aware that it’s permeated in Catholicism, even down to the names of the characters.

@GlamGiraffe

Cressida (cressy), Charlotte (lottie), Henrietta (hattie). Catherine and Alexandra are classics. Aramintas popped up a bit in that time period bit less so ftom what i can tell. Id go for a simple classes c. They never leave more upper class families and are forever in use. More frilly, fancy even foreign names like francesca and Anastasia aren't used unless a family has associations with the country of the names origin in a very upper class English family. You are more likely to find a mary!

Hattie is generally Harriet, Hennie or Hetty are Henrietta.

Clara

Clarissa, Celia, Aurelia, Vanessa

Probably Beatrice, but when is she supposed to have been born?

Oh, didn't rtft. So born around 1978ish then. Def not Clara - Clare more likely.

Antonia
Cressida
Fiona
Allegra
Amelia
Victoria
Sophie
Cordelia
Emma

I think the name you're looking for is Jane.

Of the above suggestions Cressida, Fiona and Celia are good.

Beatrice, Sophie and Clara are now popular names for 2020s babies in all social classes. They might have been posh in previous generations but not now.