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31 replies

MoonCharm · 01/05/2022 13:53

We like:
Flora, Charlotte, Cecily, Anoushka, Louise and Maud for girls
Clarence, Erik, Frederick, Gustav, Leon, Percy for a boy
Are these names too posh? We move in those circles, but don't want to limit kid with names that only work in posh circles.

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SpaceJamtart · 03/05/2022 16:32

Flora, Charlotte, Cecily, Erik and Leon are nice

grxxxx · 03/05/2022 16:54

If you need to use the word posh to describe yourself you most definitely are not

Flora = ok , quite pretty
Charlotte = classic and pretty
Cecile = classic and pretty
Louise = over used , ok
Maud = dreary
Clarence = try hard
Erik = someone who cannot spell Eric ? Scandi ? Erik the Viking comic strip
Frederick = ok but not shortened to Freddy / Freddie both very over used
Gustav = try hard
Leon = pleasant but nicer as Leo , just my opinion
Percy = poor child will suffer a lifetime of penis jokes

Christian names will depend on your surname as to how balanced they both look and sound together

MassiveSalad22 · 03/05/2022 17:00

Flora - love! Not posh.
Charlotte - dull
Cecily - fine, bit lispy.
Anoushka - love but a bit random if you and DH and Claire and George or something equally mainstream.
Louise - dated, dull, much prefer Louisa
Maud - I feel only an Apatow can pull that off but I do like it. Maeve? Love Maeve.

Clarence - wet although I know a fab Clarence
Erik - nice but very grown up. Will be a grown up for most of his life though.
Frederick - boring, everywhere, not posh
Leon - see Eric. Not posh. Leo, Theo v popular.
Gustav - like Gus

MassiveSalad22 · 03/05/2022 17:02

Oh and Percy - not for me. Posh. Avoid.

(Previous post should have said are a Claire and George, not and, obviously)

LetHimHaveIt · 03/05/2022 17:39

'We move in those circles, but don't want to limit kid with names that only work in posh circles'

😂 God Bless You 🤣

midsomermurderess · 03/05/2022 17:51

I quite like Cecily and Maud and Gustave and Percy. I do wonder if concerns about it being slang for penis are overstated. Does anyone under about 70 ever do this?

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