Felix and Casper sibset - posh?

[Sunflowers1999]

A lovely lady I know through work has named her sons Felix and Casper. Both lovely names imo, although together I think they sound rather posh. What do you think? If it makes any difference, they are from New York living in London. Another colleague who was transferred from NY to London at the same time has two sons - Freddie and Hugo. I think that pairing is even posher! Thoughts?

No. Not posh.

Most of those names are indeed better for the family pet than a child.

Quite normal names. I wouldn't think posh or otherwise.

If they’re American parents then they will have thought they are posh names for living in London.

Very normal (but slightly crap) names. Agree it's a cat and a ghost.

I thought upper east siders were all called things like Buckley and Royce...

Felix cat food and Caspar the friendly ghost. My dh vetoed both of those names!

I don't think they sound posh, pretentious maybe.

They are pretty awful names, poor kids!

I quite like Felix and Caspar. The whole 'that's posh', 'no, it's chavvy' thing is very childish and silly imo. There will be Felixes and Freddies who come from a range of classes and backgrounds.

The whole 'that's posh', 'no, it's chavvy' thing is very childish and silly imo.
I don't agree. I can think of a name that my first thoughts were 'How do you say that?' and 'What were they thinking?' I can't give the actual name but it was something like Jaci-Kai (Jaycie-Kay)

Well, I have a Felix and live in social housing (culturally MC but financially pretty much underclass 😆). We get incursions of posh tourists every summer, and I enjoy playing posh by shouting "Felix! Felix, dulling!" in refined tones at the top of my voice across the beach 😆.

My love for the name Casper has taken a blow since the ASBO neighbours gave it to one of their kids.

This. When talking about names there is a huge difference in what I think of as upper case Posh (private school, messy draughty country homes, probably titled ancestors at some point), which doesn't even necessarily translate to lots of disposable cash, and posh, a label applied to certain type of well to do middle class parent.

That said, I think some of those names are pretty classless, certainly where I live in London. Hugo I do associate with the middle class, it's aspirational rather than posh imo.

I seem to be in the minority but I love this sibset l, and have both on my list. I’d assume they were into names rather than a class indication. Middle class if anything