Names that were posh but aren't now...

[MadameCh0let]

THe jolly hockey sticks Cordelia got me thinking......

I knew, growing up, a very posh Annabel, Amelia and Beatrice.

All names that could be used by anybody these days. Imogen is another one that was ouch posh when I was about 12.

So what is posh now? Clemency? Tuppence?

[MrsDanvers]

Wasn't Chloe posh until it appeared as the no. 1 name for about 10 years running? Also, Rose was a bit posh for a while but is now dead common.

[cyteen]

Aren't proper posh types e.g. those with buckets of cash often called things like Miffy and Titty and other things that would get someone with less social backing beaten to death in an alley?

My favourite nouveau posh name remains Paloma Boudicca...yep, there's a little P.B. running around Blackheath somewhere Another cracker I came across was Fedora - not just a type of hat!

[alibubbles]

I know a Jaspar, Hugo , Freddie and Justin all quite 'posh'

[Lumley]

We have met a rather posh Persephone, but when the children were reading each others name tags she was called Percy phone.

[AnnVan]

If our baby's a boy we're calling him Sebastian. I always thought Olivia is a posh sounding name. (Maybe that's cos I went to school with an Olivia, and she was ultra-snooty)

[Mucha]

Constance - I always (bizarrely) loved that name as a child and have only ever met one person with it.

Never quite understood why someone would inflict Candida onto their child. May as well just stick a sign on her back saying 'yes I have the same name as that stuff that causes an itchy fanjo.'

[talkingmongoose]

Georgia was once pretty posh, about 15 years ago perhaps, now very chavvy.

[suey2]

india

[TheodoresMummy]

There was a Marmaduke at DS's nursery last year.

Fab name !!

[ladywombling]

Rupert is v posh

[TillyBookClub]

love this thread - jumped on it looking for inspiration for ds2 (due in 5 weeks and still no clue what to call him)

re: loveday, my husband knew a girl at school called Eleonor Loveday Cumming. that's top posh.

My first is called Jack - is that both posh and not-posh? I guess its so common it can't be defined as either.

I am Matilda and I'm staggered how popular it is now. You never used to find it anywhere (no door plates or mugs or Tshirts or anything with it on - used to make me really cross when I was 8). Wonder who decides these things?

[hifi]

quinta, v posh.

[castille]

Is there a line to be drawn between posh and pretentious? Or are they the same thing?

[theowlwhowasafraidofthedark]

is barney posh?

[Anchovy]

Jasper, I think, used to be posh, inasmuch as 30-40 year old Jaspers are probably quite posh but 5-6 year old ones aren't.

DH knows someone called Gideon. I think that is a cracking posh name.

We once had an Ocado delivery man called Godwin, but Dh reckons it was just his "stage name" - probably called Terry in real life.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

expat mentions above that Regan (Shakespearian name) is posh. I was nearly called that when I was born, however it was not due to Shakespeare connection or poshness, but after the girl in the Exorcist

Yes, I come from an odd family

[barnstaple]

St John, Jolyon, Damian for boys

And Anastasia, Camilla, Theodora girls

I think they're still all posh.

[KateF]

My Isabella is 8 - am I excused . When I chose it I was told it was "posh" and "pretentious", apparently it is now "common". You just can't win! Are Susannah and Philippa still "posh"?

[HereWeGoRoundTheMulberryBag]

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[Pen74]

I've noticed that about Toby too. I bet none of 'them' are formally Tobias.

Matilda (especially Tilly) has gone a bit that way, as has Isla, Theo, Leo..

All still nice names though.

[ArrietyClock]

You want posh? Was reading the hatch, match and dispatch in the paper today (no idea why) and came across a birth announcement for a Ptolemy who was joining a family that already had a Octavius and an Atticus. If it were me, I'd have skipped Ptolemy and moved directly to Asterix or Obelix. You have to admire them both for imagination though!

[Tinker]

Is Loveday male or female???

[matildax]

constance and marjorie, are very posh, i knew two old ladies called these names when i was little, and they were very upper class, but really rather nice.
im not keen on either name, but constance shortened to connie is pretty cute. imo