Sounds too posh?

[Divejaney]

We're having a little boy and have narrowed it down to

Gabriel
Dante
Morgan
Reuben

We like unusual names rather than traditional names. The problem is that we already have a double-barrelled surname. Do you think our poor baby is going to sound too posh?

Gabriel is the nicest. But with a d-b surname it will sound posh, but realistically so would anything except "John"

Gabriel and Reuben are both very nice. Bit hard to judge how OTT the combo with your surname will sound without knowing the surname...

i like
Morgan
Reuben

LOL jkklpu - I wanted my daughter to have a totally girly first name as her hyphenated surname sounds dreadfully lawfirmish

I like Reuben, and all the people I know who have called their son Reuben have been hippyish At least 4 friends who used to he hunt sabs with us have since called sons Reuben.

I LOVE Dante, didn't go with my other DC's names though or ds2 would be Dante.

Reuben is really nice too, the little boy next to my DD in SCBU was called Reuben.

Definitely Gabriel. Why worry if he sounds posh?

gabriel and reuben - lovely
Dante makes me think of the asbo boy from waterloo road.
Morgan - too many short skirted blonde girls called this.

I like gabriel which is loevely and i think gabe is still lovely.Reuben is nice too
the others are not posh at all. Morgan def not.
So no worries on the posh front. take your pick

Also hyphenated surnames are not posh anymore. Haven't been for a couple of decades.

I really wanted a Reuben, but I kept having daughters. I then got a black labrador and called him Reuben instead.

I then had a son

gglimpopo - have you called your son Rover? (sorry)

I like Gabriel and Reuben best of that list. I nearly called mine Gabriel but didn't in the end because it's hard to say with my surname. I don't think double-barrelled names sound that posh any more because so many people combine their names when they marry now.

I have to admit - the double barrelled surname is self-inflicted as I didn't want to lose my surname when I got married because I like it to much and DH liked the idea of making a new name together.

I have to admit - the double barrelled surname is self-inflicted as I didn't want to lose my surname when I got married because I like it to much and DH liked the idea of making a new name together.

Well being extremely posh myself (wink) I have a Gabriel, it's a lovely name imo.

I think Reuben's best, Gabriel's fine, Morgan's mostly used for girls these days but if you can cope, why not? Dante sounds very chavvy, sorry.

nothing wrong with choosing to be D-B - it just isn't posh. And you didn't want posh so that is good, isn't it ? .

in my youth i remeber telling a woman at my office that i would not be adding Dh ( to be's) name to mine as it was so pretentious and wanky and it was becoming really common. So had the double whammy of being psuudo snobby and really cheap all at the same time.
You can guess where i am going with this story can't you ...
" oh I see" said Nancy xxx-xxx

Didn't get much of a pay rise that ywear which taught me not to be gobby, judgemental and forgetful all in one go.
She was a really classy woman too so I could not have been more inappropriate if i had tried.
I put it down to my extreme youth at the time.

i always liked reuben, but dh not

Gabriel is lovely!
Definitely go with Morgan or Dante though if you do not want people to think you're posh!

Gabriel

I don't like any of them. Sorry. But then I like traditional names.

I would avoid Morgan and Reuben as could sound like 3 surnames.

Gabriel my fave.

Gabriel

gay..briel think about school

Dante

sounds poncey and limp

Morgan

sounds like a cuty bank

Reuben
ruby ruby ruby ruby...da da da da da daaaa da

dont sound posh particularly just poncey.

city - not cuty

I have a Gabriel. I am very not posh!

TH

No posh names on here. Although I do like Dante (would that be after THE Dante?)