Is Araminta too posh?

[carlottawales]

Sorry to those to those who don't like the posh/chav threads, but I really need to know honestly.
Araminta has been tentatively on my list for a while now, surely in this day and age it is safe for non upper class people to use?
would appreciate your thoughts.

Sorry didn't even know it was a name - posh or otherwise. I have heard of Amarantha, the Greek name though.

Never heard of it. I think it's quite pretty.

Yes. Far too pompous, imho.

I love it and Minty for short.

I wouldn't it is the still the name that people chose when they neeed a ridculously posh girl's name for an anecdote.

I don't like it much, prefer Arabella which is also quite posh IMO.

Minty (bleurgh)

Sorry,I bet there are lots of lovely Mintys around

No, it's too silly

Eurghh, really Sober?
Thats ruined it for me now.

Arabella is lovely too.

It's too posh, and Minty is just Yuck. I think of a posh girl with no brains prancing around on her pony.

It was the name of the awful heroine of BBC children's tv series The Moondial.

No sorry, the head of Jimmy Choo, Tamara Mellon's daughter is called Araminta and there are numerous interviews where precious 5yo Minty has already got a designer wardrobe, her own high heels, yapping dog, etc.

I agree you should be able to use any name you like regardless of social class. However I think you will lay yourself open to people taking the piss all the time.

Minty Mellons

Oh god that is a porn name or what! Worse almost than Piloh Shitt!

I like it - never heard of one in real life. when i was younger I loved the Moondial with the character Minty and made a mental note of the name for future DD.

I like it, not 'Minty' though.

Ariella very sweet, i met one at my sil wedding last year. They were posh

Meggle!

Am campaigning for Dorothy atm, Dulcie and Dolly a close lead

Sorry for hijack.

Not too posh, just not nice. Sorry.

How about Amalthea?

i think it depends hvw posh you are.

do you shop at lidl or waitrose [or do you grow your own produce on your estate]?
do you eat cucumber sandwiches regularly?
is she likely to be presented to the Queen, or is she mvre likely to be in Fueteventura on her 18th birthday?

I think I quite like it in a novelty posh kind of way

LG&T

Fab of course you have marvellous taste- you did know dd was very almost one of your names but we call her Queenie now.

Next dd (if we ever) will be Dot or Hetty and I won't be asking what people think of it on here

Don't forget to add Isadora in there somewhere too.

Isadora is still there...

One of the chickens is Hetty, along with Penny, Pru, Maggie and Gerty.

I need a Dot. DH is whinging about it. He goes off to sea for 8 months when she is born so will wait till he has gone before registering her and blaming very hormonal self

Love Queenie

No i am not asking either

Bit like owning up to having a Fresco Bloom highchair worth £240...

It's a lovely name, but yes, it is reasonably posh.

Nice name but it tries far too hard. You would have to send her to private school