Arabella

[kayzr]

I watched a program last night and someone on it was called Arabella.

I'm not pg but I do quite like the name and I might store it for future use but is it really posh and pretentious?

Perhaps if you are posh, Arabella is fine. But if your not at all posh, I think it could be considered pretentious.

Do you HAVE to belong to a 'class'?

I'm German for example, am fairly well educated, live in London and have a job in marketing I enjoy. I don't want to be part of ANY 'class', I just want to be myself. But I still love the name Arabella, for example?

Will I hinder my daughter by giving her a 'posh' name?

tammytoby - you won't hinder your daughter with a name like Arabella, it's beautiful.

DS2 would have been Arabella Florence had he been a girl. I personally think it's better to 'err' on the side of posh (if you like the more classic names) rather than worry too much about seeming pretentious. If you like a name and it suits your daughter then there's no point trying to pretend otherwise!

But then we called said DS2 Hugo so perhaps I am just shameless about the use of 'posh' names!

theroseofwait, I seem to have 'posh' taste in names too . Hugo is lovely too!

I really do not understand the class issue and don't feel part of it, but I still seem to names that are often referred to as 'posh' - to me they just sound so lovely and classic .

sorry, the word 'love' got lost in my post: I still seem to love names that often referred to as 'posh'.

We are not posh at all tho I do think Arabella is a posh name. Posh meaning "the best" ! I suppose we are what you might call aspirational parents (DH more so than me who believes both DCs will become doctors or lawyers, hmmm.....)
I never wanted a common/popular name for my daughter and, touch wood, there are no other Arabellas locally just tonnes or Rubies and Amelias....

I think it's beautiful. I had a friend called Arabella - it often got shortened to Elly, Ella or Ruby (an unfortunate play on Rubella...)