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Suggest some names which are elegant and refined sounding but not pretentious

85 replies

09Tractor · 17/04/2009 18:58

I want the poshest name I can get away with . OK don't all murder me at once for having asked. I'd be so embarrassed saying that out loud in real life.

I'm called one of these 3 names Sharon/Dawn/Tracey (don't want to narrow down my identity too much). I've always hated revealing my name.

Your thoughts please?

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JentlyDoesIt · 17/04/2009 19:11

Girls:-
Elizabeth
Lucy
Grace
Mille (Amelia)
Francesca
Hermione

Boys:
Jacob
William
Henry / Harry
Alfie
Noah
George

Just a few and only my opinion... DD's is on here, DS's isn't as it is more unusual

HTH

tallygran · 17/04/2009 19:11

Farquhar - boy
Araminta - girl

JentlyDoesIt · 17/04/2009 19:11

Millie not Mille...

tallygran · 17/04/2009 19:12

Alfie and Grace are posh?

Babbity · 17/04/2009 19:18

Anna
Susanna

George
Nicholas

greenelephant · 17/04/2009 19:21

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randomname · 17/04/2009 20:16

Tabitha, Eliza, Camille, Jemima, Cordelia, Ophelia, Ottille, think Shakespeare!

tallygran · 18/04/2009 06:38

Some of these are really not posh I must say: Susanna, George, Victoria, Vanessa, Eliza.
Some are just too popular to be exclusively posh

DuffyFluckling · 18/04/2009 06:59

Wilfred
Clementine

ickletickle · 18/04/2009 08:38

name them after one of the royal family.

nb these names are not posh: alfie, harry

Pineapples · 18/04/2009 10:07

Girls:

Amelia
Catherine
Quinn
Victoria
Spencer
Elizabeth

Boys:

Charles
Jacoby
Marcus
Andrew
Owen

PuppyMonkey · 18/04/2009 10:10

I always think Allegra is very posh for a girl.
And Sebastian for a boy.

MrsMattie · 18/04/2009 10:15

Girls:

Celia/Cecilia
Aurelia
Arabella
Celeste
Camilla/Camille
Seraphine
Cordelia
Georgiana
Penelope (love this!)
Henrietta (I know a little Henny)

I always think French names sound classy, but I'm a bit of a Francophile.

I also think simple, classic names like Maria or Anna sound classiest, to be honest.

Boys - haven't a clue! I can't stand posh boy's names. Apart from Sebastian? Is that posh? I quite like that.

fizzpops · 18/04/2009 10:23

Harry is one of the Royal Family

So is he not posh then?

Leannabanana · 18/04/2009 10:28

has to be elizabeth - or how about Eugenie? i always think that sounds very posh...

Hugh or Hugo for a boy

LizzyIzzyLou · 18/04/2009 10:34

Harry is his nn. His official name is Henry

changename1 · 18/04/2009 10:35

gabriella
phillipa
phoebe
lucinda
sophia
madeleine
ophelia

tristan
edwin
charles
frede rick
louis

MrsMattie · 18/04/2009 10:35

Eugenie does sound posh, doesn't it?

I wouldn't say Harry was posh at all. Henry, yes, but Harry, no.

LizzyIzzyLou · 18/04/2009 10:36

Is Jacob posh? We are considering this but not if its deemed 'posh'

LizzyIzzyLou · 18/04/2009 10:37

Edmund v. posh

Simplysally · 18/04/2009 10:52

Sophia
Gabriella
Lucia

pranma · 18/04/2009 11:07

Henrietta
Caroline
Millicent
Louisa
Annabel

Sebastian
Guy
Hugh
Benedict

fizzpops · 18/04/2009 14:10

Still think Harry is posh

Alfie not though!

monkeycat · 18/04/2009 15:04

Hugo
Edmund
Ptolemy
Dominic

Araminta (Minty)
Portia
Camilla

Get a copy of Hello!
You'll find the classics in there .

bamboostalks · 18/04/2009 15:08

Alice is nice, not overtly posh but always smart.

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