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

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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?

I think if you really want posh,stay simple and classy.

Elizabeth
Catherine
Anna
Jane

Edward
Henry
Sebastian
Lawrence

Oh and Jonathan. Public schools are awash with rugby playing Johnnies.

some "posh"names have been down classed by the type of people using them, that makes me sound like a terrible snob, which i'm not.
I like solid names
like James
Thomas
Matthew
Jacob
Laura
Sophie
Rebecca
Lucy

ultra of the moment names may not be appreciated as your child grows up.

Have to agree with myredcardigan@s choices.

With the addition of Rupert and Henrietta
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felicity
arabella

Giles

Alexandra
William
Henry
Elizabeth

also

have a look at a Jilly Cooper novel

Martha is lovely for a girl

Alice,Isobel.
Bertie,henry Edward

Have a look at the Birth announcements in the Times!

that said, if you arent posh and use a really posh name (like pergrine, or portia or something), people will just think you are trying to be posh, and then they'll just take the piss out of DC. sorry, its a fine line....

and sorry, mrswoolf.. Iphigenia is that really a name? sounds like a computer programme!

Lol at Alice and Isobel being posh as I have both! And I am really, really not posh!

Posh boys' names that I love:
Sebastian
Laurence
Barnaby
Algernon - would never be brave enough to use it though
Hector
Peregrine - again, wouldn't use it
Monty
Maximillian

Posh girls' names that aren't too hideous -
Portia
Ophelia
Bernadette

bernadette is not posh... surely not.. always makes me think of dinner ladies.

My 2 DC's are on the posh lists .

DS2 is going to be Felix.

Okay - I take back Bernadette. I do not know many posh girls - or dinner ladies!

Alexandra
Lara
Imogen
Joanna

Paul
Louis
Samuel
Benedict

Boys:

Alexander
Oliver
Sebastian
Rupert
Benedict
Toby/Tobias
Xavier
Julian

Girls:

Sophie/Sophia
Georgia
Melissa
Belinda
Clara
Lucy
Jennifer
Harriet

Annabel

Constance.
Sebastian.

Elizabeth
Arabella
Camilla
Antonia

Sebastian
Quentin
Edward
Henry/Harry

Hercules
Hugo
Barnaby
Felix
Willoughby
Montgomery (Monty)
Felix
Rupert
Sebastian
Hector
William (Will)

Annabel
Clementine
Jemima
Grania

Venetia and Maximilian

Paul Kalo?

Cressida
Annabel (my fave for a girl if I ever have one)
Francesca
Penelope
Sophie
Helena

Nicholas
Tristian
Sebastian
Edward
George
......and royal names really.........

And oi, who said Harry isn't posh. I'm a f*cking lady I am