Posh names for girls

Girl Names
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What comes to your mind?

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Clarissa
[name_f]Rosamund[/name_f]
[name_f]Felicity[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavinia[/name_f]

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Aurora
[name_f]Estella[/name_f]
[name_f]Felicity[/name_f]
[name_f]Giovanna[/name_f]
[name_f]Karina[/name_f]
[name_f]Stephanie[/name_f]
[name_f]Arianna[/name_f]
[name_f]Beth[/name_f]

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Portia & [name_f]Apollonia[/name_f]

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Araminta
[name_f]Cressida[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosamund[/name_f]
[name_f]Arabella[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Pandora[/name_f]
[name_f]Eleonora[/name_f]
[name_f]Isabeau[/name_f]
[name_f]Thomasin[/name_f]
[name_f]Fenella[/name_f]
[name_f]Eugenie[/name_f]
[name_f]Candida[/name_f] (genuinely used in the UK, albeit rarely)
[name_f]Ottilie[/name_f]
[name_f]Celestine[/name_f]
[name_f]Mirabelle[/name_f]
[name_f]Tabitha[/name_f]

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Seraphina comes to mind.

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To me the poshest names would be eccentric-sounding ancient Greek/Roman names. The kind of names you probably wouldn’t know how to pronounce unless you read Classics at [name_m]Oxford[/name_m]. :sweat_smile: E.g. [name_f]Ianthe[/name_f], Oenone, [name_f]Lalage[/name_f].

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Genevieve
[name_f]Stephanie[/name_f]
[name_f]Josephine[/name_f]
[name_f]Apollonia[/name_f]
[name_f]Catherine[/name_f]
[name_f]Jacqueline[/name_f]
[name_f]Henriette[/name_f]
[name_f]Frederica[/name_f]
[name_f]Isabella[/name_f]
[name_f]Seraphina[/name_f]
[name_f]Victoria[/name_f]
[name_f]Juliana[/name_f]
[name_f]Antoinette[/name_f]
[name_f]Caroline[/name_f]
[name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f]
[name_u]Florentine[/name_u]
[name_f]Eleanora[/name_f]
[name_f]Augustina[/name_f]

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Cordelia
[name_f]Eugenie[/name_f]
[name_f]Helena[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavinia[/name_f]
[name_u]Simone[/name_u]

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Harriet
[name_f]Henrietta[/name_f]
[name_f]Cassandra[/name_f]
[name_u]Antonia[/name_u]
[name_f]Lydia[/name_f]
[name_f]Genevieve[/name_f]
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f]
[name_f]Octavia[/name_f]
[name_f]Philippa[/name_f]
[name_f]Sara[/name_f]
[name_f]Victoria[/name_f]

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Vivienne
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f]
[name_f]Ruth[/name_f]
[name_f]Audrey[/name_f]
[name_f]Daphne[/name_f]
[name_f]Caroline[/name_f]

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I love most of this list :heart_eyes: except [name_f]Candida[/name_f], sounds like someone naming their child after a yeast infection!

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This thread looks like the longlist for baby four and I promise we aren’t posh :rofl:

I think for me posh names are ones that appear in The Telegraph birth announcements, which get blogged every [name_f]Sunday[/name_f] on the britishbabynames blog.

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I know! I definitely couldn’t even contemplate using that one myself, but it’s long been in use in [name_m]Britain[/name_m], generally in “upper crusty” circles. For example, the poet [name_m]John[/name_m] Betjeman had a daughter named [name_f]Candida[/name_f].

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Felicity
[name_f]Anastasia[/name_f]
[name_f]Antoinette[/name_f]
[name_f]Davina[/name_f]
[name_f]Camilla[/name_f]
[name_f]Claudette[/name_f]
[name_f]Gwendoline[/name_f]
[name_f]Kathlyn[/name_f]
[name_f]Katherine[/name_f]
[name_f]Penelope[/name_f]
Euginie

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Long names ending in -a or -ine generally sound posh.

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Amaryllis
[name_f]Anastasia[/name_f]
[name_f]Catherine[/name_f]
[name_f]Diana[/name_f]
[name_f]Francesca[/name_f]
[name_f]Gardenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Julienne[/name_f]
Maridonna
[name_f]Penelope[/name_f]
[name_f]Tatiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Vivienne[/name_f]
[name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f]

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Alexandra
[name_f]Seraphina[/name_f]
[name_f]Clarissa[/name_f]
[name_f]Mamie[/name_f]
[name_f]Mary[/name_f]
[name_u]Louise[/name_u]
[name_f]Martha[/name_f]
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f]
[name_f]Annabelle[/name_f]
[name_f]Clementine[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgina[/name_f]
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]
[name_f]Euphemia[/name_f]

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Penelope
[name_f]Millicent[/name_f]
[name_f]Amelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Annabella[/name_f]