[name]Claudia[/name] Schiffer’s choice of [name]Cosima[/name] got me thinking after I read the description on here:
The kind of exotic name the British upper classes love to use for their daughters…
What are other examples of this in your opinion? There is a British Girl Name list on here with good suggestions, but surely there are additional great ones, like [name]Cosima[/name], that are not included. Any ideas?
I love things like [name]Clementine[/name], [name]Poppy[/name], [name]Pippa[/name], and [name]Plum[/name], but those all seem generic now! [name]Do[/name] you think?? Needing other options… Thanks!
[name]Talullah[/name]. this screams british upper class. also, [name]Imogen[/name]. I think you really see the quirkiness in the full combo, like [name]Poppy[/name] [name]Honey[/name] [name]Eleanor[/name] or [name]Beatrice[/name] [name]Blossom[/name] [name]Mary[/name]. I love how they’re usually more traditional with boys’ names and wilder with the girls, like announcements will read:
a new daughter, [name]Tallulah[/name] [name]Trixie[/name] [name]Alice[/name], sister to [name]Henry[/name], [name]William[/name], and [name]Jasper[/name].
[name]Arabella[/name] feels so aristocratic, posh, and very British upper class. At least in my opinion… but I’m biased since that is what we are naming our baby girl due in Oct.
I am British and I can assure you that many of this names listed like [name]Cosima[/name], [name]Plum[/name], Darling and [name]Octavia[/name] are not that popular. I don’t know many girls with these names - it would be quite embarassing to have a name like this. However I agree that [name]Verity[/name], [name]Susannah[/name], [name]Diana[/name], [name]Alexandra[/name], [name]Pippa[/name], [name]Alice[/name], [name]Clara[/name], [name]Eliza[/name], [name]Imogen[/name] and even [name]Emilia[/name] are very British names!
I’m also British and the post didn’t ask for “Popular” British names, it asked for Upper crusty British names so I treid to give names with that feeling about them, and some of the ones you noted such as Darling, I got from actual birth announcements! Haha. I would assume most people would use the more abstract names in the middle slot.
[name]Lydia[/name] - definitely has an air of class about it!
[name]Evangeline[/name] I don’t know if it sounds particularly British or jaunty to me but it sounds upper class
[name]Georgiana[/name] (like [name]Georgiana[/name] [name]Darcy[/name]) - definitely would put this in the same upper crust class as [name]Georgina[/name]!
You say that you think you like the names because of your interests? [name]Just[/name] curious what you mean by that? Lol
Haha… just because I name is vintage/old fashioned/unheard of in N. [name]America[/name]/foreign, that doesn’t automatically make it British ‘upper crust’
I was going to list all the names where I thought “What the hell? That’s not ‘upper crust’!” but that turned out to be almost every name already mentioned, so here are the ones I agree with:
Most of the others are/have been used for girls across the board. [name]Sophie[/name], [name]Charlotte[/name], [name]Daisy[/name], [name]Amelia[/name], [name]Imogen[/name], [name]Lydia[/name] et al really wouldn’t be out of place on even the most chaviest of playgrounds.
If I was to add a few of my own: [name]Daphne[/name], [name]Miranda[/name], [name]Lettice[/name], [name]Amabel[/name], [name]Lucinda[/name], [name]Millicent[/name]
Some of these really are funny though. [name]Lenore[/name]? No [name]Brit[/name], regardless of socio-economic status, is going to name their daughter after a fabric softener. And imo, [name]Danielle[/name], [name]Portia[/name] and [name]Alexis[/name] are bordering on chav!
I would second [name]Lettice[/name]. However, I think that the ‘upper class’ name pool has definitely widened - there are few names (in my opinion) where one can definitively say, “Oh, she’s upper crust” (although I’m thinking that ‘upper crust’ itself might be an Americanism? Maybe not, I just don’t personally say it myself…)
