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08th Feb 2021

20 seriously posh baby names for when one is expecting

Are you upper class enough for these?

Trine Jensen-Burke

royal baby boy names

Oh, the baby name minefield.

Do you opt for an aul’ classic or go full hipster with a name no-one so unique no-one has thought of it before? Short and sweet or complex and creative? The options are pretty much endless.

But if you fancy yourself a little posher than the rest of us, how about one of these rather plummy names that the readers of Mumsnet claim are the poshest ones they’ve ever encountered:

1. Horace
2. Hector
3. Millicent
4. Django
5. Merlin
6. Tristan
7. Inigo
8. Tybalt
9. Cosmo
10. Merville
11. Algernon
12. Araminta
13. Jago
14. Lucious
15. Mungo
16. Crispin
17. Cuthbert
18. Octavia
19. Tuppence
20. Otterly