British girls' names (posh or not) that make you laugh

Araminta

Cressida

Georgiana

Philippa (aka Pippa)

Hermione

Christabel

Henrietta

Thomasina/Tamsin

Rosamund

Jecca isn’t really a British name, it’s a nickname.

Ew is Jecca really a thing? Horrible. So is Imogen.

Prunella

Fleur

Nerissa

Americans have such posh names. Kaleesha, Taleesha, Kaneesha, Rikeesha, Taneesha.

Jemima? Pronounced like as in Aunt Jemima??

Phyllida

Tamsen, Tamsin, Tamson

Beatrice

Freya

Allegra

Beryl

Catriona

Clementine

Iseult

Primrose

Thisbe

Hyacinth

Hortense -Harriet -Prunella -Cordelia -

Aminta (Pete Townsend’s daughter)

"Apple" Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter's name? No one in the UK has this name so it must be popular in the USA?

Sienna, Venetia.

I named my daughter Cinnamon. She became a pole dancer.

Persephone (Percy)

Verity

Polly

[quote]"Apple" Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter's name? No one in the UK has this name so it must be popular in the USA?

Isn't the father British?

Xanaxa

Aspirina

Lunesta

Lipitora

Celexina

Prozacina

I can see how Jemima would sound silly to an American , but what's wrong with Gemma?

Alexandrina

Princess Michael of Kent.

Dinglestella

Franoola

Cuntycrema

Stiflebitters

How do you pronounce Freya? with an "ay" sound or "eye" sound?

Awful either way.

Rumor has it that if Sparkle Markle's baby is a girl, it will be named Darkeen, due to her…exotic…ancestry.

R14 Plum Sykes is British so Plum must be popular in The UK?

Tallulah

Deirde

Tabitha

Bronwyn

R28 Woops. That's most Australian, I see.

I'm surprised anyone thinks Gemma is a strange name.

Cuntita is also very popular among the British aristocracy.

Philippa

Sybil

Phrynne

I love the name Jane, though. Love it.

Fenella. Portia.

Arabella.

Annabella.

Isabella.

Drusilla.

Arabella.

Avril.

Daisy.

Una.

Poppy. What an awful name, wouldn't even name my pet that.

Nappy.

Anything beginning with Tam

Any boys name that's been feminised is. Thomasina, Georgina, Phillipa.

R29 Bronwyn is a Welsh name.

Nigella.

Buckingham Palace has refused to confirm or deny that Megan is going to call the baby "Lashonda" if its a girl.

R37, a! Harriet!

I see the racist troll has arrived at r41

Anything ending in -ella, -ippa, -ada, or -ida sounds strange to me.

R43, meet r25.

[quote]Rumor has it that if Sparkle Markle's baby is a girl, it will be named Darkeen, due to her…exotic…ancestry.

Is that the rumor on Gab, or Breitbart? Please specify which of the sites you frequent is putting odds on that name.

Surprised no one has mentioned Camilla yet -- one of the more pretentious of the classical names the poshos give their children.

Gemma sounds incredibly grating to the ears of the non-Briton, like a name you'd give a goat.

R47 strange so few people have named their daughters Messalina.

[quote] Isabella

I thought it was a popular name in the US?

Euridice Collete Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone

Beryl isn’t posh and Bronwyn is Welsh. Lots of the names listed are very rarely used.

One of Emilia Clarke’s middle names (she has three of them) is Euphemia.

Clementine

Marigold

(Winston Churchill's wife and daughter. The daughter died at age 2 and a half.

Well, mine's come up and I knew it would. My mother has a lot to answer for.

Like a self-respecting sapphic of course I've refused to use it and have changed it several times (progressively more andro with every change). Now my name is like that of a Squire mentioned as a background character a 12th Century courtly poem.

Christobelle

Anunziatta

I actually adore a lot of these English names. Quirky and fun.

One of the actresses on "Mr. Selfridge" is named "Aisling." I don't even know how to pronounce that one.

Isn't Aisling an Irish name?

Saffron Plum India

^^Saffron is revolting. I went to school with a redhead Saffron.

The last girl who hit on me, just last week, is Tamar inth (@her UMC goopy Smother). However to spite Mom this chick goes by 'Tammy' on SM and with peers, and is a messy basic straight with two kids & no DH which makes it all somehow funnier.

Pippa

Jocasta

Fionnula

Enid

Cressida

Imogen

Maeve

Plum Sykes. I like to imagine being introduced to her, and laughing in her posh face. Just being a total jerk.

Some of these are Irish names

Are there really British girls called Morag?

Isabella and Enid are used in the States; I think of Bronwyn as a Canadian name. I knew an American Camilla who was rather posh (her family wrote the Nancy Drew series).

Regina. With a long “i.”

How is Cressida pronounced?

CRESS- ih- da or Cres- EE- da

For that matter, how is "Bonas" pronounced?

Daisy, Rose, Hyacinth, and Violet.

I loathe Katrina. It sounds like 'latrine'.

Morag is a Scottish name, r66, popular in the 1950s/60s and it's far from posh.

[quote]Buckingham Palace has refused to confirm or deny that Megan is going to call the baby "Lashonda" if its a girl.

I heard it was going to be called Darkeen if it was a girl.

Hyacinth Bucket

Bryony

Sophie

Queenie

My grandma's cousin was named Queenie.

- Jocasta? - Yes.

She believes chairs are as important to civilisation as a masterpiece or something. I wrote it down somewhere.

Aisling is Irish and pronounced Ash-ling.

The name Cressida reminds me of the episode of Pointless in which a contestant referred to Cressida Dick as Caressa Dick.

Girls names ending in the -a R44 is very aspirant or typically U or upper middle naming practice among the English.

Our Mavis. Auntie Vera. Thora, from round next door.

R59 Ashleen

Irene. Pronouned "Eye-Ree-Knee."

JFK and Jackie’s first child, who was stillborn, was named Arabella.

India

Emerald -- or Emer.

Two actresses I can think of with that name (one from Father Brown, one from Call the Midwife.)

Auntie Beryl is in the pudding club again!

Silly old English society women used to have names like Bubbles, Kanga and Bunty.

My great grandma's sister was named Alleyne - does anyone know how to pronounce this name?

Bunty was a name you'd see in the credits a lot on BBC tv shows of the 70s and 80s.

Bunty James is still alive at age 85!

Is Bunty a given name or a nickname?

You rang?

Kalishia Klegg

Almost 100 posts, and no one has mentioned my name?

Or me?

jkkkll

Behati prinsloo

Gemma sounds like a robot

R85 Not the same name. Emer is Irish. Emeralds may be green, but that’s where the resemblance ends.

Midge and Bettina

Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright

...And that photo has killed this thread stone dead...

Fuglicia

r88: Ah-leen

r104, thank you!

Seems like US and British popular girls names aren't all that different

2017 10 Most popular US girls names:

Emma

Olivia

Ava

Isabella

Sophia

Mia

Charlotte

Amelia

Evelyn

Abigail

2017 10 most popular girls names England and Wales

Olivia

Amelia

Isla

Ava

Emily

Isabella

Mia

Poppy

Ella

Lily

Isla is pronounce EYE-la, btw.

Yes R60 quite a number of these so called posh ‘British’ - which usually means English on these threads - names are Scots, Irish or Welsh. And not posh. Others are Norse - Freya-or Italian - Mia. But hey, it’s Americans, what do they know? Aisling is pronounced Ash - ling.

R108, a name can be popular in Britain without being "British"

[quote] Yes [R60] quite a number of these so called posh ‘British’ - which usually means English on these threads - names are Scots, Irish or Welsh. And not posh. Others are Norse - Freya-or Italian - Mia. But hey, it’s Americans, what do they know?

The title of the thread is “British girls’ posh names”. Not “British names for posh girls.” But hey, you’re a jackass, so what do you know?

Megan will go for restrained and classy, like her wedding dress. Alice seems likely.

Fugletta

Fugrezia

Fugobella

Fugatina

Unity.

Nancy.

Jessica.

Deborah.

Pamela.

Diana.

FERGIE

Interesting family R113

Pomona.

Nigelina

Gillian and Imogen

Cressida may actually mean, “shimmering rose petals cast upon a lily pad-strewn, posh, privately owned lake, as swans go gracefully gliding by,” for all I know, but what it sounds like is “stout, screeching fishwife wearing curlers and a kerchief, haggling down at the market, whose mum had aspirations for her daughter that were never fulfilled.”

Illustrated by R101 in her later years, even if she was a straggly-haired, beer swinging, lush figured youth.

Patella.

Myfanwy. A genuine Welsh name popularized by David Walliams on [italic]Little Britain.

Myfanwy Piper was an actual person. Look her up.

Boadicea

[quote]Cressida may actually mean, “shimmering rose petals cast upon a lily pad-strewn, posh, privately owned lake, as swans go gracefully gliding by,” for all I know, but what it sounds like is “stout, screeching fishwife wearing curlers and a kerchief, haggling down at the market, whose mum had aspirations for her daughter that were never fulfilled.”

For some of us, it just means "Toyota."

Oh well R110, if the names do not actually have to be British, just names that are GIVEN to girls in Britain, I find Ling Na, Savitaya and Okenafo hilariously posh, lovely gels donchaknow.

Uh, except those names aren't posh

Can't believe the name Poppy is actually on the most famous list. This name is so ridiculous. Are there any girls with the name Poppy in the US or is this strictly a British thing?

r127 I'm in California; I knew three sisters named Laurel, Heather and Poppy.

Poppy Montgomery is an actress, but she's an Aussie.

Laurel and poppies grow in California.

Eschscholzia californica is the “California poppy.”

Umbellularia californica is the laurel tree native to the California coast.

The golden poppy is the California state flower.

The golden poopy is the California state fetish.

They are far more posh than some of the names posted here R126 - Morag ffs? The last one denotes the daughter of a Dinka tribal chief. Living in Britain of course.

First Daughter Jenna Bush named her second daughter, Poppy, after her late grandfather, President Bush. Many people often use Poppy for grandfathers.

Penelope

Titty

Camilla

I went to a British highschool, AMA.

From memory and for your anthropological interest, the wealthiest and most upper-crust girls in my class were named: Philippa/'Pippa', Jetta, Carlotta, Emmeline, Rosaline/'Rosa', Josephine, Alexandra/'Alex', Catriona, Flora, Ursula, Henriette/'Henny' & Erica Jane/'E.J.'.

Some lower-echelon but-still-UMC types my age were: Matilda, Isabelle/'Bella', Gabrielle/'Ella', Olivia, Joanne, Camilla, Sophia, Tessa, Heather, Cara, Nina, Chloe, Georgia, Lily, Amelia, Anna, Imogen, Sadie, Yvette, Harriet/'Hattie' or 'Etta', Connie, Zoe, Christina, Nora, May, Briony, Grace & Meredith.

My school's lower middle-class students included girls named Amber, Danielle/'Dani', Bethany, Laura & Lauren, Aisling, Jess, Lucy, Charlotte/'Charlie', Kate/-ie, Michelle, Kirsty, Louise, Gemma, Hannah, Kim, Megan, Lara, Stephanie, Rebecca/'Bex', Polly, Elisabeth/'Liz', Ashley, Jenny & Sarah.