What are some rich or snobby sounding names, in your opinion?

Anything with a suffix such as Henry Cook III or James Duncan, Esquire.

Dominic? ~

Dane David Fahnestock.

Sebastian, Graham, Bryce, etc.

@bob_ No way, man. :D

@Jabe73

It’s interesting because I was looking on Google and a lot of people say “Sebastian”. I’ve never thought of Sebastian that way, but then again, I’ve only ever known one person with that name. All I think of is Sebastian the Crab. I don’t see it as snobby.

How about “Royce”? I know a kid with that name. Also my brother’s name is “Carter”. That’s kinda snooty. :P

Maxwell

Olivier Von Stucke Plushbotham VI OBE, XYZ, PDQ

I know rich people with names like Benedict, Sebastien, Hermoine and Tarquin

@DominicX Well if you want to get “technical” here how about “Richie Rich”. It was a cartoon about a little rich kid when I was younger.

Chance
Madeline
Grace….

All the rich, snobby kids I knew had common names such as Amy, Nicole, Joel and Eric. blah, blah, blah

The names that are really last names turned into first names. Like Braxton, Preston, Stanton, Winston, Ashton, Rutherford, Piper. Uh oh.

:)

@Piper

Yeah, the ”-ton” names in general can be a little snooty.

Apparently “Courtland” is a real guy’s name. Dear God.

Asher Kenneth Worthington
Daphne Remington
Ainsley Sloane Earhardt
Atticus Theodore DeKoven
Carlisle A. Kingston

Clayborne and Claybrooke (the first names of a classmate’s parents)

I went to school with a kid called James Bradford Tefft. He was a sweet (if rather socially awkward) boy but I always thought his name was awfully snobby-sounding.

Lionel

When I was a kid I used to regularly pass a sign for some little tiny English villages called “The Torringtons” and “The Barkwiths”. I used to imagine that they were two aristocratic families, and come up with fanciful stories about them.

I’ve always thought that Julian is a pretty snobby sounding name.

Eggberth Arrindel, Jr.
That was the actual name of a third grader in a class I taught one year. He could barely fit it across the top of the page :)

Ponsonby Britt
A fictional (presumed to be actual) name associated with the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.

Anyone with a first and last name which could be substituted one for the other. Generally used by rich WASPS. Veddy upper crust.

willam bottom-tooth the third http://home.comcast.net/~ron.killgore/images/bottomtooth.jpg

My own is rather pretentious, two family names and a “von” thrown in for good measure.

David.

Quentin, Tristran, Tabatha, Giles, Nigel, Everard, Cornelius.

Brockington!

Winchester.. makes me think of that show MASH

Charles (toss on the “III”), Alister

Carter Harrington
Buffy Hollingsworth
Candy McCormick
Warren Buffet
Bill Gates

Thornington

I come from the time of the preppy look so I associate names like Muffy, Brad and Chad with snobby people. Buffy used to be included in that list, but now Buffy is, well, BTVS.

St. John (pronounced “Sinjin”) Tifton Boswell
Arabella Walsingham
Tim Brooke-Taylor (an actual human being, he’s the blond guy in this photo)

Brooks.

@April

Oh yeah. “sinjin” is THE ULTIMATE for snob appeal.

The first time I heard that in a movie I had no idea it was St. John. At some point I must have read the cast of characters in this movie or another.

Imagine naming one’s child after a Saint but INCLUDING the TITLE of Saint as part of the name itself ! When did the child get canonized ?

Who first started that weirdness and how did they get away with it ?

Are there kids running around named St. Paul or St. Mark as well ?

How about St. Athanasius.

Too funny.

I went to school with some snobs:
guys- Lance, Brock, Dominic, Sebastian, Ashley, Preston, Theodore, Frederick
girls- Ainsley, Francesca, Amanda, Jessica, Tulip, Felicity, Tansy, Brita, Chelsea, Tori

Ignatious!

@Buttonstc – I was already aware that it was a given name for some boys across the pond, but when I saw the character “St. John Powell” on Mad Men, I laughed out loud. Then I thought, ”Mistah Sheffield!”. Charles Shaughnessy is, of course, an actual British hereditary peer. Of course he is, right?

@DominicX – The British peerage, I’ll bet they have some interesting posh names. Charles Shaughnessy isn’t too interesting in that regard, but Christopher Haden-Guest (you know, Nigel Tufnel) is properly aristocratic-sounding, which is as it should be, since he’s a baron. Almost any book by P.G. Wodehouse will have a slew of such names, along with the goofy nicknames that the characters have given each other at school, like “Guppy”. If all else fails, a surname as a given name and a hyphenated surname can usually be depended upon to sound posh.

Like @aprilsimnel said —Lastname firstnames with more than two other names following, hyphenated or not.
Bryce Gordon Helmsley-Williams
Peter Death Bredon Wimsey
middle names always family last names

also first names
Albert, Diana, George, Elizabeth,Charles, Eleanor, Anne

Barron Von Wellhung

Ophelia Buttocks
Rupert Ponsenby-Smythe

Maximillion Pegasus.

@absalom That sounds like a porn star.

So white folks’ names?

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Rich white folks. Preferably British.

In the English language, British names seem to be the most “snobby” sounding, from what I’ve noticed based on people’s lists on other websites and this one. British surnames turned into first names are at the top of the list. Old-fashioned ones moreso. Interesting. I’ll tell you all what I choose for the story when I finalize it. :)

Clayton, Wentworth, Troy, Bartholomew, Trent, Douglas,

@MacBean Hmm, Sherlock.

Frances Fairchild Fordyce.

I think Sebastian, only because it was the name of the main character from Cruel Intentions & that guy (Sebastian Valmont) was both a complete snob & rich.

So I decided on the names for the story. :)

Boy: Fenton Winthrop Gainesbury

Girl: Blythe Harper Gainesbury

This has been fun. :D

Very nice. Thumbs up !

Oh…but of course… I almost forgot….

(Darling) Helena Peregrine Rhadamanthus.

But then you would have to write it as non-fiction.

:)