Which of Oscar, George, Henry, Max or Leo sounds poshest?

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Which in your opinion is the poshest name? Oscar, George, Henry, Max, or Leo?

My ranking would be

poshest: George, Henry, Max, Leo, Oscar: least posh

Oscar and Leo are not posh imho. If Max was Maximilian that would change things.

All of those in DS classes. Absolutely none of them posh, so I wouldn't consider those posh names.

None 'posh' but agree, Henry poshest if you must

They're all quite mainstream but I'd say Leo is probably the least posh- many of the Leos I know round here fall into the "social services involvement" category. Max is also quite often a poorer background sort of name.

Henry and Oscar are possibly more likely to be middle class, whereas there are so many Georges from all backgrounds that I couldn't categorise it.

Overall the are all commonly used enough that they wouldn't mark a child out as posh or not posh.

Sure you are

None are posh. They are all regular, popular and old.

Posh .. Marmaduke, Peregrine, Doveton, Gerald,.

I’m curious what you mean by this? There were both top 20 names in 2025 so very popular I would say.

Oscar and Henry

I find this interesting - there was a book I read when I still read books (Freakanomics I think but don't quote me) about how names carry less status as time goes on as people try and name their children the social class above them. Think this is true of Oscar for sure.

The most popular names of Dukes / Viscounts are Charles, Edward and James. A few Henrys, Williams and Georges in there too. So the classic Anglo Saxon names. I like the fact that these names could be Dukes or work in Tesco. Know a few people who've called their kids Sebastian or Hugo in an attempt to get a few rungs up the ladder and it always seems too obvious although DH says that by thinking this I'm worse than they are.

I tried to call my kids names I liked and not a class signifier although we're all so steeped in it I'm sure I subconciously did this anyway.

George

Henry.

The word Posh makes my skin crawl