From 'Wigbert' to 'Vervain': The top posh baby names for 2017 are here.

Forget Ava and Oscar and the rest of the popular names. There’s a new list for parents wanting baby-naming inspiration, and it’s raising eyebrows around the world.

Tatler, the high-society bible, has released its top posh baby names for 2017. There’s one name for each letter of the alphabet, for boys and girls. Tatler claims that all of these names are real, and that they are “some of the poshest names known to man”.

“Don’t be fooled if someone suggests Cecilia or Rupert,” the magazine urges. “They don’t know what they’re talking about – these are the real deal. Some are even centuries old. Let’s make them popular again!”

We will admit some of these names are so left of field, we were a little suspicious, but a Tatler editor told Mashable the magazine was thrilled with the response to their list.

The editor would not reveal their “highly scientific” name selection process, but vowed it definitely did not involve “simply shouting out names across the office that we thought were absurd enough”. The folks at Tatler do not mess around when it comes to all things upper-crust.

So without further ado, let’s take a look at some of their suggestions. (… And our interpretations.)

Boys

Wigbert. The name of an eighth-century English saint. Never over-used, like George or Andrew.

Innsbruck. The Austrian city that sounds less girly (and apparently more posh) than Vienna.

Uxorious. A word meaning “having an excessive fondness for one’s wife”. (Perhaps a word used by posh people.)

Npeter. Apparently, the “n” is silent. Can also be spelled Mpeter, Tpeter, Kpeter, etc.

Prince. Princes are very posh.

Quail. As in the small, tasty bird. Posher than chicken.

Yak. As in the large, hairy animal.

Xman. As in one of the X-Men. Possibly.

Ormerod. Just sounds posh, doesn’t it?

Queenie? Figgy? Photo via iStock. 

Girls

Figgy. A posh type of pudding.

Vervain. A plant. Less common than Ivy or Rose.

Estonia. A country. Less common than India, easier to spell than Kazakhstan.

Koala. This sounds more posh to people in England, obviously.

Alfreda. The drastically underused female form of Alfred.

Czar-Czar. When one Russian emperor just isn't posh enough...

Debonaire. A girl has to grow up sophisticated with a name like this, unless people shorten it to "Debs" or "Debbo".

Scar. As in the Lion King character. Possibly.

Queenie. No one is posher than the Queen.

Listen: One minute Wigbert is a baby, the next he's off to school. Get ready with The Parent Code.