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6->'''Hardison:''' The kid's from her first marriage. Widmark.\
7'''Elliot:''' Whoa, I'm sorry, Widmark?\
8'''Hardison:''' Rich people, man.
9-->-- ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', "The Fairy Godparents Job"
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11Want to make your character sound wealthy? Just give them a snobby rich kid name.
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13In American works, this is for those names like Chase (or [[MyNaymeIs Chace]]), [[Literature/GossipGirl Blair]], or in older programs, [[AlphaBitch Libby]] (which is a name more strongly associated with commoners now). For extra pretentiousness points, add a Roman numeral at the end to indicate that [[AncestralName the name itself is a legacy]]. "[[RuleOfThree The Third]]" seems to be the most popular. Occasionally, first or middle initial is seen (as in, for instance, "V. Marcus Wellesley" or "Harrison E. Vandenberg"). Girls may also be given [[GenderBlenderName traditionally male names]] such as [[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Spencer]], [[Series/GilmoreGirls Logan]], or [[Series/GossipGirl2007 Blake]]. Men with names like Stacey or Ashley also apply. The character may also have more than one middle name. Their last names will often be of more than one word such as St. John, St. Claire, or a Dutch heritage name like Van (de/der) -something or Something-son/sen (even all in one), especially if the character is supposed to be a New Yorker, (see, e.g., [[Series/MadMen Dyckman]], [[Series/GossipGirl2007 van der Woodsen]]). Most often, the last name will suggest a [[BritishStuffiness British heritage]] to lend that all-important [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant Founding Fathers]] touch, and will often be derived from a British place-name -- Hastings, Winchester, or Montgomery, for example.
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15If the setting and characters ''are'' British, these types of names would be described as "posh", "rah" (as in "tally-ho, rah!", a stereotypically posh exclamation), or "Sloaney" names, the latter named for London's ''Sloane Square'', an upper-class haunt. Unlike in the US, Roman numerals would ''never'' be used, and would be viewed as uppity and ''extremely'' vulgar. Given names will be either ''very'' traditional -- think [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Royal]] names like William (Wills), Henry, Rupert, Catherine, Elizabeth, Victoria OR more unusual, quite eccentric names like Rafferty, Rollo, Crispin, Finnbar, Tarquin, Torquil, Candida, Arabella, Pandora, Binky (yep) and Cressida (etc) that sound like something straight out of Arthurian legend or Shakespeare. The surname will ''usually'' be [[MyNaymeIs peculiarly spelled]], often in a way that defies sense, and will ''always'' be hyphenated -- commonly known as a 'double-barrelled' surname -- sounding as though it could be the name of a particularly expensive law firm if you slapped "LLP" on the end -- [[Series/CallTheMidwife Cholmondeley-Browne]], [[Series/ToTheManorBorn fforbes-Hamilton]], [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Wyndham-Pryce]], etc. Essentially, an English girl called something like "Araminta Georgina Fortescue-Thompson" probably has a flat on Sloane Square, does a bit of light PR as a "job", spends most of her time shopping on the King's Road, and has a family that owns half of Yorkshire. She probably also goes by "Minty", slightly childish-sounding nicknames being another part of it (more commonly for women than men, although, as mentioned above, "Wills" or "Rupe" aren't uncommon either).
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17Note -- although preppy ''last'' names in the US and UK will be very similar (preppy last-names in the US will often suggest a British heritage), it's worth mentioning that there is a ''huge'' degree of cultural dissonance between the nations in terms of what are considered to be preppy / upper-class ''first'' names. For example, girls' names thought of as being preppy in the US, like the aforementioned "Chace" or "Blair", would be thought of as being tacky, overly "trendy", and at worst, flagrantly nouveau riche in the UK (especially "Chace" spelt with a second "c"). Sometimes they will even be thought of as ''lower''-class. But equally, to a US audience, "Sloaney-pony", posh English girls' names like "Henrietta", "Jemima", or "Arabella" sound parochial, old-fashioned, and evoke down-home, country-bumpkin types -- funny, ain't it? There's also a whole segment of Celtic (mostly Irish) boys' names that are considered "[[GhettoName chavvy]]" in England and quite smart in the New World -- Aidan, Liam, Kieran and the like.
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19Royal names are another example of this latter phenomenon. In the late 19th Century, there was a fashion for Victoria/Victor and Albert/Alberta in honour of the queen and her husband. By the time the first ''Series/{{Steptoe and Son}}'' movie was made, 'Arold (Son) told Albert (Steptoe), with reference to the baby they had adopted, "''Naw'', we're no' callin' 'im Albert; 's ''common''!"
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21Compare PretentiousPronunciation, which overlaps with this sometimes when people intentionally mispronounce a name just to make it sound more classy. A trademark of the UpperClassTwit and GentlemanSnarker.
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23GhettoName is the polar opposite (yet has a knack for sounding just as stupid). HayseedName is the rural equivalent to both, encompassing names unique to regions considered backwoods and uncultured. May overlap with HippieName if the character is a BourgeoisBohemian. WealthsInAName is a sister trope that incorporates words related to money to make the character's financial status obvious.
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25See [[Analysis/PreppyName Analysis]] for non-Anglophonic examples.
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28!!Examples:
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32[[folder:Advertising]]
33* The foppish character associated with ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' is Eustace Tilley.
34* Monocle, spats, and cutaway jacket are the signature attire of rich Uncle Pennybags. Few know him by that name, however. Parker Brothers gave up trying to enlighten the millions and rechristened him (and trademarked) his better-known moniker, Mr. TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}.
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38* Virtually the entire student body in the titular Ouran High of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' have unusual, highbrow, or outright pompous surnames (e.g., Suoh = "absolute king", Takaouji = "child of hawk and phoenix"), which is [[CastFullOfRichPeople kinda the point]]. The protagonist Haruhi Fujioka, [[PennyAmongDiamonds being a commoner]], has an appropriately commoner surname.
39* In ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Nephrite disguised himself as a wealthy playboy named "Masato Sanjouin", which the DIC dub localized as "Maxfield Stanton".
40* The English version of ''Anime/TokyoMewMew'' gave us [[PunnyName Corina Bucksworth]] (aka [[TheOjou Aizawa Minto]]) and Wesley J. Coolridge III (aka Akasaka Keiichiro).
41* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
42** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' had a bunch of these in Chazz Princeton, Atticus and Alexis Rhodes, and Syrus and Zane Truesdale. Well, the school pretty much ''is'' a prep school. Also present are Jaden Yuki, Blair Flannigan, Chumley Huffington, and Bastian Misawa.
43** From the original ''Anime/YuGiOh'' series: Pegasus J. Crawford or Maximillion Pegasus.
44* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', the main characters work at a salon called Liebe Girls' Academy, a fictitious school for rich girls, and roleplay as students at said school. The employees at the salon are given different surnames when working, presumably ones that sound higher-class. Examples include Hime Shirasagi (her real name is Shiraki), Mitsuki Ayanokouji (Yano), Kanoko Amamiya (Mamiya) Sumika Tachibana (Chibana) and [[spoiler:Nene]] Saionji (unknown).
45* In ''Manga/TheGentlemensAlliance'', the setting is the incredibly prestigious Imperial Academy, where only the children of upper crust families attend. The main cast all have the character 宮, read as "miya" or "gu" somewhere in their names, e.g. Haine Otomiya, Shizumasa Togu, Yoshitaka Ichinomiya. This character means "temple" and has heavy associations with royalty and the Imperial Family in Japan, so it is often used to give an air of nobility, which is why the author, Tanemura Arina, explicitly gave them this ThemeNaming.
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50* Lee Evans pointed out that he could never take some names for [=STDs=] seriously because a lot of them, particularly Chlamydia, sound preppy.
51-->''I have this image of a woman in some French doors going "Chlamydia! Chlamydia, your tea's ready!"\
52 And [there's] some diseased old frump in the garden going, "OK, I'm on my way!"\
53 ..."Is Syphilis out there with you?!"''
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57* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Warren Worthington III (aka the Angel), as well as Charles Francis Xavier (Professor X).
58* Gwen Stacy is ComicBook/SpiderMan's UptownGirl love interest, and her full name is Gwendolyne Maxine Stacy.
59* In Franchise/TheDCU, the closest thing ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}} has to an archenemy is Danton Black, alias Multiplex.
60* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'':
61** There's Veronica Lodge, as well as her father Hiram Lodge.
62** Jughead's real name is Forsythe Pendleton Jones III. The fact it's a Preppy Name is lampshaded in [[ComicBook/ArchieComics2015 the reboot]], when Archie states it "reeks of high society".
63* Considering the royal setting, posh names were relatively common in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' pre-CosmicRetcon. The royal House of Acorn included the likes of King Maximillian, Queen Alicia, Sally's brother Elias, and [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor on-again-off-again]] royal spy Geoffrey St. John. This also showed up among the main characters' parents, such as Sonic's parents Jules and Bernadette, and Tails' parents Amadeus and Rosemary. Tails' birth name, Miles, would also count if it weren't a PunnyName ([[DontExplainTheJoke Miles Prower, i.e. "miles per hour"]]).
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67* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', ever the BigEater, tried to both [[InvokedTrope invoke]] and then [[ExploitedTrope exploit]] this trope in the name of getting ''way'' more food at each meal: [[http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1990/03/16 He lengthened his name to "Garfield Horatio, III, Esq." and got a dish big enough to write it on.]]
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71* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fic ''Fanfic/TheMyamotoProject'', James' last name is "Rochester", befitting his wealthy parentage.
72* The ''Pokémon'' oneshot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12129411/1/Confrontation Confrontation]]'' gives James the full name of "James Miles William Roseworth". His rich parents are named George and Evangeline.
73* ''Fanfic/AllMyKittens'': Duchess' first mate (and Marie's father) is a pedigree stud that has the snooty full-name of "Cyrano de Bergerac".
74* In ''Webcomic/CoolAndNewWebComic'', Hecka Jef's name is revealed to be short for Heckacious Jeferey.
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78[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
79* Devon Montgomery Johnston III from ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'', who is also simply known as DJ.
80* [[PrivilegedRival Bradley Uppercrust III]] from ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie''.
81* In ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'', main character Roddy insists on introducing himself as "Roderick St. James of Kensington". Seeing as he's the pet mouse of an upper-crust family in Kensington, London, this isn't surprising.
82* ''Animation/HayopKaTheNimfaDimaanoStory'' has tycoon character Iñigo Villanueva, who's a dog, in this case a purebred husky; his given name isn't just upper-crust Spanish, but ''Basque'', from an ethnolinguistic region in between Spain & France that historically produced some of the Philippines' richest and most influential oligarch families (RealLife—and human—examples include the Zobel de Ayalas, the Elizaldes and the Aboitizes among others).
83* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'': According to Timon, Shenzi's full name is Shenzi Marie Predatorra Veldetta Jackalina Hyena. It's unknown what her ranking is, but she's higher ranked than Ed and Banzai by virtue of being a female.
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88* ''Film/TradingPlaces'' has Creator/DanAykroyd's character, Louis Winthorpe III, his bosses Randolph and Mortimer Duke, as well as his fiancée Penelope Witherspoon and her friends Muffy and Constance.
89* Emmett Fitz-Hume in ''Film/SpiesLikeUs''.
90* Warner Huntington III from ''Film/LegallyBlonde''.
91* The villain of the film ''Film/YoungEinstein'' is an UpperClassTwit named Preston [[RepetitiveName Preston]].
92* Creator/{{Roger Moore}}'s character in ''Film/NorthSeaHijack'', Rufus Excalibur ffolkes, is definitely upper class but is certainly no twit. %spelled with a lower case ff, honest%
93* Blane [=McDonnagh=] from ''Film/PrettyInPink''.
94-->'''Duckie:''' His name is Blane? Oh! That's a major appliance, that's not a name!
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96* ''Film/ShesTheMan'' has the twins Sebastian and Viola Hastings. This one makes sense, though, because it's a modern retelling of [[Theatre/TwelfthNight a Shakespeare play.]]
97* The Second ''Film/StepUp'' movie has the brothers Chase and Blake Collins.
98* Amusingly realised in UK rom-com ''Film/ChaletGirl'', where the humble, more ordinary background of the protagonist is instantly apparent during a roll-call of her fellow (far sloanier) chalet girls:
99-->"I'm Henrietta", "Isabella", "Petronella"......"um, Kim."
100* Film/JamesBond briefly took the name "James St. John-Smith" ([[PretentiousPronunciation pronounced Sinjin-Smythe]]) while undercover as an UpperClassTwit in ''Film/AViewToAKill''.
101* The promotional website for ''Film/JurassicWorld'' boasted that the park's honeymoon suites were designed by a woman named Evelyn Mae West von Hapsburg-Kennedy.
102* Tenlee Parrish from ''Film/SummerCatch'', played by Creator/JessicaBiel.
103* Though they're [[SurferDude Surfer Dudes]], ''Franchise/BillAndTed'' often refer to themselves as "Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan".
104* ''Film/KnivesOut'' features the family of wealthy mystery author Harlan Thrombey, with the most obvious example of this trope being his grandson Hugh Ransom Drysdale.
105* Brandon Sinclair, the heir to wealthy vineyard, in ''Film/{{Witchboard}}''. His name certainly stands next to the other two major characters: Jim Morar and Linda Brewster.
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109* A minor character in one ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book is named Hewlett Aldershot III. Marco jokes that this means three generations were subjected to having this terrible name.
110%%* Most characters in ''Literature/GossipGirl''.
111* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has several, particularly among aristocratic, "pure-blood" characters. Due to the mix of wizard and Muggle naming conventions, AerithAndBob is in full effect:
112** Gilderoy Lockhart and Justin Finch-Fletchley, and possibly also Kingsley Shacklebolt and Neville Longbottom. Justin is actually Muggle-born, but was expected to go to Eton before learning he was a wizard.
113** Even the relatively lower-class Weasleys have some: Ronald, Bilius, Percival, and Ginevra. Of course, they're Ron, Percy and Ginny to basically everyone. Justified, since by Wizarding standards, the Weasleys are sort of [[ImpoverishedPatrician Impoverished Patricians]]; being a long-standing pure-blood family while lacking the wealth and influence typically associated with pure-bloods.
114** Most of the Black family, with some (such as Callidora, Lycoris, and Misapinoa) bordering on pompous.
115* Several characters in Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos works, who on the balance tend to be upper-middle or upper-class [[LovecraftCountry New England]] society, although their names sound slightly less outlandish than some other names on this page. Examples include:
116** Francis Wayland Thurston, George Gammell Angell, and Henry Anthony Wilcox (''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu'')
117** Randolph Carter (Dreamlands stories)
118** Harley Warren (''The Statement of Randolph Carter'')
119** Richard Upton Pickman (''Pickman's Model'' and ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath'')
120** Herbert West (''Literature/HerbertWestReanimator'')
121* In Filipino literature, Spanish names (especially of Basque, French or other Mediterranean origin) often serve as the equivalents, owing to some 300+ years of colonial occupation—[[OverlyLongName the longer]] and more European-sounding, the better. Bonus points if they have the titles "Don" or "Doña" appended to them. Samples include:
122** ''Literature/DeadStars'': Alfredo Salazar, Esperanza, Dionisio del Valle. Julia Salas doesn't count, because her name sounds simple and is still fairly common today (though in that era it was very likely pronounced in the Spanish style, i.e. "Hulya", instead of the modern English style, i.e. "Dyulia").
123** ''Literature/{{Mass}}'': Beatriz "Betsy" de Jesus. Augusto "Toto" Salcedo might count, although he's lower-class in status.
124** ''Literature/MayDayEve'': (Don) Badoy Montiya (the "Badoy" is a localised nickname, but is likely short for something like "Salvador"); and his eventual wife, (Doña) Agueda.
125** ''Literature/MyBrotherMyExecutioner'': (Don) Vicente Asperri (who is actually of Basque descent), and a less outlandish example in (Don) Eduardo Dantes
126** ''Literature/ThePretenders'': (Don) Manuel Villa, Carmen Villa
127** ''Literature/SmallerAndSmallerCircles'': Fr. Augusto "Gus" Saenz
128** ''Literature/{{Tree}}'': Espiridion, TheNarrator's father, who works as a farm administrator, although not exactly part of the landowning oligarchy himself.
129** ''Theatre/APortraitOfTheArtistAsFilipino'': Among others, Candida (Marasigan), and Dons Perico, Aristeo, and Alvaro, for example. Except for Candida, these names belong mostly to old people who actually grew up in the late Spanish colonial era (1850s–1898), and were actually upper-class to boot. Candida herself is specified to be 42 in a play set in 1941, which dates her own birth to around 1898-99—almost exactly at the end of Spanish rule.
130** ''Literature/AmericaIsNotTheHeart'': The extended, elite de Vera family of Vigan in the Ilocos counts: with first names such as Apolonio (though he's often called "Pol") and the multiple cases of Geronima (three, to be exact, and two of them are nicknamed "Hero" and "Roni" respectively—by Roni's generation, i.e. the millennial generation, "Geronima" definitely sounds old-fashioned and aristocratic). Not all of the names in the family have such heavily elite connotations—Hero's own father is named Benjamin (goes by "Hamin"), and she has an aunt named Soledad ("Soly"), but there are more extreme cases, like an aunt named Escolastica ("Ticay"), and Hero's grandfather, the de Vera patriarch (and the original Geronima's husband), was named Tranquilino.
131* Meanwhile, over in Singapore, ''Literature/CrazyRichAsians'' comes loaded with these, unsurprisingly as it's a novel about, well, crazy-rich Asians. And since they're heavily Westernised, the posh Anglo/European first names come with the mix, such as Araminta Lee, Colin Khoo, Astrid Leong, Nicholas Young, Alistair Cheng, and several others.
132* Dalton Campbell in ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth''.
133* Carson Flynn in the ''Literature/Mythology101C Cycle'', who is fairly rich (at least by college professor standards).
134* In the ''Literature/PinkCarnation'' series, Geoffrey Pinchingdale-Snipe, Sebastion Vaughn, and Reginald Fitzhugh.
135* Maximilian’s full name in ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}'' is George Fortescue Maximilian de Winter.
136* Cotton Remington Weathington-Beech, and his school friends, in the ''Literature/MachineOfDeath'' story "Prison Knife Fight".
137* The pornographic novel ''The Oxford Girl'' is narrated (and nominally authored) by a character named Presley Abbott.
138* A lot of characters in ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries''. Justified as most of the characters are either wealthy and go to prep school or are royalty. The main character's full name is Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo. One of her good friends is named John Paul Reynolds-Abernathy VI. That they and others prefer to go by nicknames like Mia and JP show that they really are normal people despite this.
139* The protagonist from ''Literature/TheNeverEndingStory'', [[AlliterativeName Bastian Balthazar Bux]].
140* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
141** Naming conventions seem to be a little different on the Discworld, so it's sometimes hard to tell, but there's a definite pattern to the names of nobles. If their first names are real names at all (which is unusual in itself, [[AerithAndBob considering people can be named things like Moist, Gravid, and Extremelia]]), then they're obscure and old-fashioned, like Havelock or Sybil, whereas many commoners have names you wouldn't look twice at on an attendance roll in the real world.
142** In an early book, Vimes refers to the upper-class teenage girls who volunteer to muck out at the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons as "the Interchangeable Emmas".
143*** In ''Literature/TheWorldOfPoo'', both the Sanctuary caretakers Geoffrey meets actually ''are'' named "Emma".
144** In ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'', officers are known in the Borogravian army as "ruperts" because they tend to be {{Upper Class Twit}}s with "posh" names like Rupert, Rodney, or Gawain. This piece of slang, as well as the explanation, are used in the British Armed Forces. (''Literature/TheTruth'' also has a Rupert; William de Worde's brother, who in contrast to William was an UpperClassTwit who "died for his beliefs". Namely, the belief Klatchians would surrender if you ran up to them yelling very loudly.)
145** Strongly averted with two characters who have a long collection of hilariously preppy names (both starting with Cecil) but are as low-class as you can get: [[LovableRogue Cecil Wormsborough St. John "Nobby" Nobbs]] and [[HonestJohnsDealership Cecil Maximilian Overton Transpire "Cut-Me-Own-Throat" Dibbler]].
146** During Susan's time as governess in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', she ends up working for somewhat NouveauRiche people who are horrified that the duchess of Sto Helit is is working for them. And they have a son named Gawain, which Death takes as a sign of questionable parenting.
147** ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'' establishes that Roland's full name is Roland de Chumfansleigh, which is pronounced "Chuffley." The narrator sympathetically notes that it isn't his fault. Do note that Roland's literally nobility so it's PlayedWith.
148* Used in ''Literature/TheNannyDiaries'' whenever NoNameGiven is impossible. For instance, the narrator's charge is Greyer Addison [[NoNameGiven X]].
149* Pandora [[MeaningfulName "Box"]] Louise Elizabeth Braithwaite and her husband Julian Twyselton-Fife of ''Literature/AdrianMole'' fame.
150* Melville Winchester Higginbotham Grosvenor Penobscot-Jones IV of ''Literature/{{Emergence}}''. It's not exactly surprising that he renamed himself (becoming "Adam") at the earliest opportunity.
151* Dissected and analysed in ''Freakonomics''. In an interesting inversion, the girl's name Ashley reputedly devolved from a popular middle-class girl's name to a lower-class "Wal-Mart set" girl's name.
152* The ''Literature/SpyHigh'' series has mega-wealthy heir Benjamin T. Stanton III (although thankfully his friends are allowed to just call him Ben.)
153* Citizens of District 1 in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', being one of the wealthiest districts manufacturing luxury items. Namely: Gloss, Cashmere, Glimmer, and Marvel.
154* Mentioned in the book ''Literature/GoingTooFar'' by Catherine Alliott. Protagonist Polly is invited to give prizes at a horse fair because of her husband's status as a wealthy local landowner; but she completely screws up the ceremony. She miserably thinks that her husband would have been better off with a woman named "Lucinda Raffetty-Bagshott" or "Camilla Ponsonby-Bunkup."
155* Similarly to Nobby Nobbs (see above), subverted with William Makepeace Thackeray's Charles James Harrington Fitzroy Yellowplush of ''Literature/MemoirsOfMrCharlesJYellowplush''. While his name is stereotypically posh, he's fairly low class, being a semi-literate footman who writes with DelusionsOfEloquence. As revealed in the first chapter of his "Memoirs", Yellowplush is the SonOfAWhore and the reason for the multiple names is due to his mother's uncertainty regarding the identity of his father.
156* [[PrincelyYoungMan Richard Campbell Gansey III]] of ''Literature/TheRavenCycle'', who, as you might expect, is [[OldMoney extremely upper class]]
157* Many characters in the ''Literature/BridgetJones'' series like: Jeremy, Piggy, Natasha, Cosmo, Woney, Alistair, etc.
158* ''Literature/ConsiderTheLily'', being set among landed gentry in England has Flora Dysart, Matilda Verral and Ambrose Chudleigh
159* Basically every character in ''Literature/TheSecretHistory'', seeing as it is about the elite at a private liberal arts school in the East Coast. The main characters alone include:
160** Francis Abernathy
161** Edmund "Bunny" Corcoran
162** Camilla and Charles Macaulay
163** Henry Marchbanks Winter
164** Julian Morrow
165* Unsurprisingly, a lot of characters in the novel ''Literature/{{Prep}}'', though [[AlphaBitch Aspeth Montgomery]] probably takes the cake.
166* Military thriller ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' has numerous: Mr. Montgomery Blair, the Honorable John C. Adams, Mrs. William Schermerhorn, and various others. Protagonist John Rumford is himself a borderline example: his family is of oldest Yankee stock, but very much not rich or part of the smart set.
167* Several students attending prestigious Armedius Academy in ''Literature/TheRithmatist'', for example Geoff Hamilton, Mary Isenhorn or Charlington (whose family name we never learn). Since Armedius is ''very'' expensive, they come from the best families around.
168* Creator/MaryHigginsClark's standalone novel ''Literature/DaddysLittleGirl'' has Robson Parke Westerfield, the spoiled rich boy who killed narrator Ellie Cavanaugh's older sister, Andrea. His father is Vincent, and his grandfather, a former Senator, Pearson Westerfield. Clark also wrote a short novel about George and Martha Washington; Martha Washington's wealthy first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, and their son and grandson, John Parke Custis and George Washington Parke Custis, may have been her inspiration for Rob's middle name.
169* ''Literature/TheBookOfSkulls'' by Creator/RobertSilverberg is about four students from different social backgrounds. The rich kid has a stepmother called Saybrook, and says that that sort of name is common among his set.
170* ''Literature/SavingMax'' has Lowell Stratton Price III, the head of the executive committee of Danielle's law firm.
171* Discussed, naturally enough, in great detail in ''The Official Preppy Handbook'', including a list of 12 suggestions for nicknames for preppy children (Chip, Kip, Bunny, Muffy, Tiffy, Kiki, etc.). Some example characters discussed in situations also qualify, such as “Trip Dunwhistle” and “Alden Jewett Worthington”.
172* ''[[Literature/RiversOfLondon The Hanging Tree]]'': Not surprisingly, several students from St. Paul school for girls, including Phoebe Beaumont-Jones, Olivia [=McAllister=]-Thames, Albertina Pryce. Not to mention Lady Caroline Elizabeth Louise Linden-Limmer.
173* A Georgian version appears in ''Literature/{{Emma}}''. Mr. Elton's new bride is named Augusta (the name of one of George III's daughters), and her sister is Selina (like the then-current Countess of Huntingdon). Classic Greek and Latin names were trendy at the time, and a marker of their NouveauRiche status compared to the good, solid English names the other ladies have--Emma, Jane, Harriet.
174* In ''Literature/ModernVillainess'', the protagonist's Runa's name is deliberately designed by the FictionalVideoGame's developers to complement her AlphaBitch (i.e. "[[RebornAsVillainessStory villainess]]") role in the game. Her surname Keikain is of the type exclusively used by the ''kuge'' class that she is descended from.[[note]]Full-[[AlternateCharacterReading on-yomi]] surnames ending in the kanji "ji" (monastery) or "in" (nunnery), as well as names after roads of ancient Kyoto, were nearly exclusively used by the ''kuge'' class--they're all members of ancient clans such as UsefulNotes/{{Fujiwara}} or [[UsefulNotes/{{Genji}} Minamoto]], and different lines of the clans are distinguished by where they lived, or the temples they were the patron of. After UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration, these house names became their legal surnames.[[/note]] "Runa" is also a full-onyomi name and uses difficult kanji (瑠奈) to show off their class.
175* In ''Literature/RaggedDick'', Fosdick applies for a job at a hat store, as does a snooty gentleman's son named Roswell Crawford who makes fun of Dick for being a boot-black. Fosdick is hired after Roswell admits he quit his last job because they wanted him to do "dirty work" like making a fire.
176* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' prose story "Going Straight" by Laurie Sefton and Charles von Rospach, one of Bruce Wayne's peers who ''really is'' the UpperClassTwit Bruce pretends to be is Eldon Wettinhouse. "The Third, my dear man. Just call me Tripp."
177* ''Literature/TheStrangerTimes'': Reginald Fairfax III, a portly and plummy gentleman who always wears a three-piece tartan suit.
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181* Anna Thornton-Wilton, head receptionist at ''Series/HotelBabylon'' is pretty fond of her hyphenated last name and the connotations of class it invokes, to the point where she calls to yell at HR for leaving out Wilton on her nametag, insistently demanding a tag that reads ''"Anna Thornton '''Hyphen''' Wilton"''. She eventually gets a replacement tag that literally reads Anna Thornton Hyphen Wilton.
182* Osgood Conklin on ''Series/OurMissBrooks'', who isn't rich, yet is just as pompous as his first name would suggest.
183* Richard Woolsley III from ''Series/RaisingTheBar''.
184* Flynn Carsen of ''Film/TheLibrarian'' fame, though he's not rich.
185* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' has a lot of fun playing with these when the team runs a [[TheCon con]] at a private school in "The Fairy Godparents Job". One of the kids' ''first names'' is Widmark. Of course, considering the show is about white-collar crime, the VillainOfTheWeek will at least occasionally have a preppy name too.
186* Barnabas Collins, Cyrus Longworth, Skyler Rumson, and Bruno Hess from ''Series/DarkShadows''.
187* Used naturally in ''Series/JeevesAndWooster''. Although Claude Cattermole Potter-Pirbright is notably preppy. He is, as you might have guessed, a proper UpperClassTwit, even in comparison with other members of The Drones Club.
188* ''[[Series/{{Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'' has Maj. Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester III, an old money, [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Harvard educated]] Boston blueblood who oozes with upper-class condescension at his campmates, especially early into his tenure. Margaret’s ex-husband from Seasons 5-7, [=LtCol=]. Donald Penobscott, is also said to come from a well-off family.[[note]]Although in real life, "Penobscot" is the name of a Native American tribe, which just coincidentally ''sounds'' like it should be a very posh British surname.[[/note]]
189* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' made a ShoutOut to ''[[Series/{{Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'' by naming an UpperClassTwit "Chaz" Winchester IV.
190* And on ''that'' subject, the Franchise/PowerRangers have included a handful of upper-crusters in their ranks: [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Wesley Collins]], [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Sydney Drew]], [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Mackenzie Hartford]] (with his father Andrew Hartford as the team's patron), and [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Summer Landsdown]].
191* Greenlee Smythe and Colby Chandler on ''Series/AllMyChildren''. Both first names are their mothers' maiden names, which is a typical preppy naming convention.
192* Chatsworth Osbourne, Jr. from ''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis''.
193* Charles Widmore from ''Series/{{Lost}}'', who is a rich businessman thanks to the company he owns. Which is, of course, called Widmore Industries. The poshness of the name is [[SubvertedTrope somewhat misleading]] in his case as he was one of the more thuggish of [[spoiler: the Others]] in his youth, and appears to have attained his fortune mostly through the use of his fists.
194* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Howell,_III Thurston Howell III]] (Jim Backus) in ''Series/GilligansIsland''.
195* ''Series/{{Skins}}'':
196** Crispin. Just Crispin. Like Prince, Madonna, Cher, Lemar... [[OnlyOneName only Crispin]].
197** Also, even though they are referred to exclusively as 'Tony' and 'Effy', there's Anthony and Elizabeth Stonem.
198** And Cassandra Ainsworth.
199** Frederick 'Freddie' [=McClair=].
200** Pandora Moon.
201** Minerva 'Mini' [=McGuiness=].
202** Not to mention the gem where Posh Abigail introduces her friends "Sara, Josh, Sara, Maddy, Felicia, Hugo, Sebastian, Sara, Sam and Sara".
203* Wesley Wyndam-Pryce from ''Series/{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Also Cordelia Chase.
204* Jackie Gleason character "Reginald van Gleason III" (note "the Third" yet again).
205* Audrey fforbes-Hamilton from ''Series/ToTheManorBorn''.
206* Addison Forbes Montgomery-Shepherd from ''Series/GreysAnatomy''.
207* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
208** Harrison Chase from "The Seeds of Doom". (English, very, and the owner of a mansion with attendant butler.)
209** Henry Van Statten from "Dalek", an American billionaire with a New York Dutch surname. He has both American and Dutch flags behind his desk.
210** And, of course, Brigadier General Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.
211* As explained in the trope description, this is a common occurrence in Hispanic ''telenovelas''. Usually it is the male protagonist who is well off, and this means we wind up with a male lead called Ricardo Facundo (always, ''always'' called by both names) while the female lead is called María, Juana, or other ridiculously common names. This tendency has been parodied many, many times, often giving the parody protagonist an [[OverlyLongName Overly Long]] Preppy Name.
212** One famous case of a female Preppy Name is "María Joaquina" from the telenovela ''Series/{{Carrusel}}''. She was never called just "María," ever.
213** Castilian Spanish conventions are different, and the ''pijo'' naming clichés tend to go along Araceli, Soraya, or Cayetana for girls and Gonzalo, Rodrigo, or Borja (Borjamari in terminal cases) for boys.
214* More than half the cast of ''[[Series/GossipGirl2007 Gossip Girl]]''. Including some of the actual cast members, such as Chace Crawford, Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, and Leighton Meester. The cast is full of them.
215** This last one is funny, since her parents were actually small-time crooks from Texas (her mother was serving time for marijuana smuggling at the time of her birth), but her name would be completely at home in the New York City elite, particularly given that her last name is Dutch (a large proportion of New York's oldest families are Dutch for historical reasons) and means "Master."
216* Blaine Anderson and his older brother Cooper from ''Series/{{Glee}}''. Also minor characters Sebastian Smythe and Hunter Clarington, from [[ElaborateUniversityHigh Dalton Academy]].
217* A good chunk of the kids from ''Series/TheLyingGame'' (Sutton and Laurel Mercer, Thayer Rybak etc.). The poorer characters have much more down to Earth names (Emma Becker, Ethan Whitehorse, Justin Miller etc.)
218* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' includes Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery, and Mona Vanderwal. Also the teacher Ezra Fitz.
219* During the 2012 campaign season, [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] was fond of playing with this when discussing GOP presidential candidate Wilfred Mittington Romney the Third (to give a typical example).
220** Also invoked in their response to Bernie Goldberg's contention that their audience was unsophisticated. A man with [[HighClassGlass a monocle]] and top hat, [[BritsLoveTea sipping tea]], introduced himself as Toppington Von Monocle. He then proceeded to [[GeniusBonus quote Catullus]], a Roman poet, in the original Latin. [[RefugeInAudacity Yes, it really does mean "I will sodomize and face-fuck you."]]
221* Cleyton Howell III from ''[[Series/TheAddamsFamily The New Addams Family]]''. His appearance is so brief he probably would never be included here if this website cared about notability.
222* Camilla Fortescue Cholmondeley-Browne (Everyone calls her "Chummy") from the BBC's ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' is a great example, and her character exhibits a typically upper-class jolly hockey sticks attitude towards her role as a district midwife in London's East End, despite the class ''chasm'' between her and her patients.
223* Jonathan Quayle Higgins III from ''Series/MagnumPI''
224* Season 13 of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' adds Miles Hollingsworth III, a NewTransferStudent freshly expelled from prep school.
225* Blair Warner in ''Series/TheFactsOfLife''.
226* Maria Joaquina Villaseñor and Jorge del Salto in ''Series/{{Carrusel}}''.
227* Caroline Channing in ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls''. Caroline is a stereotypically posh name in the UK, if not in the USA. And she's the one from a rich background.
228* Parodied in ''Creator/MontyPython’s'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss Upper-Class Twit Of The Year]]" sketch with Vivian [[RepetitiveName Smith-Smythe-Smith]], Simon Zinc-Trumpet-Harris, Nigel Incubator-Jones, Gervaise Brook-Hampster and Oliver St. John-Mollusc. And in one of the events, the twits have to pose for a photograph with two debutantes named Lady Arabella Plunkett and Lady [[OverlyLongName Sarah Pencil-Farthing-Vivian-Streamroller-Adams-Pie-Biscuit-Aftershave-Gore-Stringbottom-Smith]].
229** [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] in their election night sketch, which included a candidate with a name that takes nearly a minute to read in full, and includes singing and a variety of sound effects.[[note]]Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday (pops mouth twice) Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable (whinnying) Arthur Norman Michael (blows squeaker) Featherstone Smith (whistle) Northcott Edwards Harris (fires pistol, then 'whoop') Mason (chuff-chuff-chuff-chuff) Frampton Jones Fruitbat Gilbert (sings) 'We'll keep a welcome in the' (three shots) Williams If I Could Walk That Way Jenkin (squeaker) Tiger-drawers Pratt Thompson (sings) 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' Darcy Carter (horn) Pussycat (sings) 'Don't Sleep In The Subway' Barton Mainwaring (hoot, 'whoop') Smith[[/note]]
230* Hannah's snooty friend Traci Van Horn from ''Series/HannahMontana''.
231* ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'':
232** The unspeakably rich Voorhees family, with their classic New York Dutch last name, includes two children named Xanthippe [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Lannister]] and Buckley.
233** When Kimmy herself is pretending to be rich to fit in at one of their parties, she claims that her name is "Kimberly Tiara von Lobster".
234* A RunningGag on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' would be if this sort of name appeared in the credits, Crow would remark in a snobby voice: "Oh, is the great ''X'' going to direct/produce/act/what have you?"
235* A famous German TV sketch by ''Loriot'' has an announcer recapturing the first seven episodes of the (fictional) 16 episode English drama ''Die zwei Cousinen'' (''The Two Cousins''). While the sketch is mostly about the announcer struggling with the ''th'' sound (which doesn't exist in German) until she breaks down and starts babbling incoherently, the names qualify: Priscilla and Gwyneth Molesworth, Lord and Lady Hesketh-Fortescue and their son Meredith, Jasper Featherstone, Amelie Hollingworth, Lucinda Satterthwaite...
236* ''Series/TheNanny'' has the BlueBlood Maxwell ''Beverly'' Sheffield and his son, Brighton. [[note]]Brighton Sheffield, change at Victoria for the Northern Line[[/note]] The other two kids, Maggie (Margaret) and Gracie (Grace), also somewhat count.
237* ''Series/GrownIsh'' has Balty Winthrop, the great-great-grandson of CaliforniaUniversity's founder.
238* In ''Series/MidnightCaller'', Jack's father J. J. participates in an art auction under the name Roland Smythe Hyde. His performance is so over-the-top, and his accent so unconvincing, that his cover is blown almost immediately.
239* Grace Bros department store in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' has some rich shareholders including Lavinia Stableforth, Henry Grant-Hopkins, and Lady Weeble-Abelsmith (which Mr Lucas has some trouble pronouncing).
240* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': [=McCullough=]'s first name is revealed to be ''Artesian'' (or the name she goes by anyway, since her uniform's nametag has the initial B first).
241* ''Series/{{Succession}}'' is naturally rife with these: quite aside from Connor, Kendall, Roman, and Siobhan Roy, we also get Nan and Naomi Pierce, Rhea Jarrell, Lady Caroline Collingwood, the late Baird Kellman, and Kendall's kids Sophie and Iverson.
242** In entertaining contrast, the two significantly more middle-class members of the extended Roy clan are Greg Hirsch and Tom Wambsgans; no one can ever quite say either one without a sneer, and no one pays the remotest attention to Cousin Greg's attempt to relaunch himself as "Gregory."
243* ''Series/TheWestWing'': Josiah Edward Bartlett is pretty damn patrician name for a president to start with. And then there is this classic exchange from "The Short List":
244-->'''Josh:''' Peyton Cabot Harrison III.\
245'''Donna:'''Yes.\
246'''Josh:''' Peyton Cabot Harrison III. He sounds like he should be a Supreme Court justice.\
247'''Donna:''' It's a good name.\
248'''Josh:''' Phillips Exeter, Princeton, Rhodes scholar, Harvard Law Review, for which he was, oh yeah, the editor. Did I mention that he was dean of Harvard Law School? Did I mention that his father was attorney general to Eisenhower?\
249'''Donna:''' Peyton Cabot Harrison III.\
250'''Josh:''' That's right.\
251'''Donna:''' Jewish fellow?
252* ''Series/{{Trinkets}}'': "Tabitha Foster" sounds pretty damn preppy. She also comes from wealthy family unlike the others in the trio.
253* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' gives us Michael T. Farrell III, Laura's rich estranged husband.
254* ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'' has Nathaniel Plimpton III, who does indeed come from an extremely wealthy, privileged background and sees himself as superior to most of the people he interacts with as a result.
255* On ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Frasier's issues with his new African-American producer prompt Niles [[UpperClassTwit (of all people!)]] to gloat that he understands black people better than Frasier does. He points out that he had a black roommate at Yale, and Frasier snarks, "ah yes. Huntington Treadwell III."
256* ''Series/You2018'''s fourth season introduces the aristocratic English socialites Lady Phoebe Borewell-Blaxworth and Gemma Graham-Greene.
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259[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
260* Hunter Hearst Helmsley, before he changed it to the much-cooler Wrestling/TripleH.
261* Manager Wrestling/PaulBearer used to be known as Percival Pringle III.
262* [[Wrestling/WilliamRegal Steven (or William) Regal]].
263* Wrestling/ExcellenceProfessionalWrestling has featured Wyndham James Winthorpe III.
264* [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW's]] Maxwell Jacob Friedman, also known as Wrestling/{{MJF}}. His gimmick is that of a conceited, egotistical heel. Even better: only the "Jacob" part is kayfabed.
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267[[folder:Radio]]
268* Hubert Updike III in ''The Alan Young Show'', voiced by Jim Backus.
269* Several of Arthur's ex-girlfriends in ''Radio/CabinPressure'', whom Carolyn describes as "bossy, pony-club types with Alice bands and stupid names" like Fliss, Minty, Libbett, and Pobs (when Arthur lists them, Carolyn says it sounds like he's brainstorming names for a Labrador puppy). The GrandFinale, "Zurich", introduces Tiffy, who does dressage.
270* ''[[Radio/YesWhat Yes, What?]]'' included upper-class schoolboy Francis Marmaduke Algenon de Pledge, universally known to his classmates as "Pickles". The full names of his classmates (Rupert Bottomly, Ronald George Standforth, and Cuthbert Horace Greenbottle Jr.) might sound preppy by today's standards, but did reflect naming practices of the time (combined with a hint of lower middle-class pretension). "Marmaduke" was well over the odds even for the time.
271* The title character of ''Radio/GilesWemmbleyHoggGoesOff'', an UpperClassTwit of the first order.
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274[[folder:Roleplay]]
275* Three of the most affluent, upper-class characters in the cast of ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' are called Finn N. Flannagan, Irene Melissenos, and Benedict Tudor.
276* Orville Brand, Blair Duchess, Hadley Sharpe, Nelson Stickling, and Tatum West on ''Roleplay/HonorableHogwarts''.
277* ''[[Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest SOTF-TV]]'': A good portion of the kids in Silver Dragon Academy have this sort of name. Examples include Mae St. Clair, Leopold Sutherland, Bob Lazenby, and Renée Carlson.
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281* ''Theatre/PrimaFace'': While recounting her first day of law school, Tessa mocks a preppy classmate named Benedict:
282-->'''Tessa''': Of course his name's Benedict!
283* In ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', Glinda is given the surname "Upland". She's posh and well-off, although not as much as she implies. This surname was later [[RetCanon canonized]] in [[Literature/TheWickedYears book canon]] come ''Literature/SonOfAWitch''.
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286[[folder:Video Games]]
287* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series brings us [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Richard Wellington]] and [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Wesley Stickler]].
288* Most, if not all, of the preppies in ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}''. Derby is probably the most obvious example.
289* Slade Percy Benedict III from ''Wall Street Kid''. See [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Wall%20Street%20Kid/ this playthrough]].
290* Lord Montague "Monty" Basingstoke-Pratt IV from ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', a hero of the Frat Warriors. He drops an item that increases money gains.
291* Florian Phinaes Horatio Aldebrant, Esquire -- otherwise known as Finn in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' DLC Witch Hunt.
292* ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' has a pre-made sim named Francis J. Worthington III. He's obviously supposed to be a snobby rich kid.
293* British aristocrat Isabella "Ivy" Valentine from the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries''.
294* [[AlphaBitch Nicole Whittaker]] of the ''VideoGame/PurpleMoon'' games is one of the richest girls in town and puts this air on constantly. She's even on a first-name basis with her parents, Reginald and Cecilia, who themselves fit Preppy Name as well.
295** Felicia Ravenswood, a foreign military brat who constantly talks about her trips to Europe, fits here as well.
296* ''VideoGame/CrashNTheBoysStreetChallenge'': Contrasting the rough 'n tumble protagonists from [[InnerCitySchool Southside High School]], three of the four rival teams come from upper-class high schools, and their members all have rather snobby names - particularly the Lincoln High team of Arthur Van Smythe, Winston "Skip" Hildegard Jr., Charles Edward Darlington, Alexander Knottingham III and Worthington Montgomery.
297* ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'':
298** ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonNatsume'': "Cyril-Regis Shireworth-Tuxley the 3rd, Esquire" from ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonSkytreeVillage'' is from an aristocratic family.
299** ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'': The rich Will's full name in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonSunshineIslands'' is "William Terry Louis Andrew Carrick Jonathan Dredge Hams Reading Roger Southwark Alwick Plymouth Junior Regison III".
300* The Frat Guys gang in ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom'', with names like Trent, Drake, Skip, Trip, Clark, and Grant.
301* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': Playable gods [[Myth/NorseMythology Fenrir, Ymir]], [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Anhur]], [[Myth/MayanMythology Kukulkan]], and [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sun Wukong]] get appropriately long names when they put on their Gentlemen skins, respectively: Lord Slashington III, Baron Frostchild, Duke dans de Lyons, Sir Pentsworth IV, Esq. [[note]]Sir Pentsworth IV, Esq., New Earl of Windermere, Most Excellent Baron of Windshire[[/note]] and Earl Wubert St. Kongfrey.
302* ''VideoGame/ChickenPolice:'' Before Deborah introduces herself to Sonny, he thinks "Elizabeth or Charlotte? I was sure she'd have a sophisticated sounding name."
303* A good chunk of Yankee names in ''VideoGame/AfterTheEndAPostApocalypticAmerica'', such as "Wentworth". At this point AfterTheEnd, the Yankees have degenerated into [[BarbarianTribe savage tribes]], worshipping [[EldritchAbomination the eldritch horrors]] of [[LovecraftCountry dark and terrible New England]], but some things never change.
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307* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "independent", Strong Bad says that Pom Pom, as an "indie" movie maker, uses "middle names and/or initials" to improve his "indie cred". We then see Pom Pom's name embellished to "Pom Thomas Pom", "J. Pom Thomas Pom", and eventually "J. William Pom Thomas C. Pom".
308* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
309** It's revealed in Volume 4 that Blake Belladonna comes from a decently well-off family.
310** Weiss and Whitley Schnee are wealthy siblings. Their parents Jacques and Willow, as well as their older sister Winter, however, have less preppy names.
311* Tricky from ''WebAnimation/SubwaySurfersTheAnimatedSeries'' comes from a rich family. Her name is really "Beatrice".
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314[[folder:Web Comics]]
315* Reginald Leopold Theophilus the Third, aka, the Mad Hatter of ''Webcomic/WhenCuriosityMetInsanity''.
316* In ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'', Paris briefly dates a man named Forbes Davis, which would be enough of an example, except he spells it "fforbes-Davïs", combining Preppy Name with XtremeKoolLetterz.
317-->'''Spanners:''' Wow. Pretentious. He must come from a long line of really posh nobles or something.\
318'''Paris:''' That's his first name.\
319'''Spanners:''' Yeah, see, [[RoyallyScrewedUp that's what happens when you inbreed amongst the upper classes]]; mutant names.
320* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' has old money quarry magnate Sedgewick "Wick" Sable. Rocky (who, it should be noted, [[CrazyJealousGuy doesn't like Wick]] very much) remarks that it's the kind of name a snooty rich person with a snooty accent would give their kid when trying to name them "Cedric".
321* [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4517 This]] strip of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' mentions two rich people, Hayden Tuckerfield and Tucker Haydenfield.
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324[[folder:Web Videos]]
325* The idea behind Reginald Cuftbert's name in ''LetsPlay/SpoilerWarning''[='s=] LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/Fallout3''. The original suggestion was Reginald Cuthbert, but something was lost in translation.
326* The "Zip It, Ella" ''Series/MadeInChelsea'' spoof by English actor and comdian Luke Millington-Drake (whose own name ''absolutely'' counts) is a genius send up of ludicrously posh Sloane-rangers, complete with names like Mozzarella, Bruschetta and Tortellini (a spoof of classic Sloaney-pony names like Petronella, Henrietta and Tatiana).
327->''I can’t live in Parsons Green anymore, it’s too common, I’m moving — to BELGRAVIA!''
328[[/folder]]
329
330[[folder:Western Animation]]
331* Remy [[PunnyName Buxaplenty]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''.
332* Mary Alice "Muffy" Crosswire, her mother Millicent, and brother Chip from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. Subverted with her father, [[OddNameOut Ed]], who is actually NouveauRiche to his daughter's dismay.
333* The real name of Cave Guy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', whose voice is apparently based on Thurston Howell III, is Royce Mumphry.
334* The students at Morningwood Academy in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', including James William Bottomtooth IV and Rogers Chapstick, heir to the Chapstick fortune.
335** All of the employees at Magazine/TheNewYorker, as well: Wellesley Shepherdson, Fielding Wellingtonsworth, Livingston Winstofford, Amelia Bedford Furthington Chesterhill, and James William Bottomtooth III.
336* ''WesternANimation/WordGirl'': Theodore "Tobey" [=McCallister=] III. Isn't that a mouthful?
337* Trevor Noseworthy IV from ''WesternANimation/JamesBondJr''.
338* From ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama,'' Cody Emmett Jameson-Anderson and Harold Norbert Cheever [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Doris]] [=McGrady=] V
339* Eric "Tann" Tannenbaum IV from ''WesternANimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries''.
340* ''WesternANimation/HeyArnold'':
341** Rex Smythe-Higgins, Grandpa's old stuck-up [[UnexplainedAccent inexplicably British-sounding]] rival, and his not-quite-as-antagonistic grandson Rex Smythe-Higgins III.
342** Rhonda Wellington Lloyd, the upper-class girl in Arnold's class. Her first name does not fit this trope, but her middle name sure does!
343* Charles Montgomery Burns from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
344* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'':
345** [[TallDarkAndSnarky Thomas Sloane]], which is mitigated by him just going by "Tom".
346** Also Charles Ruttheimer III. He prefers to go by "Chuck", though everyone else calls him "[[EmbarrassingNickname Upchuck]]".
347* Squilliam Fancyson III and Monty P. Moneybags from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
348* The secret identity of Superchicken, one of the supporting features of ''WesternAnimation/{{George of the Jungle}}'', was Henry Cabot Henhouse III.
349* Princess [[PunnyName Morbucks]] from ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls''.
350* AlphaBitch Nanette Manoir from ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda''.
351* In the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'', Angelica introduces her friend Samantha Shane to Chuckie (who has a crush on her) as "Charles Finster III" (even though Chuckie's paternal grandfather's name is Marvin) to impress her, obviously invoking this trope.
352* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Played straight with Daphne Blake, who is as posh as you'd expect. Subverted with Norville Rogers, who is an [[LovableCoward easily-startled hippie]] who goes by "Shaggy" and voluntarily eats dog food.
353* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Billy's full name is [[OverlyLongName William Geoffrey Fitzgerald Kitchener Parham III]].
354* Coffers Worthington the oil baron from ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel''.
355[[/folder]]
356
357[[folder:Real Life]]
358%% * Creator/RupertGrint
359* The late Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Amusingly, this was the opposite of upper-class when he was born: "Arthur" was still a fairly common name in 1917, and "Schlesinger" would have been seen as too ethnic -- and particularly too ''Jewish''[[note]]Although Schlesinger was not himself Jewish, his paternal grandfather was a Jew from Prussia[[/note]] -- to be truly upper-class in that era (during which Jews were not considered white, and Germans were [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI for obvious reasons]] not well-trusted). Later in life, though, things changed.
360* The British singer Engelbert Humperdinck, although this isn't his real name (but is the same name as a known German composer). His birth name counts too: Arnold George Dorsey.
361* Alan Merrill, the GlamRock singer-songwriter responsible for Music/JoanJett’s immortal [[CoveredUp "I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll"]], was born Allan Preston Sachs. His upbringing, contrary to his image, was indeed as posh as his name -- he was the son of two successful and respected jazz musicians and attended boarding school in Switzerland as a child, as well as prestigious schools in New York and Los Angeles.
362%% * Veteran character actor Creator/TerryThomas.
363* Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Deveraux Donahue, aka Poppy Montgomery.
364** Her sisters are Rosie Thorn, Daisy Yellow, Lily Belle, and Marigold Sun (and there's a brother, Jethro Tull), although some of those drift into [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude hippy name territory]].
365%% * Rosie Huntington-Whitley
366%% * [[Creator/TomHiddleston Thomas William Hiddleston]]
367%% * William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor AKA [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince William]].
368%% ** And his brother Henry Charles Albert David, more commonly known as Prince Harry.
369* Camilla Rosemary Shand, now Queen Camilla. ("Camilla" and "Rosemary" are both classic British upper-crust names; young Miss Shand was a debutante and the granddaughter of a baron who in fact went to finishing school in Switzerland.)
370* The Temple family (who were, in turn, Barons Cobham, Viscounts Cobham, Earls Temple, Marquesses of Buckingham, and Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos) kept marrying into bigger fortunes and adding surnames to reflect this. By the time they got to the 1822 creation of the final title, the Dukes possessed the ''quintuple-barrelled'' surname Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville... and then in 1889, the last Duke (whose full name and title, for the record, was the decidedly grand "Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos") died without male issue, and the only titles to survive were the Scottish Lordship of Kinross (which went to his daughter Mary Morgan-Grenville) and the Viscountcy of Cobham, which went to his very distant cousin with the utterly unassuming and only slightly Sloaney name "Charles George Lyttleton."
371* The (almost) unbelievably named British aristocrat Algernon William John Clotworthy Whyte-Melville Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene and Ferrard (1873-1956), whose name is so marvellously posh that it grandly sails well beyond parody.
372* NFL Quarterback [[Creator/PeytonManning Peyton Williams Manning]] and his dad Elisha Archibald "Archie" Manning III, his brother Elisha Nelson "Eli" Manning, plus the non-famous brother Cooper Manning. This one is kind of strange, because given their Southern backgrounds (they're from UsefulNotes/NewOrleans and have the accents to prove it), this puts some Americans in an "oh, they're hillbillies" frame of mind, but on one hand, those familiar with the South would recognize this pattern as common for the descendants of the old planter class and those with no idea the Mannings are Southerners would also jump to the "snob" conclusion.
373* English comedian Miles Jupp is a great example, with a name that sounds inherently Sloaney, despite its brevity. His stand-up shtick revolves around how posh he is.
374%%* Whimsically named English actress Tuppence Middleton.
375* The Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family, which includes its descendants, brothers Creator/{{Ralph|Fiennes}} (which, to add insult to injury, is pronounced "RAY-ff") and Creator/{{Joseph|Fiennes}}.
376* Two chief mechanical engineers of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR): [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bowen_Cooke Charles John Bowen-Cooke]] and Captain [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._M._Beames Hewitt Pearson Montague Beames]].
377* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Drax Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax]] is, believe it or not, a member of the House of '''Commons''' (he's a Tory MP for [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry South Dorset]]). The 'Family' section on his Wikipedia page is worth a read... (Creator/LordDunsany, his great-uncle, is just one of his numerous famous relations...)
378* Editor, literary critic, and occasional sportsman George Plimpton came from the New York upper crust, so naturally he was called "George Ames Plimpton" and sounded like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkatvkE8Zpw this]]. (Incidentally, his name does sound a bit like a law firm--in part [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debevoise_%26_Plimpton because his father founded one]].)
379* English sociologist Henry Mayhew once described the case of a lower-class servant girl with the first name ''Rosetta'' ("as if she had been a Duchess"), the master of the house evidently took offense to such presumptuousness and promptly renamed her "plain" Susan.
380* Actress Gabriella Wilde's full name is Gabriella Zanna Vanessa Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe.[[note]]See what we mean about "sounding like a law firm?" Wouldn't you trust your multi-million-pound/dollar litigation to Anstruther, Gough, & Calthorpe LLP?[[/note]] Her half-sister is Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. Other siblings include Olivia (but not that Creator/{{Olivia|Wilde}}, who is related to the slightly less posh Cockburn family), Arabella, Georgiana, Jacobi and Octavia. They are, of course, descendants of the Gough-Calthorpe family, who were made baronets in the 18th century and whose contributions to [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands Birmingham]] were deemed sufficient to take an element of their arms and place it on those of the city.
381* [[Creator/KieferSutherland Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland]]. He likes to joke that his [[Creator/DonaldSutherland father]] owed a lot of money and favors to a lot of people and gave away naming rights as recompense. In a twist, Kiefer's political views are in line with those of his maternal grandfather Tommy Douglas, the socialist former Premier of Saskatchewan who was instrumental in establishing Canada's single-payer healthcare system.
382* [[Creator/AndersonCooper Anderson Hays Cooper]], award-winning journalist and son of ''Gloria Vanderbilt''.
383* [[Creator/BenedictCumberbatch Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch]]. He even tried to make a career using the "Carlton" as a surname (as his father did as Timothy Carlton), but the preppier one was the one who propelled him to fame.
384* English actor Blake Harrison noted that when he was in acting school, he was expected and practically {{typecast|ing}} to play educated, intelligent characters, and wound up utter subverting it by becoming best known for playing [[TheDitz borderline terminally stupid]] [[Series/TheInbetweeners Neil Sutherland]].
385* This is oddly common with the real names of rappers. Music/KendrickLamar Duckworth, Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. (Music/SnoopDogg), Earl Simmons (Music/{{DMX}}), Reginald Noble (Redman), Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Music/{{Eminem}}), Curtis James Jackson III (Music/FiftyCent), and Percy Robert Miller (Music/MasterP), just to name a few.
386* Romantic poet Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (better known simply as Creator/LordByron) had an incredibly pretentious-sounding name, not even accounting for his full title.
387* Odd [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] with UsefulNotes/DanQuayle. When Quayle was selected by UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush as his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket for 1988; it was assumed that Quayle's full name (James Danforth Quayle) was an example, especially considering his maternal grandfather was famed newspaper publisher Eugene Pulliam (owner of several newspapers in Quayle's native Indiana as well as Arizona) with some (notably CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather) adding "III" out of habit. Quayle was actually named after a friend of Quayle's father who was [[DeadGuyJunior killed in action]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
388* [[Creator/PhoebeWallerBridge Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge]], who has baronets on both the paternal and maternal sides of her family, and whose surname has led to its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAhRElh8wwQ fair shake of jokes]]. Granted, while "Phoebe" may not sound that posh, her sister, composer Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge, makes up for that.
389* [[Creator/TheBBC BBC journalist]] Rupert Anthony Wingfield-Hayes checks most of the boxes for a posh English name.
390* Jacob Rees-Mogg has a surname that evokes the oft-encountered vague absurdness of Sloaney names. He's a [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem British MP]], who is nicknamed the Honourable Member for the Eighteenth Century for his absurdly old-fashioned poshness.
391* English Olympic equestrian star Pippa Funnell, whose name not only sounds ''incredibly'' jolly hockey-sticks but also vaguely (and humorously) suggestive.
392* People who announce the births of their children in the pages of [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Telegraph]] are from the posher end of British society. In 2019, the most popular girls' name was Ottilie, a name which wasn't even in the national top 100. [[https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2020/01/most-popular-names-in-the-telegraph-2019.html Behold the details!]]
393* The passenger list of the [[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]] contained numerous names that could qualify, especially in first class. The best examples would be Major Archibald Willingham Butt and Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon.
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