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Victorian Names site - bonkers girls names

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 19/01/2012 21:38

ooooh
just been looking at victorian names

look at the down low numbers -

Lala
Paralee
Zelia

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toomuchmonthatendofthemoney · 25/01/2012 11:16

In the 1890s section number 106 is Julius and then 107 is August !! Weird coincidence or ...... ? Wink

zipzap · 25/01/2012 11:08

Oh and I was looking up something yesterday about local history and came across somebody with the first name (as inscribed on his headstone) of 'Nump'. Ok so it was more a Tudor/Stewart name than Victorian but can you imagine being called Nump!!!

zipzap · 25/01/2012 11:06

I've come across someone my sort of age (40s) who had aunts with definite boys names - think it was steve and Gary (but it was 20 odd years ago so I could be a bit wrong) - the parents had been hoping for boys and chosen boys names. When thwarted by nature they just used the boys names anyway because they liked them.

winterreise · 24/01/2012 21:02

Many of these sound American and they didn't have a Queen Victoria. My family tree has hundreds of Victorian names and they're ALL very conventional. It was the following generations which went mad with new names.

phlossie · 24/01/2012 18:24

Dave? Grant? Victorian?! Pearl and Elizabeth for a boy? Christ???

Made up, surely!

DessieLou · 24/01/2012 13:32

I have a male relative called Pheobus...I kinda love it!

mathanxiety · 23/01/2012 05:38

Feel sorry for the girls named John, Fred, Walter, Harry, Robert and Ova, Concepcion and Birtha, and the boys named Edith, Martha, Irene and Mildred (I feel sorry for the girls named Mildred too).

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 22/01/2012 22:12

err a woman called grover! that's fab. imagine that treat at school....

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 22/01/2012 22:12

still like emmett for a boy Smile

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scampadoodle · 20/01/2012 19:59

I used to know a woman called Grover. It wasn't 150 years ago though even if it feels like it...
Everett makes me think of Kenny [shows age]

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 20/01/2012 19:51

kind of 'forfeit' crossed with 'surplus' Grin

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AThingInYourLife · 20/01/2012 19:26

Love Surfeit for a 13th child :o

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 20/01/2012 19:21

no. 225 Wiley

aka a current rapper ...

or a determined yet unsuccessful coyote

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 20/01/2012 19:20

Adolph possibly not as popular

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 20/01/2012 19:19

love Emmett too - a hollyoaks actor's real name,
and Doc doc come in doc!! Doc Brown from back to the futures

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 20/01/2012 19:18

lol Grover - muppet name

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 20/01/2012 19:18

I like Everett for a boy too

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ThePsychicSatsuma · 20/01/2012 19:16

very thomas hardy Smile

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chickensaresafehere · 20/01/2012 16:33

My great aunt was called Bathsheba,I think it's a great name,but didn't have the balls to name my dd's it Blush
Wish I had Grin

ShirleyForAllSeasons · 20/01/2012 16:20

arf.

SoupDragon · 20/01/2012 16:13

I am saying nothing about ill education still being rife now.

Doh!

ShirleyForAllSeasons · 20/01/2012 16:09

yy Soup - and Birtha.

Aw, but they were proper ill-educated innit?

SoupDragon · 20/01/2012 16:07

I see that "creative" spellings were alive and well in the 1890s : Anner.

ShirleyForAllSeasons · 20/01/2012 16:04

Wm is my favourite.

TheSurgeonsMate · 20/01/2012 16:04

I'm just reading a case report of a legal action which took place in 1869 and it says here the "testator...had conceived a violent aversion to a man named Featherstone Alexander." Great name!

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