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Looking for girls names popular in early 1920s UK?

66 replies

farfromtree · 02/06/2014 09:51

Can anyone suggest any please?

Thanks

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DessieLou · 02/06/2014 13:05

Love these! How about Nora or Inez?

JiltedJohnsJulie · 02/06/2014 11:04

Paddington just checked your list and my Aunt was Elsie. Thanks Smile

She died in infancy, and I'm quite old hence the forgetfulness Smile

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farfromtree · 02/06/2014 10:59

Wow. What a response. You're all brilliant, thanks a lot.

I'm a fiction writer. I was struggling with a name for a female character born early 1920s.

Thanks again

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C4ro · 02/06/2014 10:58

Mary and Jean were my grans (1915/1918 vintages).

BikeRunSki · 02/06/2014 10:55

My GM was born in 1919 in Scotland and was am exotic Rosita.

dontevenblink · 02/06/2014 10:49

My Grandma was born in the 1920s and her name is Sybil Alice and her sister was Eve. Was wondering if Sybil might start to make a comeback due to Downton Abbey, but not quite yet...

VelvetStrider · 02/06/2014 10:41

Quite a few Fannys back then, you might want to avoid that name though!

Pollaidh · 02/06/2014 10:39

Josephine, Margaret, Mary, Marjorie?

meditrina · 02/06/2014 10:35

Thinking round my family tree: Rose, Hilda, Margaret, Dorothy, Elizabeth, Joyce.

TheWoollybacksWife · 02/06/2014 10:34

My dad was born in the 1920's. His sisters names were Norah and Kathleen. His SILs were Catherine, Dorothy, Elizabeth and Irene, so I imagine they were all fairly popular names of the time.

callow · 02/06/2014 10:29

One I liked when doing my family tree was a relative named Alice but she was only known as Lallie. It was quite a common nickname in the 1920s for Alice.

elQuintoConyo · 02/06/2014 10:07

Millie. As in Thoroughly Modern.(Julie Andrews film, hilarious!)

Paddingtonthebear · 02/06/2014 10:00

The top 100 names for baby girls born in England and Wales, 1924:

For girls:
1 Margaret
2 Mary
3 Joan
4 Joyce
5 Dorothy
6 Kathleen
7 Doris
8 Irene
9 Elizabeth
10 Eileen
11 Betty
12 Jean
13 Marjorie
14 Gladys
15 Doreen
16 Vera
17 Elsie
18 Barbara
19 Winifred
20 Edna
21 Audrey
22 Edith
23 Florence
24 Phyllis
25 Lillian
26 Hilda
27 Olive
28 Annie
29 Violet
30 Alice
31 Patricia
32 Ivy
33 Muriel
34 Iris
35 Evelyn
36 Peggy
37 Catherine
38 Ethel
39 Beryl
40 Gwendoline
41 Ellen
42 Sylvia
43 Sheila
44 Rose
45 Constance
46 Frances
47 Lily
48 Freda
49 Marion
50 Nancy

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 02/06/2014 10:00

Joan, Margaret (Peggy), Dorothy, Edith, Constance, Joyce, Doris, Lily/Lilian...

giddly · 02/06/2014 09:59

Elizabeth, Mary, June, Freda, Edith, Kay, Majorie, Margaret

JiltedJohnsJulie · 02/06/2014 09:56

Some of my Aunties were born in the 1920s. Lillian, Rose, Nora and Gladys. There was one more but I never met her and can't remember her name atm, might pop back later if I do remember.

Any reason why you want a 20's name?