Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Old fashioned but unusual girls names, help!

91 replies

durhamgirl · 28/07/2015 00:15

DD due in a few weeks and really struggling to find a name! Looking for something old, not common and not weird! Does such a name exist?!

My son has a name from the chronicles of narnia, a horse and his boy book and my daughter has an old English name that has been used more in the US in recent years.

---------------------

Psst - this thread is a little old. If you’re looking for old-fashioned baby names, these ones are due a comeback. MNHQ

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Ipushedmygrannyaffabus · 28/07/2015 03:03

Angharad
Kay
Violet
Veronica
Constance
Louisa
Hope
Yolande

Ipushedmygrannyaffabus · 28/07/2015 02:55

Sadie
Bridget
Bridey
Alkelda

Baffledmumtoday · 28/07/2015 02:29

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

SueGeneris · 28/07/2015 01:56

Alethea
Zuleika

FatSwan · 28/07/2015 01:42

I have an Abigail, I think that name sounds like your criteria but I'm biased in loving it Wink

I also liked Ada, Iris, Anne and Hannah.

MamaMotherMummy · 28/07/2015 01:37

Pearl
Ida
Mabel
Cora
Maude
Lillian
Edna
Edith
Myrtle
Hattie
Frances
Ada
Josephine
Agnes
Agatha
Blanche
Elsie
Stella
Betsy
Effie
Ellen
Nettie
Alma
Flora
Etta
Viola
Hazel
Jane
Virginia
Mildred
Beulah
Eliza
Belle
Theresa
Henrietta
Marion
Anne
Dorothy
Evelyn
Delia
Betty
Gladys
Winifred
Hilda
Marguerite
Eunice
Genevieve
Loretta
Jean
Lois
Lucinda
Helena
Freda
Regina
Norma
Cynthia
Louella
Cordelia
Mandy
Bonnie
Priscilla
Bridget
Veronica

barbecue · 28/07/2015 01:20

Aurora
Jennifer
Diana
Seren
Hermione
Isadora
Victoria
Beatrice
Talia
Rachel
Penelope
Xanthe
Zoe
Clara
Emmeline
Miranda
Georgiana
Rebecca

ancientbuchanan · 28/07/2015 00:59

Mildred
Millicent
Ethel/dreda
Frideswide
Mechtilde/Matilda/Maude/maud
Imogen
Isolde/Iseult
Ghislaine

Old fashioned, not old
Janet
Jean/Jeanie
Florence
Parthenope
Danae
Lettice\Letitia
Grizel/griselda
Sybil/Sybilla

What was the star's daughter called in the voyage of the dawn tread er? Might be worth looking that up...

Aravis

reuset · 28/07/2015 00:58

Though I've altered a spelling or so to my own preference Grin

reuset · 28/07/2015 00:57

I've gone for mid to late middle ages used names for most of my suggestions Grin

Cecily is super trendy where I live and on the rise.

reuset · 28/07/2015 00:53

Adelheid
Claramund
Euphemia
Clemency
Angelica
Dulcie
Frieda
Meredith

YellowTangerine · 28/07/2015 00:53

I love the name Mildred.

LondonRocks · 28/07/2015 00:51

Ruth
Jane
Joy
Elspeth
Gwendoline
Juliet

badtime · 28/07/2015 00:48

What do you mean by old?
Do you mean Erminburga and Berengaria or Cecily and Leonora?

Selks · 28/07/2015 00:19

Esme
Harriet
Claudia
Esther
Bethan

LineRunner · 28/07/2015 00:18

Elinore
Magdelene
Hilda

Swipe left for the next trending thread