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Old fashioned

31 replies

Idontlikeunicorns · 27/11/2017 13:32

Looking for old fashioned girls and boys names that aren’t too common. We like old school traditional names but I know this is very ‘trendy’ atm so don’t want them to be too common (happy with top 50/100 but not top 20) TIA

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FinnegansCake · 29/11/2017 15:15

Leonora
Emmeline
Millicent
Rosamund
Lavinia

Edwin
Edmund
Christopher
David
Algernon

Erica891 · 29/11/2017 15:04

Madison, Virginia, Annabel, Elionor, Rupert, Alexander, Rudolph

dillytilly · 29/11/2017 15:00

Rupert
Hugh
John
Edward
Charles
Nicholas
Frederick
Pierce
Guy
Alexander

Elizabeth
Mary
Caroline
Ada
Charlotte
Alexandra
Marigold

AlmostChristmas · 28/11/2017 20:42

Constance

LovelyBranches · 28/11/2017 20:27

Renee
Cecelia
Lily
Mable
Ada
Doreen
Jean
Marjorie
Audrey
Emmeline

FawnDrench · 28/11/2017 20:16

Dennis
Cyril
Frank
Stanley
Sylvester
Brian
Gerald / Gerard

Daphne
Rowena
Sybil
Josephine
Vivienne
Deirdre
Brenda

RemoteControlledChaos · 28/11/2017 20:06

I'm thinking of Jean for my bump if it's a girl but can't decide if it's a step too far (although seeing some of the names on here, it feels pretty tame)

TheVanguardSix · 28/11/2017 19:55

Simon
Royston
Richard
Theodore
Jarlath
Jarvis
Frederick
Laurence

TeaCoffeeCakeGinWine · 28/11/2017 19:52

Cecily for a girl. Very old English name and still unusual, have never met another

Backhometothenorth · 28/11/2017 19:32

Annie
Esther
Olive

Leonard
Sidney

WildebeestH · 28/11/2017 19:28

We have a Beth (nn for Elizabeth) and rarely meet others.

Prettyprettygood · 28/11/2017 08:35

I have a Stanley and a Leonard, names in my list were

Albert
Frank
Ted
Laurence
Vincent
Sidney

Florence
Josephine
Juliet
Matilda

AlmostChristmas · 28/11/2017 07:45

Oh and Vanessa, Verity, Trinity...

AlmostChristmas · 28/11/2017 07:09

Ida
Mary
Margaret
Margarita
Marguerite
Magdalena
Susan
Gillian
Heather
Prudence
Effel
Elsie

Nicholas
Arnold
Franklin
Edwin
Victor
Bartholomew
Benedict
Archibald

uktired · 27/11/2017 21:46

Odette
Meredith
Leslie
Penelope
Esther
Allison
Barbara

Willem
Wilfred
Eugene
August
Lloyd
Hamilton
Vincent
Victor
Samson
Kenneth

TotalBlamBlam · 27/11/2017 21:42

Elizabeth (nn Lizzie)
Alexander

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 27/11/2017 20:06

Adeline
Josephine
Caroline
Evelyn
Beryl
Winifred
Klara
Shirley
Wendy

Jack
Jethro
Sidney
Evan
Stephen
Neil
Trevor
Glen

loobybear · 27/11/2017 20:04

Frederick (Freddie)
Roderick (Roddy)
Edwin

June
Christine
Victoria
Margaret
Rosemary

Smoliver · 27/11/2017 19:50

Martha
Mabel
Helen
Cora
Lula
Elsie
Etta
Nora

Walter
Winston
Wilfred
Raymond
Alistair
Johnathan
Patrick
Franklin

bridgetreilly · 27/11/2017 16:58

Hereward
Edgar
Edwin

GinnyWreckin · 27/11/2017 16:57

If you’re talking about Eurocentric, Christian names(?) the names of the virtues are always good value:
Charity
Hope
Patience etc etc
Temperance, shortened to Tempe is my favourite

Then basically all of Queen Victoria’s children’s names, and all the names of every royal house member in Christendom.

Jared, Florian, Silas, Jasper, Edward, Tobias, Albert, Pip, or any name from Dickens

Names from Shakespeare.

Caesar, Darius, Philippe, Maximillian, Helder, Olaf may be a bit too much?!

Rubyslippers7780 · 27/11/2017 16:45

Paul
Joseph
Gabriel
David
Seth
Peter
Edmund
Donald
John
Thomas
Wilfred
Walter
Archibald
Eric
Adam
Bernard

17caterpillars1mouse · 27/11/2017 16:43

Adeline could maybe be shortened to Ada or Adelaide I know the start sound is different but i think it could work

BadCarrot · 27/11/2017 15:51

Clarice,
Hope,
Faith,

Charity,

Rosemary,
Rose,

Rebecca,
Ruth,
Rachel

Ernest,
Samuel,
Isaac
Albert,
Maurice,
Stanleigh
Stanley

Navegante · 27/11/2017 15:44

Dulcie
Robert