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Old English boy and girl names please!

41 replies

scruffpom · 08/12/2017 20:59

We have one dc who has a very old English name and are now expecting dc#2. Please help us with old names that you can think of. Thanks in advance

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Sugarpiehoneyeye · 09/12/2017 15:11

Joyce
Sybil
Martha

John
Louis
Francis

NinonDeLenclos · 09/12/2017 14:02

Georgiana, Sophia (pronounced So fye a), Maria (pronounced Ma rye a), Alexandra, Victoria, Amelia, Henrietta, Josephine, Agnes, Violet, Rose, Myrtle, Flora, Cora, Millicent, Nelly, Alice, Florence, Matilda, Stella/Estella, Cecilia, Ophelia.

EvilRinguBitch · 09/12/2017 00:34

I do love Aethelstan. It’s the name I wasn’t brave enough for. But if you want something a bit more modern than that there’s always
Nehemiah
Tribulation
Fly-fornication (now that really would give the “he’ll get teased at school” crowd something to shout about).

MissUnderwood · 09/12/2017 00:25

Bridget
Pearl
Rose
Grace
Virginia

Stephen
James
Harold

MissUnderwood · 09/12/2017 00:20

John
Anthony
Joseph
Arthur
Roy
Terrence
Peter
Frank
Francis
Simon

Wendy
Joan
Jane
Janice
Josephine
Philippa
Rachel
Mary
Victoria
Eve

Tigger001 · 09/12/2017 00:14

Bridget (Bridie)
Gertrude
Joan
Margaret
Winifred

littlemisscomper · 09/12/2017 00:13

I like Patience, but it would only work if she had a quiet, demure, patient sort of personality. If she was lively and sassy and impatient it would be dreadful!

MissUnderwood · 09/12/2017 00:13

Richard
Edwin
Sidney
Martin
David
Michael
Howard
Ernest

Agnes
Florence
Nancy
Helen
Elena
Mildred
Betsy

Movablefeast · 09/12/2017 00:07

Fanny
Betsy
Corinda
Richenda

SparklyUnicornTractors · 08/12/2017 22:45

Susan
Dorothy/Dolly
John
Lynne
Mary
Martin

BlueChampagne · 08/12/2017 22:40

Emma covers both bases

Conrad?

trinitybleu · 08/12/2017 22:22

Aethelflaed Sandra

Ginnotginger · 08/12/2017 22:15

Sorry tried to do columns and I didn't preview the post. It was meant to be George, Norman etc not Norman as a middle name, Constance was known as Connie. Annie was a different relative.

Tigresswoods · 08/12/2017 22:12

Someone upthread mentioned Obadiah, love that.

Anyone else remember Jeremiah Obadiah Jackanory Jones?

Ginnotginger · 08/12/2017 22:09

George Norman
Derek Malcolm
Leslie Trevor
David Job
Frank/Francis
Raymond
John
Eli
Ebenezer
Joseph
Sidney

Louisa Eliza
Gladys Jane
Constance/Connie Annie
Edna

Sadie
Sara Ann
Doreen
Daisy
Betty
Sheila
Elsie
Janice

All these are names a few generations back in my family.

CakesRUs · 08/12/2017 21:46

Percy
Mable

expatinscotland · 08/12/2017 21:41

Osbert
Cedric
Baldrick
Aethelstan

Mildred
Hilda
Agnes
Edith
Ethel

ifigoup · 08/12/2017 21:37

Jessamine
Thomasina
Annis
Linnet
Edith

Roger
Jehan
Tobias
Toseland
Percival

RedHairing · 08/12/2017 21:36

Olive
Kenneth

SparklyUnicornTractors · 08/12/2017 21:35

I was loving the Anglo Saxon name lists! Three to four gens back:

Joan
Jean
Lucy
Elizabeth
Margaret
Anne
Sylvia

Jeremy
Malcolm
Donald
Richard
Arthur
Nicholas

OublietteBravo · 08/12/2017 21:33

I like Wilfred, Edwin, Ivo or Niall for a boy.

For a girl, maybe Judith, Caroline, Anne or Cecily.

LifeOfRiley63 · 08/12/2017 21:29

Love this thread!

ScreamingValenta · 08/12/2017 21:27

Another vote for Aethelfryth

Melfish · 08/12/2017 21:26

Aethelflaed Sandra sounds quite good!

genever · 08/12/2017 21:23

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