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Victorian name ideas

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Praisebe · 28/04/2018 12:26

Any ideas for old names that don't get used anymore ? We love the Georgian and Victorian era's so want to go with something from those times for either boy or girl we don't know the sex yet

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Marioki · 30/04/2018 19:29

Constance
Jessamine
Hester
Beulah
Dinah
Merle

I used this as the source as a lot of these would have been born in the Victorian era.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_supercentenarians

mathanxiety · 30/04/2018 07:14

From my granny's siblings - Ines, Magdalena, Eva, Alfred, John Henry.
Grandad's - Marjorie, Philip, Edward, George, Dominic, Eleanore.

Suggestions:
Eudora
Winifred
Ada
Dorothy
Agatha
Honoria
Cordelia
Minerva
Theodosia
Jane
Drusilla

Rudolph
Humphrey
Erasmus
Cornelius
Phineas
Nathaniel
Cyril
Barnaby
Cecil
Bertram
Eustace
Archibald

ErrantBakedBean · 29/04/2018 20:27

Another britishbabynames list that has the right feel - www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/11/upright-elegance.html

BikeRunSki · 29/04/2018 07:57

Clarence
Ambrose
Isambard

Millicent
Lorina
Edith

Buntysoven · 28/04/2018 22:48

Jocasta is gorgeous. Edwin is my favourite boys name. I've got 2 girls

firefirejugdypantsonfire · 28/04/2018 21:58

Xavier for a boy ? It's not Victorian but it's an old classic. I also like Cecil or Stanley

And what about Irenee, Cressida, Arabella or Mabel. Martha is old but quite popular now & American vibe.

I had a doll I named Clementine when I was younger !!! Grin

ILovethe90s · 28/04/2018 21:20

Estella
Abel
Herbert
Orlick
Bentley
Edwin
clemetine
Cora
della
Harriet
Hazel
Henrietta
Ottilie
sophronia
cassius
Enoch
Everett
Franklin
Gilbert
Grover
Ivor
silas
Sterling
Thaddeus

or you can look here
www.momjunction.com/articles/victorian-baby-names-for-girls-boys_00408299/

Carolwithane · 28/04/2018 20:36

Clara or Jocelyn

CremeEggThief · 28/04/2018 20:33

I think Florence and William were the most popular names in late Victorian times.

MikeUniformMike · 28/04/2018 20:28

Isn't it Xerxes?

DwangelaForever · 28/04/2018 20:27

Ebenezer

DwangelaForever · 28/04/2018 20:26

Timothy

TomHardyswife · 28/04/2018 20:23

I'd go with Edmund or Jocasta. Not keen on Percival and Octavia reminds me of a Jilly Cooper book.

Struggle with boys names but love Clara and Evangeline.

Sunafterstorm · 28/04/2018 18:48

In my family:
Daisy, Violet, Lilla, Muriel, Helen (Nellie), Annie, Hannah Louisa, Rene, Kate
Albert, Alfred, Herbert, Thomas, Neil, Archibald

NC4Now · 28/04/2018 18:42

Evelyn

Jethro

TheChineseChicken · 28/04/2018 18:40

Bathsheba is an awesome name

Octonaught · 28/04/2018 18:35

Maud, Jessamine,

The boys names are fab, what a choice:
Xerses, Urquhart, Urban, Pericles, Fenwick, Alaric, Justinian, Vespin, Voltaire, Leander, Octavius, Axel

Some one should have produced this list for Kate:
HRH Prince Xerses Urquhart Justinian of Cambridge

timeistight · 28/04/2018 18:23

Adelaide or Verity for a girl.

KnittinKitten · 28/04/2018 18:19

Keziah or Zilpha Grin

Sophronia · 28/04/2018 18:17

Ernest
Walter
Clarence
Sidney
Leonard
Edwin
Gilbert
Cecil
Morris
Eric
Roland
Clement
Amos
Bertram
Abel
Solomon
Hugh
Abraham
Eugene
Raymond
Stanley
Ralph

Annie
Ellen
Ada
Lilian
Dorothy
Winifred
Constance
Ethel
Ida
Rosina
Honora
Gwen
Enid
Thirza
Stella
Dinah
Sylvia
Clarice
Alma
Irene
Lavinia
Vera
Agnes

Whisperquietly · 28/04/2018 17:46

Louisa, Dorcas, Pamela (my favourite!), Henrietta, Mildred, Dorothea

BluthsFrozenBananas · 28/04/2018 17:41

I often walk my dog in a Victorian cemetery and I love to read the gravestones. Most of the names are very traditional but these are some of the more unusual.

Philadelphia
Amphillia
Loveday
Ambrosia
Cinderella (!)
Lillia
Evangeline

Hector
Edmund
Woodrow
Ambrose

florascotia2 · 28/04/2018 17:31

This site has lots of accurate, real-life Victorian examples; here is just one list:

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/historic-names/

ILovethe90s · 28/04/2018 17:21

Bathsheba

Gabriel

I didn't just look at far from the madding crowd

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