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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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ILovethe90s · 28/04/2018 17:16

isombard

frobisher

TatianaLarina · 28/04/2018 17:13

Jocasta is a great name, I know one.

TatianaLarina · 28/04/2018 17:12

Sophia pronounced Sof eye a and Maria pronounced Mar eye a are 100% 18c. Or Georgiana pronounced George ayna.

VileyRose · 28/04/2018 17:01

Agatha
Maxwell

ABCFamily · 28/04/2018 13:46

GIRLS:
Agnes
Cecily
Cordelia
Dinah
Flora
Henrietta
Hester
Jemima
Lavinia
Letitia
Marjorie
Marianne
Millicent
Priscilla
Rosetta
Theodora
Wilhelmina

BOYS:
Abraham
Algernon
Ambrose
Amos
Archibald
Aubrey
Bertram
Cecil
Cedric
Clarence
Clement
Cornelius
Edgar
Elias
Ephraim
Francis
Leopold
Reginald
Solomon
Valentine
Vernon
Walter

userabcname · 28/04/2018 13:29

Ernest / Ernestina

nurseryage · 28/04/2018 13:23

Baxter, Sterling, Augustus, Silas, Phineas

Clara, Kitty, Eliza, Winnie, Luella

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Praisebe · 28/04/2018 13:20

So far we like Edmund and Percival for boys and Octavia and Jocasta for girls but struggling to come up with anything else

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Praisebe · 28/04/2018 13:19

What about Gaylord for a boy and Hedwig for a girl according to that link 😂😂 those are American names too I'm looking at British names

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BikeRunSki · 28/04/2018 13:19

All those virtue names for girls Prudence, Hope, Grace, Felicity, Verity Faith, Charity, Constance, Joy, Charity, Mercy

Noble, Prosper, Sage

IVflytrap · 28/04/2018 13:11

Mary
Ann
Honor
Hepzibah
Prudence
Caroline
Susannah
Phyllis
Clarissa
Maud
Hilda
Adela

John
Eli
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Simeon
Josiah
Horace
Ernest
Howard
Victor
Walter
Bernard

stellinaa · 28/04/2018 13:08

For a girl:
Adelaide, Adelia, Audrey, Georgiana, Lillian, Lucy, Rayne, Josephine (nn. Josie), Caroline, Christiana, Hazel, Esther, Eliza, Eleanora, Rosa, Ruby, Annie.

For a boy:
Josiah, Solomon, Fletcher, Charles, Baxter, Cassius, Edmund, Franklin, Harvey, Henry, Hugo, Jerome, Luther, Oscar, Sterling, Watson, Wesley.

MrsFantastic · 28/04/2018 13:05

www.baby2see.com/names/1890s.html

MrsFantastic · 28/04/2018 13:02

Fanny.

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Praisebe · 28/04/2018 12:59
Confused
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TheBitchOfTheVicar · 28/04/2018 12:27

Lettice springs immediately to mind.