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Not common but traditional baby name...

36 replies

MAMAW31 · 03/05/2021 23:18

What's your best unusual but traditional baby name?

Ones that aren't used often! Smile

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MercyBodle · 04/05/2021 05:42

Gillian and Edgar

LandGirlJudy · 04/05/2021 04:42

Judith

Fivemoreminutes1 · 04/05/2021 04:30

Mabel
Rosalind
Marianne
Beatrix
Pearl
Edith
Lucinda
Elsie
Millicent

Wilfred
Tobias
Nicholas

Rockmehardplace · 04/05/2021 02:11

I’ve always thought Caroline should be used more than it is! That and Laura for girls.

Michael for a boy.

Puffalicious · 04/05/2021 00:53

*Cecilia

Puffalicious · 04/05/2021 00:53

Helena
Constance
Ceiling
Jocasta

Fergus
Hamish

Crocidura · 04/05/2021 00:51

Mary

AuntieStella · 04/05/2021 00:50

Ariadne, Winifred, Edwina

Kimberley

Horace, Cornelius, Bedevere

IamnotwhouthinkIam · 04/05/2021 00:50

Depends on what you mean by traditional - but you might be thinking of classic names that were more popular 30/40 plus years ago, but that are (sometimes a long way!) outside the top 100 now -

Stephen
Nicholas
Laurence
Dominic
Benedict
Martin
Simon
Phillip
Mark
John
Hugh
Robert
Paul
Christopher
Gregory
Edmund
Peter

Caroline
Catherine
Sarah
Laura
Amy
Julia
Victoria
Lydia
Mary
Margaret
Frances
Louise
Claire
Ruth
Anne
Helen
Jane
Cecily
Alexandra
Philippa
Georgina

SeanChailleach · 03/05/2021 23:56

Hard to say but assuming you mean white English Anglican tradition...

Hepzibah for a girl
Moses for a boy

Mumbot345635 · 03/05/2021 23:42

Clarabel
Augusta

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