Vctorian /Edwardian names please

[nymphadora]

We are stuck! Everything we like is v popular. Not helped by the fact we both work with children & have vivid memories of certain names

Not to start /end in an A. Not to start witha C or H. not to be too common!

TIA :)

Boy or girl?

There's a list of 50 Victorian Boys and Girls nameshere

Esther and Lawrence don't have those letters you are looking to avoid.

HTH

Need both! Like Jasper BUT it's getting popular cos of Twilight & we don't love it so are still looking...

Thanks for the link , google is NOT my friend today!

I also like Martha but it doesn't go with our surname

Assuming you've gone through all the 'traditional' names -

Edwin/Edward/Edgar (v edwardian!)

Oscar (Wilde)

Arthur
Bertie
Wilfred
Percy, Stanley, Reginald, Walter (none of which I'd choose personally, but they're that period)

Girls

Flower names very victorian/edwardian but also popular now - Lily, Poppy, Rose etc

Adelaide, Florence

I like Edward but again it's getting popular ( bloody twilight has loads of good names!)

Just wrote off Florence due to popularity & Tories!

Surname is a pita as loads don't go with it. Dds names are Edwardian & earlier so trying to match up a bit but inspiration is lacking

Oh I've just noticed the Cameron name thread

Tilly (Matilda)
Elspeth
Beatrice/x (always makes me think of Fergie though)
Mary (not popular at all nowadays for some reason)
Lots of Mary-anns in my family tree
Susan

I like Edward too. There were a lot of names starting with 'ed...' but my brain can't go beyond ones already mentioned. Oh, Edmund!

Would Emmeline fit?

A family friend called her DD this several years ago and at the time I really wasn't sure of it but I think it's lovely now.

I love Matilda( Tilly ) but doesn't go v well with our surname. Maybe if we practice it

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Am particularly liking
Beatrix
Merle
May
Marguerite/Margot
Evelyn
Ivy
Inez
Carrie
Katharine
Louise
Alix

Thanks Silvj :)

Trillby

My pleasure :)

Ashby
Asher
Arlington
Anson
Aloysius
Alton
Arch
Boston
Bedford
Bishop
Crockett
Chesley
Cruz
Creed
Clovis
Crawford
Cullen
Colonel
Carson
Coleman
Cassius
Cyrus
Cornelius
Clyde
Claude
Denver
Dexter
Delmar
Doctor
Dillard
Dempsey
Dante
Dock
Erasmus
Elick
Edson
Eben
Eldridge
Emerson
Emory
Enoch
Ellis
Finley
Freeman
Foster
Fletcher
Gardner
Gideon
Grady
General
Halsey
Hunt
Hayes
Hilliard
Hezekiah
Hobart
Haskell
Harris
Horace
Harley
Harrison
Isam
Judson
Judge
Jasper
Justice
Jarrett
Junious
Jones
Jarvis
Knute
Kit
King
Leonidas
Lawyer
Lyle
Llewellyn
Lowell
Larkin
Leander
Lucien
Lawson
Luther
Miller
Merlin
McKinley
Merrill
Major
Merritt
Millard
Noble
Norris
Napoleon
Nelson
Osborne
Orson
Oakley
Palmer
Pink
Pierce
Porter
Parley
Quentin
Ransom
Raleigh
Stanton
Sanders
Sumner
Silas
Sterling
Titus
Tilden
Theron
Thornton
Thaddeus
Ulysses
Urban
Wylie
Watson
Wheeler
Wyatt

Aurelia
Althea
Arabella
Arminta
Audra
Ada
Agnes
Alta
Adele
Agatha
Amalia
Blanche
Beryl
Calla
Clotilda
Coral
Caldonia
Cornelia
Constance
Clementine
Cordelia
Dove
Delphia
Drucilla
Docia**
Delphine
Ethel
Elsie
Estelle
Eula
Eugenia
Elnora
Elvira
Eloise
Euphemia
Fairy
Fern
Fay
Gertrude
Geneva
Garnet
Honora
Harriet
Helene
Hortencia
Ida
Inez
Ivy
Iona
Iris
Imogene
Jemima
Kitty
Love
Lula
Lela
Luella
Lura
Lucinda
Lenora
Leola
Lyda
Lucretia
Matilda
Mabel
Myrtle
Mildred
Mina
Minerva
Meta
Muriel
Mahala
Millicent
Magnolia
Neva
Nola
Nova
Novella
Odessa
Olive
Ora
Ophelia
Octavia
Pansy
Philomena
Prudence
Palma
Pinkie
Pearla
Queen
Rowena
Rosetta
Sigrid
Sophronia
Selma
Sudie
Thora
Ursula
Viola
Violet
Vesta
Vallie
Vada
Verona
Winona
Winnifred
Zelma
Zenobia
Zora
Zella

Doesn't anyone want to suggest Victoria and Edward or is that just me? [terribly unhelpful emoticon]

My granny (born in 1914 so nearly Edwarian) and older brothers were called

Edna, Edgar and James (known as Jimmy).

She never liked her name btw