Slightly unusual 1920s/30s names?

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...For a girl or boy? I have already reluctantly ruled out Wallis (for a girl) but perhaps things along those lines?

Betty
Lois
Evelyn
Florence
Rose
Martha
Lillian
Audrey
Vivienne
Nancy
Pearl

Emil
Nathaniel
Otis
Billy
Lyle
Patrick
Sam
Jimmy
Jesse

Thanks.

Otis is a truly brilliant name!

Had thought about Martha and still like it but just read an autobiog of Martha Gellhorn and she sounds like a right pain in the bum. It has put me off a bit. DD1 middle name is Rose.

I always like Effie

liked

THinking of Mitfords and other famous between the wars figures

Nancy
Pamela
Diana
Unity
Decca (Jessica)
Debo (Deborah)

Clementine
Cynthia (Cimmie)
Emerald

top 100 here

and here

Can't get the name Lettice out my mind.

Maybe read some early Agatha Christies to get a few ideas.......

Cynthia puts me in mind of Sylvia

GetOrf beat me to it with the Mitfords!

Cora or Genevieve

Ursula
Monica
Daphne
Winifred
Eileen

Clarice

What about Ida?

...Or Gilbert (this has been rubbished in previous MN threads, I've noticed, but I truly love it!)

Dorothy
Joan
Margaret
Frances
Gloria
Rita
Lorraine
Kathleen
Sylvia
Edith
Marion

Donald
Francis
Jerome/Jerry
Laurence
Peter
Edwin
Neville
Walter
Clifford
Raymond
Harold

Audrey
Muriel
Edna
May
Sarah
Elizabeth
Maud
Gwendolyn
Ivy
Hazel
Clara
Caroline
Julia
Freda
Linda
Eleanor

Thomas (Tom)
Richard (Dick)
Henry (Harry)
Alfred
Ernest
George
Frederick (Fred)
Cecil
Percy
Eric
Charles (Charlie)
William (Bill)
Dennis

We had Emmeline for DC3 (had a DS) but I loved that name and fancied giving a DD the name of an insipring woman !

if dd had been ds I loved Cosmo

Twyla
Isadora

Oops missed the bit on slightly unusual.

Sybil
Eugenie

Gerald
Eric

Sheila
Lavender
Lavinia

Angus/Augustus (Gussie)
Cyril
Cecil
Cyprian
Ernest

Have a flick through the character list of a JB Priestley play, or read some Wodehouse - loads in there!

Eric is a great suggestion missmiss. Due a revival I think :)

Lovely names on here. I think quite a few are due a revival. I particularly like

Margaret
Martha

Leonard
Quentin