Slightly unusual 1920s/30s names?

[Flowerface]

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

Those lists from Tomhardy are fabulous - very glam and US - Dolores, Velma, Jewel, Georgette, and Robert for girls, Marion for boys.

Ooh some GORGEOUS names!

Eric had a little revival a few years ago due to Monsieur Cantona.

Ooh, Quentin or Cosmo are great!

I LOVE Clara but DH hates it...

I really love Phyllis. It was my grandma's name and I never thought I'd like it (she hated it). But I've been reading 'The Children's Book' by A S Byatt and it's really grown on me.

Cora is fabulous! Loving all the ladies suggestions though, there are some absolute gems here!
I'm going to add...

Asta
Ava
Cara
Cecilia
Claudette
Colette
Cordelia
Elisha
Elsa
Ginevra
Ginger
Greta
Hortencia
Iva
Loretta
Margot
Marlene
Myrna
Nella
Rosalind
Scarlett
Zelda

Arthur
Bertram
Chester
Claude
Clark
Errol
Gene
Humphrey
Lionel
Monty
Orson
Oscar
Rudolph
Rupert
Sidney
Sylvester
Theodore
Winston

Lovely names! Great thread.

How about Aphra?

Aphra makes me think of biafra...

I liked some of MrToad's suggestions - 2 friends have recently called their DDs Evelyn and Vivienne respectively, think they are lovely, and unusual without being wacky.

Vera
Frida
Lennox
Agatha
Beulah
Dinah
Colette
Irene
Shirley
Aphra
Mahalia
Zinaida
Wilhelmina
Mary Faust
Venetia
Rowena
Hilda
Agnes
Carol
Helen
Laverne
Lenore
Marian
Ita
Ida
Ada
Adelaide

Anthony
Blaise
Blair
Edmund
Peregrine
Algernon
Roland
Desmond
Guy
Richard
Walter
Conrad
Ivo
Gervais
Kenneth
Herbert
Raymond
Maurice
Roy
Dudley
Cyril
Cecil
Basil
Malcolm
Alan
Bertram
Claude

Clotilde

Jean
or Jeanie

Effie...you could call her Effie Nell.

Vita
Vida

Mabel
Ernest
Sidney
Stanley

Harold
Irving

Decca? As in Jessica Mitford?

Unity?

Kay
Beryl

Gladys

I love this thread! So anything take you fancy flowerface?!

Daphne
Sybil
Enid

I know a little Sidney (Sid) adorable and cheeky, dd wants to marry him (only 4)

Josephine
Primrose
Blossom
Evadne
Eustacia
Simone
Cecily
Helena
Margot
Constance
Frieda
Sibyl
Cornelia
Daphne

Zelda
Dionne