Victorian Names site - bonkers girls names

[ThePsychicSatsuma]

ooooh
just been looking at victorian names

look at the down low numbers -

Lala
Paralee
Zelia

''Paralee Elizabeth '

Zelia louise

they certainly add a touch of the unusual

BTW LOving
Huey and Sumner for boys too

''Gaylord''

not so much.......

''Orange''

'Newt'

errr...wow.

Orange James Smith...

HH did a good sketch on this- the name which stuck in my mind was Toilet (shiny, new exciting invention - the Moon Unit of its day I suppose).

Toilet! good lord.

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Velva

I have an ancestor called Surfeit, she was the 13th child in her family. My grandfather's middle name was Lancelot, not alot of those around these days!

My great great aunt was christened Jamesina (the Nigella of its day?)

A bit like Thomasina?

Oh thanks op I heart a Victorian name. But it is American so not quite the same grandeur.

No382 for girls - John.
I do like Lovie though.

Concepcion!

Oral
Wash
Doctor
Spergen
Wheeler
Okey

Oddest names I've ever heard!

I went to school with a Lala!

They did tend to have a lot of children though. Maybe they just ran out of nice names, or couldn't be arsed to think of more. Or maybe let their DCs choose?

DP went to school with a Gaylord. Brother called Garfield. And they were born in the 1970s!

Birdie!

Floy for a girl.

FLOY!

and blinking Savannah is on there - that's mad, I always think of that as a fairly "modern" name

Pink! Pink is on the Boy's list. (although didn't it used to be Pink for a boy, blue for a girl back then anyway?)

Can you imagine what the names threads would be like in a Victorian MumsNet!! :o

On a Victorian MN not in it. Doh.

What's with all the girls names on the boys list?

TheGrandOldDuke yes just like Thomasina but not so well used. She didn't like it and everyone knew her as Hope.

I'm just reading a case report of a legal action which took place in 1869 and it says here the "testator...had conceived a violent aversion to a man named Featherstone Alexander." Great name!