good, classy English girl names...

[EmilyRoo]

I'm looking for classy* English girl names that aren't absolutely common like Elizabeth, but aren't stuffy and past their prime, like Muriel. Combination of scullery maid names and lady of the house names wanted, but more the latter!

Current List:

Georgiana
Henrietta
Cordelia
Harriet
Imogen
Beatrix
Clementine...except having doubts about this on an adult
Flora
Hermione-I know this and Penelope are Greek, but they also seem English, if that makes sense.
Penelope

*By "classy" I mean a name that isn't trying to hard, but isn't fished out of the gutter either.

Juliet
Julia
Isabelle
Sophie
Charlotte
Elizabeth
Mary
Theodora
Frances
Olivia

Venetia
Cecilia
Matilda

Please someone use
Beatrice
Since I had it vetoed!

Here's a lovely old English name:

Rowena

What about Clemency rather than Clementine.

Georgina
Viola
Eleanore
Cecily
Alexandra
Constance
Evangeline

I love the name Evangeline (for what it's worth)
Fenella
Marian
Fleur
Grace
Rosaline
Rosamund
Charlotte
Natasha
Natalie
Victoria
Alexandra
Constance
Selina

Christina
Victoria
Eleanor
Charlotte
Emily

My name is the last on your original list, OP, and lots of other people have suggested it. Tbh, I've never used, nor met another who used, the full name - we're always known by the shortened version!

Leonora - she'll likely be the only one in the school.

It only seems to be used by posh people - you'll find one in every elite private school but not used more broadly?

Cecily? I know a Cecily & she is the most beautiful little thing!

Bryony?

Apologies for Arrietty. Note time of previous post & you might understand my thinking, or lack of it. curses DS2 and his night owl habits

Probably a bit on the frilly end but I think Araminta (Minty) and Antigone (Tiggy) are both ace.

Love Roberta from Bella's list

More shakespearean names here:
Portia
Hero
Viola
Helena
Hermione
Beatrice (love this)
Rosamund
Rosaline
Perdita

Also
Clarissa
Henrietta
Harriet
Jennifer
Gwendoline
Jemima
Cecily
Belinda
Susannah
Katriona
Elspeth
Vanessa
Vivianne
Mathilda
Tabitha

Lettice
Cora
Rose

Julia
Josephine

Maybe you need one of the Bennett sisters?

Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine (Kitty) or Lydia. There's also Georgiana, Charlotte and Caroline of course.

Or perhaps the Brideshead women?

Julia, Cordelia, Theresa, Cara, or Celia.

Arabella
Annabelle

I love Rowena, others I like:

Cordelia (too frilly overall though)
Catriona
Caroline
Tabitha
Leonora-I like it but would probably use Eleanora on account of the "E" initial

Will have a closer look later thanks everyone! :)

My DS was going to be Tabitha if he was a DD.

I love Leonora too and think Leo or Lenny would both be a fab nns for a girl!

Eleanor has slipped into pole position for our Girl choice today, over Esme. I love Alexandra, Marianne, Margot and Elizabeth but DH hates them. Violet is lovely he likes that too.. I am not keen on the others on the list.

Hmmm, what do you mean by 'Classy'? Because many names used by the 'classiest' ie Upper Class tend to be just normal names...

Here's a few from the Telegraph birth announcements over the past few years...

Lady Harriet had a daughters called Iona and Amelia
Lady Lingfield had a granddaughter callled Emillia
Lady Sarah had a daughter called Lucy
Earl of Jersey had a daughter called Evangeline
Lady Gretton had a daughter called Eloise
Lady Stephanie had a daughter called Jodie
Lady Oxmantown had a daughter called Olivia
Lady Noelle had a daughter called Kathleen
Lady Jacinta had a daughter called Leila

All perfectly normal names, and some I have seen described on MN as a bit chavvy (not that I would agree with that).

Trouble is, so often the so called 'classy' names tend to be regarded as very 'try hard middle class'. Wasn't Sarah Ferguson forbidden from using the name 'Annabel' for example..?

What do you mean by 'classy'?

My DD is Flora Elisabeth Zoë and my sister's DD is Lucie Constance Beatrice.

My entirely fictional other DD is Violet Clementine.

By "classy" I mean names that are the opposite of modern, trendy, and misspelled or unisex, didn't mean to imply anything about class!

Eleanor, Rosamund, And Caroline have gone in the list! I'm attempting to tread the line between classic/common and classy/less common. Rowena seems to be on that line, actually, so any more names from literature that aren't too tied to one character (like Ophelia, Guinevere and Hermione) would be lovely too! I like almost ALL of everyone's suggestions!

But I do have to admit that I'd rather get name suggestions akin to Leonora -ones that are only found in elite private schools-probably because I haven't gone to one, and wish I had!

Clara
Claudia
Victoria
Millicent
Marissa
Kirstina
Alannah
Hannah
Leonie
Camilla
Amelia