Quintessential English Girl Names?

[EmilyRoo]

I'm not talking about Ruby or Poppy, names that are popular now, or names that stem from English like the royal names I.e Anne and Margaret, Emma or Kate/Katherine.

I'm looking for names that seem English like Daphne, Jemima and Harriet. What are some quintessential English girl names? :)

(Like if someone asked me what the quintessential English boy would be named, I'd say Rupert or Piers.)

Thanks so much!

I remember your thread from April. Have you kept any of the suggestions on your list? You've mentioned "quintessential" three times in the OP and also on your previous thread, but I'm still not sure exactly what you're looking for. I'm not sure what you mean by names that "seem" English, as most names here sound English to me - we're a quirky sort of country where anything goes really. Rupert or Piers sound more stereotypical of a certain rather snobbish and cliched person, rather than "quintessential".

Remember your thread from July too. Have you ruled out the suggestions on those threads? Just so we don't come up with all the same ones again :)

Beatrice/ Beatrix
Clementine
Ottilie/Ottoline
Tabitha
Tessa
Pippa
Eugenie
India
Penelope
Persephone
Seraphina

I'm probably totally off......is it that the name doesn't have to have its roots in Britain but that it maybe something quirky upper class British that you may see in the London Telegraph Birth Announcements???

Oh maybe Posy, Pommeline, Theodora......two o' clock in the morning....can't sleep....so I'm really giving this great consideration!

Lucy, Miranda, Flora, Eleanor, Laura, Esther, Helen, Sophie

Claire, Clara, Wendy, Nancy, Henrietta, Charlotte, Georgina, Victoria, Martha, Ruth, Jane, Ellen, Roberta, Cordelia.

DottieRose Those are exactly the kind of names I'm talking about, thank you. Names that are a bit easier to wear than these Eccentric Aristocrat names but definitely outside the top 200 at least!

I also like Cordelia, Henrietta and Flora from krumbum ad delphinedownunder's suggestions! :) I appreciate the help.

Daphne's French isn't it?

It's different for us OP, being American, because there are names which just sound British to our ears but actually aren't any more than anything else. Like our fellow Yanks naming their kids Brayden and McKenna and saying "it's because we're Irish!" When to me a "real" Irish name is something like Caoimhe or Aoife.

I guess to me a quintessentially British name is something that is relatively popular in Britain but not in America, like Gemma, Imogen, Tamsin, etc. Or Jemima, which as we've covered isn't popular here due to the syrup. :o

Or is it Delphine that's French?

Hester, Maud, Christabel, Christiana, Evelyn, Evangeline, Adelaide, Matilda, Angelique, Violet, Hazel, Esme, Leonor, Cara, Antonia ,Emmeline, Merle.

But if you mean names that sound British to an American ear, I give you:

Araminta/Arabella (though this one is skyrocketing due to the -bella craze)

Beatrice

Honoria

Kitty

India

Louisa

Polly

Maybe Ophelia?

I'd say John or Mary

yank I know a baby Caiomhe I was so shocked by pronounciation!

I saw Allyson Hannigan just named her baby Keeva and wondered if that might not be a bit easier! :o

OP what about Primrose? I remember you liked Clementine and they are the same "sort" of name to me.

Well, most popular names over the ages in England would be John, Mary etc. but that's not what you mean is it?

Lucinda
Juliet
Beatrix
Felicity
Imogen
Gillian
Fenella
Nicola
Verity
Blythe
Jane
Philippa
Florence
Rowena
Iris
Emily

Prudence
Helena
Arabella
Dahlia
Beatrix
Caroline
Jemima
Kathleen
Jean
Mildred
Violet
Geraldine
Irene
Sally
Mary
Alice
Susannah
Laura
Jessica
Hazel
Marian
Louisa
Philippa
Viola
Charlotte
Dorothy
Amelia