Girls 'scullery maid' names and boys.......what?!

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Girls names I like are often described on here as scullery maid names - Mabel, Betty, ivy, bess etc. but what is the boy name equivalent? Boys names are HARD!!

Wilf
Seth
Jed

Sid
Archie
Ernie

Sid and Jed are on my list already!
I want to avoid an 'y' 'ie' 'ee' ending so Archie and Ernie are out. Not sure about Seth and know a few Wilfs, but do like it.

Ted
Bert
Frank
Fred

Ned (short for Edward)
Seconding Seth

Franklin
Stan
Wilfred

Alfred
Jim

Jem
Clem

I'd say the equivilant description might be stable hand names or farm boy names :o

Hugh
Bert
Joe
Alf
Sam
Bill
Bob

Amos
Hector/Hec

Looking for farm hand names sounds like a good excuse to relax with a Thomas Hardy novel MyOther

I usually refer to my servants as 'peasant' or 'you there'.

Indeed Squoosh, and when one needs to be familiar then a chap's surname is more than adequate...

Sorry OP!

Isaac
Carter
Jude
Fletcher
Elijah
Nathaniel
Jacob/Jake

Indeed cabbagerose. In fact this thread has been my first alert to the fact that servants are even given first names!

Surnames or nick names

You could always just refer to him as 'boy' (save yourself the trouble of having to remember at all)

Sorry OP :-)

Percy
Cedric

George

Arthur
Edgar
Edwin
Edward
Clive
Ernest
James
Herbert
Walter
Harold
Richard
Reginald
Leonard
Norman
Cecil
Clifford
Ronald
Gilbert
Hubert
Maurice
Clarence
Lawrence
Ronald
Arnold
Dennis
Enoch
Godfrey
Dudley
Malcolm
Cuthbert
Vernon
Raymond
Victor
Albert