Victorian baby name list....

[stumblymonkey]

With the current trend for Victorian names I've found a list of the 1,000 most common names in 1890...

A lot could be found in today's version of the list but still a few that haven't yet come back...what are your favourites and predictions of the ones which will never come back?

www.baby2see.com/names/1890s.html

[stumblymonkey]

My grandmother's were Ida, Madge, Gladys and Mabel. All pretty horrible!

I quite like the sound of Stella but wouldn't because of the lager...

Also we have a very plain surname and so it would sound very odd together.

I LOVE the name Chester. I didn't realise that people would think it was a 'new' name...it was very popular in the 1920's.

I give my cats old fashioned names that I love: Mia, Nancy and Chester.

[MissWimpyDimple]

I like Gertrude! Granted, I probably wouldn't use it, but Gertie?

I think there is a lot worse out there

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

My DS is called the Scottish version of Earl. I met a Eugene recently and someone on here was asking opinions on Chester (funnily enough some people on that thread were saying they didn't like the modern trend for surnames as first names)

Enoch won't make a come back

[Augustwedding]

Either the or they played a pretty cruel joke!

[NadiaWadia]

Well I suppose Gertie is not too bad. It's the 'rude' bit that is the real killer! Your poor grandmother. No doubt her parents thought it was lovely at the time, though.

[Augustwedding]

Haha no please insult away! Known as both gert, gertie and Gertrude depending on who she was with.

[NadiaWadia]

Oh, I thought you were saying 'how dare people insult my GM's name'! My mistake.

Was she actually know as Gertrude, or Gertie, or something completely different? I actually quite like Maud.

[Achoo123]

Oh thank you!! I am reading a series of books set in the 1860s and very surprised by some of the names used as I didn't think they'd be used at that time period but your list proves me wrong!

[Augustwedding]

Oh no I was implying it's a bloody horrid name and she hated it!

[NadiaWadia]

Sorry August! But did she actually like her name?

[Augustwedding]

My grandmother was called Gertrude maud.

[NadiaWadia]

Stella is lovely and Gertrude definitely isn't! (Besides, it has the word 'rude' in it).

Very different types of names, how on earth can you bracket them together?

[OhForCodsHake]

I've got a Percy and a Sidney. Love the little old man's names

[IoraRua]

Stella is back in my area, I know a lot of little Stellas!

[stumblymonkey]

Stella did have a bit of a moment in the 90's didn't it...when Stella McCartney was in the media a lot?

[RosaDiazepam]

Gosh some are so ugly I can't see them coming back. Gertrude, Stella

[stumblymonkey]

My 94 year old Nan is called Madge. Originally it was a diminutive of Margaret but then became a name in its own right

[CityFox]

*Mina

[CityFox]

Mins was also a character in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

[PippaHotamus]

Mina was probably short for Wilhelmina

[Olbersparadox]

Maude/ Maud, Thirza, Gertrude, Madge, Hesta, Myra, Blanch, Blodwen . . . I'm blown away!

[CityFox]

Bloody hell, very very similar to nowadays! Although perhaps not Hyman for a boy...

[Sophronia]

Here is a British list (England and Wales) for 1890 to compare it to:

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2012/09/top-200-most-popular-names-in-england-and-wales-in-1890.html

[insieme]

The names of all my grandparents, my parents, my sister and her children are on there, as well as my name and the names of both my children! So I'm not sure how 'Victorian' the names are, just classic names really that are neither in fashion nor out of it.

Having said that, I can't see Mildred coming back anytime soon!

[stumblymonkey]

There were quite a few names that I completely assumed were modern names: Mercedes, Crystal, Zena