Victorian name ideas

[Praisebe]

Any ideas for old names that don't get used anymore ? We love the Georgian and Victorian era's so want to go with something from those times for either boy or girl we don't know the sex yet

Lettice springs immediately to mind.

Fanny.

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

For a girl:
Adelaide, Adelia, Audrey, Georgiana, Lillian, Lucy, Rayne, Josephine (nn. Josie), Caroline, Christiana, Hazel, Esther, Eliza, Eleanora, Rosa, Ruby, Annie.

For a boy:
Josiah, Solomon, Fletcher, Charles, Baxter, Cassius, Edmund, Franklin, Harvey, Henry, Hugo, Jerome, Luther, Oscar, Sterling, Watson, Wesley.

Mary
Ann
Honor
Hepzibah
Prudence
Caroline
Susannah
Phyllis
Clarissa
Maud
Hilda
Adela

John
Eli
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Simeon
Josiah
Horace
Ernest
Howard
Victor
Walter
Bernard

All those virtue names for girls Prudence, Hope, Grace, Felicity, Verity Faith, Charity, Constance, Joy, Charity, Mercy

Noble, Prosper, Sage

What about Gaylord for a boy and Hedwig for a girl according to that link 😂😂 those are American names too I'm looking at British names

So far we like Edmund and Percival for boys and Octavia and Jocasta for girls but struggling to come up with anything else

Baxter, Sterling, Augustus, Silas, Phineas

Clara, Kitty, Eliza, Winnie, Luella

Ernest / Ernestina

GIRLS:
Agnes
Cecily
Cordelia
Dinah
Flora
Henrietta
Hester
Jemima
Lavinia
Letitia
Marjorie
Marianne
Millicent
Priscilla
Rosetta
Theodora
Wilhelmina

BOYS:
Abraham
Algernon
Ambrose
Amos
Archibald
Aubrey
Bertram
Cecil
Cedric
Clarence
Clement
Cornelius
Edgar
Elias
Ephraim
Francis
Leopold
Reginald
Solomon
Valentine
Vernon
Walter

Agatha
Maxwell

Sophia pronounced Sof eye a and Maria pronounced Mar eye a are 100% 18c. Or Georgiana pronounced George ayna.

Jocasta is a great name, I know one.

isombard

frobisher

Bathsheba

Gabriel

I didn't just look at far from the madding crowd

This site has lots of accurate, real-life Victorian examples; here is just one list:

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/historic-names/

I often walk my dog in a Victorian cemetery and I love to read the gravestones. Most of the names are very traditional but these are some of the more unusual.

Philadelphia
Amphillia
Loveday
Ambrosia
Cinderella (!)
Lillia
Evangeline

Hector
Edmund
Woodrow
Ambrose

Louisa, Dorcas, Pamela (my favourite!), Henrietta, Mildred, Dorothea

Ernest
Walter
Clarence
Sidney
Leonard
Edwin
Gilbert
Cecil
Morris
Eric
Roland
Clement
Amos
Bertram
Abel
Solomon
Hugh
Abraham
Eugene
Raymond
Stanley
Ralph

Annie
Ellen
Ada
Lilian
Dorothy
Winifred
Constance
Ethel
Ida
Rosina
Honora
Gwen
Enid
Thirza
Stella
Dinah
Sylvia
Clarice
Alma
Irene
Lavinia
Vera
Agnes

Keziah or Zilpha

Adelaide or Verity for a girl.

Maud, Jessamine,

The boys names are fab, what a choice:
Xerses, Urquhart, Urban, Pericles, Fenwick, Alaric, Justinian, Vespin, Voltaire, Leander, Octavius, Axel

Some one should have produced this list for Kate:
HRH Prince Xerses Urquhart Justinian of Cambridge

Bathsheba is an awesome name