Ancestors names

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I'd like to hear the names of your ancestors, grandparents, great grandparents, great aunts and uncles and so on names, no matter how unusual, old or odd.
I don't know many of mine and would like more inspiration!
I've only got Arthur, beryl, joey, Dorothy, Ada that I'm aware of

I recorded the unusual names in my family tree. Some of them are probably unusable!

GIRLS
Virtue
Philadelphia
Senfria
Hebe
Jeneta
Jennet
Rosamunda
Keziah
Leonora
Hester
Ayliffe
Aleis
Anelida
Brounker
Praxal
Praxie
Zilpha
Jackaminea

BOYS
Youngman
Periam
Cornelius
Marmaduke
Christian
Innocent
Moody
Harcourt
Moses
Silvester
Amos
Syth
Enos
Giles
Horatio

Irene
John
Marian
George
Joan
Elizabeth
Joseph
Millicent
Edna
Mary
Ann
Jack

Are some of the names from family way back when

Ooh, I like this idea. I've managed to go back to the 1500s on both sides so I've included names from way back then until 1918. Some are very dull and normal but some are fab.

Among the forest of ancestors I have:

Girls:
Ada
Anna
Alberta
Alice
Blanche
Bridget
Catherina
Christiana
Clara
Daisy
Dorothy
Edith
Edna
Eliza
Elizabeth
Ellen
Emma
Florence
Florida
Frederica
Georgina
Gwendoline
Hannah
Harriet
Hephzibah
Hetty
Hilda
Honora
Irene
Isabella
Julia
Kate
Kathleen
Kerry
Lavinia
Letitia
Lydia
Mabel
Margaret
Mariam
Marie
Marnie
Matilda
Melinda
Naomi
Nora
Olive
Phoebe
Phyllis
Pretoria
Primrose
Ruth
Sarah
Susannah
Sybilla
Tabitha
Vera
Vida
Violet
Zelila

Boys:
Albert
Anthony
Augustus
Barnabas
Bartholomew
Charles
Cuthbert
David
Edward
Ernest
Eyra
Frederick
George
Griffiths
Henry
Isaac
James
Joseph
Lancelot
Livingstone
Myson
Parker
Percival
Ralph
Robert
Sampson
Stephen
Symon
Tait
Thomas
Walter
William

There are a fair few bonkers middle names, including: Snowball, Duck, Arson and Moffitt!

My grandparents and their siblings:

Alan
Archibald
Anthony (Tony)
Brown
Cynthia
Eleanor (Nelly)
Elizabeth (Betty)
Ethelbert
Francis
Irene
James
Junior
Lorraine
Maria (pronounced Mariah)
May
Renee (pronounced Reeney)
Ruby
William (Willie)
Yvonne

Some of you are making these up surely.

A selection:

Doris
Margreta (also spelled Margaretta)
Hannah
Caroline
Mary (obvs)
Julia
Elsie
Rosalba

Arthur
William
George
Harry
Idris
Michael
Edward
James
Bertie

Wow, some long lists here! Well done those dedicated researchers.

I’ve got:
Beatrice (my GM, would love to use this for a DD)
Phyllis
Muriel
Dotty (Dorothy)
Lyubov (Luba)
Natalya (Natasha)
Elena
Veronica
Kay
Maria Eugenia
Carmen
Yvonne
Silvia

William
Gordon
Douglas
Alexei
Mihail (Misha)
Octavius
Gonzalo
Oscar
Eduardo

Those are from mine and DH’s families, we’re quite a mix 😂 Very outing list, my MN-ing MIL would recognise it instantly!

Doris
Dorothea
Betty
Edith
Phyllis

Kenneth
Leonard
George

My favourite from my family tree is Christabelle

LittleSpace wow fab names! Where are your family from? My only side of the family tree I know is Scottish, but Is still boringly filled with Anne’s and Johns.

I have a list of my grandparents and their sibling names, will dig it out tomorrow.

Males include Pincus, Bruno, Walter, Felix.

Females include Hedwig - which was nearly my name!

My dp had a great uncle Egbert...

Elizabeth
Dolly (Dorothy)
Nesta
Gwyneth
Rosanna
Astrelitta
Mayer
Wilma
Lisette
Lydia
Rose

Edward (Teddy)
William
Isaac
Ernest
Abraham
Tebonias
Thomas
Aubrey
Isaiah

My family were travellers with German ancestry.

Women:

Mary
Barbara
Rachel
Sarah
Rebecca
Isabella
Elizabeth
Selina
Bridget
Jane
Annie
Jemima
Rosanna
Margaret
Frances
Ellen
Janet
Judith

Men:
Robert
William
James
Joseph
John
Charles
Ralph
Samuel
Isaac
Thomas
Adam
Philip
Peter

We're trying to pick a name at the moment and had a look at my husband's family tree. His favourite (and obviously his ancestors favourite as there are so many!) Is Peregrine. As in the falcon...

Oscar
Henry
David
Frederick
William
Thomas
Edward
Peter
John

Ada
Enid
Ethel
Maria
Sarah
Mary
Anne
Catherine
Barbara
Margaret

the only names mentioned in our family is :
My great great grandmother Dolly 💖
My great great grandmother Nelly 💖
My great great great grandmother Susie 💖
My great great grandmother Betty (Elizabeth)💖
My great grandmother Joyce 💖
My great grandmother Barbara 💖
My great great grandfather Jimmy 💙
My great grandfather Mick 💙
My great great great grandfather Ronnie 💙
My great great great great grandfather Freddie (Fredrick) 💙

Alethea, Florence, Violet, Iris.
Alfred, John, George, Robin.

@LittleSpace, oh, you WIN! Amazing names. I love Philadelphia and Zilpha.

The more outlandish ones of mine, from various branches, include:
Experience
Relief
Sopenah
Adelia
Raydin
Volney
Veraines

...but mostly the men are consistently called Thomas. Unbelievably annoying when it comes to genealogy. Other 'normal' names that recur are:
Florence
Minnie
Sarah
Louisa
Ellen
Blanche
Harriet

Don
David
Johnnie
Reginald
Ernest
Stanley
James
Nick/Nicholas

Rosalind
Anne
Ivy
Judith
Iris
Amy
Mary
Patricia
Kitty
Emmy (Emily)
Connie (Constance)
Dorphie (Dorothy?)
Dee
Gladys

Jenny
Jane
Elizabeth
Eileen
Susan
Matilda
Margaritta
Dorcas
Robina
Mary Ellen

John
Jack
George
Alex
Marshall
Frederick
James

Ada
Adelaide
Mary
Matilda
Georgina
Catherine
Caroline
Priscilla
Frances
Louisa
Helena
Hannah
Emily
Sarah
Susannah
Kezia
Isobel
Lucy
Eliza
Margaretta
Maria
Kitty
Iris
Ivy
Rose

Albert
Andrew
Alexander
Benjamin
Justinian
Elias
Edwin
Charles
James
David
Frederick
John
Matthew
Robert
Thomas
William
Arthur
Richard

I have twins
After they were named I did a tree on DHs side and there are siblings with my twins names on every generation. It's really odd. Neither of us knew - his father was an only child, bit it's a bit weird.

Honour, Rhoda, Phillis, Hepzibah, Keturah, Harriot
Prudence, Jemima, Rosella, Meriel, Celia, Agnes
Maud, Hilda, Rosanna, Pearl, Eiluned, Marjorie.

Esau, Eli, Samson, Josiah, Simeon, Isaiah, Napoleon (I have no explanation for this one!),
Denis, Major (or this one!), Howard, Herbert, Horace.

Also a fair few nickname-names used as first names (the horror!): Kate, Florrie, Molly, Betsy. Harry, Bertie and Bert.

(But most of them are Mary, Ann, Elizabeth, John, William or Thomas. )

@GreenTulips that's a really cool coincidence! How many generations does it hold for? There are so many great quirks with family history

Ellener (Eleanor but was spelt wrong)
Rebecca
Maud
Marriot
Marian
Lilian

William
Thomas
Leslie
John

My Grandad's siblings all had Gordon as a middle name. Alright for Alan, William and Michael but not really for Margaret and Anne...