Unusual Victorian/Edwardian names please

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Purely hypothetical as baby number 2 doesn't exist yet, but I've been broody and currently obsessed with unusual period names.

I have an ancestor from about 1900-1910 called Mahala which I think is beautiful, and an Everilda (less so...)

For boys I love Rudyard, but think that might be a passing thing!

So, what other unusual slightly out there period names are there?

@cushioncovers please let me know what you find! (I'm off to comfort my teething almost 1 year old -who has the most common name ever-

Alexandrina - Queen Victoria’s actually name
Kathleen
Gwendoline
Peggy
Betty
Victoria

Cecil
Clarence
Donald
Francis
Peregrine
Edward

Tryphena
Richenda

Elmhurst
Norbert
Cade

All feature in our family tree, amongst a sea of Georges, Thomases, Marys and Annies.

Oh and a Priner (female) and Enos (male)

Great grandad was called Sivus Isambard

Otherwise:
Adorlee
Amorancy
Clarabelle
Isyphemia
Lamorna

Patience
Charity
Priscilla
Gertrude

Ambrose
Horace
Thaddeus
Erasmus

Thurston

Lilibeth.

Cornelius

Alexandrina

Sorry, Petalflowers, missed that you'd got there first! I used to know a woman whose daughter was called Alexandrina. I think the daughter would be in her late 40s or early 50s now and I've never met another one.

Hubert

My nana was called Gwendoline, her sister Edith: I love both names. They were born 1906 and 1914

I have a Rosetta and Jehonadab in the Victorian bits of my family tree.

There was a Mafeking somewhere in my family, always known as Aunt Maf.

The Seige of Mageking was in 1900 in the Boer war, I think.

Obviously that was the Seige of Mafeking.

Ernest was the most popular name in 1901 for Male babies

Rosins
Mary Ann were also popular
Queenie
Bessie
Job was a name often seen in parish baptism registers
Zachariah, Levi biblical names were very common place

Slapdash - yes it was part of the Boer war

I fell in love with Zephaniah, my son is so glad I didn't know of this name until long after he was born! On the other hand he would have had a great nickname of Zeph. Still love it but no more kids for me, here's hoping for a grandson!

My mother had great aunts Forestina and Meliora.

I think the most unusual/not heard of in our family that would work in a Western country would be Honoura nn Nora, there’s a few back in the family tree. I think it’s quite pretty.

DH has Ebenezer, Jesse, Hiram and Cornelius in his family tree.

Honoria
Ada
Esther
Victoria
Lucy

Nell

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