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?

My family tree has a Bathsheba and an Adelaide. Bathsheba is a bit out there but I love Adelaide

Adelaide is lovely.

I read an Erin Kelly book where one of the characters was called Biba (which I loved) and that was shortened from Bathsheba.

Of course, Queen Victoria was originally named Alexandrina which is a bit of a mouthful.

Another character in a book I read was Persephone which I loved and she was shortened to Percy.

Loveday.

Just LOVE that name! Sadly, no one agreed with me 😂

Scarlet! I'd forgotten about Biba. I love that book and that name.

Eliza
Effie

Ignatius
Michaelangelo (a middle name)
Cornelius
Sylvester

Loretta
Rosetta
Honora

My mum had a great uncle Auberon which I always loved. Aubie for short.

We have
Doris
Elsie
Lena
Ida
Margaret (Madge)
All born early 1900's

SapphireFire Loveday is a traditional Cornish name.

I can offer Constance and Lettice,

Found these from 1908

Auberon is awesome!

Hortensia
Prissie
Delphie
Verity
Olwen
Meldrith
Drusilla

Dickon
Dickory
Vanderbant
Melchezedick
Edbert
Leander
Willaby

Marjorie
Madge
Blanche
Walter
Myrtle

Marilla, as in Marilla Cuthbert from Anne of Green Gables.

I think Lettice is a variant of Laetitia, which I've always really liked.

I want boy/girl twins now so I can name them Isambard and Euphemia.

Fabulous suggestions! Drusilla is spectacular but will forever be the Buffy character to me

Horatio
Willoughby
Claude

Kezia
Thurman

That should have been Thirza

We have an Azariah - male - Thirza - female
Helah - female
Adeline - female

There's a great Horrible Histories clip on Victorian names. Teacher in the classroom calling the register. I can remember Toilet and Happy. It's very funny. Anyone else seen it?

Otherwise I'd go with Dickens. Oliver, Ebeneezer, Tim, Philip (Pirrip), Abel, Herbert. Love Dickens.

Haidee

Horatia
Tomasina
Eustacia
Lavinia
Lucetta

Midsummer. Actually a boy. Guess when he was born?

Ernestine/ Ernestina
Albertina
Lucie
Ella-Mae (yes, they hyphenated names even then)

Jaleb

Novello

I have an Adeline, Martha and Edgar in my tree. I like Helena and Leopold of Queen Victora but none are particularly out there 😂