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 paternal grandmother, born in the late 1890s-1900 ish was called Pretoria.
Never found any South African connections, though.
(I think there may have been a battle there in the Boer wars.)
Sadly she changed it to Geraldine in her 40s.!

The famous Mrs Beeton was an Isabella.

Winifred nn Freddie
Cressida
Drusilla
Eugenia
Venetia

Arabella
Corisande
Venetia
Sophie
Phoebe
Frederica
Amabel
Cressida
Prudence
Alathea
Augusta
Phillida
Catriona
Hester
Judith
Annis

These are mostly Georgette Heyer characters.

We have a Christmas in ours.

I know a 90 year old Willoughby which I think is just lovely.

Elmer, Stanley, Alonzo and Dorcus were all very popular in the victorian times.

Salome

I also have a random Alonso in my late Victorian family. All siblings/parents etc have very normal names. I wonder why he was so exotically named.

Edgar

Albertine
Amandine

Sexa (yes really)
Crimsworth

Brilliant suggestions, what a great read to come back to after a day at work!

I have a Nimrod and a Reba in my family tree.

I had a great great Auntie called Keturah - it’s a biblical name. She was known as Kitty.

Eglantine
Seraphine

Marmaduke
Ernest

Actually my DS goes to preschool with a Marmaduke (Duke) and Albertine (Bertie), so I guess those names are already coming around again.

No names, but can I suggest looking around some old graveyards for inspiration?

WRT Mahala, that rang a bell with me. I remembered a novel, except it's spelt Mehala.

www.allthingsransome.net/literary/meh_top.htm

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

Well there's a Summer in our family whose birthday is in December. Mind you her parents regularly hold a summer Christmas party. I can only assume they're wannabe Australians.

I know a Mahala who is in her early 20s.

We have a
Zipporah
Lots of Nesta's
Gideon
Sholto
Ptolemy

Jabez - always wish I was brave enough to use it. Definitely the name i’ll Use in the novel i (Probably never) will write

Minnie.

A friend of mine is Hayley, after her grandma Mahala who wouldn’t let her parents call her Mahala as she hated it but I think it is very cool!

We've got a Nehemiah in our family tree, it was used for quite a few generations.