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?

We have a Zillah in our family tree! Never come across anyone else who has. She was a lovely lady by all accounts

My grandmothers family (her siblings mostly born in late nineteenth century, some, like her born early twentieth) had 22 children! (All the same father, two different mothers with eleven each). The youngest brother was named Boy 😯. I’ve always assumed that they’d just run out of names by then 😂

My mother had two great aunts named Aunt Mould and Aunt Slag. They are both long gone and we have no idea if those were actually their names or not!

@catkin Hmmm DH wasnt convinced on Rudyard, I might struggle with Mould and Slag! But I'll give it a go

@Catquest1 I have a Zillah in my family tree too.

Looking at famous 19th/Early 20th century novels and historical references I found:

Gatsby
Newland
Phineas
Rhett
Aslan (pushing it really)
Nickleby
Uriah
Jonas
Ebenezer
Gallant

Dorrit
Augusta
Cordelia
Scarlett
Rosalind
Gertrude
Sheba
Dilly
Dinah
Hepzibah

DD2 is Marilla which is of that era. Quite uncommon too.

Morley
I like Alberta but everyone else hates it luckily not having any more!

We have a Randolph nn Randy and a Thetis, which I actually quite like. Then there's Florence Nightingale's less famous sister Parthenope, but you'd have to be VERY brave!

In my family tree amongst my grandparents' brothers and sisters, all born around 1900, there included:
Billy
Josephine
Kathleen
Patrick
May
Ellen
Catherine
Frederick
George
Sidney
Percy
Samuel
Will
Louisa
Mahlah
Lillian

DH s family tree had

Reginald (I so love this)
Winnie
Lennie
Honoria

mine is Scandinavian so less helpful lots of Marie s on it

Aubrey
Clarence
Hector

Edna
Maud
Elsie
Phyllis
Joyce

Hectorina
Laetitia

(Hectorina was the youngest in a family with lots of girls. They had Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Catherine, then Wiiliamina and Georgina and finally Hectorina.)