Old fashioned boys and girls names

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We are expecting a baby and still can't find a name we love.pat names we like are quite 'old fashioned'. Can anyone suggest any others?!

Boys:
Edgar
Rupert
Bernard (Bernie)
Herbert

Girls:
Edith
Beatrice
Nora

I like Ernest for a boy and Margaret for a girl.

I saw this name recently and loved it - Jessica Robin

I’d avoid Elsie as this is incredibly popular at the minute

I like Horace and Byron. Nancy for a girl?

Lilian
Violet
Ada
Betty
Viola
Rose
Iris
Joyce
Gillian

Fred
Roy
Bert
Stanley
Alf
Bob

So many Ediths about now, I wouldn't say that is old fashioned any more.

Edwin
Oswin

Henrietta (Hetty)
Mriel

For a boy.
Wilbur. Cedric. Maurice. Horace. Stanley. Vincent. Richard. Cecil. Herbert. Gilbert. Raymond. Ralph. Patrick. Winston.

For a girl.
Martha. Virginia. Pearl. Etta. Gwendolyn. Dorothy. Cynthia. Bridget. Miranda. Genevieve. Miriam. Linda. Mabel. Rosa. Maude. Sybil.

Arthur
Walter
Frank
Albert
Cecil

Nancy
Harriet
Violet
Peggy
Mabel
Maud
Agnes

For boys I like names such as the saints names.
Simon
David
George
Andrew
Michael

And clan names
Ross
Fraser
Murray

For girls I like
Jane
Susan/Susanna
Jennifer

You might like them but there’s a reason Bernard hasn’t returned to popularity. Please think of your child being lumbered with some of the names you have chosen

Like them! I’d pick Rupert and edith

edmund
ernest
wilfred
frederick
frank
francis
walter
victor
vincent
lawrence
leonard
sidney
lionel
stanley
douglas
roland
ivor
ralph
spencer
orson
silas
reginald
bertram
albert
wilbur

esther
florence
dorothy
martha
enid
meredith
june
hazel
bridget
frida
olive
clara
evelyn
lilian
patricia
winifred
ida
margaret
mabel
iris
ada
minnie
josephine
tabitha
elsie
betty
nancy
penelope
betst
peggy
pearl
sadie
beatrix
violet
vivienne
dora
margot
rosemary
cora
nellie
diana
polly
emmeline
angela

Mary for a girl, Sidney for a boy

Henrietta/ Hettie/ Etta
Tabitha
Clarissa
Rosina
Cicely
Clementine
Cordelia
Guinevere
Esther
Emmeline
Adelaide
Ada
Ida
Theodora
Dora
Selina
Susannah
Miriam
Betsy

Reggie
Percy
Elijah
Ernest
Tobias

Anthea and Mirabel

I really like Bernard, it's a classic 🙂

Are posts like this AI generated or do people have more time on their hands than I think?

Ernest
Arnold
Edgar
Laurence
Diggory
Ivor
Hector
Victor
Barnabas / Barnaby

Stella
Constance
Ida
Flora
Honor
Oona
Frances
Enid
Jocelyn
Thora
Laurel
Winifred
Adelaide
Marion

I love Edith but it’s way overused

No, they just like names, like people on S&B like trousers.

Don’t be bitchy dear

I’d say your girl names in particular are fashionable - I know multiples of each. Old fashioned nowadays would be things like Pamela, Barbara etc. (incidentally both celeb baby names - Lampards and Coren-Mitchells respectively).

Likewise your boy names are quite trendy at the mo although admittedly I only know Ruperts from your list.

Dear - Now that is an old fashioned name

Alfred

Herbert - just no.

I like Alfred too

Bernard gets a thumbs up from me.

Arnold
Norman
Graham
Winston
Gerald
Harold
Leonard
Brian
Alan
Nigel
Anthony
Edgar
Michael

Mary
Dorothy
Margaret
Hilda
Doris
Nancy
Barbara
Susan
Jane
Jean
Joan
Janet
Eileen
Maureen

Victor
John
Robert

Gertrude
Henrietta
Harriet
Helen
Miriam
Jemima
Janet
Alexandra
Victoria
Bernadette
Nanette
Jean
Joan
Winifred
Paula
Genevieve
Thomasina
Donalda
Veronica
Hyacinth
Olympia
Yvonne
Yvette
Francesca
Frances
Teresa
Antonia
Martina
Mona
Minnie
Millicent
Sylvia
Gillian
Ffion
Petula

No teenage boy will want to be called Herbert. I'd scratch that one.