Can you help me find some Little Black Dress names?

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Think classically understated and timeless. Like Anna, Elizabeth. Ty 😀

Look at names used by the Royal Family or biblical names. FWIW, I think the current trend for Old Testament will date that well.

I thought you were touting Ty as a timeless classic name for a while there.

I presume for girls only?

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Anna, Anne
Katherine, Catherine, Kate
Claire
Louise, Louisa
Rose
Sarah
Jane
Sophie, Sophia, Sofia
Charlotte
Laura
Emma
Isobel, Isabelle, Isabella
Victoria
Caroline
Maria

Alice and Laura my favourites.

I meant will NOT date that well.

Anne - a lovely name really underused now in favour of the muvh more commonl used (although also a nice name) Anna.

Florence
Beatrice
Annabel
Clara
Grace
Martha
Emily
Rose

Alexandra

Zara?

For boys:
Michael
David
Daniel
Christopher
Thomas, Tom
Edward
James
Jack
Alexander
William
George
Luke
Robert
Harry
Charles
Francis
Alistair
Magnus
Fraiser
John
Henry
Adam
Nicholas
Anders
Peter
Paul
Samuel
Jonathan
Benjamin

Anna
Charlotte
Louisa
Helena
Alice
Evelyn
Harriet
Beatrice
Elizabeth
Mary

Suzannah
Polly
Eleanor
Claire
Catherine
Naomi

Lucy

Ann
Jane
Louise
Claire
Mary

Alice
Catherine
Emily
Amelia
Cassandra

Seems the Nameberry site has a whole ‘Little Black Dress’ category (although for a mainly English audience these are a bit more cosmopolitan/international than those already suggested).

https://nameberry.com/blog/little-black-dress-names-are-always-in-style

Clara
maria
catherine
julia
alice
eva
helena
juliet
margaret
sophia
rose
emma
eleanor
emily
charlotte
sarah
hannah

Audrey

Elspeth (again variant of Elizabeth)
Betsy (Elizabeth)
Madeline
Georgia
Victoria
Marie / Maria

Frances
mildred
ruth
Ruby
Edna
lillian
hazel
Nancy
vivian
Agnes
pearl
violet
mabel
inez
Harriet

Portia
victoria (Tori)
Olivia
Hebe

It's tricky as most names fall in and out of fashion. A lot of names like Clara, Arabella, Jemima, Violet, Ruby etc are in fashion now but were 'out' for decades.

Frances
Anna
Caroline
Charlotte
Victoria
Jane
Catherine
Emily
Emma
Sophie
Lucy
Mary
Maria
Marianne
Eleanor
Alice
Sarah
Josephine
Juliet
Rosalind
Rose
Martha
Alexandra
Natalie
Edith
Beatrice
Madeleine
Genevieve
Cassandra
Philippa
Felicity
Verity
Olivia
Isabel
Julia
Miranda
Lydia
Harriet
Susannah

Elizabeth (Libby / Bethany / Betsy)
Victoria (never Vicky)
Margot
Annabelle
Emily
Katherine (Kitty / Katie)
Harriet
Jessica
Georgina
Alice

IMO Margret, Anne, Diana, Sarah and Mary are too dated to be considered for a little girl nowadays.

For a boy... Alex. James. Oliver. Francis. Thomas. William.

For a girl. Jessica. Abigail. Lucy. Olivia. Eleanor. Emma. Sarah. . Hannah. Catherine. Sophie. Zoe.

I love the names suggested by pp’s! So many lovely ones! Some of my favourites are:

Lucy
Alice
Anna
Emma
Harriet
Philippa
Martha
Madeleine
Sophie
Caroline
Hazel
Georgia
Audrey
Mary

I would happily call a dd of mine any of these names!

Helen
Catherine
Anne
Ruth
Eve
Sara
Rose
Lily
Hannah
Amy
Alice
May
Joy
Nina
Bella
Mia

Holly!