Old fashioned names

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I love old fashioned, unique names but not too unique and out there if that makes sense! Gender still unknown. Please share your favourites below. Thank you!

Stanley
Alfred
Jack
Frank
Arthur
Fred/Freddie
George

Violet
Ada
Rose
Mabel
Elsie
Diana
June
Joy
April

Gary, Nigel, Roger, Brian, Graham, Colin
Yvonne, Annette, Shirley, Brenda, Lesley, Linda.

Cedric
clarence
leonard
magnus
orson
ivor
roland
edgar
clement
leopold
walter
quentin
ernest
victor
vincent
lionel
reginald

enid
marigold
esther
ida
minnie
winifred
roberta
juliet
josephine
betty
bridget
dora
daphne
estelle
stella
nora
polly
pearl
opal

Sylvia

John

Theresia
Rosalia
Susannah
Leonora

Owen
Benedict
Quentin
Ernest

Charlie
Alfred (Love!)
Benedict
Leanord
Jack
James
Edward
Frank
Colin
Frederick
George
Nathaniel

Violet / Violetta
Mabel
Diana
June
April
Joy / Joyce
Charlotte
Josephine
Lucinda
Winfred
Meredith

My favourites are

Alice
Clara
Ivy
Mabel
Edith / Edie
Elsie
Cora
Nora
Iris
Violet
Ava
Ada
Ida
Martha
Nancy
Maisie
Florence
Dorothy
Nellie
Harriet
Matilda
Georgia
Beatrice

George
Stanley
Arthur
Max
Frank
Harry
Henry
Edward / Ted

Melvyn
Mervyn
Norman
Derek
Kevin

Shirley
Gladys
Doreen
Maud
Mildred

JimNast that's half my primary school class right there in your list.

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some ideas:

Emmeline
Betsy
Winifred
Marjorie
Edith
Letitia
Frances
Martha
Annis

Julius
Graham
Percival
Reginald
Ronald
Hector
Ernest

These are my grandparents and their siblings and close friends:

Ada
Amelia (ironic she hated this name as it was considered old fashioned - she was born in the 1920s!)
Betty (Elizabeth)
Elsie
Ethel
Freda
Irene
Jane
Jean
Joan
Joyce
Meg (Margaret)
Nell (Helen)
Violet

Barry
Billy (William)
Cyril
David
Dennis
Frank
Fred
George
Harry
Henry
Jack
Jim (James)
John
Malcolm
Tom
Wilby

Ebenezer, Roy, Barry, Anthea, Millicent, Dorcas

Electra
Gretchen
Greta
Freda
Lillian
Una
Genevieve
Melanie
Nicolette

Francis
Wyndham
Ernest
Philip
Evan
Archibald
Quentin
Richard

Jean
Marjorie
Joan
Patricia
Rita
Mavis
Janet
Marion
Vera
Edna
Kathleen
Thelma
Hilda
Judith
Peggy

Peter
Alan
Ronald
Raymond
Dennis
Roy
Gordon
Terence
Colin
Eric
Maurice
Graham
Malcolm
Ernest
Arnold
Vincent
Ivor
Desmond
Clifford
Douglas
Gregory

Thurza
Livinia
Maud
Alma
Pearl

Walter
Stanley
Seth
Cyrus

I have an Ada and I love the names Evelyn and Rose.

Boys I like Benjamin, Jack and Alfred.

All of these have been around long enough in recent times to be quite ‘modern’ now….in fact some of them are due to be going out of fashion shortly ( again)

Tracey

Queenie

Marnie

I actually have a soft spot for Shirley. Rita, Sybil and Adele are all great grandparents names we would have used. For boys I like Ronnie and Ray. Vintagey names for girls I like are Nancy, Jean, Susannah, Mabel and April.

Alasdair
Duncan
Linus
Thaddeus
Tobias

Audrey
Celia
Ingrid
Marsaili
Vanessa

Dennis
Desmond
Neil
Barry

Pat
Beverley
Susan
Tina
Annette

Loving Rita, Ronnie and especially Nancy- Thank you!

Wilbur. Vincent. Edwin. Maurice. Hector. Barnaby. Cedric. Peter. Richard. Edgar. Alistair. Ezekiel. Horace. Augustus. Jasper. Patrick. Lawrence. Dennis. Terrence. Philip. Alan. Douglas.

Maude. Sybil. Virginia. Bridget. Pearl. Cynthia. Miriam. Teresa. Patricia. Martha. Josephine. Mabel. Winifred. Muriel. Dorothy. Marilyn. Brontë. Eunice. Rita.