Uncommon but not overused vintage girl names?

[ferio23]

Me (21,F) and my husband (25,M) are having our first child. I'm due in February so I have some more time to choose. My husband and I want a vintage name, we don't want a overused name. We want a simple vintage name that is easy to spell that is still vintage.

Depends on which era of vintage. These are the names of old people I know in the 80s

Bridget, Margaret, Violet, Gladys, Edith, Pearl, Beryl, Myrtle, Sylvia…

Some vintage names like Ivy and Isabella have been back in fashion for a while.

Edna.

Mavis.

Jane
Helen
Julie
Sarah
Emma
Claire

If I was pregnant now, I'd be going for the 60s and 70s names for a girl. So Rachel, Rebecca, Deborah, Heather, etc

I'm sure they're due for a revival.

Have to say, I'm less keen on the boys names from that era - Alan, Kenneth, Brian, Jeffrey, etc.

Edna
Ethel
Josephine
Prudence
Maureen
Christine
Sharon
Gillian

Depends which era you are going for …

Patricia
Kathleen
Maureen
Irene
Joan
June
Jean
Margaret
Maud

Dorothy
Betty
Kathleen
Patricia
Pamela
Victoria
Joy
Grace
Judith

Mabel
Margot
Thelma
Sybil
Sylvie
Ada

Rita

My neighbour's middle name is Gladys. She hates it with a passion. She is in her 80's. 😆

Hazel
Vivienne
Bessie
June
Barbara

Maureen
Kathleen
Dulcie
Sheila
Rose

Gloria
Nancy
Jane
Margaret

There are some truly awful ones so far 😂😂😂😂!

Alice
Allison
Bernice
Daphne
Hilda
Jean
Joan
Jocelyn
Lindsy
Norah

Violet. Only two in my daughter’s school.

Emily, Charlotte, Lucy, Jennifer, Sophie, Emma, Hannah, Lydia, Katie

Mary
Ruth

I know several Mabels and Nancys in the 5-10 bracket

Celia, Cecily, Cecilia
Emmeline
Dorothea, Dora
Carol, Caroline
Delia
Mary
Harriet
Deborah
Susan
Lindsay

Amanda
Bernadette
Nadine
Sheila
Trudy

Josephine is nice. Some of the 1920-1960 names mentioned seem appalling to my ear, as an older person now myself. Our aunties had those names.

Ann or Alice

Sadie
Lois
Louella
clara
Pearl
estelle
Cleo
penelope
rosalind

Joyce
Rita
Sheila
Beryl
Doris

Molly
Maggie
Tess

(All shortenings of Margaret and Elizabeth but great names in their own right)