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.

#5 and #6 most popular names for girls and both been in the top 25 for at least 7 years. OP wants a name that isn't overused.

Agnes - means lamb of God

Joy
Suzanne/Suzanna
Christine/Christina
Victoria
Joanne/Joanna
Barbara
Heidi
Caroline
Fiona

OP is 21, so names from the 1900s to 1950s would probably be vintage.

I'm technically old enough to be her grandmother! Vintage for me would probably be 1900s - 1930s.

Audrey. It's the name of one of the strongest women I have ever known - my beloved late aunt who would be 100 now. We encountered a little Audrey in the park a few weeks ago and thought how lovely it sounded on a young girl.

Barbara
Deborah
Louise
Kimberly
Sue
Stephanie
Beverly
Claire
Jennifer
Sabrina
Stacey
Nicola
Cassandra

We need to bring Barbara back! great name

I love Iris and Mary. I work in a junior school and we don’t have any girls with these names and havent in the 5 years I’ve worked there. There was one Mary in my eldest son’s year. I love Nell as well, and we’ve only had one of those in my time (she is a Nelly - short for Penelope - Penny is also lovely and unusual come to think of it). Good luck, have fun choosing!

Belinda
Melissa
Veronica
Geraldine
Deirde
Pamela
Lois
Margaret
Enid
Betty
Kathleen
Prudence
Meredith
Amy
Sally

Penelope is quite popular where I live.

Not sure which "vintage" you're looking for, but:
Viola
Rosamund/Rosalind
Maud
Cecily
Genevieve
Juliet
Colette
Mary
Francesca?

Ada
Frida
Lillian
Bette
Valma
Una
Celeste
Estelle
Mavis
Doris
Greta
Iris
Yvette
Julia
Opal
Maeva
Harriet
Lois

Euphemia - Effie for short!

Hilda
Stephanie
Kathleen
Myrtle
Esme
Rose
Pearl
Victoria
Alexandra
Gertrude
Dorothy
Thelma
Norah
Fern
Eliza
Marguerite
June
Valerie
Maxine
Dawn
Faith
Millicent
Amanda
Louise
Judith
Robyn
Coral
Sally

Vera
Doreen
Hilda
Enid
Kathleen
Sonia
Paula
Molly
Rita
Patricia
Pauline
Gloria
Glenda
Shirley
Brenda
Maureen
Marlene

Hattie
Hepzibah
Jemima
Miriam

Deirdre
Gertrude
Norma
Sharon
Michelle
Helen
Hilda
Arlene

I always thought I would have daughters Kitty & Tillie (I didn't but I still love those names).

My grandmother had a lot of sibling and they all had good names: Daisy, Ivy, Eva, Betty.

I also think Tabitha and Jemima are nice names.

The prettiest names of people I knew in the 80s were:
Saskia
Dilys
Lara
Leonie
Annabel
Ursula
Chloe
Jilly

I really like Valerie

Amy is a very old name. Was ridiculously popular in the 90s, but has fallen off the radar since then. It was my grandmother's name and she was born in the late 1800s.

Generally names come back when the new mums don’t remember people with those names. So their great grandmother’s names. New mums now are likely to be born 1990s-early 2000s. Those names are their mums and aunties names, not their great grandmothers. 70s names will return about 80-100 years after they were used. So another 30-50 years away.

I adore the names Sylvia and Clara

Cordelia
Susannah
Jemima
Rosamund
Rosalind/Rosaline
Seraphina
Arabella
Georgiana

It seems like everyone over 65 where I live is called Ann or Sue. Please don't!

Laura