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Im after "old English Names" and "Irish Names" (the ones that you able to spell!!)

26 replies

biglips · 04/08/2008 12:00

for boy and girl..(surprise sex)

Got 5 weeks to go and still no name

My DD's name is a old English name which we love...but still struggling on the names just like it was with DD

baby will take after Dp's surname which is a typical Irish surname.

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EffiePerine · 04/08/2008 12:57

By 'old English' do you mean traditional names? Victorian names? Anglo-Saxon names?

MaryMungo · 04/08/2008 13:36

Annis is a lovely medieval name, if that's what you're after....

branflake81 · 04/08/2008 15:50

By "old English" are we talking Ethelred etc?

ConstanceWearing · 04/08/2008 15:59

Ooh, Annis is lovely. Dammit - shall I have to have another baby ????

My DS is Lynden (alt. Linden, Lyndon). That's Old English.

ConstanceWearing · 04/08/2008 16:01

My teenage DD's just said Annis would be called Anus at school.

MaryMungo · 04/08/2008 16:24

I guarantee Annis will get an easier time of it than Gunnora, Horenga, and Sexhiue

Here's a good resource

bamboostalks · 04/08/2008 16:25

Imogen is an old English name.....I think.

ConstanceWearing · 04/08/2008 19:56

I love Imogen.

Am beginning to think I'm prehistoric

cyteen · 04/08/2008 19:57

Kester
Aelred

(for a boy)

ConstanceWearing · 04/08/2008 19:57

Oh, don't forget Beowulf

Habbibu · 04/08/2008 19:58

Aethelstan. Hildeburgh. Bede.

ConstanceWearing · 04/08/2008 20:00

Aethelstan and Hildeburgh.

Stan and Hila?

Hope your surname's not Ogden!

ConstanceWearing · 04/08/2008 20:00

Aethelstan and Hildeburgh.

Stan and Hilda?

Hope your surname's not Ogden!

ConstanceWearing · 04/08/2008 20:01

So funny it was worth telling twice

chonky · 04/08/2008 20:01

Zillah or Araby for a girl?

ConstanceWearing · 04/08/2008 20:03

"God, Zillah!"

Maybe not!

chonky · 04/08/2008 20:03

having just researched Araby, I don't think it is an old english name - lol. I like it anyway .

navyeyelasH · 04/08/2008 20:04

Ava, Cordeila, Esme, Evelyn, Lillian, Iris for girls

George, Henry, Frank, Jack, Winston, Alfie, Archie for boys

It depends what you mean by "old english names" I guess?

KateF · 04/08/2008 20:06

Alys, Eleanor, Philippa, Alfred, Edward, John

loler · 04/08/2008 22:33

Voirrey - manx for Mary. Half way between ireland and england!

Hulababy · 04/08/2008 22:45

From misi's link - do you mean proper old english?

Daisy - pretty popular these days though
Edith
Willow

Alfred
Edward
Harold (harry)

PortBlacksandResident · 04/08/2008 22:56

If i ever had a girl she would have been Elfreda. A little girl called Freddie - how cute!!!

Pruners · 04/08/2008 22:57

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