Classic English girls' names

[LuciaRose]

I'm trying to come up with some traditional names that are recognisable, but not overused. I like anything with a slightly elegant, Regency or Victorian feel. What do you think of my ideas so far? Any other suggestions?

Henrietta
Georgiana
Charlotte
Lucinda
Beatrix
Flora
Jemima
Cecily
Alice
Cle mentine
Arabella

Very nice names

What about Harriet?

Emma

I like

Emma
Rose
Charlotte
Rebecca
Anna

Alice. That was my first choice if ds had been a dd. Also:
Eliza
Martha
Tess.

I don't like Arabella.

Elizabeth
Catherine (both unusual for babies these days)
Araminta
Antigone
Verity
Valerie
Susannah
Annabel

read some more Georgette Heyer

actually, how about Georgette?

Which combinations do you think would work?

Clementine Flora?
Alice Jemima?
Lucinda Charlotte?

Any ideas welcomed. Thanks!

if you pick a frilly polysyllabic first name use a short second name

Lucinda Jane
Clementine Rose

Clementine Flora you would get away with if you have a short surname

Charlotte is a lovely name - i know someone me who is called CHarlotte and she's im the best.

hannah?

actually so would Alice Jemima

Alice Jemima Pope

Lucinda Charlotte Heatherington (for example) is just too much
and it'll never fit on any forms

Alice Jemima

is lovely. I disagree that you have to have a monosyllabic second name if you chose a frilly first name - my dd2 has two three syllable names and they sound great together. We very rarely say them together anyway.

All lovely, though Charlotte is quite popular these days.

How about:

Tiffany
Susannah

My DD is Flora Elisabeth Zoë

I love Jemima but I think a child would have to have the personality to live up to it

Flora is lovely too

Hetty?
Hester?

Oh and I know a Maude which I personally think is lovely ...

Sorry for any repeats
Philomena
Ophelia
Eugenia
Hester
Minerva
Savannah
Vivienne
Antoinette
Corrine
Cord elia
Theodosia
Francisca
Cornelia
Caroline
Josephine
Theadora
Araminta
Maybelle
Cecelia
Lu cinda
Marcella
Aurelia
Marietta
Albertina
Ernestine
Delphine
Augusta
Eleanor
Beatrice
Luci lle
Bernardine
Celestine

Maude was my grans name (nasty lady she was)

I like it 'cos of the Tennyson poem but I think that's spelt without the 'e'

I love Arabella - it's on my shortlist.

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Annabel, Beatrice, Constance, Delia, Dulcie, Florence, Hester, Jemima, Joy, Lydia, Lois, Mabel, Primrose, Polly, Penelope, Queenie, Sadie, Susannah, Verity.

Anna - Tiffany defo not!!

Audley, that's a good list. Not just the obvious Victorian names but the ones that haven't come back (yet?)

Ernestine! Wouldn't use it myself but it's interesting! Celestine and Eugenia are lovely.

I think you have the old posh names and then the scullery maid names eg Milly, Flora, Lydia, Ellie etc which have been adopted now byt the middle classes

(I love scullery maid names)

Tiffany is a lovely Victorian name.