What is a quintessential English name for a girl?

[Doozie]

I'm looking for a classic English name for a girl - what would your choice be?

Alice

Elizabeth
Jemima
Annabel
Catherine
Louise
Caroline
Stephanie
Juliet
Alice
Jane

I'm not English though, so I don't knwo how genuinely English these are more the vibe than the origin perhaps.

it's quite hard really. I was going to add Claire, but that's both French and Irish as well (Clare).

Victoria?

victoria
elizaboeth
emily

Off the top of my head, when I think of very English names, I think of Hermione, Emma, Jemima, India, Verity, Honour.

Verity seems puritanical and American to me! I really like it though.

Hermione very English imo

India... not sure!

Nope - never even heard of a Verity in America, only here in England. Same with India.

As above plus Charlotte

Olivia
Anne
Regina
Hilary
Rose
Edwina
Ashley
Eleanor
Margaret
Virginia
Afton
Audrey
Ivy
Lorna
Wendy
Edith
Milllicent
Winifred
Henrietta

Jane
Elizabeth
Mary
Anne (or Anna)
Eleanor
Wendy
Beatrice
Charlotte
Victoria
Rebecca
Hermione
Harriet
Phillipa
Ivy
Mar agaret
Rose
Emma
Emily
Alice

sofaqueen, i meant that the puritans were the first to use words like verity and charity as names!

Emily. Deffo!

Lots of these - Caroline, Eleanor, Charlotte, Emma (Bovary), Anne, even Alice, could also be French (well okay it would be Eleanore, but I think it's popularity in this country is down to Eleanor of Acquitaine).

Mary is v English spelling of Marie/a. Jane is v English. Katherine is European but Kate is very English. Wendy is from Peter Pan and ergo English, Vanessa from Swift (?non) so ditto, Imogen? Annebelle(a) a Byronic invention. Isobel is the English version of Isabelle.

Boudicca? (pre-anglo-saxon Brit ie pre Germanic)

Before I get shot down in flames, I should say Vanessa is Swift and therefore Anglo-Irish!

I also get shot down in flames for saying Fiona is anything but Scottish, but it's also Northumbian.

or even brian

yes Bellissima, didn't Swift invent it for his friend, Esther Van something. or somebody Van Esleigh. something along those lines!! half a story!

Joan
Gladys
Fenella
Cecily
Araminta
Arabella

Anything a bit posh or royal....

Araminta
Penelope
Tamsin
Christabel
Amelia
Cordelia
Philippa
Verity
Daphne
Imo gen
Victoria
Beatrice/Beatrix
Eliza
Jemima
Arabella
Portia
Briony
Camilla
Felicity
Cecily
Juliet

Missed off Henrietta

Alice

Polly

Depends what you mean by English really! Many of the names mentioned are widely used in English but aren't 'originally' English, others which have a more English origin aren't common enough to be considered quintessentially English.

Do you mean a name that you look at and go "aha, she's English" like Frances, which doesn't really work in any other language, or a name that is very common in England but could be from anywhere?

Hermione - English...? It's Greek, Isn't it?

Isobel is Celtic / Scottish

Isabella is Italian