What is a quintessential English name for a girl?

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

Kate or Emma.

I'm not English by the way.

First name that sprang to mind, Charlotte.

Penelope is Greek too - since when do the English pronounce single 'e's after a consonant (Hermione / Penelope) as e?

Hilda is German.

Charlotte, Tamsin, Emily, Elizabeth, Victoria, Emma, etc. Of course am not English, but those have an English vibe to me. I've never known of a Tamsin who was anything but English.

Also immediately thought Charlotte, Sarah, Emma.

Charlotte is of French origin.

Ann - definitely English origin
Victoria
Mary
Elizabeth
Sarah
Margaret

(The rest are traditional English names but originated from Greek and Hebrew)

Tamsin is Welsh or Cornish isn't it?

Loved all that info Bellissima.

Not of English derivation perhaps but names I think of as English are:

Alice
Jane
Catherine
Elizabeth
Victoria
Mary
Emily
Emma
Meg
Samantha
Frances
Lydi a
Imogen
Rosalind
Diana
Polly
Holly
Charlotte
Sarah

Thanks everyone for your posts.

Frakkinaround ? I think I?m after a name that you?d go ?aha, she?s English?. You?re right, it is a challenge to find a name of English origin that is widely used and considered quintessentially English. So I'm thinking traditional English names but with Greek/Hebrew/Roman origins. Names popular in Jane Austen, Dickens or Shakespeare. Not Boudicca ? she was a thug.

I'm looking for the English version of saying?

There?s a good chance Clodagh is from Ireland, Myfanwy is from Wales and Marie-Antoinette is from France... etc.

Jane, Alice, Rosamund, Mary, Kate, Victoria, Jemima, Margaret, Anne?

Any of the ones you just mentioned (excluding Alice and Rosamund...) plus for me Frances, Cecily and Emma. I love the name Rosamund but both it and Rosalind are quite German. Rosalind less so.

For me the test is to try saying it in a French, Italian and German accent. If you can't do it then it's English (and therefore off my list, having suffered with a name no-one else can say).

Tamsin is Cornish.

My DD1 is Harriet - various of our non-English friends reckon that's a very English name (even though it's actually German!).

Rose is the most English sounding name to me.

Joan
Alice/Alys/Alison (Chaucer is jampacked with them)
Jennifer (Cornish)
Jane
Margaret
Clarissa (made up by Richardson?)
Fanny (surely?)
Emma
Constance
Joyce
Iseult

Susan

Rose
Constance
Mary
Jennifer
Joanna