I need a name for my LO.........

[UCM]

I was stuck on Pippa for yonks but have gone off it. Then latched on to Harriet but we live in Essex so poor child will be called 'Arriet'. Then liked Verity but Soapstar Superstar arrived on our screens.

I don't want anything in the Govt top 100 but want an old fashioned name, not made up...thats really unusual

see top 100 here

My surname is similar to Gilbert.

Can anyone help????

I know Demelza is a place and I know quite a few people called Demelza, but still it conjures up a Poldark-y sort of an image to me!

Tabatha
Tansy
Jay
Wilhelmina
Innes or Innez

Sylvie or Sylvia

Some fab names on here

I love Willow - my DP didn't, good job we had a boy!

Oh yes, it only started as a name in Poldark, Ellbell - Winston Graham nicked it from the place, his Demelza was the first, all the others will be younger than the book. (He nicked Warleggan as well)

I had a restriction for DD as the sirname is LONG. (12 letters)

I know a family where the daughters are called:- Verity (but she is called Welly by all because her younger sibling called her that) and Cressida

I have also recently come across Silvie and Rhiannon, and my best friend at school was Philipa, or pippa

Verity is another Poldark name (though not invented by WG) - it's very pretty.

UCM, have a rummage through Behind the Name - all the names anybody can ever have thought of and a few more besides

Top 100 in the US 1900 - 1909

Gertrude
Myrtle
Minnie
Elsie
Ida
Agnes
Nellie
Mattie
Mae
Willie
Blanche
Mamie
Vera
Cora

I'll stop now

Celeste, Clementine, Delilah, Maria, Veronica, Monica, Angelica, Esmerelda

Claudia

Georgia

Megan

Rebecca

Grace

just a few we considered for our dds - although Grace and Rebecca made the cut as middle names.

Lauren
Maya
Amy

Idony. Yes I know everyone else will hate it but I wanted it and I didn't get the chance [stamps feet petulantly).

Oenone? Now that is unusual these days. Phyllis. Pyllida. Juno. Do you see a mythylogical Greek theme appearing? Europa...OK getting silly now...

Lily? Hermione...

Bit surprised Eleanor was so popular - I only know one other in my DD's age group.

Hazel. Very pretty, slightly old fashioned, and not too many Hazels around.

ooo I give you Grace. I would love a Grace but as we are Ropers the poor child would become a Groper!!

oops Grace is in top 100 sorry

How about a bird like Linnet or Wren? (These are my names for the fantasy twin girls I never had )

Georgia
Louisa
Anna
Maeve

wondered if anyone would come up with a Tabitha!

Alma

Muriel

Lindsey

Rosemary

Judy

Maureen

Moira

Violet

Lorna

Laura

Beatie - never sure what that's short for...
(oh doh! beatrice perhaps!)

Ceinwen (welsh)

most of the above are in my family now or a few generations back.....

i bet there wouldn't be many Tracey or Sharons around now-a-days either!

Clarissa
Cressida
Georgiana
Augusta
Clemency

Georgiana is pronounced George-ayna, by the way

Penny? Or Hazel is one of my faveourites.

Oops, Belgo got there before me!

If I'd had a girl I might have called her Edie after my Nan. I also like Heidi - you don't see so many these days.

UCM - if you like Thea you could call her Dorothea (love her in Middlemarch) or Theodora.