Colonial Names for Girls

Many colonial names have fallen out of favor for long enough now to sound fresh and even cool again. If you like historic names but want to move beyond the Victorian and biblical baby names we've heard so much of in recent years, consider these names culled from Revolutionary War rolls and eighteenth-century town histories. The only caveat: The choices are much wider and more appealing for boys than for girls.

• Abitha
• Amity
• Aphra
• Aurinda
• Azuba
• Charity
• Comfort
• Cornelia
• Dorcas
• Electa
• Emeline
• Ester
• Fanny

• Hecuba
• Henrietta
• Hepzibah
• Hester
• Keturah
• Keziah
• Lydia
• Mahala
• Mercy
• Modesty
• Patience
• Phila
• Phoebe

• Primrose
• Prudence
• Rebekah
• Remember
• Rosanna
• Selah
• Susanna
• Tabitha
• Temperance
• Theodosia
• Verity

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