Help! Quirky Elizabethan style names? Think Kit Marlowe and the Mayflower...

[lupin]

I'm bored with my names list. Would you help me to spice it up a bit?
I think most of the names I like sound a bit like they're from a children's book set in the sixteenth century, if that's any kind of prompt at all.

GIRLS
Elsa Johanna
Flora Jean
Rose Thomasin
Poppy Elizabeth
Mabel Livia
Iris Elizabeth

BOYS
Oliver Francis
Thomas Fingal
John August
William Finch
Kit Johannes
Edward Rowan
Solomon

I also like Hazel and Tabitha, but can never think what to do with them. Do they go together?

Oh, and Lyria, just for sheer made-up loveliness.

Thank you in advance!

[lori johnson]

Welcome to Nameberry!


Quirky names from the Elizabethan Era [1558-1603] is an admirable target name image -- very fun .


Thinking you might enjoy these lists for starters ...

http://www.britishbabynames.com/blog...nky-names.html

[and]

http://www.mygen.com/users/outlaw/En...%20Outlawe.htm


Source link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era

[ksheja]

Well, here's some names from way back on my family tree:
Lydia
Isabel
Cicely
Cecelia
Christabel
Patience
Beatrice/Beatrix
Sybil and Sybilla
Matilda and Maud
Joanna and Johanna and a ton of Joans
Agnes
Eleanor/Alianor
lots of Margery
Amery
Juliana
Petronella
Eve
Lettice
Scolastica
Constance
Dionysia
Egidia
Edith
Idonia
Adela and Adele
Christiana
Adelaide
Adeliza
Aeline
Esyltt (Iseult)
Elinora
Tabitha
Ermentrude
Thomasine/Tamsen
Blanche

Rowland
Albon
Walter
Aimeric
Morgan Awbrey
Giles
Edmund

Hazel and Tabitha are a little different in style to me. I love Tabitha!

[augusta_lee]

This is right up my alley. How about:

Winifred
Grace
Bess
Alice
Eugenie
Millicent
Wilhelmina
Olive
Constance
Myrtle
Deborah
Thora
Verity
Alba
Blythe
Felicity
Rosemary
Polly
Judith
Louisa
Agnes
Millie
Nell
Mavis
Vera
Philomena
Ada
Harriet
Janet
Inez
Agatha
Florence
Henrietta
Maisie
Pearl
Blanche
Tabitha
Hester
Meredith
Aphra
Adeline
Edith
Cecily
Lettice
Eliza
Margaret
Elinor
Alice
Catherine
Dorothy
Marjorie
Beatrix
Lucinda
Heloise
Ursula
Ismay
Clara
Helena
Phoebe
Jane
Bryony
Maude
Cressida
Juliet
Augusta
Dinah
Hattie
Gwendolen
Virginia
Philippa
Catriona
Florimel
Honor
Jemima
Mercy
Phyllis
Susan
Violet
Prudence
Mehitabel
Amelia
Susan
Jane

Roland
Lionel
Clemence
Thaddeus
Alistair
Felix
Jasper
Hugo
Tristram
August
Tobias
Otto
Barnaby
Arthur
Edmund
Rupert
Oscar
Wallace
Bartholomew
Roderick
Erasmus
Aloysius
Basil
Gideon
Ned
Phineas
Louis
Howard
Leopold
Giles
Calder
Thayer
Gareth
Frederick
Bruce
Clive
Roscoe
Dexter
Ernest
Clarence
Alfie
Duncan
Franklin
Waldo
Sylvester
Bartleby
Newton
Homer
Ephraim
Dudley
Emmett
Cuthbert
Theodore
Baxter
Willoughby
Everett
Richard
Walter
Linus
Frances
Anthony
Ralph
Quentin

[violetgray]

The 1500s in my family tree are filled with Joans, Alices, and Thomas's but here are some interesting ones I found:

Marabella
Philippa
Pippa- yeah, just Pippa
Sybil
Priscilla
Julianna
Phoebe
Lydia
Dorothy
Corlissa-I find this really unique, born ca.1414
Christiana Tidersleigh- added her ln for fun
Mabel
Polly
Bridget
Isabel
Cecelia
Susannah "Sunny"
Molly
Aggie
Johanna
Lora

Boys:
Amias
Leland
Gideon
Benjamen
Walter
Henry
Hugh
Ralph
John Button- the full name of someone on my family tree. I find it quirky

[ribbons-and-soldiers]

Fun! Let us see what I can come up with.

Girls:
Annis
Edwenna/Edwina
Lilias
Remembrance
Bathsheba
Cordelia
Imogen
Frederica
Clemency
Rosalind
Jocosa
Antonia
Dorothea
Theodosia

Boys:
Hopkin
Mordecai
Walter
Seymour
Thaddeus
Benedict
Julian
Wolfram
Laurence
Absalom
Bartholomew
Balthazar

I think Tabitha Hazel is lovely, btw.

[lupin]

Wow, thank you everyone!

lori:
I'm adding Simeon to the boys' list, and Hetty, Juniper and Tilda to the girls'. I like Queenie and Prue, too, but perhaps they're a bit much. Is it bad that I'm almost liking Bernard?! Too much Dylan Moran, I think.
Also, that website is fantastic. Wonder why Frideswide survived into the Early Modern period?! Wilmot's also interesting... too early for them to be named after the Second Earl of Rochester though. Pity, he was great.

ksheja:
I love Lydia! Scolastica and Lettice are brilliant. I hope they were siblings.

augusta_lee:
Love Rosemary, Ismay, Catriona and Duncan! Especially Ismay and Duncan, they'd be lovely twins.

violetgray:
I much prefer Pippa to Philippa, interesting that it was used way back! I'll add it to the list. Also, John Button is just the BEST name. Everyone should be called John Button. Hahaha.

ribbons-and-soldiers:
Clemency and Antonia are lovely. Balthazar is something of a guilty pleasure - I'd use it for a mouse, though. Never heard Annis before, can't decide if I like it or if it's just a really unfortunate homophone. Tabitha Hazel does work better than Hazel Tabitha, doesn't it? Pity, I like Hazel more...

I also love Benedict, Fergus, Roland and Millie, but sadly I have friends with these names.
Thank you so much, all! All suggestions still much appreciated!

[author in writing]

Thomasina is the only name I can think that I don't think has been suggested!