Vintage baby names

[joblossom]

My husband and I have been discussing recently baby names a lot. He isnt too fussed by names and has always said that he would leave names to me to choose as he knows how obsessed I am with them. We have recently been redecorating our house and looking at all our accesories we've noticed we have developed a real British vintage theme going on.
This has got me thinking could I like some vintage names for babies?

I am starting to like names like

Girls

Florence
Violet
Iris

Boys

Phinneas
Theodore

what other names fit in this group. Which names would make a great sibset? 4 kids (2b, 2g) What MN's go with vintage names? Can more modern names go with these? WOuld you go with more cute MNs to go with quite serious grown up names which is what I kind of see the vintage names as.

[notcinnamon]

To give it extra British pizazz, you should consider three-name combos

Florence- Such a doll! Growing steadily in Uk-
Violet
Iris- Def preferred more across the pond

I would add Daisy, Freya, Alice, Winifred (Winnie), Poppy, Imogen, Sophie, Jemima, Harriet, Clara, Phoebe

Florence Matilda Rose, Iris Winifred Alice, Freya Imogen Violet, Violet Rose Patricia, Harriet Daisy Jemima, Poppy Imogen Clara

Boys

Phinneas
Theodore

I would add Alfie, Archie, Harry, Callum, Edward, Rhys, Reuben, Louie, Freddie
Theodore Callum Rhys, Phinneas Archie Reuben, Callum Archie Frederick, Edmund Rhys Louie
I love Theodore (Teddy is very English hip), Florence, Harriet and Edmund (Ned) together. I also like Iris, Archie, Flora, and Reuben. Good luck!

[insilvam]

Viola
Hazel
Ramona
Amelia
Alice
Genevieve
Willa
Rose/Rosa/Rosalie/Rosamund/Rosalind/Rosaline etc etc
Ruth
Isobel
Matilda
Juliet
Clementine
Frances


Jude
Elijah
Maximilian
Bennett
Nathaniel
Arthur
William
Nicholas
Joseph
Oscar
Hugo

[lucystone]

Violet is very pretty!

From the top 100 baby girl names in Britain in 2011:
Isla
Amelia
Evie
Mia
Freya
Ruby
Holly
Matilda
Poppy
Imogen
Maisey
Layla
Phoebe
Sienna
Amelie
Zoe
Elisabeth
Emilia
Millie
Esme
Eleanor
Georgia
Elise
Eloise
Orla

Boys:
Oliver
Jack
Harry
Charlie
Alfie
George
Dylan
Max
Finley
Archie
Freddie
Toby
Louis
Sebastian
Reuben
Ollie
Rhys
Cameron
Leon
Pip
Dexter
Harvey
Felix
Kai
Jasper


http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnanc...ys-names-2011/ (embed link to girls' names in the article)

[3littlepeople]

My fav vintage names are..
girls...
Violet
Iris
Sylvie
Elsie
Seraphina
Maeve
Greta
Lola

boys...
August
Theodore
Henry
Silas
Solomon
Rupert
Chester
Dexter
Archibold/ Archie
Louis/Louie
Felix
Milo
Barnaby
Herbert / Herbie

[ksheja]

These feel vintage to me. Some I like, some I don't.
Flora
Dorothy nn Dottie
Edith nn Edie
Rose
Rosemary
Agnes
Agatha
Mabel
Mildred nn Millie
Millicent nn Millie
Beatrice
Lavinia
Adelaide
Adele/Adela/Adelle
Adeline
Ada
Della
Dora
Florence
Frances
Helen
Matilda nn Tillie or Mattie
Louisa
Emmeline
Eliza
Pearl
Opal

Vintage but popular right now so feeling more modern:
Lillian
Evelyn
Ruby
Clara
Amelia
I think Alice is getting there too, and probably the Ad- names like Adele.

Boys - harder for me to think of these off the top of my head but:
Alfred
Albert
Roger
Theodore
Julius

I think good middle names for vintage names are classic names, quirky names or other vintage names. Some modern names would work but many sound off to me.

[zinnia]

I love a lot of these names too.
My favorite vintage names are:

Marietta
Iris
Isadora
Louisa
Vivian
Helena
Georgiana
June

I think I need to branch out past Nameberry though because some of these names are starting to feel "normal" to me. I know that's crazy. It's a little hard to keep perspective on this site.

[shaymin2]

I would go with other vintage names. Violet Ashley would just ruin it in my opinion, while Violet Genevieve would sound divine. More ideas:

Agatha
Eudora
Pandora
Parthenope