Old names

Also found these on a really old newspaper archive 1930s i think, I think some of these names could be really popular in few years time. Some of these are really cool, any unusual old fashioned names you have heard lately?

Harry Hunter
Robert Lincoln
Donald Elwood (like Elwood, Thats what Take That's Mark Owen called his son)
Chester
Ione Maria
Dorothy May
Vernon
Saby
Mildred
Alva
Alfred
Clarence
John Frederick
Bert
Shirley Joan
Irene
Cleo
Herman
Glenn
Oscar
Iver
Axel Johnson
Arthur Dudley
Edith
Forrest McPhail
Jerrold
Augustus
Marion Taylor
Ernest
Lilyquist
Gregory
Sanford
Thor
Ralph
Homer Isley
Dorsey
Wallace
Tice
Delbert
Earl
Elmer
Theo
Rosa
Walter Wolfe
Odin
Ward
Dale
Grant
Della Iva (could be the new stella)
Lyle
Grover
Vivian
Bean and Ditch (surnames of expectant families -too funny)
Otto
Milo
Sheppard
Evan
Scott
Nell

Lilyquist? that is a beautiful name!! my favorite old names are Mabel, Marjorie, Betty, Jean, and Gertrude.

Lillyquist unusual right? I think it was actually one of the surnames very unique, definitely a different take on Lily /Elizabeth. Am actually starting to love the name Mabel :)

On the wing of my grandmother's nursing home, I've seen Zubie and Orilillian. I'd love to know the stories behind those names.

rqpitts wrote:On the wing of my grandmother's nursing home, I've seen Zubie and Orilillian. I'd love to know the stories behind those names.

Zubie! I'd love to know the origins of that name. I actually think I like it :)

I love Ione!
Vernon is kind of growing on me. I think it would make a great mn.
Saby seems like it could be a really cute nn for Sabrina or Sabine.
Clarence is a family name.
Cleo - my grandma has a nice older gentlmen who is her neighbor with this name. He's the nicest man ever.
Marion Taylor sounds Old Hollywood.
Ralph was my husbands grandfathers name. Neither of us like it enough to use for a son. I like Rafe though he does not.
Walter Wolfe, I really like this one a lot.
Odin, I love this name.
Vivian, super pretty.

I love so many of those names! Especially Odin and Alfred. Yumyumyum. <3

Also, much love for Ione Maria, Edith, Otto, Milo, and Sheppard (though I prefer Shepherd)! Very charming stuff.

Love Ione and Nell!

aklein wrote:Lillyquist unusual right? I think it was actually one of the surnames very unique, definitely a different take on Lily /Elizabeth. Am actually starting to love the name Mabel :)

I would also say that Lillyquist on your list is a surname. It appears to be a variant of the Swedish surname Lillquist, meaning "little twig." Quist (meaning "twig," along with qvist and kvist) is a suffix found on a number of Swedish surnames.

-- Nephele