BookBug's list "Lovely Old-Fashioned Girl Names" of 4 great name ideas: Amabel - Thisbe!

Lovely Old-Fashioned Girl Names

This is a list of names that could definitely feel right at home in an Alcott or Austen-esque book, so if you're wanting a girl's name full of old fashioned charm, or maybe if you're a writer in need of a good century or two old name, this is the place to look! :) 

Amabel is an older name than Annabel and a lot more distinctive. Amabel was a very common name in the twelfth and thirteen centuries, then was revived during the nineteenth century British fad for medieval names.
 In a short story by H.H. Munro, about Amabel, the vicar's daughter, it is said "Her name was the vicar's one extravagance."
 Amabel's shortened form Mabel overtook the mama name early on.

Amabel

One of those old-mannish names that sounds a lot fresher for a girl. 

Maurice

This unusual name found in Scottish poetry would make a distinctive Gaelic pick. 

Vevina

Thisbe, the name of a beautiful but tragic lover in mythology, is lively and cute -- in a slightly thistly, prickly way. Ovid retold the story of Thisbe and Pyramus, young lovers in ancient Babylon kept apart by family rivalry, which was the inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. A modern bearer of the name is writer Thisbe Nissen.
In Sarah Dessen's novel Along for the Ride, the baby daughter is named Thisby, nn Isby.