Favorite old timer name?

gettingmawwwied · September 2009

I dig old-fashioned names in general, but curious what your "old lady/old geezer" faves are.

I love Olive, Rose, Edith, Iris, Beatrix, Hazel for girls.

Atticus, Archie for boys.

FutureMrs.Steen · September 2009

This post made me LOL. Probably Helen and Henry, but Calvin and Ruth would be a close second.

karaokerampergirl · September 2009

I use old-fashioned names for cars my favorite is Viola also love llewellen, betty, daphne, Penny.

Carrot303 · September 2009

Hazel and Hettie.

BeanLooWeen · September 2009

I couldn't name my child this, but I think Otis is the cutest old man name. Smile

mlgd · September 2009

I really like a lot of old-fashioned names, but one of my favorites for a girl is Harriet. No one else seems to like that one though.

For boys, I think my favorite is Henry (although I don't know if it qualifies as old-fashioned anymore. I know quite a few now.)

juniper19 · September 2009

My dd is Sadie. I really wanted to name ds Meyer, which is a old time Jewish name, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

kristaeris · September 2009

Ada, Ruth, Ruby, May

Owen, Wyatt, Charlie, Henry -Although these have made a huge come back.

lindseystenlund · September 2009

I think Stella is great older name.

MrsWindyCity · September 2009

Hazel, Penelope

nooniesgal · September 2009

Violet, Rose, Hazel.

Charles for a boy.

jessawakawaii · September 2009

Amos, Carlyle, Merritt, Harlan, Ephraim, and Elsa, Alma, Althea, Petra. I like lots of old names that H is not so in to.

MissFreo · September 2009

Alice, Cora, Frances, Clara

Henry, Theodore

shari_rngleson · September 2009

olive, ruthie (my mom's name), francesca, stella (my dog's name), violet, ruby, mary, charlie, earnest

Lucky428 · September 2009

For girls, I like Rose, Iris, and Hazel

mlf625 · September 2009

Mable, Matilda, Evelyn, Eleanor, Harriet, Hazel, Helena

Gary, Henry, George, Ralph, Oscar, Oliver?

newportbride715 · September 2009

Claire, Louise, Helen, Delia, Iris, Violet, Beatrice, Matilda, Maisie, Daisy, Elsa, Sadie

Henry, Archer/Archie, Theodore/Teddy, Edward/Teddy, Everett, Charles

hereandthere119 · September 2009

Edward and Tobias. Blanche. June.

Lesley0228 · September 2009

I love classic names. DDs is Matilda, which I adore! Others we considered were Ruby, Vera, Nora, Stella, Scarlett. I love Henry, James and Finn for a boy. We would have used Elliott though.

Love2Mocha&Skizz · September 2009

Wilma... its my grandmother's name and she hates it!

mrs_tacos · September 2009

Vera, Leona, Flora, Helena, Alice, Beatrix, Cora, Corrine, Norah, Sylvia, Phoebe, Marjorie, Cecelia, Lucille, Louise, Marion, Olive, Ingrid, Ruth, Penelope, Evelyn, Iris, Ruby, etc. I also have an unreasonable affection for Henrietta.

Theodore, Leo, Henry, Amos, Milo, Oliver, Jack, Leroy, Elias, Jonas/Jonah, Levi, Edward, James, Stuart, Marshall, Henry

LoriFalce · September 2009

Really, except Rose, I think those are all ghastly.

I think names from the early part of the 20th century are generally awful. When I go back to old fashioned, I generally go back to the classical period names popular during the 1820's. But I'm a history buff.

Therefore, I gravitate to Drusilla, Daphne, Victoria, Emmeline, Cora, Ophelia, Julia, ...

I also have a tendency to run through the British Royal Family in the 1800s, which gives me things like Charlotte, Caroline, Sophia, Adelaide, May, Alexandra, Alice, Victoria, Helena, Louise, Irene, Patricia, Melita, Eugenia, etc.