Vintage girl names

My husband and I are having a hard time finding a girl name. We seem to like more vintage names. What is/was your grandma’s name?

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Doris and Jean
My partner's Lilian Vera, and Pamela

My grandmother's names are Bernadette and Barbara. I was going to name my daughter after my great grandmother Mildred (we were thinking Millie) but ended up going with a different name. Irene and Charity were also some old-fashioned names on our list 😊

Rhea
Nancy
Verla
Vera
Barbara
Susie
Grace

Forgot Therese

Betty Jo, Ruby, Viola, Peggy, Winifred (Winnie/Freddie)

My grandma’s name is Annabelle Louise

Aphra is one of my favourite old/classic names, after one of the first English women to make a living by writing :)

Old names in our family:
Georgia
Minnie Pearl
Bobbi Jo
Charlotte
Rita
Sue
Jean
Arlette

Heather and Hazel

My nans are Joan & Beryl, my husbands are Doreen & Dorothy but we call her Dolly

June Mary and Evelyn Violet

Ada/Aida, LOVE Winnie, Olive, Bette (Betty), Edith

I have always loved the names Esther & June.
My nan's name is Ann Rose.
Miss 7's name is Eden Rose 🌹

My grandma's are called May and Madeline

Linda and Mary 🥰

Thelma (my partner had a Thelma as a nan too but wouldn’t have it as a name for our LG ☹️) I love it!
What about Cora?
Norah/Nora?
Edith?

Hilary and Dorothy

Anastasia

Cordelia and Janet. My partner's are Annette and Mary

My daughter is Ada-Grace

Ginger, Delena, Jessie

We named our girl Eliza

I don't know how to spell it but I think it was my great auntie called Pruja.

Both my great grandmas are named Mabel. & one of my grandmas is named Judy/Judith Victoria.

Maybe you'd like the name Monroe? It's vintage but with a modern vibe if that makes any sense at all haha. One of my personal favorites

I actually did like Monroe. I had a dream about it a few years ago and thought it was so cute. , but my husband didn’t like it 👎

So my grandmas are chris (christine) and cathy (catherine) but my moms step mom is also my grandma and named sheryl. My husbands grandmas are stephanie and rebecca. My moms name is Sonya and my husbands moms name is Leah (pronounced leia).

Patricia, Janet, Barbara and Eunice lol take your pick.

Daphne, Bessie (Elizabeth) Dorothy, Valerie and Mary were/ are mine and my partner’s grandmother’s names.

I love the name Mavis for a Granny or a child! 🥰 x

My daughter is Ivy Bridget after my two great grandmothers 🥰

Other old fashioned names I think are beautiful:
Margot
Dorothy
Wilhelmina
Mabel
Hazel
Annie

My grandma was Millie and that is what we named our daughter ☺️

Winifred

Mae
Luna (I know it's a "new" hip name to but my great great grandma was names Luna)
Dessie

My Nanny's name was Beatrice (Trixie) Joy (my 2nd middle name) and her sisters are Elsie and Bessie. My mum's name is Victoria Mary (my 1st middle name) she's a grandmother to my little Violet. I also loved Hazel for a girl but my man shot it down... I had to have flower names for my daughter so Daisy, Rose, Juniper, Delilah etc?

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