Names you just don't see anymore

[Wendi]

Yes it's a lovely name, sheronb mentioned it in her family used in 1810's!

That reminds me of another male name used in my family for 4 generations:

Ambrose

[deeiluka]

I always felt sorry for my grandmother's cousins who were named Elto Eunice (girl) and Cupid Cornelius (boy).

Other names in my tree that are out of the ordinary.....
Girls....
Malvina
Hepzibah (lots of those)
Rennie
Gesina
Zenobia
Damaris
Elvina
Jessamine

Boys......
Elam
Aquila
Elwyn
Garrod
Bletsoe
Dyker Algernon
and lots of Valentines

.....dee

[Cal241]

Dee
What Fab names    where did they get those from ??

In modern day my great niece is called Heaven and we all thought that was odd 


Cal 

[sparrett]

Hi
Interesting to note that out here in the Colonies [Australia] where the English influence is still strong in many sectors , some of the names you mention as less usual are quite common.
As a teacher, I encounter a lot of ....
Zachary
Elizabeth
Olive and Oliver
Eliza [got one of  my own]
Harriet
Edward
Isla
John
Many, many girls with belle and bella at the end
Met a Euphemia aged 5 the other day!

The Wendy's, Susan's and Glenda's of my day are rare.
I wonder if Elsie will make a come back.
Sue

[julianb]

There's some great names here.  Good thing we're not planning on any more kids in this little family!

Anyway, here's my contribution from my family annals:

Boys

Shadrach  (Which in these days would be shortened to Shady - I think not, somehow!)
Earn  (a number of these, as I assume an alternative to earnest)
Nehemiah

Girls

Kezia
Jemima (but watch for this to come back with a Beatrice Potter film on the way)
Honor
Sabina
Pena

This is fun but not sure of it's accuracy:
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Definitely fun, and shows the following of my family first names took a dive over the last 40-50 yaers

Elma
Millicent
Agnes
Vera
Blanche
Adelaide
Clementine
Rosina
gertrude

Walter
Hubert
Ambrose
Bertram

But confirmed for me that

Ezekiel
Cornelius
Zachary
Silas

were making a strong comeback

JULIAN

[Ruskie]

Just read an article today which said that Ethan, Noah and Sienna are popular in NSW:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20940817-36398,00.html

My sister is a teacher and named her son Zachary because she had never taught a Zac. Now every other kid is Zac.

I love names. My daughter was still "baby" at three months because we couldn't agree/decide on a name. After all that time I'm still not happy with my choice.

[buttercup]

This is a very interesting topic!!

As a teacher i see lots of

Bethany
Jack
Thomas/Tom

good sensible names i think

BUT i have a middle name Jean named after my grandmother and ive yet to meet any other person with that name!!

I have a friend with middle name Frances which she detests 

I hardly ever see William anymore so if im lucky enough to have a son in the future William it is!!

The most unusual in my tree would have to be SMYRNA, middle names of both my late grandpa and his second cousin.

During my school years there was a girl named Marijuana  id hate to have that name!!

[Necromancer]

Philadelphia !

[hepburn]

Easter