Names you just don't see anymore

[mg]

I have Levi (boy) Valentine (boy) and Alethea (girl)

[Josephine]

This is a great thread!   

Here are some given names from my husband's & my trees that I never hear:

- Absolom (spelled several different ways, including Ablsom), Addie, Adelaide, Adelia, Adoniram (spelled several different ways), Albion, Alfreda, Alma, Almeda, Alvah (male), Amos, Aquila, Atkins, Augusta
- Bartholomew, Beauchamp, Beecham, Bertha, Bertram, Beulah, Blanche
- Carvell, Charity, Chester, Cecil, Clifton, Clyde, Constance, Cora, Cornelius
- Delice, Delphene
- Effie, Elbridge, Elisha, Elmer, Elsie, Elvira, Ethel, Ewart
- Flora, Forest, Foy
- Geneva, Gertrude
- Hattie, Hazen, Henrietta, Herman, Hiram, Honor, Horace
- Inglis
- Seakons and Sampson as middle names
- Kingsley
- LaVonne, Lester, Levi, Lida, Lizetta, Lucretia, Luella
- Mariner (popular in a family of master mariners), Marvel, Maynard, Mervin, Milton, Mina, Minard, Moses, Muriel, Myrtle
- Nareva
- Oren, Orr, Ozro
- Percy or Percival, Preston
- Queenie
- Reuben, Robley, Rosanna, Roscoe, Rosella, Rosetta, Rosina
- Solomon or Saul, Sophronia, Stannes, Sumner, Susannah
- Tabitha (born 1853), Thelma
- Verna
- Ward, Webster, Wellington, Wesley, Willard, Winfield, Winifred

My 4th-g-grandfather was named Barnett Barnett.

A highschool friend's middle name was Petronella.  Her parents were from Holland.

One of my favourite names is Sydoney / Sidoney.  I read it in a book and then met someone with that name a few years ago.  I don't know where it came from or if it's old.

Regards,
Josephine

[Lazylover]

I have a Mildon in my family - still not sure of the sex as it was a surname that was passed down!

Other than that they're all the run of the mill Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, John and Davids!

[Dimps]

I haven't ploughed through the whole of this thread, so excuse me if any of the following have already been covered.

Philadelphia was quite a common name, particularly in Sussex.

Keziah also seemed a popular name, particularly in country areas.  A name that seemed to have died out, I have suspected for a while that it will make a comeback with so many people taking an interest in their family history.  There is now a character with that name in "The Bill".  It is apparantly the hebrew name for the senna bush.

I have a work colleague called Comfort.

I am suprised a teacher has not come across any Williams - I know umpteen children by that name.  There must also be a fair few young men so-named who were born shortly after Prince William.

My grandmother was called Maud.  It has always struck me as an ugly, hard-sounding name.  An old lady's name.  But I now know of little girls called Ruby, Elsie, Edie...  None called Doris or Ivy yet.  When my eldest son started school some ten years ago, I was surprised to meet a little boy called Stanley.  I haven't come across any little Alberts, Bertrams or other Berts, yet.  Or Percys.

Dimps

[RedFox]

Dimps - I was especially interested to see the name "Percy" as my father, his uncle, and grand-uncle were all named Percival.  In fact, using names is one of the ways I know if I was looking for the right family or not.  Dad was called Percy as a youngster (1920 census).  Don't know if he had his name changed legally or not.  Also, haven't figured out when he started going by his middle name - Arthur - but was known as Art or Red for most of his life (he was a redhead).  He started losing his hair at age 19!  He looked 70 when he died at age 53.  RedFox

[Nautilus]

Keziah also seemed a popular name, particularly in country areas.  A name that seemed to have died out, I have suspected for a while that it will make a comeback with so many people taking an interest in their family history.  There is now a character with that name in "The Bill".  It is apparantly the hebrew name for the senna bush.

Hmmm! I take it she has no problem in the toilet department then

[Iria]

In My Hubbys and My Family Tree There Are a

(Boys Names)

Jonas
Walton
Caleb
Roger

(Girls Names)

Phoebe
Martha
Harriett

and Lots of James William and Marys

Regards

Iria

[RedFox]

Most of the "weird" name (to us anyway) in our family seem to reside in my son's family history.  Since they came to CT abt. 1622, guess that is only natural.  However, there is one line I had no information on until last night.  The man's name was Amasa Farrington Kinne (obviously, the middle name was a family name).  He went by the initials A.F. - which I can understand.   A.F. may have had family that went  back to the 1600's, but he was born in 1813 in Vermont and died in 1894 in MI.  I'm just pleased to have been able to crumble one more brick wall.  RedFox

[Josephine]

There's an Amasa in my distant tree, too, but I think he went by his first name, which was Claire.  I think he was born in Maine in the 1800s.

Regards,
Josephine