Which of these girls names from 1820 to 1850 do you like and which not?

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/ar...





All these are names from a school archive of one school for girls.. with the names of the girls who attended this school between 1820 and 1850...


Which are the 10 names you like best?





Which 10 names don't you like?





Reasons why you like or dislike them?

Which of these girls names from 1820 to 1850 do you like and which not?
I LIKE:


1. Adaline [sooo pretty!]


2. Anna


3. Caroline


4. Evelyn/Evalyn


5. Lucie/Lucy


6. Sophia


7. Louisa


8. Elizabeth


9. Grace


10.Leah





I DISLIKE:


1. Love


2. Wealthy


3. Silence


4. Oella


5. Experience


6. Fanny


7. Freelove


8. Ursala


9. Tirzah


10. ALL of the 'Z' names!
Reply:I like:





Cecelia - Just a pretty name over all.





Clarissa - Same as above.





Adelaide - This is actually one of my favorite names. Just so nice sounding





Olive - Pretty





Lottie - Neat name. I looove the name Lettie, and this is similar.





Susannah - Oh Susannah, Oh don't you cry for me... I like the name, and I herd it in a book once. They called her Suze for short.





Evelyn - Just a nice sounding name. I like anything with Lyn in it.





Zoa - I like a new Z name that isn't Zoe or Zoey.





Alice - My grandmothers name, so I have a certain fondness for it.





Marietta - I LOVE names that end in -etta. I just love the sound.











Now...Don't like:








Wealthy -Uhm, it kinda screams "wealthy"...literally.





Watie - Watie...sounds like a duck! Not what I would name a baby girl....





Ursula - The name is just kinda...ick.





Tamson - "-son" means son of...Tam? I kinda think names ending with -son should stick to boy.





Experiance - Uhm, experience? Really not a name I would want for a girl. I mean, sure...back then people weren't as perverted...or at least as verbal about it. Its just "I betcha Experiance is experienced!! "





Hittie - Just don't like the sound, and it sounds like hitt-ie. Like violence.





Franc - Frank? Uhm, no. I just don't like it.





Beulah - I just don't like it





Silence - Nope, don't like it.





Eusebia - Don't like it. Just sounds...blech.
Reply:Wow, there are so many to choose from that I do NOT like, but I will start with the ones I like.





Abigail


Aurora


Belle


Cecelia


Ella


Evelyn


Lydia


Olivia


Phebe


Sophia





Okay, now here are some of the ones that really stand out to me as hideous names!





Achsah (How do you even SAY that? Sounds like someone sneezed and the doc wrote that down as the name.)


Asenath


Beulah (Why? Ugh...)


Deidameia (What?)


Estimate


Eusebia


Experiance (Hmmmm......)


Fanny


Jerusha


Silence


and everything from the ones that start with T down





What were these people smoking when they names their daughters? I thought people wanted their daughters to have a pretty and feminine name even back then.....guess I was wrong.
Reply:Name I dont like





Abigail - Too common


Adelaide - Dont like the sound of it and its a region of Australia


Candace - Dont like the sound


Clementine - Its a fruit


Estimate - Thats not a name. Remindme me more of doing banking


Fanny - It has a new meaning in the 21st century


Lemonyne - Sounds like Lemonade


Mercy - Reminds me of bagging


Silence - " Be silent, Silence"


Wealthy - Not a name and its a bit vulgar.
Reply:LIKE


Alice


Amanda


Amy


Angelina


Annabel


Isabel


Harriet


Juliet


Miranda


Rose





Like these names because they are pretty and old-fashioned





DISLIKE


Atossa


Cleaveland


Estimate


Freelove


Laverna


Lodema


Orraville


Pocahontas


Silence


Wealthy





Dislike because they are the 19th century equivalent of those trendy trashy names I dislike today.





Thanks for the reminder that hideous names are not a particularly modern trend!
Reply:10 loves:


Alice (my name)


Kate (my mums name)


Sylvia (my grandmas name)


Rose (classic)


Chloe (my nieces name)


Lucy (my nieces name)


Flavia (beautiful and exotic)


Flora (sweet)


Mercy (lovely)


Cora (nice)


I honestly like most of them but some particularly weird ones:


Lemonyne


Marionette


Freelove


Wealthy


Experiance
Reply:What a cute website...heres the ones i like. They are all such timeless names:








Abigail


Aurora


Charlotte


Chloe


Christiana


Clara


Cora


Cordelia


Hannah


Isabel


Juliana


Juliet


Melissa


Winefred





Least favs: Experience, Silence, and Wealthy lolll! Now those are some bad virtue names hahaha but also hilarious. Wihlmena, Esther, and Gertrude are pretty bad too..
Reply:Liked.





Elnora


Ursula


Octavia


Antionette


Imogene


Arabella


Cordelia


Blanche


Lydia


Priscilla





Did not like.





Welthy - They could have atleast spelled it right!


Zillah - Sounds like Godzilla %26amp; it not a very soft or pretty name at all..


Sophronia


Roxellana -


Philomella


Mable


Loella - To many L's


Hitty


Fanny


Deidameia


Cleaveland
Reply:I Like:


Amanda


Anna


Cecelia


Clara


Ella


Emma


Ida


Isabella


Jennie


Joanna


Josephine


Julia


Lucia


Lucy


Maria





Dislike:


Octavia


Oella


Olive


Olivia


Olympia


Ophelia


Oraville


Oriana


Orinda


Orra


Orrell


Pamelia


This names for examples
Reply:Names I Love!!


Abigail, Grace, Chloe, Elizabeth, Isabelle or Isabella, Olivia, Priscilla, Samantha, Sophie or Sophia (not my favorites, but I do like them)
Reply:Grace


Matilda


Juliette


Henrietta


Arabella


Phoebe


Elnora


Georgiana


Katherine


Elizabeth





Love all of these names . . . . favorite matilda and grace
Reply:Abigail- I love Abby for short.


Amelia


Ella


Georgiana- One of my favorite characters in a book is named this.


Hannah- This is my daughter's name. :-)


Isabella


Josephine


Melicent


Olivia





Can I just say. . . Who the F, (Sorry to use harsh letters), would name their child Freelove?!
Reply:Abigail Alice Amelia Annie Lucy Rose Jane Caroline Charlotte Matilda Sophie Chloe Eliza Ellie Evelyn





Those are all gorgeous names, and they all happen to be on my favorite names list. ;-)
Reply:i like abigail and emma
Reply:I love the names Grace and Emma.
Reply:Eunice is an ugly name. It sounds like someone's great aunt or like a diease.
Reply:just dont mame her experiance that makes her sound sarcastic
Reply:Freelove? Lol! There are however cute one's like Clara!
Reply:Oh MY! too many names to pick from! But doesn't "Freelove" catch your eye and make you wonder?
Reply:I actually like a large number of these!!


My ten faves are:


1. Anne- Honestly I LOVE this name. It is so simple and sweet (but a tad overused as a middle name). I think Anne is way more appealing than the more popular now-a-days Anna.


2. Calista- simply a favorite name. I love it


3. Emeline- this is on my own list.


4. Eugenia- I love the sound of this...it just rolls our of my mouth.


5. Juliet- I used to dislike this name, but now I simply love it.


6. Keturah- one of my most favorite names.


7. Lavinia- so sweet.


8. Mary- similar to Anne, she deserves some limelight. She's soo sweet


9. Rosamond- while I prefer Rosaline. I think this version is nice as well.


10. Tirzah- Another fave. I think it just sounds beautiful and looks so quirky.





least faves:


1. Achsah- I don't care of the way it looks, nor do I care for how it sounds in the several different ways I've tried to pronounce it.


2. Beulah- I want to like this name, but it simply has one of the least appealing sounds ever.


3. Cleantha- Just, unappealing.


4. Dora- I really had this name. Honestly, I prefer Dorcas to this.


5. Dorinda- most "inda" names I don't really care for.


6. Estimate- I'm all for word names...but this one just isn't cool


7. Freelove- would definitely be teased now-a-days. However I like both Free and Love.


8. Gertrude- just unappealing sound. And honestly, the nics Gerty and Trudy make is worse.


9. Lemonyne- reminds me to much of lemons.


10. Oraville- Honestly, I like Orval/Orville for a boy...and I like Ora for a girl...but I'm not but on this name.