vintage first names no longer in use today or not popular anymore

[HodgePodge]

Eslie, Ward (G-Grandfathers)
Murray, Mervin (Grandfathers)
Mary-Ethel (G-Grandmother)
Alice (Grandmother)
Arthur, Bruce, Emerson, Victor (Grandmother's brothers)

"Kay" as short for Katherine.
"Clair(e)" as a masculine name.

all I can think of right now.

 

[rue]

Names from my family:

Emil (sometimes with an e on the end)
Martin
Alfred
Otto
Annie Belle
Jean
Linda
Juanita
Octavius

 

[sandyg]

My name; Sanford.

 

[Gene]

Grandma (maternal): Janice (pronounced Jah-neese)
Grandma (fraternal): Goldie
Great-Grandma (maternal): Adaline

 

[billyspew]

Been looking through my family's recently and found these (in Ireland):

Cornelius
Jeremiah

Nora
Elsie
Honora
Ida (pronounced Ee-da)

Love them all but fear my wife wouldn't let me ever use them.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I went to school with a Melvina, an Inga, a Preston, a Leroy, a Donald, a Roseanna, a Bethany, a Colin, a Wesley, and a Butch (who is now my brother-in-law.)

I have twin cousins named Biff and Bing.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

I went to school with a Melvina, an Inga, a Preston, a Leroy, a Donald, a Roseanna, a Bethany, a Colin, a Wesley, and a Butch (who is now my brother-in-law.)

I have twin cousins named Biff and Bing.

Love the twin names...Biff and Bing...one more coulda been...Bam...!!
HD

 

[Effingham]

Archie. I love the name, but could never give a kid the name "Archibald."

 

[W-D Forties]

We have Lily and Harry (my mum and dad and still very popular over here) and in the past: Mary, Cornelius, Ellwood and Albert.

You may also like to peruse the following from the cracking kids (but loved by adults) TV show Horrible Histories:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMp_xGeQ2v0&feature=player_detailpage

After this, if I ever have a girl I'm going to call her Princess Cheese.

 

[subject101]

Mr Dick Long. When a christian name is not christian anymore

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

How about the name Egbert? That's one you definitely don't encounter these days. lol

 

[Romy Overdorp]

My grandparents names:
Bertha Megolina
Kees
Miep
Leen

All of these Dutch names are not common anymore.
If I ever have a daughter I think of naming her Gracie Lou or Rosemary. Romy is actually short for Rosemary.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Edward R. Murrow's real name was Egbert. Somehow the mystique just isn't there.

 

[Tomasso]

Somehow the mystique just isn't there.

I'll say, kinda like that rough and tough Marion Morrison......

 

[Undertow]

Haven't seen Sylvia or Ruth on our list.

My younger sister has a 2 year old girl named Annabelle.

 

[James71]

I named my daughter Lillian. Mostly because I like how it looks when it is written in cursive. All the looping L's and I's.

Her middle name is Noni. Noni is my grandmothers name and was fairly common here throughout the 20's and 30's, though relatively unheard of since.

Most on here know I am married to an American. Her family had never heard the name and for some reason have trouble pronouncing it. The rounded "O" seems to throw them... it comes out Nah-nee.

Oh, and my grandparents names:-

Noni
Bruce
Ernest
Ethyl. (though she has never gone by Ethyl and everyone calls her Judy. )

Great Grandparents names (some of them... cant remember them all)

Albert
Harold
Elizabeth
Catherine

Im guessing that generation remained colonials in exile, judging from the Royal names....

 

[LizzieMaine]

My grandmother was Winona, and her lifelong nickname was "Nonie." I never heard of another Winona until whats-her-name the movie actress came along, and now there's whole bunches of them.

My other grandmother was Florence, which was also the name of the gas range in our kitchen. I used to wonder about that.

There was a lady down the street when I was growing up named "Ethlyn," and her husband's name was "Warner." It's impossible to find a more perfect pair of names for a flinty Maine couple of the 1910's generation.

 

[James71]

Better Florence than Doulton....

 

[Wire9Vintage]

Gladys.
That's all I can think of that isn't already listed.

 

[Old Rogue]

All my grandparents names have been listed except (I think) for my maternal grandmother's nickname:

Dotie

My maternal grandfather had several brothers, two of which were named

Dallas
Cleveland