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Bort

Gaylord

Thaddeus, Ulysses, etc. I liked that people used to name their kids after figures of the ancient world.

Balthazar 🤌

Agamemnon

The name Ea-nāṣir is about 4000 years overdue for a comeback.

I must be in a weird spot because I know 3 different Evelyns under the age of 8.

Archimedes

I've always liked the name Ruben for some reason and only ever known one that I can recall (whose brother was called Robin).

I also am partial to Ezekiel and they can have Zeke as a nickname which I think sounds pretty rad.

Trollip

Galahad

Eleanor

Emeline

Emeric

Lancelot

Siegfried

Everett

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack.

Isambard

I’m fond of “Gwendolyn” but I’ve never met or even known of one, to my knowledge.

I find Mildred an ugly name, sounds like it means Mildew but worse. Like the most dreadful mildew.

Opal I think is pretty, that's a good name. As you say you like minerals, Ruby not bad either, my mom had an aunt Ruby Jack, born around 1920.

I did know a baby Eugenia, her parents were Costa Rican and pronounced it closer to Elu-henia than Eyu-henia or you-geenya. I think that one is prettier in Spanish but not bad in English.

Hiram.

Thurl (as in Ravenscroft.)

Orpheus, Raphael, Hepaestus, Karlach, Orin, Sylvanus, William, ...

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Évelyne is faily common around here still.

Gilgamesh is one I haven't heard in a hot minute, not sure about the comeback though.

Named my daughter Evelyn last year. I'm doing my part.

Vivien / Vyvien

A lot of people these days seem to think that "Adolf" should come back.

I am not one of those people.

I think Millicent and Winnifred would be cute because you can shorten them to Millie and Winnie

Evelyn as a man’s name, if you want to be really old school.

I've always liked the old anglo saxon names like:

• Aethelweard
• Aethelwulf
• Aelfwynn
• Aethelflaed

We just get stuck with plain ol Ethel and Alf.

May and June. I feel like there's a lot of younger Aprils but the other two month names seem like old lady names.

I want people to go by their first two initials, and then the entire last name. Y'know, "H. G. Wells, J.G. Wentworth".

It just makes everyone sound more fancy and serious.

Zebulon -- traditional Biblical name. Maybe still used in Israel, but not many Americans have used it since the days of Zebulon Pike (Pike's Peak) and Zebulon Vance (Civil War era NC governor).

My vote is for Gretchen.

Perhaps not as old as requested but

Ronald, Marianne, Cynthia, Evangeline, Melinda, Caesar, Magdalena, Betty, Rosetta, Balthazar, Thadeus, Lazarus, Otto, Bartholomew, Miranda

I have a relative named Agnes in her early twenties. Don't do it. I find the Texas A&M jokes to be unbearable and I'm sure I hear less than 10% of what she hears

Mildred, Evelyn, Opal all names of my aunts +3 generations older than mine. Also try Betty as a diminutive for Elizabeth, Gerald, Hank, Errol, Mabel, Jerome, and Cordelia. These all scream white Midwestern US farmer to me.

Errol is most likely to have gotten into a bit of trouble and really seen the world when he was drafted for WWII.