Top hats, waistcoats and taffeta gowns: elegant ladies and distinguished gentlemen. Here are the names that epitomise refined propriety.
They would all feel at home lighting the stage in an Oscar Wilde play, or gracing a rural stately home. In fact, stick "Lady" or "Lord" in front of any of them and they just roll easily off the tongue.
And while all these names bear a dignified elegance, they also have a solid and reassuring quality.
| Alexis Algernon Ambrose Anton Archibald Aubrey Augustine Augustus Barnabas Barnaby Basil Benedict Bertram Bertrand Caspian Cassian Casper Cecil Cedric Clement Constantine Cornelius Crispin Cyrus Digby Dorian Edgar Edmund Edwin Elgin Emmanuel Emmett Erastus Ernest Eugene |
Eustace Evander Everett Ewart Fabian Felix Ferdinand Florian Gideon Geoffrey Gregory Hector Horatio Hubert Hugh Hugo Humphrey Ignatius Ivan Ivo Ivor Jasper Jolyon Julian Julius Laurence Leopold Linus Lionel Lucian Lucius Magnus Marcus Marmaduke Maxim |
Maximilian Montague Montgomery Octavian Octavius Orlando Oscar Otto Piers Peregrine Percival Phineas Quentin Randolph Ranulph Ralph Reginald Rufus Rupert Sebastian Sholto Silvester Simeon St John Tarquin Thaddeus Tobias Torquil Tristan Tristram Victor Willoughby Wilfred Winston Xavier |
Adela Alethea Alexandrina Allegra Amabel Anastasia Angelina Annabel Annabella Antonia Arabella Araminta Augusta Aurelia Aurora Beatrice Beatrix Blanche Camilla Cassandra Cecilia Cecily Celeste Clarissa Clementine Christabel Christiana Constance Cordelia Corisande Cornelia Cosima Cressida Delphine Diana |
Dorothea Eglantine Eleanor Eleanora Eloisa Emmeline Eudora Estella Eugenia Eugenie Euphemia Evangeline Felicia Felicity Florence Frederica Genevieve Georgiana Georgina Geraldine Gwendoline Gwyneth Helena Heloise Henrietta Hermione Honoria Imogen Isadora Josephina Julia Juliette Lavinia Leonora Letitia |
Lucille Lucinda Margaux Marguerite Marianne Minerva Mirabelle Miranda Octavia Ophelia Ottilie Penelope Perdita Perpetua Philippa Philomena Portia Rosalind Rosamund Rosemary Sabina Seraphina Sybil Sybilla Sylvia Tatiana Theodora Venetia Verity Viola Violette Virginia Vivienne Wilhelmina Winifred |
