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Old-Fashioned Names

Old-fashioned names

Monroe

Meaning: mouth of the Roe river

Origin:Scottish
1855
Aurelia

Meaning: the golden one

Origin:Latin
3
Priscilla

Meaning: ancient

Origin:Latin, diminutive of Prisca
349
Augusta

Meaning: great, magnificent

Origin:Feminine variation of Augustus
702
Faye

Meaning: fairy

Origin:English
150
Ophelia

Meaning: help

Origin:Greek
9
Mabel

Meaning: lovable

Origin:Diminutive of Amabel, Latin
40
Isadora

Meaning: gift of Isis

Origin:Greek
192
Origin:English and Scottish, short form of any name ending with -etta: Henrietta, Loretta etc.
127
Hattie

Meaning: estate ruler

Origin:English, diminutive of Harriet
153
Winnie

Meaning: holy peacemaking, gentle friend

Origin:English diminutive of Winifred
159
Origin:Anglicized form of Yiddish Golde or Golda
308
Emmeline

Meaning: work

Origin:Old French form of archaic German Amal
140
Estelle

Meaning: star

Origin:French
189
Elsie

Meaning: pledged to God

Origin:Diminutive of Elizabeth via its Scottish variation, Elspeth
67
Flora

Meaning: flower

Origin:Latin
69
Florence

Meaning: flourishing, prosperous

Origin: Latin
74
Clover

Meaning: key

Origin:Flower name, from Old English
93
Ada

Meaning: noble, nobility, or island

Origin:German or Turkish
50
Dorothea

Meaning: gift of God

Origin:Greek
325