Antique Girls' Names

Vintage girls' names, such as Ada and Olive, are clearly coming back into style. Then there are the slightly more old-fashioned group of names, the antique names. 

Antique girls' names feel old-fashioned and peaked in English-speaking nations before 1880. Hence, these names date from the medieval to the colonial eras. In addition, as with vintage names, famous people and/or characters from their peak eras can make names antique.

Here are some old-fashioned names for daring namers:

Amice

Annis

Blythe

Clemence

Cornelia

Deliverance

Drusilla

Electa

Eugenia

Eugenie

Felice

Fidelity

Henrietta

Hester

Hettie

Honesty

Honor

Jemima

Kittie

Lavinia

Lucretia

Mercy

Parnell

Patience

Pleasance

Prudence

Remembrance

Rhoda

Sophronia

Theodosia

Verity

Winnet

Zillah

What are your favorite antique girls' names? What names would you add to this list? 

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