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

[Shangas]

Aloysius.
Norman.
Percival.

Never met anyone with those names.

 

[rue]

How about:

Petunia
Beulah
Rose
Constance
Eugenia
Myrna
Winifred
Zelda
Darius
Eugene
Felix

 

[Tatum]

I've got a few from my family. Southern folk have some interesting names...
Vartan (grandfather's middle name)
Ralph (other grandfather)
Linnie Bell (grandmother)
Floyd Pope (great uncle)
Norma Jean (mom's godmother, first and middle, same age as Marilyn, amazingly enough. She was the most beautiful woman I knew as a child too!)

Hubby's family has some interesting ones too...
Elbert
Agnes
Carlton
Henry

I have a second cousin who isn't a year yet that I think has the most adorable name that sounds vintage: Clover.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Aloysius.
Norman.
Percival.

Never met anyone with those names.

I have. One of my uncles is named Norman.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I like the name Archie, as well, but I think he'd start calling people Meathead and telling them to Stifle.

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

Beulah was one of the ones we agreed on as well, we both have Irish Heritage. My great-grandmother was Beulah O'Doherty. We also agreed on Edna, another Great-Grandmother.

How about:

Petunia
Beulah
Rose
Constance
Eugenia
Myrna
Winifred
Zelda
Darius
Eugene
Felix

 

[Bernie Zack]

Mortimer.

Not to hijack this thread, but it reminded me of some funny names from TV. Who remembers "Dash Riprock" and "Bolt Upright" from The Beverly Hillbillies!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

When I was in high school in the early '80s, which I suppose could now be considered vintage , these were the more common names

Brian
Cheryl
Chris
David
Deborah
Denise
Jeff
Scott
Sean

Nowadays many kids and young adults seem to have surnames for first names with Taylor, Tyler, Tanner, Conner and Cody being the more notable examples.

 

[Puzzicato]

Haven't seen Sylvia or Ruth on our list.

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

My cat's pedigree name is Sylvia, and she's only 2! And I have a niece called Annabelle who is 15, I think (I've lost track).

Aloysius.
Norman.
Percival.

Never met anyone with those names.

I have a friend called Norm, he's in his 40s.

 

[W-D Forties]

We had a phase in the UK a few years back of old fashioned children's names, that's why we have a rash of Lotties, Lilys, Bethans, Archies, Harrys, Oscars, etc in schools now. The press at the time called them 'Mockney' names!

On a similar subject, I taught a teenager called Oak last year!

In my husband's family there's a tradition of giving the first son the middle name of Walton.

 

[hatophile]

Alfred
Lucille
Wilma
Ernest
Horace
Maurice

All family names of 2-3 generations ago.

 

[hatophile]

Bertha
Ruth
Esther
Percy
Mansfield
Bertha
Eulah
Nellie

 

[Dr Kilroy]

I do not know exactly if they are vintage, but I like them, so they must be in some way:
Millicent
Isolde
Rosemary
Emily
Lillian
Anthony
Wolfgang (well, this is perhaps a bit too German )
Adolf (brings negative connotations)
Frederick
Alfred
Archibald
Clarence
Claude
Innocent
Francis
Charles
Heywood
Sherlock
Clayton
Henry
Geoffrey
Staples
Walter
Venantius
Fortunatio
Amadeus
Gregory
Clement
Laurentius

That is all for now.

Best regards, Dr

 

[hatophile]

Uriah
Roxy
The couple seated in my avatar (great-grandparents) don't know why I didn't think of them before.

 

[Marcus]

My Grandfather's and Uncle's First and Middle Names: Grover Cleveland
My Grandmother's First and Middle Names: Wilma Jean

 

[LizzieMaine]

I see a lot of little girls around named "Isabel," but if they really want to be vintage, they should follow the flapper fad of calling themselves "Ysobel."

 

[Gingerella72]

These might have been listed already but some of my relative's names that are definitely not used anymore:

Mildred
Ethel
Nellie
Edna
Zelma
Elmer

And my own name, Betsy, I rarely, rarely see among young people.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I love the name Betsy, that was the name of my first car!

These might have been listed already but some of my relative's names that are definitely not used anymore:

Mildred
Ethel
Nellie
Edna
Zelma
Elmer

And my own name, Betsy, I rarely, rarely see among young people.

 

[Mr. 'H']

Inez.

 

[rue]

Did someone mention Wilford yet? It was my great uncle's name. They called him Bill.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Inez.

We had an Inez on our street -- she owned a vacant lot where kids liked to play and would lean out the window and yell at us if we made too much noise when she was watching her stories.

Inez had a husband named Sid, a grocer with a glass eye -- which he'd take out to intimidate kids who spent too much time loitering around the funny-book rack. There's something about these sorts of names that pretty much defines the personality.