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Cthulhu

I always liked the name Woodrow, but I hate the nickname Woody, so it's a bit of a wash.

Perhaps not as old as requested but

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

Thurl (as in Ravenscroft.)

• Verl
• Verna
• Pearl
• Elvin

Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack.

Balthazar 🤌

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

Agamemnon

Galahad

Eleanor

Emeline

Emeric

Lancelot

Siegfried

Évelyne is faily common around here still.

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

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

Archimedes

Everett

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.

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

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

My vote is for Gretchen.

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

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).

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.

I would say Marceline, but adventure Time kind of kicked that overdue revival into high gear.

Constantine

Mordechai

How about Wanda. I had an aunt Wanda. She was kinda mean, but she had a lot of boyfriends.

Itzcoatl

Axayacatl

Axochitl

Blessica

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

I am not one of those people.

My twelve year old is Evelyn. My 14 year old is Genevieve. Which is apparently still out there but I thought it was pretty uncommon when we named her.

Any common ancient Roman name. Not enough "imuses" or "cleses" suffixing names.

Kolanakimus Huskerclese

Edna.

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.