Names from the 1800's? And ideas?

Question

I'm doing a project on the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. One of my assignments is to create a plot for a gothic style story. I have to have a main character and three supporting characters. I need some name ideas. My main character is a male and at least one character is a female. I thought:

Emmeline

Elizabeth

Marta

Gretchen

Margaret

But I'm at a loss for boy names. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Maybe Madeline

Answer 2

Just pulled up my fmaily tree...In the 1800's I have a Charles, Isaac, Ogden, Walter, Thaddeus, Hurbert, Preston, John, William, Chauncy, Alexander, Robert, James.

Answer 3

Augustus

Arthur

sorry only know those 2  

Answer 4

Cornwallis was the name of one of the generals in the revolutionary war. And cornellia sounds sort of goth to me

Answer 5

   1. John

   2. William

   3. James

   4. George

   5. Charles

   6. Joseph

   7. Frank

   8. Harry

   9. Henry

  10. Edward

Answer 6

Well, there's

William

Charles

Maximillian (I'm not sure if that's how you spell it)

George

Answer 7

I know this might sound weird, but I looked it up, and found the name Shem.  Do you think that name would work?  It is kind of weird.  

Answer 8

Andrew, Edward, Edmund

Answer 9

Edward

Answer 10

Willam.

Henry.

James.

Arthur.

I like Elizabeth and Margaret!

Answer 11

Griffin. Abott, Alastair, Ethan.

Answer 12

anything biblical is always a nice shortcut.. you know thats been around since longer than the 1800s, and people have always used the names.. ie matthew mark john luke

Answer 13

Elisabeth and Margaret are Classic names

so is Mary and John

Answer 14

frances

harriet ( i think that is a girl though )

esther

oliver

and theres more

go here

http://users.erols.com/dgalbi/names/85f4...

Answer 15

i found this site, which has a list of girl and boy names popular from 1800 to 1999.  it seems like a pretty nice list, in my opinion.

Answer 16

graham, oliver, george.

Answer 17

I like your female names

here are some suggestions for males

Jasper

Edward

Carlisle

Clearance

Felix

Clay

Charles

Frank

Henry

Thomas

Harry

Theodore

Phillip

William

Henley

Harvey

Benjamin

Nathaniel

Robert

Richard

Gus

Gilbert

Answer 18

Drusilla

Freda

Lizzie

Clemence

Arvilla

Lillian

Sudie

Althea

Collet  

Answer 19

LOL Think of all the Shakespeare plays... Like in MacBeth, we have Duncan, Banquo, Malcolm, Fleance, Lenox, Ross, Donalbain...

Wow, I'm surprised I remembered all of that! Scary...

Answer 20

Abraham

Henley

Andrew

Augustus

Bartholomew / Bart

Benedict

Buford

Byron

Clement / Clem

Columbus (also Lom or Lum)

Girls names would often be a combination of two names, like Margaret Ann or  

Answer 21

Unique and Unusual Names from the 1800's

Find yourself a historical Boys Name



1. Isidore

2. Orrie

3. Handy

4. Moody

5. Ewing

6. Reinhold

7. Vester

8. Linton

9. Ewarld

10. Ammon

11. Orion

12. Norbert

13. Linus

14. Gottlieb

15. Dow

Answer 22

EDWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol, wonderful Twilight books, dang it!

lol, i just finished Breaking Dawn...it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! geez. sorry, i just can't stop thinking about it. But, seriously, Edward is a great name.

Answer 23

jhon,william,james,thomas,george,samuel,... that helps.

Answer 24

Top Baby Names in the Early 1800s.

Male name.....................Female name

1 Ernest.........................Virginia

2 Asa.............................Phoebe

3 Isaac..........................Ruth

4 Charles......................Clara

5 Levi.............................Ada

6 Jeremiah....................Mahala

7 Ephraim......................Hannah

8 Ezra.............................Lavinia

9 Hugh............................Amelia

10 August......................Malinda

Top Baby Names from around the 1850s

Male name................. Female name

1 Abraham..................Lou

2 Edwin.......................Alice

3 Henry.......................Keri

4 Walter......................Milicent

5 Eli.............................Cora

6 Wilson.......................May

7 Horace......................Evelyn

8 Oscar........................Victoria

9 Abner......................Violet

10 Julius.....................Lily

Top Baby Names of the 1890s

Male name................Female name

1 John........................Mary

2 William....................Anna

3 James....................Margaret

4 George..................Helen

5 Charles.................Elizabeth

6 Joseph.................Ruth

7 Frank....................Florence

8 Robert..................Ethel

9 Edward................Emma

10 Henry..................Marie

Answer 25

My aunt who died about 10 years ago at the age of 98 was named  Delsie....I always thought it was unusual and had really never heard of anyone else with that name.  As  for boy names Carl was poplular in the 1800's and here are a few more.  Edward, Thomas, Robert.

Answer 26

Abigale / Abby

Ada

Adella

Agnes

Allie

Almira / Almyra

Alva

America

Amelia

Ann ~ (also nickname for Nancy) / Annie

Arrah

Beatrice

Becky ~ (see Rebecca)

Bernice

Bess, Bessie, Beth, Betsy ~ (for Elizabeth)

Charity

Charlotte

Chastity

Claire

Constance

Cynthia

Dorothy ~ (also Dot)

Edith

Edna

Edwina

Ella

Eleanor

Ellie

Elizabeth ~(also Eliza, Liza, Lizzy; see Bess.)

Elvira

Emma

Esther

Ethel

Ettie ~ (see Henrietta)

Eudora

Eva

Fidelia

Frances

f***y ~ (usually nickname for Frances)

Flora

Florence

Geneve

Genevieve

Georgia

Gertrude / Gertie

Gladys

Grace

Hannah

Hattie

Helen

Helene

Henrietta / Hettie ~ (also Ettie)

Hester

Hope

Hortence

Isabell / Isabella

Jane

Jennie

Jessamine

Josephine

Judith

Julia

Juliet

Katherine / Kate

Laura

Leah

Lenora

Letitia

Lila

Lilly

Lorena

Lorraine

Lottie

Louise / Louisa

Lucy

Lulu

Lydia

Mahulda

Margaret ~ (see Peggy)

Mary

Mary Elizabeth

Mary Frances

Martha

Matilda / Mattie

Maude

Maxine /Maxie

Mercy

Mildred

Minerva

Missouri

Molly ~ (nickname for Mary)

Myrtle

Nancy ~ (see Ann)

Natalie

Nellie / Nelly

Nettie

Nora

Orpha

Patsy

Parthena

Peggy ~ (nickname for Margaret)

Permelia

Phoebe

Philomena

Polly ~ (nickname for Mary)

Preshea

Rachel

Rebecca ~ (see Becky)

Rhoda / Rhody

Rowena

Rufina

Ruth

Samantha

Sally

Sarah

Sarah Ann

Sarah Elizabeth

Savannah

Selina

Sophronia

Stella

Theodosia

Vertiline ~ (also Verd)

Victoria

Virginia / Ginny

Vivian

Winnifred / Winnie

Zona

Zylphia

Aaron

Abraham / Abe

Alan / Allen

Albert

Alexander

Alonzo

Ambrose

Amon

Amos

Andrew / Drew / Andy

Aquilla

Archibald / Archie

Arnold

Asa

August / Augustus

Barnabas / Barney

Bartholomew / Bart

Benjamin

Bennet

Benedict

Bernard

Bertram / Bert

Buford

Byron

Calvin

Charles / Charley / Charlie

Christopher

Christopher Columbus

Clarence

Clement / Clem

Clinton / Clint

Cole

Columbus (also Lom or Lum)

Commodore Perry

Daniel / Dan

David

d**k ~ (see Richard)

Edmund

Edward

Edwin

Eldon

Eli

Elijah

ElishaEmmett

Enoch

Ezekiel ~ (also Zeke)

Ezra

Francis

Frank ~ (also nickname for Francis)

Franklin

Frederick / Fred

Gabriel / Gabe

Garrett

George

George Washington

Gideon

Gilbert / Gil

Granville

Gus ~ (see August)

Hank ~ (nickname for Henry)

Harland

Harrison

Harold / Harry

Harvey

Henry ~ (see Hank)

Hiram

Horace

Horatio

Hugh

Isaiah

Israel

Isaac ~ (also Ike)

Isaac Newton

Jacob / Jake

James ~ (also Jim)

Jasper

Jack ~ (for John)

Jefferson / Jeff

Jedediah / Jed

Jeptha

Jesse

Joel

John ~ (see Jack)

John Paul

John Wesley

Jonathan

Joseph

Josephus ~ (also “Cephas”)

Josiah

Joshua

Julian

Julius

Lafayette ~ (also Lafe)

Lawrence / Larry

Leander

Les / Lester / Leslie

Lewis / Lew / Louis

Levi

Lucas

Lucian

Lucius

Luke

Luther

Louis

Levi

Lucas

Lucian

Lucius

Luke

Luther

Matthew

Marcellus

Mark

Martin

Martin Luther

Masheck

Maurice

Maxwell

Merrill

Meriwether

Meriwether Lewis

Michael/ Mike

Micajah ~ (have seen nickname “Cage”)

Mordecai

Morgan

Morris

Nathaniel / Nathan / Nate / Nat

Ned ~ (short for Edward)

Newton / Newt

Nicholas / Nick

Nimrod

Ninian

Obediah

Octavius

Ora / Oral

Orville

Oscar

Owen

Paul

Patrick / Pat

Patrick Henry

Paul

Perry

Peter

Pleasant

Ralph

Raymond

Reuben

Robert ~ (also Bob)

Robert Lee

Richard / Rich ~ (see d**k)

Roderick

Rudolph

Rufus

Samuel

Sam Houston

Seth

Silas

Simon

Simeon

Stanley / Stan

Stephen

Thaddeus

Thomas / Tom

Thomas Jefferson

Theodore / Ted

Timothy / Tim

Ulysses

Uriah

Victor

Walter

Warren

Washington

Wilfred

William / Will ~ (also Bill, Billy)

Willie ~ (Not always for William)

Zachariah

Zebulon

Zedock

Answer 27

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Adam, Joseph, Jonah, Elijah, Isaac pretty much anything biblical.

George, Gregory, Gregor, Henry, Charles, James, Arthur, Stanley, Iver, Ivan, Benjamin, Benedict, Broderick, Frank, Louis

Answer 28

Try this website

www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

It's the social Security website

you can look at names for the 1880's

Or by year from 1879 to 2007

Answer 29

Boy's names from the 1800's

TURENCY            SETT               IRVIS              LEWTON            

LUTHY              RUST               VICHONY            EMIE              

MARD               LELSON             CECIUS             SIMOND            

NELAY              ZACK               HARSO              TOMIN              

STEPHRIS           NICHALLE           RILL               HENETT            

KELBERT            EPHEW              MATHY              FOSEPHRIC          

ERNESSE            ZACE               CYRUCE             ORLEY              

BERON              EDWIS              EBERMON            EARON              

NEWIS              SANS               BERNER             NEWIN              

PAUDOLN            ALFREN             MICHOME            MOSTE              

ELMENE             FRASH              WALLINE            WILL              

HUGLAN             MELSON             JEFFREN            ISAIM              

JEFFREW            WARIS              TIMON              NICHIE            

GRENJAH            OLISON             JOSE               LAURIA            

ARCY               THOND              AMBUS              WILLAS            

JACOTT             ALLIS              CYROY              LONAN              

ADON               HOLANUEL           ANDEN              LONSE              

WARTIN             ANTHY              HORNARK            PHIE              

LEVEST             MATRIS             REEMAS             ALBER              

STANS              ERANCY             WARTH              DANDE              

CARDER             CHARD              JERT               STANT              

EBERT              FELO               LEON               CHER              

RICHOND            EDMON              BENCIL             ORISON            

HEREY              CLARRY             CLIVEST            NELVER            

HENJAH             THER               HERCY              RICHIE              

Answer 30

Adeline (can be pronounced ad e leen)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ance...

Scroll down a little and there are loads of male and female names.

Hope this helps and good luck on the project!

*Angel*

Answer 31

Elizabeth, definitely. It's perfect for your story. For a boy, I'd suggest Leander, Deacon, Roderick, Buford, Bertram, Bartholomew, Barnabas, Lucian, Lucious or Gideon. Gideon sounds like it would work very well for your story.