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I love British names and highly recommend the book 'Beyond Charles & Diana: An Anglophile's Guide to Baby Naming' by bLinda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran! I just recently bought this book and it tells all the quintessential British names, royal names and all kinds of other things. It points out that a lot of the names we think of as "British" came from other countries as Britain's culture merged or expanded with other nationalities (Vikings, Norman Conquest, Hanover kings, etc.) .

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A lot of my favorites could be considered British so I'll just give you a few that I like.

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Girls:
Alice
Amelia
Arabella
Beatrice
Cecily
Edith
Eleanor
Eliza
Frances
Georgiana
Imogen
Jane
Jemima
Laura
Lucy
Margaret
Nora
Philippa
Pippa
Tamsin

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Boys:
Alistair
Benedict
Colin
Crispin
Cyril
Edmund
Frederick
Geoffrey
Henry
Hugh
Ian
Julian
Noel
Oliver
Piers
Ralph
Robin
St. John / Sinjon
Simon
Theodore
William
oh, and Arthur!

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And here are some original names created by English writers for their writings:
Estella
Geraldine
Imogen
Cymbeline
Lorna
Malvina
Miranda
Myra
Pamela
Perdita
Stella
Vanessa
Wendy
and for boys: Cedric

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Like any of these?