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Help[Opinions] Re: What are your favorite southern Archaic names & southern names & Colonial names that were more common on the south
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I love Tennessee, hate Dixie (it's too associated with the Civil War) - it's kind of funny to me though that Tennie and Dixie obstensibly would mean the same thing. And if you're going for archaic, I suggest Pallas / Paulus / Palace over Dallas (Dallas is currently popular).
Plutina is one of my favorite names right now. Pharisee and Stonewall are a couple I think are ironic. French names like Antoine, Rene, Jacques are potentially historically more southern (excepting Maine?). Maybe Dreama, Artelia, Mozelle, Loveline, Jency, Fredonia, Corinthia, Queen, Thornetta, Willobeĺle, Pleasant, Denny, Napoleon, Amzi - or stuff like that; it's hard to say what was more common regionally apart from very rare names, and even then, there's overlap...there was a lot of moving around.
Out of the names I've seen that were somewhat common in the (British) American colonies in the 1700s, I would be the most surprised to see these used for an American baby today (starring my favs): Polly, Dolly, Thankful, Bathsheba*, Lucretia*, Hester, Dinah, Huldah, Vashti*, Jemima*, Ruhamah/Ruhama, Sabra, Mehetabel*, Sylvanus, Luther, Ephraim, Job, Enoch, Ebenezer* (Ebenezer was definitely more common in New England, though). Most of the other common ones I think of seem classic, current, or recently popular (well, 20th century, so relatively). Isabella and Arabella might have been more southern? Priscilla was common and seems one of the most blatantly 18th century to me, but the popularity chart contradicts that.
A potential cultural difference between the North and South I've noticed is that Deliverance, Experience, Liberty were being used in the North in the 1700s but not in the South that I've seen (I think southerners...and northerners, too?...were named Thankful, Charity, Mercy, Patience, Temperance, Grace, Prudence, Honor fairly often + Obedience, Providence, Unity, Faith, Constance, Comfort, Prosper sporadically)...Grief and Mourning were used in the South, and I haven't seen records of those in the North (yet Remember and Return appear in New England)...idk if those are real differences.
Some rare/weird/sporadic other ones I like that were around back then are Zibella, Zalinda, Griselda, Urania, Araminta, Effaniah, Jacobina, Jobyna, Delphia, Euphemia, Jupiter, Endymion, Severn, Gottfried, Originall, Aquilla, Devereux, Baptiste, Ulrich, Wolfgang, Balthasar, Nimrod, Merryman, Meriwether, Theodosius, Philemon, Armistead.
Plutina is one of my favorite names right now. Pharisee and Stonewall are a couple I think are ironic. French names like Antoine, Rene, Jacques are potentially historically more southern (excepting Maine?). Maybe Dreama, Artelia, Mozelle, Loveline, Jency, Fredonia, Corinthia, Queen, Thornetta, Willobeĺle, Pleasant, Denny, Napoleon, Amzi - or stuff like that; it's hard to say what was more common regionally apart from very rare names, and even then, there's overlap...there was a lot of moving around.
Out of the names I've seen that were somewhat common in the (British) American colonies in the 1700s, I would be the most surprised to see these used for an American baby today (starring my favs): Polly, Dolly, Thankful, Bathsheba*, Lucretia*, Hester, Dinah, Huldah, Vashti*, Jemima*, Ruhamah/Ruhama, Sabra, Mehetabel*, Sylvanus, Luther, Ephraim, Job, Enoch, Ebenezer* (Ebenezer was definitely more common in New England, though). Most of the other common ones I think of seem classic, current, or recently popular (well, 20th century, so relatively). Isabella and Arabella might have been more southern? Priscilla was common and seems one of the most blatantly 18th century to me, but the popularity chart contradicts that.
A potential cultural difference between the North and South I've noticed is that Deliverance, Experience, Liberty were being used in the North in the 1700s but not in the South that I've seen (I think southerners...and northerners, too?...were named Thankful, Charity, Mercy, Patience, Temperance, Grace, Prudence, Honor fairly often + Obedience, Providence, Unity, Faith, Constance, Comfort, Prosper sporadically)...Grief and Mourning were used in the South, and I haven't seen records of those in the North (yet Remember and Return appear in New England)...idk if those are real differences.
Some rare/weird/sporadic other ones I like that were around back then are Zibella, Zalinda, Griselda, Urania, Araminta, Effaniah, Jacobina, Jobyna, Delphia, Euphemia, Jupiter, Endymion, Severn, Gottfried, Originall, Aquilla, Devereux, Baptiste, Ulrich, Wolfgang, Balthasar, Nimrod, Merryman, Meriwether, Theodosius, Philemon, Armistead.
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