By old-timey names, I mean ones that you don’t typically associate with anyone alive or younger than like 70.
Examples being:
- Burl
- Mildred
- Herbert
- Agnes
- Evelyn (not as rare at the others, but getting there)
I’ve always liked the name “Opal” but I’ve only ever known two in my life. I was like 10-12 at the time, and they were both pushing 90.
The name Ea-nāṣir is about 4000 years overdue for a comeback.
Actually had a friend in highschool with that name
I heard he’s in jail for stealing copper.
When you have bad copper you deserve to be forgotten!
What about Enkidu?
Archimedes
Balthazar 🤌
It’s one of magi!
On that note, Melchior would make for a metal af middle name.
Galahad
Eleanor
Emeline
Emeric
Lancelot
Siegfried
I went to a school with an Eleanor, who really embodied her name by being way into the local SCA group, doing ren fairs all the time, and is now a medieval history professor.
She’s the most Eleanor Eleanor you can possibly Eleanor.
Evelyn as a man’s name, if you want to be really old school.
Yves (pronounced ‘Eve’) as well.
My grandfather’s name was Zälly on his German birth certificate, but when he emigrated to the UK, people laughed because it sounded like “Sally,” so he changed it to Solly, and eventually Sol.
I also went to high school with a guy with South African parents who was named Kerrin (which sounds like Karen), which I am guessing is less weird in South Africa.
Agamemnon
Doesn’t get more classic than that
Gilgamesh
