Edwardian names: Alliteration and Assonance

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

Hey back again, sorry but I saw this and wanted to post it for you all.

Nameberry.com has an article about Edwardian names and alliteration. And the fondness people in this period had for giving these striking alliterative/assonant names.

Here are the names they listed:


Arabella Adela
Aurelia Amelia
Ava Ada
Bella Isabella
Cordelia Cecilia
Edith Elsie Lydia Lavinia
Eleanor Ella
Eva Evelyn
Iris Idalia Ilene
Iris Nerissa

Iva Eva

Johanna Joan Sophia Maria

Lucy Lucilla

Pearly Persis

Penelope Polymnia

Primrose Primula

Ophelia Adelia

Rosalind Rosella

Austin Augustus

Donald Ronald

Edward Edwin

Frank Francis

Herbert Gilbert

Jasper Jospah

Joseph Josiah

Leopold Leo

Percy Percival

Sidney Leslie Lawrence

Theodore Ivore

Valentine Vincent Victor

If you were to give your kid an alliterative/assonant name what would it be? Do you know anyone who has a purposeful or not purposeful name like these?

I think it is cute but I think it can be done more subtly.

Comments

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Like rosabelle, I'd go with more alliterative and less rhyming name combinations:

Nicholas Nathaniel
Evelyn Elizabeth
Amelia Anne
David Daniel
Finn Francis
Catherine Claire
Rachel Rhianna
Michaela Marie
Elijah Evan
Stephanie Sarah

I don't know anyone who has a first + middle alliterative or rhyming name, but I've known a few people with alliterative first + last names---that combo seems to work better (just ask Ryan Reynolds, January Jones, or Chris Carpenter).

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

I like Amelia Anne, Evelyn Elizabeth, and Catherine Claire.

Though I don't like Stephanie Sarah. I'd see a "Susan," "Sabine," or "Scarlet," take the place of Sarah better.

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

Actually I would just prefer Scarlet Sabine. It's sounds like a name from a fiction novel ;)