Favourite first names from Georgian England (all come across during my reading):
• Kezia (love tenfold because there is a Rromani girl mentioned in an edition of Harris’ List called Kezia Cross. I also have a Wesley ancestor called Kezia Wesley)
• Georgiana
• Valentine (for a girl or a boy: you find both)
• Christabelle/Christabella
• Peregrine
• Meriweather
• Arabella
• Jonah (there were a number of men called Jonah Fish throughout the age and like……Georgian Humour?)
• Mordecai
• Alethea/Alithea
• Sophia (pronounced the 18th English way like ‘So-fire’)
• Ephraim
• Electa
• Parthenia
• Temperance
• Sukie/Sukey, either short for ‘Susannah’ or a name of its own
• Bexelinda
• Cleophas
• St. John (but obviously pronounced ‘Sinjun’)
• Shadrach
• Ezra
• Ambrosia
Bonus: Zaphnathpaaneah (actually found this dude on a list of shopkeepers adverts from the 1740s. Don’t ask me how to say it because I don’t know how. All I know is that 1) he made spectacles and other forms of looking devices, 2) the advert specified one ask for ‘the gentleman, Mr Zaps Kettswood, near the Inns of Court’ for the finest service in lenses.