48 Counties of Names

[enwmn]

OK so this took me HOURS. Inspired by @OpheliaFlora 's 50 States of names . See if you can guess the connections! I have to admit with some of them I did have to dig deep/use variations or think about name meanings so it may be a little tricky, but some counties were so bursting with great names that I did double middles. Some of the namesakes are ancient, and some are more modern.

Bedfordshire
Sandrine Bee & Johan Blue

Berkshire
Winnie Catherine & Henry Herschel

Bristol
Hazel Severn & Arno Cecil

Buckinghamshire
Ayla Silver & Eliot Marlow

Cambridgeshire
Etheldreda March & Sidney Fitzwilliam Fenn

Cheshire
Alexandra Cardamine & Chester Anderton

City of London
Pauline Wren & Milo Alder

Cornwall
Demelza Loveday & Pascoe Ives

Cumbria
Beatrix Eden & Hadrian Lake

Derbyshire
Pennina Dove & Jacob Hope

Devon
Agatha Otter & Walter Penn

Dorset
Candida Thomasin & Max Chesil

County Durham
Ida Cecily & Cuthbert Apollo

East Riding of Yorkshire
Agnes Larkin & Willem Humber

East Sussex
Virginia Pleasance & Magnus Leonard Hove

Essex
Claudette Saffron & Basil Constantine

Gloucestershire
Narcissa Clare & Oswald Corin

Greater London
Victoria Sloane & Euston Tate

Greater Manchester
Emmeline Lowry & Albert Noel

Hampshire
Rosa Florence & Alfred Isambard

Herefordshire
Mercia Nell & Arthur Leofric

Hertfordshire
Cassia Adriana & Alban Theobald

Isle of Wight
Julia Orchid & Robin Algernon

Kent
Aphra Gardenia & Augustine Montague

Lancashire
Rosalind Carmine Lune & Myles Stanley Pierre

Leicestershire
Martina Jane & Nicholas Fox

Lincolnshire
Violet Maud & Odin Hugh

Merseyside
Helena Fortuna Liv & Lennon Tate

Norfolk
Poppy Boudicca & Kazuo Nelson

North Yorkshire
Constance Yvette & Maxim Howard

Northamptonshire
Nina Margaret & Crispin Simon

Northumberland
Josephine Darling & Percy Cuthbert

Nottinghamshire
Marian Sutton & Arnold Trent

Oxfordshire
Lyra Oriel & Ambrose Ash

Rutland
Cosette Bellflower & Titus Oak

Shropshire
Nelda Sundew & Edmond Darwin

Somerset
Aveline Minerva & Oliver Beau

South Yorkshire
Blythe Crispinia & Omri Quentin

Staffordshire
Josie Vera & Jasper Izaak

Suffolk
Philippa Georgina & Felix Horatio Edmund

Surrey
Goldie Zeppelin & Edwin Jet

Tyne and Wear
Bessie Angel & Cole Alexander

Warwickshire
Ethel Honeysuckle & Arden Beaumont

West Midlands
Coco Evaline & Aston Reuel Wolf

West Sussex
Tilly Ember & Ralph Arun Wilde

West Yorkshire
Adele Leona & Clarence Calder

Wiltshire
Petra Daphne Wynne & Walter Jude

Worcestershire
Mildred Eve & Edward Elgar Perre

What are your favourites?

Also, just had to add that during my research the person that came up the most was Ethelred the Unready who I hadn’t thought about in years but has literally the best king name ever lol

[katinka]

These are brilliant! I have got all the references for my county although I’ll admit I hadn’t heard of Oates until I Googled him!

Cornwall’s names are definitely my faves, for both sexes. Absolutely love Cornish names

[enwmn]

Oo you’re not far from me I think. I agree Cornish names are lovely it was so hard to narrow it down!

[katinka]

There is a NB Midlands cluster for sure! Must be something in the water…

[enwmn]

I’m technically [name_u]East[/name_u] Anglia but still close enough :))

[spiderfish]

Just need to say how much I appreciate you doing each part of Yorkshire separately; Yorkshire gets lumped together so much I don’t think a lot of people actually realise it’s made up of four counties.

I admittedly don’'t have much knowledge of anywhere outside of Yorkshire & Cumbria, and a bit of Warwickshire, so I won’t even attempt to find the connections for anywhere else
And turns out, I know shockingly little out of those too. The only one’s I’ve got are [name_f]Beatrix[/name_f], [name_u]Lake[/name_u], [name_u]Calder[/name_u] & Humber.

My favourites out of them all are [name_u]Jonah[/name_u] [name_u]Blue[/name_u], [name_f]Hazel[/name_f] Severn. [name_f]Ayla[/name_f] [name_u]Silver[/name_u], [name_f]Demelza[/name_f] [name_u]Loveday[/name_u] (I’m swooning), [name_m]Hadrian[/name_m] [name_u]Lake[/name_u], [name_f]Agatha[/name_f] [name_f]Otter[/name_f], [name_u]Robin[/name_u] [name_m]Algernon[/name_m], [name_u]Augustine[/name_u] [name_m]Montague[/name_m], [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] [name_u]Fox[/name_u], Maxin [name_u]Howard[/name_u], [name_f]Josephine[/name_f] [name_f]Darling[/name_f], [name_f]Lyra[/name_f] [name_f]Oriel[/name_f], [name_m]Ambrose[/name_m] [name_u]Ash[/name_u], [name_m]Titus[/name_m] [name_u]Oak[/name_u], [name_f]Aveline[/name_f] [name_f]Minerva[/name_f] (que more swoons), [name_u]Oliver[/name_u] [name_u]Beau[/name_u], [name_u]Jasper[/name_u] [name_m]Izaak[/name_m], [name_m]Edwin[/name_m] [name_u]Jet[/name_u], [name_f]Tilly[/name_f] [name_u]Ember[/name_u].
That was more than I expected XD

[enwmn]

@spiderfish

I don’t think a lot of people actually realise it’s made up of four counties.

So true! I have a lot of time to kill in lockdown so thought I may as well be thorough I’m the same in that I don’t have tons of knowledge outside of [name_u]East[/name_u] Anglia and [name_u]London[/name_u] so this was very much a journey of discovery for me