Not even pregnant- only two months postpartum and already wanting more. 
But I saw the term “forgotten classics” and thought it was a good description the names I gravitate towards.
I’m curious to hear what names (boy and girl) you would consider forgotten classics!
Hm this is difficult because so many of the forgotten names are coming back now, for example [name_f]Ada[/name_f] and [name_f]Edith[/name_f]. But a few others…
[name_f]Augusta[/name_f], [name_f]Antonia[/name_f], Cecily/Cecile, [name_f]Estella[/name_f], [name_f]Agnes[/name_f], [name_f]Berenice[/name_f], [name_f]Louise[/name_f], [name_f]Margaret[/name_f], [name_f]Ida[/name_f], [name_f]Freda[/name_f], [name_f]Anette[/name_f], [name_f]Lisette[/name_f], [name_f]Adeline[/name_f] (more common in the US though I gather), [name_f]Nell[/name_f] & Phillippa
[name_m]Cecil[/name_m], [name_m]Peter[/name_m], [name_m]Timothy[/name_m], [name_m]Edmund[/name_m], [name_m]Clyde[/name_m], [name_m]Reginald[/name_m], [name_m]Wilbur[/name_m], [name_m]Hal[/name_m], [name_m]Abraham[/name_m], [name_m]Barnaby[/name_m], [name_m]Ferdinand[/name_m] & [name_m]Phineas[/name_m]
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Ditto previous poster with the difficulty due to resurgence, they have some great ideas too. I also struggle with the time-period for ‘classic’ so have included a variety…
[name_f]Frances[/name_f]
[name_f]Francine[/name_f]
[name_f]Hilda[/name_f]
[name_f]Hildie[/name_f]
[name_f]Jemimah[/name_f]
[name_f]Josephine[/name_f]
[name_f]Josephina[/name_f]
[name_f]Kathleen[/name_f]
[name_f]Liliane[/name_f]
[name_f]Lois[/name_f]
[name_f]Marion[/name_f] / [name_f]Marian[/name_f] / [name_f]Marianne[/name_f]
[name_f]Martha[/name_f]
[name_f]Philomena[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosina[/name_f] / [name_f]Rosena[/name_f]
[name_f]Shirley[/name_f]
[name_f]Sybil[/name_f]
[name_f]Theresa[/name_f] / [name_f]Teresa[/name_f] / [name_f]Therese[/name_f]
[name_m]Amos[/name_m]
[name_m]Calvin[/name_m]
[name_m]Clarence[/name_m]
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_m]Ephraim[/name_m]
[name_m]Ernest[/name_m] / [name_m]Earnest[/name_m]
[name_m]Gilbert[/name_m]
[name_f]Harper[/name_f]
[name_m]Laurence[/name_m] / [name_m]Lawrence[/name_m]
[name_m]Sidney[/name_m]
[name_m]Sullivan[/name_m]
[name_m]Wilbur[/name_m]
[name_m]Wilf[/name_m] / [name_m]Wilfred[/name_m]
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[name_f]Catherine[/name_f] is a name I think of as timeless but I actually can’t think of the last time I heard it on a baby.
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I’m thinking:
[name_m]Wilfred[/name_m]
[name_m]Roger[/name_m]
[name_m]Clarence[/name_m]
[name_m]Wilbur[/name_m]
[name_m]Gideon[/name_m]
[name_m]Curtis[/name_m]
[name_m]Horatio[/name_m]
[name_m]Wallace[/name_m]
[name_m]Rufus[/name_m]
[name_m]Percy[/name_m]
[name_m]Sylvester[/name_m]
[name_m]Rupert[/name_m]
[name_m]Saul[/name_m]
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f]
[name_f]Phyllis[/name_f]
[name_f]Hester[/name_f]
[name_f]Dinah[/name_f]
[name_f]Marianne[/name_f]
[name_f]Henrietta[/name_f]
[name_f]Bernadette[/name_f]
[name_f]Magdalene[/name_f]
[name_f]Jemima[/name_f]
[name_f]Enid[/name_f]
[name_f]Mavis[/name_f]
[name_f]Dorothy[/name_f]
[name_f]Virginia[/name_f]
[name_f]Irene[/name_f]
[name_f]Marjorie[/name_f]
[name_f]Pauline[/name_f]
[name_f]Gloria[/name_f]
[name_f]Dolores[/name_f]
[name_f]Rita[/name_f]
[name_f]Lorraine[/name_f]
[name_f]Nancy[/name_f]
[name_f]Ida[/name_f]
[name_f]Elaine[/name_f]
[name_f]Maxine[/name_f]
[name_f]Marilyn[/name_f]
[name_f]Alma[/name_f]
[name_f]Helen[/name_f]
[name_f]Pearl[/name_f]
[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f]
[name_f]Bonnie[/name_f]
[name_f]Loretta[/name_f]
[name_f]Muriel[/name_f]
[name_f]Inez[/name_f]
[name_f]Lula[/name_f]
[name_f]Constance[/name_f]
[name_f]Sally[/name_f]
[name_m]Harold[/name_m]
[name_m]Kenneth[/name_m]
[name_m]Albert[/name_m]
[name_m]Eugene[/name_m]
[name_m]Ralph[/name_m]
[name_m]Howard[/name_m]
[name_m]Herbert[/name_m]
[name_m]Leonard[/name_m]
[name_m]Alfred[/name_m]
[name_m]Bernard[/name_m]
[name_m]Warren[/name_m]
[name_m]Russell[/name_m]
[name_m]Edwin[/name_m]
[name_m]Floyd[/name_m]
[name_m]Clifford[/name_m]
[name_m]Vernon[/name_m]
[name_m]Gordon[/name_m]
[name_m]Leon[/name_m]
[name_m]Wallace[/name_m]
[name_m]Edgar[/name_m]
[name_m]Douglas[/name_m]
[name_m]Claude[/name_m]
[name_m]Roland[/name_m]
[name_m]Jerome[/name_m]
[name_m]Morris[/name_m]
Windraft
[name_f]Avery[/name_f]
Concave
Para
[name_f]Gracie[/name_f]
[name_f]Hildred[/name_f]
Bola
[name_f]Winifred[/name_f]
[name_m]Arthur[/name_m]
[name_f]My[/name_f] mind went straight to [name_f]Meredith[/name_f]!
Maybe also:
[name_f]Gladys[/name_f]
[name_f]Frederica[/name_f]
[name_f]Aileen[/name_f]
[name_f]Barbara[/name_f]
[name_f]Geraldine[/name_f]
[name_f]Bridget[/name_f]
[name_f]Deborah[/name_f]
[name_f]Ellen[/name_f]
[name_f]Irma[/name_f]
[name_f]Marsha[/name_f]
[name_f]Norma[/name_f]
[name_f]Myrtle[/name_f]
[name_f]Paula[/name_f]
[name_f]Twyla[/name_f]
[name_f]Rhonda[/name_f]
[name_f]Alberta[/name_f]
[name_f]Sheila[/name_f]
[name_m]Herman[/name_m]
[name_m]Eugene[/name_m]
[name_m]Ronald[/name_m]
[name_m]Maurice[/name_m]
[name_m]Leonard[/name_m]
[name_m]Burt[/name_m]
[name_m]Alvin[/name_m]
[name_m]Arnold[/name_m]
[name_m]Horace[/name_m]
[name_m]Roy[/name_m]
[name_m]Bernard[/name_m]
[name_m]Rodrick[/name_m]
[name_m]Byron[/name_m]
[name_m]Chester[/name_m]
[name_m]Sherman[/name_m]
[name_m]Fritz[/name_m]
[name_m]Lloyd[/name_m]
[name_m]Humphrey[/name_m]
[name_m]Kirk[/name_m]
[name_m]Melvin[/name_m]
[name_m]Oswald[/name_m]
[name_m]Norman[/name_m]
[name_m]Stuart[/name_m]
[name_m]Walter[/name_m]
[name_m]Reynold[/name_m]
I feel like a lot on my favorites girls list gravitate towards that too so I’ll list a couple!
[name_f]Henrietta[/name_f]
[name_f]Pearl[/name_f]
[name_f]Marcella[/name_f]
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f]
[name_f]Evangeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Bernadette[/name_f]
Congratulations on your addition! [name_f]Hope[/name_f] your recovering well and having a relatively peaceful postpartum period 
I agree with others it is challenging to declare what are forgotten classics as so many of these names are coming back. I have come across children named B3tsy, J0y, Prudenc3, Mart@, Abn3r, Wilfr3d and Alb3rt all of which you’d say are ‘forgotten’.
I think a lot of forgotten names tend to be the simple ‘timeless’ classics it’s so rare to come across a baby [name_f]Anne[/name_f], [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f], [name_f]Catherine[/name_f], [name_f]Caroline[/name_f] for girls with boys names like [name_m]James[/name_m], [name_m]William[/name_m] & [name_m]Edward[/name_m] are very evergreen as we do tend to like more classic names for boys.
You’ve had lots of lovely suggestions so count any repeats as me being in agreement with the berries
[name_f]Marjorie[/name_f]
[name_f]Jillian[/name_f]
[name_f]Charity[/name_f]
[name_f]Constance[/name_f]
[name_f]Amity[/name_f]
[name_f]Laura[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosalind[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosamund[/name_f]
[name_f]Verity[/name_f]
[name_f]Ethel[/name_f]
[name_f]Enid[/name_f]
[name_f]Melanie[/name_f]
[name_f]Claire[/name_f]
[name_f]Jane[/name_f]
[name_f]Miriam[/name_f]
[name_f]Ruth[/name_f]
[name_f]Lydia[/name_f]
[name_m]Wilbur[/name_m]
[name_m]Edwin[/name_m]
[name_m]Edgar[/name_m]
[name_m]Benedict[/name_m]
[name_m]Guy[/name_m]
[name_m]Herschel[/name_m]
[name_m]Robert[/name_m]
[name_m]Amos[/name_m]
[name_m]Clyde[/name_m]
[name_m]Osmond[/name_m]
[name_m]Moses[/name_m]
[name_m]Abraham[/name_m]
[name_m]Peter[/name_m]
[name_m]Philemon[/name_m]
[name_f]Hope[/name_f] this helps
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i haven’t seen alberta yet!
Forgotten classics:
[name_f]Sally[/name_f]
[name_f]Suzanna[/name_f]
[name_f]Martha[/name_f]
[name_f]Julia[/name_f]
[name_f]Pearl[/name_f]
[name_f]Jacquline[/name_f]
[name_f]Barbara[/name_f]
[name_f]Theresa[/name_f]
[name_m]Allen[/name_m]
[name_m]Seth[/name_m]
[name_m]Phillip[/name_m]
[name_m]Robert[/name_m]
I tried SO hard to convince my husband to use [name_m]Wilbur[/name_m] and then [name_m]Edwin[/name_m], but we ended up using [name_m]Clyde[/name_m]. Haha so your list is spot-on. [name_f]Rosalind[/name_f] and [name_f]Ruthie[/name_f] have also always been on my girls list.
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Those partner’s always get in the way off naming dreams!