Long and Luxurious

Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia Nikolaevna
This is the sister post to my Short But Sweet one. These are the long, dramatic, and frilly names that I adore, and would absolutely love to see someone use. What are your favorite long and dramatic names? Do you have any reservations about using one?

Girls:

Anastasia
Perdita
Celestine
Gwendolen
Theodosia
Josephine
Thomasina
Wilhelmina
Eugenia
Tatiana
Ophelia
Ursula
Georgina
Romilly
Perpetua
Henrietta
Cecilia
Lucinda
Fortuna
Demelza
Angelica
Evangeline
Fenella
Rowena
Hesperia
Felicity
Casilda
Sibylla
Rosamund
Penelope
Adelaide
Lavinia
Cosima
Ottilie
Artemisia
Zenobia
Violetta
Cressida
Aurelia

Boys:

Rafferty
Frederick
Horatio
Emmanuel
Llewellyn
Leander
Orlando
Thaddeus
Casimir
Amadeus
Octavian
Montgomery
Florian
Everard
Lucius
Ignatius
Cillian
Gideon
Benedict
Leopold
Nicodemus
Sebastian
Cornelius
Atticus
Ferdinand
Constantine
Solomon
Lysander
Peregrine
Augustus

Comments

  1. AnonymousJune 22, 2015 at 10:42 PM

    Vesperina, Ermintrude, Leopoldine, Ursulina, Ottaviana, Zephyrine, Esclarmonde, Hippolyta, Thalassa, Berengaria, Hortensia and Frethesancia are a few of my favorites!

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