Victorian Names

8 Victorian names that mean victorian for boys, listing Victorian baby names 1-8. Arthur, Bertram, Cecil and Trevor are popular names. Garnett, Gillies, Plantagenet and Ransom are uncommon names. View Victorian baby names for name meanings, search Victorian names for girls, or search other baby names.

Arthur ... Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" (19th century) and the Victorian romanticism of things medieval in general and of Arthurian legend in particular promoted its use ... [17]

Bertram ... This name was adopted by Normans and revived in the Victorian era ... [13]

Cecil ... Cecil Rhodes was an industrialist and founder of Rhodesia in the Victorian era ... [3]

Garnett ... boys may have been named for a famous Victorian soldier ... [1]

Gillies ... In Scotland in Victorian times ... [5]

Plantagenet ... Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope named his powerful English duke "Plantagenet Palliser".

Ransom ... Used as first name mainly in the late Victorian era. [1]

Trevor ... Used outside of Wales in the Victorian era ... [3]

Related tags: classical, medieval, narrow, puritan.

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