Stunning !!! Are you kidding me !! this is the coolest thrift shop find of all times!!

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

I know!!! I’m so excited someone is as happy as me about it 😂🥰

This is magic! Can’t WAIT for part 2!! Please keep sharing Helen’s treasures … and yours. So special and fun!

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

Ah I just loved the book so much! She feels like a kindred spirit! X

Makes you wonder how many treasures are hidden in smaller shops. This book could've well been at a museum!

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

So true - I wonder if there's a name museum? Maybe that's the graveyard!!!

A 120 yo past life?!? So sweet to know people have loved compiling name lists for a long time :).

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

So lovely! I wonder how many baby’s were named from this book!

@Atticblood

3 ай бұрын

This is exactly what I was thinking

You were destined to find that book! It was meant for you!

Wow! It's always a joy hearing names I've never heard before. I'm so glad you of all people found that book!

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

It was such a find! xxx

This is one of my favourite videos you've made in a little while because you can just feel your excitement. It's so beautiful to see you like this again

That book is a treasure as are you! Please, Please, Please let me know when you do part II if there is a listing for Spicey! I've been trying to find the origin of my 2nd great-grandmother for years. I thought the name was an anomaly but the name wasn't unheard of in her time and place. Also, my 3rd great-grandfather was Ingram Spence. Thanks for sharing your find!

I’ve loved this video! Can’t wait for part 2!

Yes, yes, yes!! This list is everything. This book is everything. I am so excited! ❤

I LOVED this video! Please make more like this. Excited for part two!

I absolutely love the old names and finding out their meanings. I'm an old lady, and collecting names has been a hobby of mine since I was around 9 or 10 years old. Discovering your site has been like discovering a kindred spirit! God bless you, S.J.

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

Aw you too! I’d love to hear your name list 🩷

Best charity shop find ever! I would’ve definitely picked it up too. Adelheid is lovely!

Love all of this!!!! The super cool names plus the incredible amount of fun you are having going through the book. It really comes across.

That little book is like a treasure trove for names! Such pretty ones When my grandmother was cleaning out her house, I found an old booklet (couldn't convince her to keep it, I think it was like a guidance book for marriage my grandpa kept from his sisters/parents) with a list of vintage german names and Dankwart was one of them! I had a laugh about it, because sometimes people tending to gas stations are called Tankwart in German. Her neighbour's name was Volker, too (the V is pronounced like an F) 😅 Other interesting names: She also had an uncle Dionysius who went by Diony; and knew an Aloysius who went by Alvis. 😊

Oh my goodness this is amazing. Part 2 yes please.

This was amazing! I was chuckling the whole way through! So fun!

Awesome find! Looking forward to part two!! 🎉

Though I am not generally a vintage name fan (more hipster!) I absolutly love any and all your of your vids anyway, and have to say there are actually some names I love here! :) looking forward to pt 2! It's such a cool idea for a vid and such a fab charity shop find! I'll keep a look out for you - love a charity shop! xx

How incredible! Loved every single minute of this video!

I would 100% love to hear every name in this book! Absolutely awesome find!! ❤

SJ this might be my favorite video, it was equal parts delightful and funny! I do think you've found a bosom friend across time!

I can't wait for part too. Hope you are well.

Can’t wait for part 2! Looking for a boy name starting with J right now and am so excited to hear more!

Eagerly awaiting part 2! 😍😍

Oh my goodness I can't wait for part two! This is SOO my name vibe!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ I'm searching for the perfect little boys name that is vintage, rare-ish but simple to say/spell- so hard! 😂 Heard a few good ones already from this but am very excited to hear some more 😍 x

So cool!!!❤ love this SO much!!!😀

The “AE” is probably pronounced like the A in cat. Æ was a letter in Old English (called aesc, meaning ash, based on the Anglo-Saxon runes), so some old fashioned words/names retained that spelling even though in 1900, “Æ” wasn’t a part of the English alphabet anymore (it is still used in modern Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic & Faroese). Absolutely loved this video and would love to see a part 2!

How cool is that! I love that you were giving real time reactions.

im obsessed with you singing “I think I like this little book” at the end 😭😭😭🩷🫶🏻

Wow what a great find. I love this - names are so fascinating to me.

Im looking forward to part 2 this was so fun🤭

I loved this video. Thank you for sharing your find with us.

I love this. What a beautiful little treasure.

I think Algernon is pronounced with a soft g so al-jer-non. Alatea I would pronounce as ah-lah-tee-ah- I think it is the name of someone in a Greek myth.

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

Ah thank you for adding this x

I've heard of "Aletheia" which stands for truth, indeed. The ending in "theia" makes me think of "theos" which is "god" in ancient greek. Here's what wikipedia says about it "Aletheia is variously translated as "unconcealedness", "disclosure", "revealing", or "unclosedness". The literal meaning of the word ἀ-λήθεια is "the state of not being hidden; the state of being evident."". Incredible to see that the woman who wrote this book maybe invented Alatea based on the word Alatheia !! SO cool. I might just have fallen in love with that name.

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

Amazing!! I love the name too and so special to find it in this old book x

Such a cool find! Love you

Ermentrude is a character in The Magic Roundabout. At least it was in the original series, I've not seen the new version 😂

@artvid-1915

4 ай бұрын

She's in the film😂

@CluckandBuzzCrochet

4 ай бұрын

And Ermengarde is a character in “A Little Princess.” 🥰

Fascinating 🤗❤️

“Hannibal - what’s going on in Cornwall? 😂”

Great video SJ.....Abe books sell Helena Swan name books. TFS

This is the first time I've ever heard Algernon said with a hard G, usually I hear it with a soft G. Either way, I've always really liked that name and it's fun to see it on a list, even if it's a very, very, *very* vintage list. Calisto/Callisto is another long time favorite. Actually there's a lot of these that I've had on my list; I think this author and I would have gotten along swimmingly. ✨️

What an absolutely amazing find !! So fascinating. The name that was memorable for me is Arienwen.

Oh I can't wait for part 2 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Congratulations on the great find of the ANTIQUE Baby Name Book.

This was so sweet!! I found a 100 yr old baby book that a mother kept track of during her babies first yr, such a great find!🤍👏🏻

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

How special to see all the names she liked!

My grandmother always says she had a book and she used it for all of her babies, it so sweet to think of her going through the pages every time.

I love love Aspasia , Arianwen, Barnaby, Beata , Calista, Caradoc, Constance and Darcy and Darby. I also love Evangeline, Evelyn, Frederick and Geneva, Gwendoline, but I much prefer the spelling Gwendolen. What a lovely and amazing find.

My parents own a campsite and we have a lovely Arienwen stay with her family every year. This will be their 4th or 5th year. Absolutely amazing book. I’m not having children but some great cat names here 😹

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

Wow - it's so so pretty!!! I did a whole gilded name list of silver and gold names I haven't filmed it yet but had the name on there too!Q.

You are so much fun, SJ!

"Sounds quite better it do" lmao I listened to that four times I'll have you know

Correction, it is Galatea I was thinking of, she was a statue that was crafted by Pygmalion and he fell in love with his work, then the gods made her come to life

@kfrommirrorland

4 ай бұрын

One former classmate was Galatea, nickname Gala. Another one was called Gwendolyn.

I just loved Dowsebelle! so adorable ❤

Oh my goodness, I love this!

Just went antiquing for my birthday a few days ago and I would have loved to have found something like this! My favorite antique store that has the coolest books was closed, on the day I went, so I'm probably going there on Saturday. Hopefully I'll find something as cool as this! I LOVE vintage names! Hannyball had me rolling - literally, I was watching this while sitting on the floor. 😂

Having a bit of a difficult day and this made me so happy to watch! Love love love. Also: Gwendolyn is lovely! Just have to be very brave to use it!

Caligula comes from Roman emperor Gaius Julius Cesar Germanicum, renamed Caligula because he used to wear the "calige", the typical Roman sandals. Clotilde and Adelaide are both old fashioned italian names, and Elisavetta comes from Elisabetta, which Is the italian version of Elizabeth, such as Ginevra Is italian for Guinever. Galahad means milky way because "Galaktos" means milk in greek I think Helena was deep into european classical studies 😅

❤ I have been looking for this video on KZread for 5 years.

I can't wait for part 2. Our first grandbaby was born last August and my son and dil are already pregnant with a second. Our first was a girl and this second is a boy. Loving sharing some of these names with them as they want something vintage and sweet for this precious little boy on the way.

Love this video. I've written down Eldrid. What a beautiful name!

Elsabyn! I love it!

What an incredible find ❤

Dying for part 2!!

Love these names!

I'm a history nerd so I love this kind of content! 🎉

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

Me too!! xx

What an incredible find! I’d love to know how Helena did her research

This is so cool!❤ Also I grew up with a woman called Helen Swan! And quite a few Guys!

How fascinating, the names are even older than the “classic” old fashioned names! 😊

i love esias and harty so much. i see harty as a great nickname for harriet or a mixture between harry and arthur for boys. back then without google, helena would have had to go to a library to see baby name list folders or looked up the census. i wonder if you were harriet in a previous life.

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

I almost feel like I was 😂🥰🥰 I can see her in the library loving writing her book x

@anniehowell6266

4 ай бұрын

@@SJ_Strum its crazy to think 120 years later, if she'd known that it would appear online to a global audience in the form of the internet which she couldn't have imagined existing. its so cool

Great find! I think, Hubbard, was Robert Redford's character in the film A Star Is Born with Barbra Streisand

@MsTeacake1982

4 ай бұрын

I think you mean Hubble in The Way We Were.

I think there's an Ebinrude in Disney's The Rescuers but I've definitely not heard Ermentrude. LOVE this series!

@paulathomas9720

3 ай бұрын

Evinrude! Love it! ❤

@An-Su18

3 ай бұрын

Ermintrude was a cow in 'The magic Roundabout'

I desperately need this book hahaha!!

Hero and Charity/Cherry are both character names in Georgette Heyer books! 🥰 love it!

My grandma was Adelheid and we gave our daughter the middle name Adelia as a tribute 💕

Has anyone read the book Flowers for Algernon? Gut-wrenchingly sad, but the mouse that the story revolves around is named Algernon. Never knew it meant Whiskered!

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

Aww how cute - they found the perfect name! x

@JH-bf3qs

3 ай бұрын

I’m an 8th grade English teacher. I read Flowers for Algernon with my students every year. ❤️

This is amazing

Aethlebrite...lovely i love Arienwen!

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

Aren't they lush names!

@elsa_nyc

4 ай бұрын

@@SJ_Strum absolutely. I am enjoying this so much. I will scour the US for this book. Your commentary on the names is delightful!

Cato is the name of the houseman of Inspector Clouseau who attacks him whenever Clouseau comes home. Their battles are hilarious.

I new a boy called Gussie! I had forgot all about him back in the 80s I would spend the 6 week school holidays in Birmingham with my aunt and uncle he was a brummy and his mum would call him from the back of her garden over the fields where all the kids would play😌 that’s brought back so many memories for me x Ruby

I wonder if she used census records to come up with names? Finding the meanings would be harder, probably would need to go to a library. Arienwen is one of my favorites! I spell it Arianwyn but I think the -wen ending is the traditional feminine variation Im surprised to see Aurora I tend to think of it as quite modern! Darcy & Darby as well. Callista is lovely! I also like Caradoc, its very handsome and strong. Elisavetta and Elsabyn are so pretty variations, they're very unique. Everard is very nice, its similar to Evander which has gained some traction. I love Gwendolyn its in my top names list.

We recently found out one of our ancestors was called Priesthood! And his granddaughter had the middle name Priest as a way of carrying on his name. Wild!

Talked with a mama last week who was planning to use Adleheid! Like Adelaide and where Heidi comes from! Fun fact: Elke is also derived from this

Gwendoline, was a name we chose for our first born daughter, due to the family grousing so we cut that and went with Elizabeth.. I still like it.

my brothers name is Kado, like Cato. He always gets compliments lol

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

Wow it’s such a great name 😊

@kfrommirrorland

4 ай бұрын

Kato/Cato is popular in Norway

Hear me out... We just named our baby girl Wren. But we went back and forth between Wren and Winifred for 4 days! But we joked about combining them and naming her Renifred... and I had no idea it was a real name! I actually love it's meaning.

Gosh had to pause immediately because Elsabyn is gorgeous. My daughter is Elsie and I didn’t like any full names for it and we finally landed on Giselle, nickname Elsie but gosh Elsabyn would have been a contender! 🌻

I got an old baby name book from the library as a child and I don't remember the name of the author. I remember there was a female name, Birdesmond, which was Anglo Saxon.

So many of these are from literature! I *believe* Dancwort was a side character in the Nibelugenlied.

I can't find part 2. What is the is title called for part 2?💕

You’re voice is so pretty you could literally say diarrhea was a good baby name and I’d be like “yeah, she’s right that is pretty” 😂

Ermantrude is the cow from magic roundabout ❤

So fun! What do you think about Maximus?

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

We had a little Maximus born in the community this week or last!! Such a cool name! x

@alexism1127

4 ай бұрын

@@SJ_Strum thanks for replying xx

PART TWO!!!!!

I love Gwendoline, and I had a little white finch with a broken wing and named her Gwendoline

You should write a little book! Please!

@SJ_Strum

4 ай бұрын

I'd love to :-).

I love Gwen!! But Gwendoline was ruined by the importance of being earnest for me 😅

I think Cymbeline is from Shakespeare??

Silence of the Lambs must not be popular there or surely she'd have mentioned it. I'm in America and could never bring myself to name a baby Hannibal no matter how much I love that movie!

You ok SJ? So silent. We miss you and hope you are well.

Aethelwolf is a good name for a DND chatacter lol