I don't have children, and not sure if I ever will, but Elizabeth has always been my favourite girl's name. I would love to have a girl and name here after the great Queen.

I think Elizabeth Anne would be a pretty name for a girl.

As for boy, I would avoid Henry out of a fear, since red heair runs in my family…. Just Joking!!!!

Neither of my kids are named after Tudor royalty, though they are sort of named after British royalty.  DS is Andrew which is my dad's middle name, but his name heavily influenced DD's name.  She is named after Queen Charlotte, wife of George III.  I didn't know anything about her when I picked the name, I just wanted a) a name that jived with “Andrew”,  b) a name that wasn't overly common, overly unusual, or on my “taught-a-kid-I couldn't-stand-with-that-name” list, and c) sounded good with the middle name “Esme”.  Queen Charlotte was the only Charlotte amongst a large number of Catherines, Elizabeths, Victorias, Annes, and Margarets in the family tree in my book of British royalty.

I named my daughter Louisa (her middle name is Emily) as I I came across it alot whilst researching my family history.
Louisa was a very popular name around the 1830's, I think Queen Victoria named one of her children Louisa.

I think it was also popular in the court of Louis the 16th as a famale name in honour of the king

DD2 is a Louise too.

Louisa is a popular Italian name. It is the female version of Louis.  There are many in my family.  On the other side we have many Anna's and Anne's. They were not named after royalty, however.

As names go, my grandmother won the family lottery.  She could have been named Wanda Faye instead (my great aunt).  Or worse.  My grandfather's sisters were named Cleo, Zola, Myrtle, and Hassie.

Impish_Impulse said:

Hassie? Is that short for anything? No royalty, but one of my great grandmothers was named after flowers – Daisy Viola!

Nope, unfortunately, just Hassie.  Seems like he had another sister whose name escapes me, but was equally atrocious.  Gotta love those mountain families.  My grandmother had twin half-sisters named Beulah and Eulah 🙂

Lots of Hassie's here

Anyanka said:

Lots of Hassie's here

Hahaha!  That's funny!  I pulled open that page and it listed Fountain City, TN and Gresham Middle School in Fountain City because Hassie Gresham was the first female high school principal in the state of Tennessee at Central High School.  Before we moved, I lived, like, 10 minutes from there and I taught in that school district my first year teaching.  Small world!

Virgie!  His other sister was named Virgie!  So Cleo, Zola, Myrtle, Hassie, and Virgie.  

The men had relatively normal names.  Earl, Willard, Carl…I can't remember Bud's real name was but it was equally innocuous.

ETA:  At least “Hassie” has a good meaning going for it.