Governess Name Generator

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Generate governess names for historical fiction, Gothic romance and period roleplay, such as Miss Prudence Hartley, Mademoiselle Élise Dubois, Fräulein Greta Weiss and Mrs. Lavinia Crewe. The list covers English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, Swiss, Italian and American governesses from the Regency to the Edwardian years.

About governess names

A governess was known by her honorific. In an English household she was Miss plus her surname to the family and the servants alike, so a name like Miss Prudence Hartley or Miss Agnes Collett carries the whole position: educated, respectable, and neither family nor staff. The women who took such posts were often daughters of clergymen or of gentry who had lost their money, which is why the list pairs sober given names (Prudence, Mercy, Dorothea) with parsonage surnames and with old county names such as Trevelyan and Vavasour.

Foreign governesses were hired to teach their own language and kept their own titles. Here they are Mademoiselle or Mlle for French and French-speaking Swiss women, Fräulein or Frl. for Germans, Austrians and German-speaking Swiss, and Signorina for Italians, with Madame, Frau and Signora for older or widowed women. All of them use real given names and surnames, spelled with their accents.

The 1,000 names also cover Scottish and Irish governesses, Regency, Victorian and Edwardian styles, nursery and finishing governesses, initials as on a letter of application, stern Mrs. forms, American names, and Gothic heroines with an ominous surname such as Miss Evangeline Blackthorne. A small share of governesses from novels and plays is included, each marked with its author in parentheses.

How to choose governess names

  • Let the honorific place her: Miss plus surname for an English governess, Mademoiselle, Fräulein or Signorina for a foreign one, and Mrs., Madame or Frau for a widow or an older woman.
  • Match the given name to the decade. Harriet, Sophia and Augusta suit a Regency schoolroom, Florence, Edith and Ada a Victorian one, and Winifred, Muriel and Hilda the Edwardian years.
  • Choose the surname for her history: a parsonage name such as Pym or Collett for a clergyman's daughter, an old county name such as Fanshawe or Courtenay for a family that has come down in the world.
  • For a Gothic story pick a surname with a chill in it (Graves, Mortlake, Winterbourne) and keep the given name plain, so the unease comes from the house and not from her.
  • Use the short forms for how the household talks and writes: Mlle or Frl. in a letter, Mam'selle Céline from the children, initials such as Miss E. Havergal on an application.

Frequently asked questions

How was a governess addressed?

In an English-speaking household an unmarried governess was Miss plus her surname at any age, and a widow went by Mrs. A foreign governess kept the title of her own language, so the list has Mademoiselle Élise Dubois, Fräulein Greta Weiss and Signorina Bianca Rinaldi beside Miss Agnes Fairlie. Some English names are given plain, without a title, as she would sign her own letters; put Miss in front for the form the household used.

What is the difference between a nursery governess and a finishing governess?

A nursery governess taught young children their first lessons: reading, writing and sums. A finishing governess prepared older girls for society with languages, music, drawing and deportment. Plain names such as Miss Polly Dabney fit the first, and fuller ones such as Miss Honoria Jane Lovelock the second.

Are these the names of real governesses?

No. They are fictional pairings of real given names and surnames, written for stories and roleplay and not taken from any period record. A name may still happen to match a real person, as any ordinary name can. The governesses from novels and plays, such as Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) and Miss Prism (Oscar Wilde), carry their author in parentheses.

Which names suit a Gothic governess story?

Look for the short Miss forms with a dark surname, such as Miss Graves, Miss Mortlake and Miss Winterbourne, or full names such as Miss Temperance Ashdown and Miss Evangeline Blackthorne. The Gothic governess usually arrives alone at a remote house, so a name that sounds modest and a little cold does the work.

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A: 22 names

  • Abigail Hathorne
  • Ada Hollings
  • Adaline Bradford
  • Adelaide Duckworth
  • Adeline Thornycroft
  • Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë)
  • Agnes Napier
  • Agnes Scanlan
  • Agnes Wintle
  • Alice Fothergill
  • Almira Hitchcock
  • Amelia Garth
  • Amy Kershaw
  • Anne Wigram
  • Annie Comerford
  • Annie Rawnsley
  • Antonia Grace Fairfax-Leigh
  • Arabella Greathed
  • Arabella Thynne
  • Augusta Carroll
  • Augusta Oglander
  • Augusta Pelham

B: 8 names

  • Barbara Pethick
  • Barbara Wardlaw
  • Beatrice Varley
  • Beatrix Underhill
  • Becky Sharp (Thackeray)
  • Bertha Illingworth
  • Beryl Inskip
  • Bridget Tobin

C: 21 names

  • Caroline Burnand
  • Caroline Daintry
  • Carrie Thackray
  • Cassandra Lukin
  • Catherine D'Arcy
  • Catherine Leycester
  • Catriona Mackenzie
  • Cecilia Leveson
  • Charity Abbott
  • Charlotte Holroyd
  • Christina Tait
  • Cicely Summerhayes
  • Clara Mellor
  • Clarice Daunt
  • Clarissa Delafield
  • Clarissa Wodehouse
  • Clodagh Plunkett
  • Constance Oldacre
  • Cordelia Beekman
  • Cordelia Wrottesley
  • Cornelia Lispenard

D: 9 names

  • Daisy Goodchild
  • Diana Rivers (Charlotte Brontë)
  • Dorcas Saltonstall
  • Dorcas Whitby
  • Doris Hardcastle
  • Dorothea Bracegirdle
  • Dorothy Mildmay
  • Drusilla Devereux
  • Drusilla Pendleton

E: 28 names

  • Edith Bancroft
  • Edna Jolliffe
  • Edwina Louisa Mountjoy
  • Effie Lamont
  • Eithne O'Shaughnessy
  • Eleanor Kynaston
  • Eleanor Sawbridge
  • Electa Huntington
  • Eliza Kaye
  • Eliza Purvis
  • Elizabeth Ridout
  • Ellen Costello
  • Ellen Hargreaves
  • Elsie Hollingdale
  • Elspeth McCrindle
  • Emeline Breckinridge
  • Emily Stott
  • Emma Haigh
  • Emma Sotheby
  • Emmeline Blackburn
  • Emmeline St. Aubyn
  • Enid Oxenham
  • Estella Musgrave
  • Esther Gillam
  • Ethel Wolstenholme
  • Eudora Wycherley
  • Eunice Lawrence
  • Evelyn Pennington

F: 114 names

  • Faith Bellamy
  • Fanny Scholes
  • Fidelia Trowbridge
  • Flora Sutherland
  • Florence Dewhurst
  • Frances Rolle
  • Frances Tufnell
  • Frau Arnold
  • Frau Busch
  • Frau Heinrich
  • Frau Hofmeister
  • Frau Kurz
  • Frau Lindemann
  • Frau Pohl
  • Frau Rosenthal
  • Frau Roth
  • Frau Schuster
  • Frau Vogt
  • Frau Walther
  • Frau Wendt
  • Frau Ziegler
  • Fräulein Adelheid Werner
  • Fräulein Amalie Dorn
  • Fräulein Anna Wyss
  • Fräulein Annelies Imhof
  • Fräulein Antonie Neumann
  • Fräulein Auguste Reiter
  • Fräulein Babette Hürlimann
  • Fräulein Bertha Rüegg
  • Fräulein Cäcilie Ritter
  • Fräulein Dorothea Ebert
  • Fräulein Dorothea Iselin
  • Fräulein Elfriede Falk
  • Fräulein Elise Bieri
  • Fräulein Elsbeth Frey
  • Fräulein Elsbeth Reinhardt
  • Fräulein Emilie Böhm
  • Fräulein Emma Stucki

F, continued

  • Fräulein Ernestine Schwarz
  • Fräulein Franziska Reuter
  • Fräulein Frieda Fankhauser
  • Fräulein Frieda Fiedler
  • Fräulein Friederike Hartmann
  • Fräulein Gertrud Franke
  • Fräulein Greta Weiss
  • Fräulein Hedwig Lindner
  • Fräulein Hedwig Siegenthaler
  • Fräulein Henriette Lechner
  • Fräulein Hermine Günther
  • Fräulein Hildegard Haas
  • Fräulein Ida Hagen
  • Fräulein Ida Leuenberger
  • Fräulein Irmgard Herzog
  • Fräulein Johanna Albrecht
  • Fräulein Josephine Aigner
  • Fräulein Karoline Oswald
  • Fräulein Katharina Amstutz
  • Fräulein Katharina Jäger
  • Fräulein Käthe Hirsch
  • Fräulein Klara Sutter
  • Fräulein Klara Winkler
  • Fräulein Liesel Hofer
  • Fräulein Lina Kästner
  • Fräulein Lisbeth Hunziker
  • Fräulein Lotte Engel
  • Fräulein Louise Blaser
  • Fräulein Luise Baumann
  • Fräulein Magdalene Kirchner
  • Fräulein Margrit Gerber
  • Fräulein Marie Bodmer
  • Fräulein Marie Wieser
  • Fräulein Martha Körner
  • Fräulein Mathilde Keller
  • Fräulein Mina Stettler
  • Fräulein Minna Kühn
  • Fräulein Ottilie Brandt

F, continued

  • Fräulein Paula Lorenz
  • Fräulein Regula Ammann
  • Fräulein Resi Pichler
  • Fräulein Rosa Tobler
  • Fräulein Rosalie Egger
  • Fräulein Rösli Moser
  • Fräulein Sophie Brandstätter
  • Fräulein Sophie Burckhardt
  • Fräulein Susanna Nussbaumer
  • Fräulein Thekla Pfeiffer
  • Fräulein Therese Maurer
  • Fräulein Trudi Lüthi
  • Fräulein Ulrike Meissner
  • Fräulein Ursula Bühler
  • Fräulein Valerie Vischer
  • Fräulein Verena Zürcher
  • Fräulein Vreni Zurbuchen
  • Fräulein Wilhelmine Vogel
  • Frl. Agnes Sauer
  • Frl. Alma Seidel
  • Frl. Annemarie Eder
  • Frl. Barbara Aebi
  • Frl. Charlotte Wolfram
  • Frl. Eleonore Steiner
  • Frl. Erna Voigt
  • Frl. Hanna Zollinger
  • Frl. Helene Scholz
  • Frl. Henriette Sarasin
  • Frl. Hulda Schubert
  • Frl. Leopoldine Gruber
  • Frl. Lina Schärer
  • Frl. Lydia Zbinden
  • Frl. Martha Gfeller
  • Frl. Meta Sommer
  • Frl. Salome Merian
  • Frl. Selma Schreiber
  • Frl. Trude Thiele
  • Frl. Walburga Leitner

G: 8 names

  • Georgiana Blackett
  • Georgiana Fulford
  • Georgina Eastwood
  • Georgina Yorke
  • Gladys Chettle
  • Grace Parsons
  • Grania Carbery
  • Gwendolen Newbolt

H: 16 names

  • Hannah Considine
  • Hannah Hallowell
  • Harriet Bowden
  • Hattie Merriman
  • Helen Dunlop
  • Helen Jagger
  • Helena Grimsdale
  • Henrietta Acland
  • Henrietta Lushington
  • Hepzibah Fessenden
  • Hermione Youngman
  • Hesper Blacklock
  • Hester Beresford
  • Hetty Pickersgill
  • Hilda Dunkerley
  • Honor Prendergast

I: 11 names

  • Imogen Bleakley
  • Ina Murdoch
  • Irene Kingdon
  • Isabel Armitage
  • Isabella Compton
  • Isabella Raikes
  • Isabella Wemyss
  • Isadora Harrowby
  • Isobel Macpherson
  • Ita O'Donoghue
  • Ivy Longhurst

J: 12 names

  • Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
  • Jane Garrow
  • Janet Melville
  • Jean Auchterlonie
  • Jessamine Brackenbury
  • Jessie Crabtree
  • Jessie Geddes
  • Joyce Membury
  • Julia Clancy
  • Julia Harcourt
  • Juliana Popham
  • Juliet Sarah Greville

K: 7 names

  • Kate Oldroyd
  • Kathleen Noonan
  • Kathleen Underdown
  • Keziah Folger
  • Kirsty Glendinning
  • Kitty Cathcart
  • Kitty Redmond

L: 20 names

  • Laura Priestley
  • Laura Testvalley (Edith Wharton)
  • Lavinia Hervey
  • Leila Catherine Heron
  • Leonie Darke
  • Leonora Borlase
  • Lettice Cruickshank
  • Letty Goodbody
  • Lilias Gilchrist
  • Lizzie Fawcett
  • Louisa Mellish
  • Louisa Prideaux
  • Louisa Winslow
  • Lucretia Dwight
  • Lucretia Hollis
  • Lucy Gledhill
  • Lucy Graham (M. E. Braddon)
  • Lucy Hartopp
  • Lydia Pike
  • Lydia Tyrell

M: 594 names

  • Mabel Tattersall
  • Madame Aubert
  • Madame Bovet
  • Madame de la Rougierre (Le Fanu)
  • Madame Du Pasquier
  • Madame Laporte
  • Madame Legrand
  • Madame Lemoine
  • Madame Lenoir
  • Madame Leroux
  • Madame Lévêque
  • Madame Maillard
  • Madame Marchal
  • Madame Maréchal
  • Madame Martel
  • Madame Masson
  • Madame Meunier
  • Madame Meylan
  • Madame Michaud
  • Madame Morel
  • Madame Pelletier
  • Madame Perrodon (Le Fanu)
  • Madame Vine (Ellen Wood)
  • Madeline Wither
  • Mademoiselle Adèle Blanchard
  • Mademoiselle Adèle Cuendet
  • Mademoiselle Agathe Besson
  • Mademoiselle Albertine Bonnet
  • Mademoiselle Alice Piguet
  • Mademoiselle Amélie Benoît
  • Mademoiselle Angélique Charpentier
  • Mademoiselle Antoinette Brunet
  • Mademoiselle Augustine Caron
  • Mademoiselle Aurélie Garnier
  • Mademoiselle Berthe Clément
  • Mademoiselle Blanche Cordier
  • Mademoiselle Camille Courtois
  • Mademoiselle Cécile Delaunay
  • Mademoiselle Cécile Jeanneret

M, continued

  • Mademoiselle Céline Lefèvre
  • Mademoiselle Charlotte Monnier
  • Mademoiselle Claire Deschamps
  • Mademoiselle Clémence Faure
  • Mademoiselle Clotilde Devaux
  • Mademoiselle Delphine Dufour
  • Mademoiselle Désirée Dupuis
  • Mademoiselle Élisabeth Vuilleumier
  • Mademoiselle Élise Dubois
  • Mademoiselle Émilie Jaquet
  • Mademoiselle Estelle Fabre
  • Mademoiselle Eugénie Perrin
  • Mademoiselle Eugénie Tissot
  • Mademoiselle Eulalie Fleury
  • Mademoiselle Félicité Giraud
  • Mademoiselle Flore Gaillard
  • Mademoiselle Geneviève Leclerc
  • Mademoiselle Hélène Marchand
  • Mademoiselle Henriette Perrenoud
  • Mademoiselle Jeanne Chappuis
  • Mademoiselle Joséphine Gauthier
  • Mademoiselle Julie Bonvin
  • Mademoiselle Léonie Mercier
  • Mademoiselle Louise Pittet
  • Mademoiselle Lucile Favre
  • Mademoiselle Marguerite Reymond
  • Mademoiselle Marie Rochat
  • Mademoiselle Marthe Poirier
  • Mademoiselle Mathilde de Pury
  • Mademoiselle Mathilde Prévost
  • Mademoiselle Mélanie Carpentier
  • Mademoiselle Noémie Vasseur
  • Mademoiselle Octavie Rivière
  • Mademoiselle Odile Delorme
  • Mademoiselle Pauline Lemaire
  • Mademoiselle Rosalie Roussel
  • Mademoiselle Rose Dufaux
  • Mademoiselle Sidonie Royer
  • Mademoiselle Solange Tessier
  • Mademoiselle Sophie Golay

M, continued

  • Mademoiselle Sophie Sauvage
  • Mademoiselle Suzanne Thibault
  • Mademoiselle Thérèse Girard
  • Mademoiselle Valérie Bertrand
  • Mademoiselle Virginie Valette
  • Mademoiselle Yvonne Villeneuve
  • Mademoiselle Zoé Barbier
  • Madge Fullerton
  • Maeve Lysaght
  • Mairi Gillespie
  • Maisie Liddiard
  • Maisie Nairn
  • Mam'selle Babette
  • Mam'selle Céline
  • Mam'selle Colette
  • Mam'selle Élise
  • Mam'selle Fanchon
  • Mam'selle Lisette
  • Mam'selle Manon
  • Mam'selle Margot
  • Mam'selle Ninon
  • Mam'selle Odette
  • Mam'selle Rosine
  • Mam'selle Suzette
  • Mam'selle Toinette
  • Mam'selle Zélie
  • Marcia Helen Estcourt
  • Margaret Cullinane
  • Margaret Ibbotson
  • Margaret Wedderburn
  • Margaretta Hoare
  • Margery Nethersole
  • Maria Kingscote
  • Marian Butterworth
  • Marianne Capper
  • Marianne Tremlett
  • Marietta Haviland
  • Marion Scrymgeour
  • Marjorie Iremonger

M, continued

  • Martha Leigh (Victoria Holt)
  • Martha Prior
  • Mary MacDermott
  • Mary Morstan (Conan Doyle)
  • Mary Naylor
  • Maud Elsworth
  • Mehitabel Gorham
  • Mercy Vicary
  • Mildred Wetherall
  • Millicent Rossiter
  • Mina Marwood
  • Minerva Claiborne
  • Minerva Lovelace
  • Minnie Unsworth
  • Miriam Elizabeth Jocelyn
  • Miss A. Galloway
  • Miss A. L. Yeatman
  • Miss A. M. Tiptaft
  • Miss Abigail Sutcliffe
  • Miss Abigail Thayer
  • Miss Ada Pettifer
  • Miss Adelaide Frances Beauclerk
  • Miss Adelaide Vokes
  • Miss Agnes Collett
  • Miss Agnes Entwistle
  • Miss Agnes Fairlie
  • Miss Agnes Haldane
  • Miss Aileen Whelan
  • Miss Ailsa Menzies
  • Miss Alethea Dymoke
  • Miss Alice Ormsby
  • Miss Alison Colquhoun
  • Miss Almira Sewall
  • Miss Althea Neville
  • Miss Amelia Fearon
  • Miss Amity Holt
  • Miss Amy Furnival
  • Miss Annabella Moncrieff
  • Miss Anne Welby
  • Miss Annie Greenhalgh

M, continued

  • Miss Annie O'Mahony
  • Miss Arabella Pocock
  • Miss Arabella Wyndham
  • Miss Araminta Yaxley
  • Miss Augusta Millard
  • Miss Augusta Molyneux
  • Miss Aurora Fenwick
  • Miss B. L. Norcott
  • Miss B. Trethewey
  • Miss Barbara Kemble
  • Miss Barbara Ogilvie
  • Miss Beatrice Lumb
  • Miss Beatrix Pringle
  • Miss Bedelia Madden
  • Miss Bertha Lodge
  • Miss Bethia Chisholm
  • Miss Betsy Arkell
  • Miss Blanche Ingham
  • Miss Blanche Somers
  • Miss Blight
  • Miss Bridget Howlett
  • Miss Brigid Egan
  • Miss C. F. Tindall
  • Miss C. Winstanley
  • Miss C. Youlden
  • Miss Camilla Delaval
  • Miss Caroline Wickstead
  • Miss Cassandra Lefevre
  • Miss Catherine Hennessy
  • Miss Catherine Sneyd
  • Miss Catriona Carmichael
  • Miss Cecilia Foley
  • Miss Cecilia Throckmorton
  • Miss Cecily Margaret Fitzalan
  • Miss Charity Garland
  • Miss Charlotte Ackroyd
  • Miss Charlotte Penrose
  • Miss Charlotte Wrey
  • Miss Christabel Moorcroft
  • Miss Christiana Maule

M, continued

  • Miss Christina Maitland
  • Miss Cicely Somerset
  • Miss Clara Whitmarsh
  • Miss Clarissa Wadsworth
  • Miss Clarissa Wentworth
  • Miss Clemency Routh
  • Miss Comfort Yeo
  • Miss Constance Emily Ravensworth
  • Miss Constance Rudd
  • Miss Cordelia Mainwaring
  • Miss Cordelia Van Alen
  • Miss Craven
  • Miss Crowe
  • Miss D. A. Langrish
  • Miss D. Skipwith
  • Miss Damaris Hook
  • Miss Davina Dunbar
  • Miss Deborah Skinner
  • Miss Delia Moriarty
  • Miss Diana Pomeroy
  • Miss Dinah Stokes
  • Miss Dolly Pocklington
  • Miss Dorcas Lathrop
  • Miss Dorcas Lyle
  • Miss Dorcas Trench
  • Miss Dorothea Bickersteth
  • Miss Dorothea Fitzwarren
  • Miss Dorothy Rushout
  • Miss Drusilla Schuyler
  • Miss Dymphna Keane
  • Miss E. Havergal
  • Miss E. R. Bosanquet
  • Miss E. T. Warburton
  • Miss Edith Barraclough
  • Miss Eileen Flanagan
  • Miss Eleanor Daubeney
  • Miss Eleanor Maud Sacheverell
  • Miss Eleanor Pickard
  • Miss Eleanor Vansittart

M, continued

  • Miss Electa Sprague
  • Miss Elinor Paget
  • Miss Eliza Bromhead
  • Miss Eliza Bunce
  • Miss Elizabeth Aubrey
  • Miss Elizabeth Pauncefort
  • Miss Ellen MacNamara
  • Miss Ellen Tidmarsh
  • Miss Elsie Crichton
  • Miss Elsie Hawtrey
  • Miss Elspeth Urquhart
  • Miss Elvira Mallory
  • Miss Emeline Ten Broeck
  • Miss Emily Garside
  • Miss Emmeline Poyntz
  • Miss Enid Orchard
  • Miss Esther Dunn
  • Miss Ethel Jowett
  • Miss Eudora Brinckerhoff
  • Miss Eunice Tarrant
  • Miss Eunice Van Wyck
  • Miss Euphemia Laidlaw
  • Miss Evadne Rose Tankerville
  • Miss Evangeline Blackthorne
  • Miss Evelyn Pilkington
  • Miss F. H. Dunsford
  • Miss F. Woodforde
  • Miss Faith Venables
  • Miss Fanny Larpent
  • Miss Felicity Bowles
  • Miss Fell
  • Miss Fidelia Cabot
  • Miss Flora Erskine
  • Miss Flora Raleigh
  • Miss Florence Ashworth
  • Miss Frances Aylmer
  • Miss Frances Lisle
  • Miss G. M. Polwhele
  • Miss G. Maddox
  • Miss Garth (Wilkie Collins)

M, continued

  • Miss Georgiana Dacre
  • Miss Georgina Ainslie
  • Miss Georgina Knatchbull
  • Miss Georgina Sugden
  • Miss Gertrude Lascelles
  • Miss Gladys Copplestone
  • Miss Grace Penfold
  • Miss Graves
  • Miss Grimshaw
  • Miss Grizel Lockhart
  • Miss Gwendolen Northcote
  • Miss Gwendoline Mary Lambton
  • Miss H. J. Kilvert
  • Miss Hannah Mulcahy
  • Miss Hannah Thorpe
  • Miss Hannah Tillinghast
  • Miss Harriet Cholmondeley
  • Miss Harriet Clegg
  • Miss Harriet Lefroy
  • Miss Harriet Lovell
  • Miss Harrow
  • Miss Hawksmoor
  • Miss Helen Rutherford
  • Miss Helena Shirley
  • Miss Henrietta Balfour
  • Miss Henrietta Bligh
  • Miss Henrietta Vavasour
  • Miss Hepzibah Tuttle
  • Miss Hermione Ruth Delamere
  • Miss Hermione Yelland
  • Miss Hester Loxley
  • Miss Hilda Daventry
  • Miss Honora Fitzgibbon
  • Miss Honoria Blackwood
  • Miss Honoria Jane Lovelock
  • Miss Hope Carden
  • Miss I. C. Fennimore
  • Miss I. Ottley
  • Miss Ianthe Gascoigne

M, continued

  • Miss Irene Kettlewell
  • Miss Isabel Clare Montgomerie
  • Miss Isabel Marchant
  • Miss Isabella Courtenay
  • Miss Isabella Moorsom
  • Miss Ishbel Forsyth
  • Miss Ismay Whitlock
  • Miss Isobel Farquharson
  • Miss Isolde Grimwood
  • Miss Ivy Lanchester
  • Miss J. E. Gilpin
  • Miss J. Mitchinson
  • Miss Jane Hallam
  • Miss Janet Gourlay
  • Miss Jean Fairbairn
  • Miss Jemima Abernethy
  • Miss Jemima Onslow
  • Miss Jenny Lark
  • Miss Jerusha Hale
  • Miss Jessel (Henry James)
  • Miss Jessie Galbraith
  • Miss Jessie Tolhurst
  • Miss Joanna Pegler
  • Miss Johanna Nolan
  • Miss Josephine Grogan
  • Miss Judith Pascoe
  • Miss Julia Champernowne
  • Miss Julia O'Dwyer
  • Miss Juliana Peverell
  • Miss K. Jardine
  • Miss K. L. Heberden
  • Miss Kate Brimble
  • Miss Katherine Elphinstone
  • Miss Katherine Vyvyan
  • Miss Kathleen Donnelly
  • Miss Kathleen Upjohn
  • Miss Kezia Marriott
  • Miss Keziah Fenn
  • Miss Keziah Pickering
  • Miss Kitty Hargrave

M, continued

  • Miss L. B. Enderby
  • Miss L. Pargiter
  • Miss Laura Mossop
  • Miss Lavinia Trevelyan
  • Miss Lavinia Wheelock
  • Miss Lee (Jane Austen)
  • Miss Lenore Mortlock
  • Miss Leonora Chichester
  • Miss Letitia Arundell
  • Miss Letitia Persse
  • Miss Lilias Strachan
  • Miss Lottie Wren
  • Miss Louisa Carteret
  • Miss Louisa Rimmer
  • Miss Louisa Staveley
  • Miss Lovisa Alden
  • Miss Lucasta Holloway
  • Miss Lucinda Tollemache
  • Miss Lucretia Stoddard
  • Miss Lucy Ormerod
  • Miss Lydia Heneage
  • Miss Lydia Prescott
  • Miss Lydia Sparrow
  • Miss M. A. Cuthbertson
  • Miss M. Culpepper
  • Miss Mabel Rowntree
  • Miss Madrigal (Enid Bagnold)
  • Miss Margaret Lyttelton
  • Miss Margaretta Byng
  • Miss Margery Trim
  • Miss Maria Fortescue
  • Miss Maria Templeman
  • Miss Marian Froude
  • Miss Marianne Strangways
  • Miss Marianne Tighe
  • Miss Marietta Calhoun
  • Miss Marion Kinnaird
  • Miss Marjorie Ingoldby
  • Miss Marjorie Innes
  • Miss Martha Oakes

M, continued

  • Miss Mary Ann Tebbs
  • Miss Mary Gisborne
  • Miss Matilda Scrope
  • Miss Maud Hinchcliffe
  • Miss Maura Gallagher
  • Miss Meg Whitlow
  • Miss Mehitabel Whitcomb
  • Miss Melisande Wolfenden
  • Miss Mercy Pym
  • Miss Mildred Waterlow
  • Miss Millicent Rivers
  • Miss Milly Trott
  • Miss Minerva Pettigrew
  • Miss Minnie Chivers
  • Miss Miriam Hales
  • Miss Monica Hogan
  • Miss Morag Dalrymple
  • Miss Mortlake
  • Miss Morwenna Tregarthen
  • Miss Muriel Eversleigh
  • Miss Myra Ravenel
  • Miss N. C. Penberthy
  • Miss N. Shillito
  • Miss Naomi Brock
  • Miss Narcissa Rutledge
  • Miss Nell Underhay
  • Miss Nora Kavanagh
  • Miss Nora Tennant
  • Miss Norah Delaney
  • Miss O. M. Carlyon
  • Miss O. Vickery
  • Miss Octavia Fanshawe
  • Miss Octavia Tazewell
  • Miss Olive Faraday
  • Miss Olivia Clavering
  • Miss Ottoline Crowhurst
  • Miss P. A. Cardew
  • Miss P. Rainsford
  • Miss Patience Dimmock

M, continued

  • Miss Penelope Grenville
  • Miss Penhallow
  • Miss Perdita Marchmont
  • Miss Permelia Fauntleroy
  • Miss Persis Gell
  • Miss Philena Middleton
  • Miss Philippa Cross
  • Miss Phoebe Lambourne
  • Miss Phoebe Thorndike
  • Miss Phyllis Jessop
  • Miss Polly Dabney
  • Miss Priscilla Endicott
  • Miss Priscilla Marsh
  • Miss Prism (Oscar Wilde)
  • Miss Prudence Hartley
  • Miss R. Battiscombe
  • Miss R. M. Hesketh
  • Miss Rachel Finch
  • Miss Rebecca Nye
  • Miss Rhoda Beauchamp
  • Miss Rhoda Tapp
  • Miss Rhona Tulloch
  • Miss Rookwood
  • Miss Rosa Hebblethwaite
  • Miss Rosalba Lorne
  • Miss Rosamund Trefusis
  • Miss Rose Quinlan
  • Miss Rowena Ravenhill
  • Miss Roxana Lowell
  • Miss Ruth Ellacombe
  • Miss S. E. Tregellas
  • Miss S. Featherstone
  • Miss Sabina Coldwell
  • Miss Sarah Lidgett
  • Miss Sarah Tilson
  • Miss Selina Glasse
  • Miss Selina Hobhouse
  • Miss Seraphina Dunmore
  • Miss Shadwell
  • Miss Sheila Tierney

M, continued

  • Miss Sibylla Godolphin
  • Miss Silver (Patricia Wentworth)
  • Miss Skelton
  • Miss Slighcarp (Joan Aiken)
  • Miss Sophia Ashby
  • Miss Sophia Hungerford
  • Miss Sophronia Peaslee
  • Miss Sophy Trent
  • Miss Strange
  • Miss Susan Calcraft
  • Miss Susan Mordaunt
  • Miss Susannah Meade
  • Miss Susannah Putnam
  • Miss Susie Applegarth
  • Miss Sybil Quennell
  • Miss T. S. Selwyn
  • Miss Tabitha Standish
  • Miss Tabitha Wells
  • Miss Taylor (Jane Austen)
  • Miss Temperance Ashdown
  • Miss Tempest
  • Miss Thankful Kimball
  • Miss Theodora Anne Cavendish-Lyle
  • Miss Theodosia Monk
  • Miss Theresa Fitzpatrick
  • Miss Theresa Luttrell
  • Miss Thomasin Cleave
  • Miss Thorne
  • Miss Tilly Budd
  • Miss Tryphena Lott
  • Miss Una Sheehan
  • Miss Unity Brand
  • Miss Ursula Verrall
  • Miss V. E. Maskelyne
  • Miss V. Twisleton
  • Miss Venetia Tyrwhitt
  • Miss Vera Goodenough
  • Miss Verity Coombes
  • Miss Violet Maytham

M, continued

  • Miss Vivien Stroud
  • Miss W. Sandeman
  • Miss Wake
  • Miss Wilhelmina Thrale
  • Miss Winifred Allardyce
  • Miss Winifred Egerton
  • Miss Winifred Riordan
  • Miss Winterbourne
  • Miss Wirt (Thackeray)
  • Miss Zillah Heathcote
  • Mlle Berthe Chevalley
  • Mlle Gabrielle Fournier
  • Mlle Hélène Mermod
  • Mlle Henriette Germain
  • Mlle Hortense Gillet
  • Mlle Irène Grandjean
  • Mlle Isabelle Guyot
  • Mlle Jeanne Guillot
  • Mlle Julie Hamel
  • Mlle Justine Jacquet
  • Mlle Laure Joly
  • Mlle Léontine Lacroix
  • Mlle Lucie Lagarde
  • Mlle Madeleine Langlois
  • Mlle Marguerite Picard
  • Mlle Pauline Humbert-Droz
  • Mlle Victoire Tournier
  • Mlle Victorine Vaillant
  • Moira O'Rourke
  • Molly Darling
  • Monica Dalby
  • Morag MacAllister
  • Mrs. Antrobus
  • Mrs. Augusta Flint
  • Mrs. Bannister
  • Mrs. Barbara Sterne
  • Mrs. Birch
  • Mrs. Blenkinsop
  • Mrs. Braithwaite
  • Mrs. Charlotte Verney

M, continued

  • Mrs. Coldicott
  • Mrs. Cornelia Moody
  • Mrs. Drusilla Steele
  • Mrs. Ellison
  • Mrs. Euphemia Starke
  • Mrs. Ferrier
  • Mrs. Georgiana Frost
  • Mrs. Gorringe
  • Mrs. Grimwade
  • Mrs. Hallett
  • Mrs. Hardwick
  • Mrs. Harriet Winter
  • Mrs. Hephzibah Stiles
  • Mrs. Jemima Peacock
  • Mrs. Kirkbride
  • Mrs. Lavinia Crewe
  • Mrs. Lethbridge
  • Mrs. Marchbank
  • Mrs. Mossman
  • Mrs. Octavia Rudge
  • Mrs. Oldfield
  • Mrs. Pennefather
  • Mrs. Pierce
  • Mrs. Pritchard
  • Mrs. Proctor
  • Mrs. Quarles
  • Mrs. Rigby
  • Mrs. Sedgwick
  • Mrs. Sophia Wraxall
  • Mrs. Strickland
  • Mrs. Tabitha Gaunt
  • Mrs. Thirza Crabbe
  • Mrs. Thwaite
  • Mrs. Tolliday
  • Mrs. Underwood
  • Mrs. Wilhelmina Sharpe
  • Mrs. Wolstencroft
  • Mrs. Yardley
  • Muriel Elphick
  • Muriel Renwick

N: 5 names

  • Nan Fairweather
  • Nellie Ogden
  • Nellie Sweeney
  • Nora Dillon
  • Nora Tuckwell

O: 6 names

  • Octavia Bulteel
  • Odette Morrow
  • Olive Fairbrother
  • Olivia Harriet Lyndhurst
  • Oonagh O'Keeffe
  • Ottilia Sorrell

P: 7 names

  • Patty Gladwin
  • Philippa Jane Aldersey
  • Philomena Hallowes
  • Phoebe Chauncey
  • Phyllis Jellicoe
  • Priscilla Leverett
  • Prudence Aldous

R: 10 names

  • Rachel Ramsay
  • Rosaleen O'Farrell
  • Rosalind Agar
  • Rosalind Mary Chetwode
  • Rosamond Hawke
  • Rosamund Capell
  • Rose Culhane
  • Rosie Makepeace
  • Ruth Pinch (Dickens)
  • Ruth Sansom

S: 83 names

  • Sarah Lockwood
  • Sarah Whitbread
  • Selina Trotter
  • Sheena MacNab
  • Sibyl Hemlock
  • Signora Bonetti
  • Signora Brambilla
  • Signora Franchi
  • Signora Guidi
  • Signora Landi
  • Signora Nardi
  • Signora Paoli
  • Signora Rosselli
  • Signora Salvati
  • Signora Tosi
  • Signora Ugolini
  • Signora Vanni
  • Signorina Adele Longo
  • Signorina Agnese Gentile
  • Signorina Amalia Coppola
  • Signorina Angela Valentini
  • Signorina Annunziata Sala
  • Signorina Antonietta De Santis
  • Signorina Assunta Gatti
  • Signorina Aurelia D'Angelo
  • Signorina Beatrice Pellegrini
  • Signorina Bianca Rinaldi

S, continued

  • Signorina Carlotta Farina
  • Signorina Carolina Monti
  • Signorina Caterina Martinelli
  • Signorina Cecilia Cattaneo
  • Signorina Chiara Moretti
  • Signorina Clelia Morelli
  • Signorina Concetta Amato
  • Signorina Costanza Silvestri
  • Signorina Elena Grassi
  • Signorina Eleonora Giuliani
  • Signorina Elisabetta Vitale
  • Signorina Emilia Benedetti
  • Signorina Eugenia Rossetti
  • Signorina Filomena Caputo
  • Signorina Fiorenza Montanari
  • Signorina Flavia Palmieri
  • Signorina Francesca Lombardi
  • Signorina Gemma Bernardi
  • Signorina Giacinta Ferretti
  • Signorina Ginevra Basile
  • Signorina Giovanna Donati
  • Signorina Giulia Mariani
  • Signorina Giuseppina Vitali
  • Signorina Grazia Sartori
  • Signorina Isabella Costantini
  • Signorina Laura Milani
  • Signorina Letizia Pagano
  • Signorina Lidia Ruggiero

S, continued

  • Signorina Livia Sorrentino
  • Signorina Lucia Fontana
  • Signorina Luisa Damiani
  • Signorina Maddalena Serra
  • Signorina Marcella Castelli
  • Signorina Margherita Marchetti
  • Signorina Marianna Salvi
  • Signorina Matilde Zanetti
  • Signorina Ortensia Cavalli
  • Signorina Ottavia Albertini
  • Signorina Paola Conti
  • Signorina Pia Mazza
  • Signorina Rosa Fabbri
  • Signorina Rosalia Mancini
  • Signorina Serafina Rizzo
  • Signorina Silvia Barbieri
  • Signorina Sofia Santoro
  • Signorina Teresa Ferraro
  • Signorina Virginia Galli
  • Signorina Vittoria Bellini
  • Sophia Chetwynd
  • Sophia Linwood
  • Sophy Burrell
  • Stella Battersby
  • Sukey Toogood
  • Susan Honywood
  • Susannah Kirk
  • Sylvia Ann Delacourt

T: 4 names

  • Tess Lovejoy
  • Thankful Brewster
  • Theresa Rafferty
  • Thomasina Trevanion

U: 3 names

  • Una Lennox
  • Ursula Tremayne
  • Ursula Vellacott

V: 7 names

  • Venetia Darcy
  • Vera Gathercole
  • Verity Pardoe
  • Viola Kemp
  • Viola Stonehouse
  • Violet Hunter (Conan Doyle)
  • Violet Mortimore

W: 4 names

  • Wilhelmina Carew
  • Wilhelmina Dering
  • Winifred Amery
  • Winifred Purcell

Z: 1 name

  • Zilpah Whittier