Etheldreda

This is stunning. A very alluring name.

Sounds awfully pretentious and snobby.

This saint is my namesake. Has been in my family for many generations. Yes, I am from very distant English extraction. I only was given a portion of the name and yes I was teased in school :) I hated the name then but, I am extremely proud of it now. I would have to agree that the full "Etheldreda" is a mouthful but the shortened "Dreda", like I was given, I love. It was my grandmother's middle name, my mother was given Dreda as a middle name and I have a cousin that got the whole enchilada. But she spells it without the "D". Go figure.

Etheldreda would be an awesome name for a character, or even a middle name, I think it's stunning.