Girls names - help!

[Norfolkvillas]

OK, so with thanks to Polly D who started the boys names thread, I have been inspired to start a similar thread asking for girls names ideas. I have only 5ish weeks til my due date, and the bump remains resolutely nameless. Neither my husband nor I have come up with anything we *really* love, despite having a longlist of names from the first time round (before we knew our first was a boy).

I'm firmly in the 'uncommon' (but not totally made up) name camp, so anything in the current top 100 most popular names is out for me (shame, I love Lola and Florence amongst others), and our surname is only one syllable, so I think her first name should be at least two syllables...

Suggestions gratefully received!

[snowboarder]

Ok. Bearing in mind I have 2 boys and never really spent much time on girls names...(and I always thought I'd have a little girl called Isabelle!). We liked Meredith, Martha, Annaliese, and Anouk...husband likes Jessica.

[Monkey]

Alma

Eugenie

Eliza

Nina

Violet

Leonie

[midivydale]

Hannah, ella, alice, martha, judith, ellen, emilia, grace, rosie, stella,

[Monkey]

Esme

Dulcie

Arabella

Maya

Cassandra

[The Nappy Lady]

I wanted to call my daughter Eden - officially its a boys name but I think beautiful for a girl.

Hubby vetoed it - I will always be a bit sad about it. :-(((

[dulwichgirl2]

You will find fewer of the traditional names appearing on the list. Eg Mary, Susan, Elizabeth, Catharine, Victoria, Alexandra etc. Then there is the Victorian/flowery category (Isabella, lily, Evie, Lola, Florence, loveday etc.) and then there is the third category. I'd go traditional if I were you, to avoid duplication or pigeonholing in a certain year or social grouping.

[Fuschia]

Naomi

Justine

Talia

Elena

Ghalina

Bridie

Martha

Miriam

Lindsey

Claudia

Belinda

Celia

Cecilia

Emmy

Jesse

Marisa

Orla

Raina

Romilly

Talis

Tanith

Tamsin

Vashti

Zilla

Imogen

[Gooders79]

Gizelle

Francesca

Ottoleigh

[crystal7]

Seren was on our list for baby 2 also Flora. There are so many beautiful girl's names that have become so popular- Florence, Olivia, Iris. It's hard to find something unique.

[Dodo1]

Margot

[maritap]

Olivia,

Mariah,

Jessica,

Amani

Sephie,

Ruby

[Strawbs]

Vivienne

Ariyanna

Matilda

Riley

Emma (but v common)

Esme

Chloe

Zoe

[Sanne Panne]

I love Anouk and Saskia.

[bobby's bear]

I have recently had a little girl and was wondering when thinking of names for her why there hasn't been a revival of 1950's and 60's names!! Maybe it's time to start one ...............

Gloria

Beverly

Pamela

Susan

Sandra

Christine

Shirley

[Belle]

I like Rosemary shortened to Romy

Also like connie/constance (friend has a little girl called Connie, really sweet)

My top girls name before I found out I was having a boy last time was Polly! Which Polly D on here knows about hee hee.

Also like Annie - could be short for one of the more unusual versions of Anne eg Annette.

[Mrs TP]

Betsy

Nell

[Pickle]

We have a long surname so our girls names were short for #3. We ended up with Kate (which everyone assumes is short for Katherine, she is going to grow up thinking her name is "no, just Kate"). Midwife said she was the only Kate she had delivered in recent memory so with luck she will be the only one in her year.

Also love Annie (have used Anne as a middle name). Love the "old lady" names making a comeback, Dot, Betty, Matilda etc.

[HOMum]

I love the older names (some coming back 'in')... particularly like:

Ruby

Pearl

Olive

Darcy

Elsie

Gracie

Beatrice (Bea)

Lois

Ida

Nancy

[midivydale]

I also like Ruth and Esther

[Beany]

Ah - love thinking of girls names, have no idea whether or not they're in the top 100 though!

Elodie

Layla

Rowan

Marnie

Isla

Ivy

Of the above also love Constance & Elizabeth (so many lovely variations - Lizzy, Eliza, Beth, Betty, betsy, great if you want choice later on)!!!

[Beany]

Oh.... and Charlotte (Lottie cute, but risk of Charlie which doesn't appeal to me)

[Ruth_Baldock]

My girl is Alexa Ruby. Ruby after me, my entire family call me Ruby. I never call her Alexa, she has always always been Lex. Other top girls names I love are:

Karis

Thea

Bridget

Meredith

Iris

Adriana

Scout (was very high on our list for Lex, even right up till being wheeled into theatre)

If I have a third, and it's a girl, she'll be Karis Rio :)

[theasidonio]

My name is Thea. I'm forever having to say the following:

'No, not TheO...TheA'

'no, it's not spelt Fia, Phia, Fea'

'THEA not Chea and definitely not Leah'

I personally like Sophie, Scarlett, Charlotte, Emma and Annabelle.

What I wouldn't give for a normal name!!

[Mrs TP]

Poor Thea! I am a Jane and that is so dull. I used to go to a monthly meeting at work that consisted of 4 of us all called Jane and one of the contacts that we had to discuss was another Jane. Somehow we never got confused but I hated that my name was so common. I now regard it as classic but there are still millions of us.

Consequently, I tried for less popular names for my brood. We have a Lilian who goes mad that I refuse to shorten it to Lily as that is v popular. She prefers the short version as it is on all the named tat you can buy all over the place. People automatically shorten it and that annoys me massively and stick two ls in the middle, which is an Americanisation not the traditional European spelling.

My two rules are, as I said on the boy's thread, not names that can be confused with surnames and intuitive spelling.

Love both these threads.