I need help finding relatively rare girl names for baby. Top boy names (mutually accepted) are Remington Asher Leander. I like girls names that are pretty rare--that I don't know anyone with that name. I used a few websites where you type in your favorite name and they give you "similar" ones... and I don't like much.
Where would you go next? I like three to five syllable names, don't mind if middle name is short (one syllable is fine). Any ideas of very old names or multisyllable uncommon girl's names?
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I teach at a girls school with lots of Church of England families (read: old school & traditional). Some names that have cropped up in my tenure that fit your criteria, I think:
Antoinette
Olympia
Quintessa
Assumpta
Imogenne
SylviannaSorry if none of those are what you are looking for!
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@ScarletBegonia: I love you, thank you.
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Not all fit criteria, but first to mind:
Lilianna
Victoria
Annelise
Clementine
Gwendolyn
Apollonia (a favorite of mine but DH would never go for it...)
Phillipa
Bronwyn (name of a former student that I just LOVE) -
@ScarletBegonia: Assumpta is such a lovely name!
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There a Calliope at LO's school.
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@matador84: I know several Bronwens actually, so it doesn't meet that, but a beautiful name. Great ideas! Thank you! @littlejoy: grey's anatomy ruined it for me, haha, bummer
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@pastemoo: bahaha i totally think of grey's too!
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I found some pretty names from this list: http://www.babble.com/baby-names/exotic-names/
Allegra
Arabella
Alethea
Bronte
Guinevere
Jemima
Jocelyn
Octavia
Persephone
Valencia
Wilhelmina@matador84: I love Bronwyn! That's beautiful.
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Leighton
Matilda
Vera
Blanche
Philomena
Neema
Giselle -
found a few more:
Romilly
Odette
Villette
Freya
Reverie
Tyken
Kaisha
Vivica
Mireille
Aveline -
@Mrs. Pen: @Mrs.KMM: thank you! Mrs. Pen, three of those are on my list already
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Some of these are wonderful!! I was friends with an Althea in grade school, and she was so sweet. Valencia is a longtime favorite.
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Here are a few ideas:
Delphine
Francesca
Verbena -
Some others I don't think are mentioned:
Sanora
Samara
Margot
Gwyneth
Campbell
Georgiana
Tabitha
Palomina
Farabee
Noella -
Liviana is at the top of our list for Babygirl. We also liked Ilaria, but our last name starts with an I so we scrapped it.
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I like rare names too. Though since naming our son it seems to be popping up everywhere. So our kids are Kaia and Asher. I love the name Kasima though. DH will never go for it but I think it is so pretty and definitely unusual
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How about:
Araminta (Minty for short)
Leonora
Persephone
Genevieve -
I like more uncommon names as well, and I found inspiration by going to the SSA baby names page and downloading the file that allows you to see all names used outside the top 1000. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html
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I love Augusta!
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I have a Hyla (there were three Hyla's born in the US in 2013, so pretty rare). I also love:
Rosamund
Guinevere
Eliana
Leandra -
@littlejoy: @LindsayLou: @LuLu Mom: @littlebug: @Mrs Hedgehog: @Mrs. Champagne: @avivoca: thank you so much! Now 3 of my top 4 are on this list and several from my longer list are here... And some fun new ones I had not considered. Thank you!
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@Pancakes: I was going to suggest this as well. I also like the BabyNames list of combined spellings.
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I love Ottilie...
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@Mrs. Champagne: I know siblings Augusta & Alberta, their middle names are super sweet too. Great names
@Mrs. Pen: Odette!
I considered Gertrude (Trudy, True) & Geraldine both nods to my grandparents & pretty rare names.
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Ariadne
Casilda
Cosima
Dominica
Jessamine
Mirabelle
Monserrate
Ophelia
Persephone
Talitha
Theodosia
Verity -
Still thinking…
Amaryllis
Christabel
Elowen
Elsinore
Frederica
Hannelore
Meridian
Wilhelmina
Zinnia -
@youboots: great idea! Also planning a library trip.
@Banana330: cute! @rachiecakes: pretty. @rattles: thanks! I just added Ariadne to the list earlier this week, I am so impressed with these names! Thank you everyone!
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http://appellationmountain.net
This is my favorite spots for rare names! You can search by girls and also just look at names of the day.
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@LibbyLou: Oh, thank you!
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