Underrated names for girls?

[Cant trust em]

I like Renee. I always think of that song by The Left Banke "Walk Away Renee".

[Connonym]

1. Constance

if it's good enough for me, well dammit every girl should be named Constance

[Iggo]

29. That's a boss name....(n/t)

[Connonym]

43. I'm a bossy woman :-P

[BeachBaby]

53. OMG!

I came into this thread to enter the name "Constance", and here you are as the very first post!
Weird.
I always liked the name, and yet I know no one with it. Except you, I guess! :hi:

[BeachBaby]

54. self-delete. n/t

[Lyric]

2. Lily, Rose, Iris, Pearl, Ruby

All names that I think are beautiful, but most other people seem to think are entirely too dated.

[Cant trust em]

3. Rose is lovely. Lily is nice too.

They're not as dated as, say, Beulah.

[BlueIris]

8. Iris is a COOL name.

[grannylib]

34. My grandma's name was Pearl (the other Gran was Idelia) and

my daughter has a friend with a 2-year-old named Pearl.
I have another friend with a Ruby Valentine :-) And my car is also named Ruby (her middle name is Tuesday, and her last name is whatever day of the week it happens to be)

[JoDog]

35. Had I been born closer to Easter 1977

my name would have been Lily. But I arrived closer to St. Paddy's, so I got an Irish name.

[SallyMander]

51. Rose is my middle name

I was named after my grandma -- i've always loved it, and sort of wished it was my first name! :hi:

[dolo amber]

59. I have a Ruby who's 7 years old

She was damn near a Lucy. And I have a good friend with a Lily who's the same age. You'd be surprised how popular a lot of those names are becoming. :hi: :)

[yellowdogintexas]

85. little girl next door (well she is a bigger girl, age 8) is named Lily.

Her name is actually Lillian Katherine, and she goes by LilyKate.

[Skittles]

4. Kathleen

very pretty

[Cant trust em]

5. Love it. Versatile too.

Kate, Katy, Kathy. All great. It's on my short list for my kids someday.

[Robeson]

6. I'm a sucker for Russian names...

...they always seem so expressive, and yes, feminine.

[BlueIris]

12. You mean like my favorite name for a girl, Anastasia?

Best name ever.

[Robeson]

15. No doubt. And others like Tatyana, Svetlana, Ksyushen'ka, ....

...Natalia, Sasha, Antonina, etc...

I just love those names.

[datasuspect]

27. Svetlana just oozes sexiness

[Flaxbee]

67. Sasha (in Russia) is actually the male nickname for

Alexander ...

Svetlana becomes Sveta (nickname). Recently came across the name Ksenia, which I think is lovely. Eugenia is also pretty Russian, though has become standard European.

Lyuba ia another common female Russian name.

[LeftyMom]

7. My late grandmother's name was Carolyn. I rather like that, and if I ever had a girl might use it.

But I like reusing family names. At least the good ones- there probably won't be any LeftyZilpha or LeftyAngus (my maternal great great grandparents- guess where they were from :D ) in the future.

[ironflange]

61. Mrs. Ironflange's name is Carolyn

I love that name, but for some reason she doesn't like it. So I'm calling her Wanda now, yeah, because it pisses her off, that's right. She really goes apeshit if someone calls her Caroline, too. After 30 years, I still can't figure her out. :shrug:

[yellowdogintexas]

86. Caroline was on my short list for naming our daughter, and might have been

the name for a second daughter if there had been one

[last_texas_dem]

9. Leora

After reading Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith the name of the book's main female character just jumped out at me as being very pretty. However, everyone I've mentioned this to seems to think it too "old-sounding." Oh well...

[Cant trust em]

10. old sounding like a character in a Shakespeare play

or a Greek mythology story. Pretty cool if you ask me.

[last_texas_dem]

14. I'm glad to hear that someone else likes it

I see what you mean about it sounding like a name from Shakespeare or Greek mythology.

Also, I agree with you about the name Renee- and for me, much of my liking for it does have to do with connecting it with the Left Banke song as well!

[BlueIris]

11. Renee is a beautiful name. So is Irene, of which Renee is a variant.

I think?

[LiberalEsto]

47. My middle name is Irene

and I've always hated it

[1]

13. i've always been partial to Naoum and Obdia...

but i'm old school...

[Droopy]

16. Chloe and Naomi

I guess they are old time names, but I would like to see their revival

[marzipanni]

17. I got a bird that whistles, I got a bird that sings,

but I ain't got Corrina, life don't mean a thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjvUEixfQA0&feature=related

[Contrary1]

18. Amelia

My friend's son named his daughter that. I didn't like it at first, but it has since grown on me. I think it is a lovely name for a girl.

We named our daughter Marisa, (pronounced Ma-REE-sa) way back in 1976, long before it became popular. It means "Star of the Sea". I went to high school with a girl from Cuba with that name. I thought it was a beautiful name. Also, as it turned out; my future hubby had multiple amorous adventures with a young lady from France having the same name.

And, so we agreed...but for very different reasons. ;)

[grannylib]

33. I like Amelia, but wanted a twist, so my middle daughter is Amalea

We call her Molly; Amalea is an old family name on my mom's side. It's supposedly the Scandinavian version of Emily, which, oddly enough, was my oldest daughter's name! I didn't know at the time that I essentially named my two oldest kids the same thing!

[bixente]

19. Asta Sollilja

A very nice name I came across once, which belonged to an Icelandic girl.

[elleng]

20. Wendy, Fiona, and Moira/Maira

.

[riverdeep]

46. Fiona!

Maybe it's just from hearing Fiona Ritchie's voice (NPR's 'Thistle and Shamrock'), but that's an amazing name. You almost can't help but say it with an Irish accent.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Elizabeth, another versatile name

with a million ways to shorten it.

Or say it in full, when she's causing trouble
:rofl:

[elleng]

22. I learned that its derived from

Queen of Sheba! Friend's daughter is EliSeba.

LOADS of 'shortenings' and lengthenings. We call EliSeba, Sayba, and SayBeBaby!!!!

[zanne]

23. Leslie

Cute, but not too cutesy.

[datasuspect]

24. kevin

[grannylib]

36. I once was a nanny for a little girl named Kevyn

There's a female news anchor in Minneapolis named Kevin
:hi:

[grannylib]

37. It took me years to find out how "Siobhan" was pronounced; the first

time I saw it in print, I was utterly clueless. Couldn't wrap my brain around that AT ALL. But once I heard someone say it (I think on the old soap opera right before AMC, can't remember what it was called) and heard "Shevawn" or something like that, I thought it was the coolest name ever.

on edit - sorry, meant to reply to original post, not to my own previous one, sheesh!

[JCMach1]

25. Anaisa, and Katerina are my daughters' names

Both highly underrated names...

[datasuspect]

26. Salsa, Verde

[Cant trust em]

40. awww. that's pretty. NT

[MissMillie]

28. Joanna, Helena, Candace and Mary

Mary was big right up til the mid-60s and now it doesn't even hit the top 100.... it's a nice name.

[Iggo]

30. I've always liked names with a "K" or a hard "C"

Constance, Candace, Kathleen...and not just at the beginning. There's also names like Monica and Veronica.

Yep, if I'd had 5 girls and had to round them up, it'd've been, "Hey Connie, Candy, Kathy, Nikki, and Other Nikki!!!!"

(I hope the grammar nazis' heads don't explode because of the way awkward double contraction above.)

[kentauros]

31. How about some of these?

with definitions: Persian girls' names :D

[applegrove]

32. Phoebe, Sophie, or any male name used for a girl like Jamie or Sam.

[Cant trust em]

41. I've never been into the androgynous names

They've started to be almost a cliche in movies. Anytime there is a young girl who is somewhat precocious and independent they get one of those names, like Alex.

[hellbound-liberal]

58. One of my favorite female names of all time is Michaelyn

I've only heard it once but I really like it. Many of her friends called her Mike.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

38. People tell me...

That my name (Melanie) is underrated. It was fairly popular when I was born, in the '70's, but you don't hear it much anymore.

My daughter's name is Emma - an old classic. We didn't realize how popular it was until the nurse at the hospital told me about all of the Emmas, Emilys and Hannahs she'd been seeing lately. (Really???)

[SarahB]

39. Audrey

beautiful and elegant

[Pale Blue Dot]

44. I was going to post that!

Great minds.... :D

[SarahB]

45. Well, I like it better than my "phantom girls"

Who were going to be Rachel, either Erin or Amelia, and Grace (you'd have loved that one :D).

[unpossibles]

42. I like Rebecca

my wife hates it. We're not having kids, so it's no big deal, but it's her middle name and I think it's beautiful.

[HERVEPA]

48. Esther

[flygal]

81. That's my favorite

There's a German model here named that and it really is a pretty name. I used old fashioned names that some people didn't like but I'm so glad I didn't do the Madison, Taylor, Abby - cute but there are so many. I think the "ugly" old names are going to be unique. Like Alice, Hazel, Dierdre

[lightningandsnow]

49. Asha.

One of my favorite names ever. It means "hope".

[Alexander]

50. Bertha.

Just kidding.

:evilgrin:

[YDogg]

52. Lillian

Kind of old-school.

[BeachBaby]

55. Constance was already mentioned....so the other one I thought of

was Perpetua, the name of the Renee Zellwegers co-worker in "Bridget Jones' Diary".
Cool name.

[Rabrrrrrr]

56. Ablax the Vomitous Leper

I still think that's a good girl's name.

[BeachBaby]

57. Hey!

You've been hiding - you missed all the photoshop fun today! Or did you?
Good to see ya. :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

62. I've been Mr. Traveling guy again -

and so, no, I've not seen your photoshop threads today.

[Magrittes Pipe]

60. Hortense

:loveya:

[BlueIris]

63. Ariadne, Calpurnia, Consuela, Cynthia, Dana, Daphne, Darlene, Deirdre, Eden, Edith, Eileen, Enid,

Ernestine (I FLOVE the name Ernestine)
Etta
Gretchen
Harriet
Hazel
Hedda
Henrietta
Hesper
Holly
Honora
Ilsa
Inga
Ingrid
Ivy
Jane
Jill
Lilah
Lelia
Lorelai
Louise
Mabel
Mehetabel
Marjorie
Marlene
Maureen
Mavis
Maxine
Mercedes
Meredith
Merle
Millicent
Minerva
Miranda
Miriam
Moira
Molly
Muriel
Nadine
Nora
Nerissa
Noreen
Octavia
Oona
Opal
Pearl
Pandora
Patience
Peony
Penelope
Perditia
Petra
Phoebe
Portia
Priscilla
Prudence
Quiana
Rose
Sadie
Samara
Selina
Sharon
Simone
Tabitha
Tallulah
Teresa
Terzah
Thayis
Theodora
Ursula
Valentina
Vanessa
Velma
Veronica
Viola
Violet
Vivienne
Wendy
Wilhelmina
Winifred
Wynne
Xylia
Zebada (one of my favorite girl names ever, someone please use this!)
Zipporah
Zelda
Zoe, and Zora.

[Lance_Boyle]

64. Hortence the Mule-faced Doll,

which snagged a narrow victory from Effram the Retarded Rabbit.

[crim son]

65. Zoe.

Gwendolyn. Sophie.

[PVnRT]

66. Helen or Penelope

[Flaxbee]

68. Eugenia, Elinor, Alice, Marianne --

:hi:

I'm sure there are more, but can't recall them right now. Some of the Persian names in an earlier thread were lovely, too.

[LanternWaste]

69. Amelia

I love that name. Never knew anyone who was gifted with it though. Maybe if I have kids, I'll bestow that on one of 'em (I hope she's a girl...)

[CTyankee]

76. I know a 7 year old Emelia, because her parents conceived her in the Emelia-Romagna region

of Italy. They call her Emmy.

[Amaya]

70. Rachel, Lilly, Elizabeth

I like old school names- my daughter is a Rachel

[KamaAina]

71. Malia

Hawaiian for Mary. One of President Obama's daughters is named Malia.

[CTyankee]

72. Daisy, Lucinda, Coco, Georgiana.

Why? Daisy because it is a family name and the name of a grandmother who tragically died in childbirth.

Lucinda because it is lovely sounding and she could be called Lucy or Lulu.

Coco because it is too utterly fabulous and chic and practically nobody has it.

Georgiana or Georgia because it is delightfully Victorian and you can also call her George.

[Westegg]

73. Clementine, Elise, Wanda, Cassandra, Prudence...

...Artemis, May, Regan, Beatrice, Felicia, Hermione, Nanette, Tina.

This is fun!

[achtung_circus]

74. Mulva. nt

[Arugula Latte]

77. "Seven" also works. As does "Soda"

[jobycom]

75. Boss, Madame President, Doctor, Lord....

I have daughters and high hopes. :)

Aside from that, the name Charlotte is underutilized.

[Blue-Jay]

78. Apple.

[steelemagnolia]

79. I really like the name "Olivia" eom

[nemo137]

80. Alice. Totally underused. Totally boss. eom.

[NNadir]

82. My wife's name is Joanna.

It's a beautiful name, because it's hers.

When first I was in love with her, I sang her Dylan's "Visions of Joanna." It was a wonderful evening.

[WCGreen]

83. Gertrude and Zelda...

[midnight armadillo]

84. Siobhan

.

[yellowdogintexas]

87. Ellen, Margaret, Catherine, Caroline, Charlotte, Eleanor,

come to mind.

I suppose all the Maggies out there are really Margarets..and most of the Katies may really be Catherines?

I am supremely tired of the trendy names of the last 25 years..

and do not even get me started on alternate spellings, phoney apostrophes, made up sounding names, and names that appear to be the result of scrabble tiles thrown down at random.