Does a girls name exist that isn't overly popular, sound similar to something overly popular, about to become overly popular or just plain boring or dated?

[PetersonPeterson]

Really don't want to go for the so called 'classic names', as it just seems so boring (I know for lots of people they're not boring, I just think they're dull), personally can't stand the Eva, Ava, Sophie, Lily names. Quite like harder sounding names like Edith, Enid, Maud, Agnes, but these may well be the next type of name to become fashionable. Completely get that people like the types of names I have mentioned, but can I avoid the above scenarios in any way. Friends who have recently had babies have gone for things like Cecily, Otto, Margot, Beatrice etc, but I know at least 2 under 6 months of each of these so I imagine they may become super popular as well. I know it shouldn't matter but it does! Hit me with ideas please...

[kippersyllabub]

Yup. But my dd is called it and I don't want it becoming 10-a-penny so I'll keep it to myself

[ThisFenceIsComfy]

Theresa?

[DontBuyANewMumCashmere]

I called DD what I thought was an old fashioned name, after my great aunt, after whom I was kind of named...
Two weeks after we decided on her name, if she was a girl, these two names were in the top 10 girl's baby names. I was a bit gutted thinking that everyone would think we only chose them as they were popular.

But. Fuck em. It's a family name and they genuinely are old names.

[HainaultViaNewburyPark]

Audrey, Freida, Gillian, Ingrid, Miriam, Sadie, Tara, Valerie

[srslylikeomg]

Dolores?
Martha?
Hetty?
Pearl?
Lou?
Ramona?
I'm thinking old American might suit your brief??

[EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard]

Doris

[MarasmeAbsolu]

Mine are so distinctive that adding their name here would out me right away
but srsly has it: old American for DD1, and 1950s French for the other

[BeStrongAndCourageous]

I came on here to say Ingrid. Or some of the virtue names - Hope, Verity, Prudence?

You don't meet many little Brigits, or Annes, or Ruths either.

[megletthesecond]

Oh I love Prudence.

And Constance.

[manicinsomniac]

Astrid, Ada, Avril, Antonia, Bronte, Coralie, Callie, Celest, Cynthia, Cecilia, Diana, Dinah, Esmerelda, Erica, Esther, Fiona, Frances, Giselle, Henrietta, Honor, Hebe, Hedda, Isolde, Iona, Isadora, Judith, Justine, Joelle, Juliet, Jacinta, Larissa, Leandra, Lorelai, Maeve, Melody, Nadine, Paloma, Pandora, Rosanna, Rowena, Robina, Romilly, Saffron, Sorrel, Selina, Saskia, Sylvia, Tamara, Tamsin, Thalia, Ursula, Verity, Xanthe, Yvette, Yolanda, Zara

[MistressoftheYoniverse]

Christine...Karen...Catherine...Anne marie...Mildred...Karenna

[LaContessaDiPlump]

I've always liked Meliha - pronouced Meh-li- ha. It's Arabic.

Other good Arab names (imo): Zeinab (zay-nab), Lamia (lam-ya), Luna, Jude, Serene, Areej, Salwa, Hala, Reem, Ruba, Fadia..... the list goes on! And my favourite - Zenobia.

Do any of those have crossover potential? Maybe not Zenobia

[ClearEyesFullHeartsCantLose]

Margaret? Lots of older names are making a comeback but I haven't heard of any Margarets who actually go by Margaret instead of Maggie or Meg or aomerhinb

[ClearEyesFullHeartsCantLose]

spmething

[ClearEyesFullHeartsCantLose]

Oh ffs something!!!!

[BabyGanoush]

It is a game you can't win OP

Just choose a name you like, without worrying about popularity.

I have a unique name that hardly anyone has. Doesn't make me especially unique... In fact, noone can ever remember my name, or guess how to write it.

Always wished I was an Elizabeth or a Sophie

[Coldtoeswarmheart]

Hannah.

[twoundertwowillbefun]

My name is Ida - I've never met another one (that I wasn't related to, it's a family name) I called my daughter Juliet and again people comment on how nice the name is but its never been in the top 200 as far back as I could look up!

[BikeRunSki]

Jane
Emma
Karen
Louise
Helen
Rachel

1970s names

[Queenbean]

Love Ingrid and Bridget.

Zara? Susanna? Margot? Sigrid?

[BikeRunSki]

Having said that, my parents called my sister Zoe because they thought it was unusual (and they wanted a Z name but knew a Zelda), then there were 8 in her school year (of 200 ish) at high school.

[newname64]

1960's names due a comeback imo

Dawn
Jayne
Allison
Carole
Diana

[tinybellows]

Rachel
Stephanie
Hannah
Gabrielle
Rowan

[tinybellows]

Maria
Laura
Sally
Esther

[Sophronia]

Susanna(h)
Louisa