Strong,timeless,unusual,not poncy...

[Idoitforthelove]

Yes, I'm looking for the Holy Grail of girls names.
I don't want anything popular, nor do I want a frilly, girly unusual name (Seraphina, Elodie, Primrose...) or a way out there OTT name (Honeysuckle, Temperance, Jacintha...)
It has to be classic and strong, but still a name that a little girl would be proud of.
Does it exist?
So far, I'm going along the lines of Miranda, Juliet, Helena...but I don't really love any of them. Any ideas mumsnetters?

[Suddenlylastsummer]

Alice would have been my choice for a girl.

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

Nancy
Sadie
Julia
Tessa
Araminta
Francesca
Jemima
Tabitha

[Imps9]

What about:

Miriam
Jennifer
Hannah
Heather
Rebecca
Katharine
Rachel

?

[nellyflora]

Catherine
Elizabeth
Alexandra
Margaret
Anne/ Anna
Mary
Sarah
Helen
Jane
Claire


Rebecca
Tabither
Jemima
Imogen
Hannah
Matilda

You need to look at Royal names and biblical to get the true classics I think most of the above fit those rules.

[KitKat1985]

There are some good suggestions here. Francesca and Elizabeth would be fave out of these. x

[ashesandfire]

Rosalind
Adelaide
Cecily
Meredith
Imogen
Eliza
Romilly
Violet

[Tryingtodecideboy3name]

Hester, Tabitha, Romilly

[TempsPerdu]

Honor
Greta
Rosa
Meredith
Clio
Tessa
Vita
Iris
Esther

[HairySubject]

Charlotte
Elizabeth
Francesca
Harriet
Alice
Alexandra

[thatstoast]

Cordelia
Ramona
Edith
Margaret

[thereareworsethingsicoulddo]

I second Margaret. Maggie is sweet for a baby but still strong and classic.

[Only1scoop]

Enid

Claudia

Tabitha

[Only1scoop]

Celestial

Cosima

[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

How can a girls name, be poncey.. But I think. I know what you mean something classical.
Elizabeth
Charlotte
Georgina
Jennifer
Mary
C/Katherine
Helena
Louise
Megan
Ana
Rosa

[Only1scoop]

Sorry 'Celestia'

[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

Julia
Josephine
Hannah
Marie
Francesca
Samantha

[BertrandRussell]

Harriet
Helen (shortened to Nell)
Jane
Miriam
Ruth

[iseenodust]

I like Alexandra too.
Rosemary
Dorothy nn Dottie

[evenoldergregg]

Muriel,
Meryl,
Dorothy,
Agatha,
Sylvia,
June,
Vanessa,
Frieda,
Josephine,
Ines.

[madmotherof2]

Josephine
Theodora
Jemima
Esme
Juliet

[Summ3r]

Freya
Nora
Laura
Charlotte
Emily

[UntilTheCowsComeHome]

Elizabeth
Catherine
Francesca
Laura
Jane
Victoria
Anne/anna

[WhiteHairReally]

Celia
Frances
Ursula
Maud

[GoldPlatedBacon]

Lucinda
Phoebe
Helena