Badass girl names

[overagain]

DS is named after old English kings and sci fi characters - he has 2 middle names and all 3 names are kings and sci fi characters.

We are now expecting DD. And after a conversation today want to name her after badass feminist women (DHs suggestion).

We've come up with Ada Florence Marie but wondered if anyone has any other suggestions? Not Emmeline as bfs daughter is called that.

[Darkautumn]

Rosa?

[ArchbishopOfBanterbury]

How about Lara? :-)

[FairyFantastic]

I'm named after a sci-fi character and my middle name matches a superhero so I get what you mean!

I second Lara! Love that name
Nikita?
Amelia? (Earhart)
Nancy (Wake - read her story she's pretty badass)
Diana (Roman name of Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt)

I'm pretty sure there are books out (little people big something, dreams or something?) that are after women who changed the world. We have a couple. Could check those names? Also theres another kids book like 'women who changed the world' you could look at for ideas (whilst getting historical context!)
Also look online at 'Rejected Princesses' I think it's called. Some interesting women & names there!

[MickHucknallspinkpancakes]

Laskarina

[GreenMeerkat]

Amelia (Earhart)
Emmeline (Pankhurst)

[GreenMeerkat]

DOH just seen the bottom part of your post.

Arya (Stark)... although that's quite popular now

[AssassinatedBeauty]

Was reading about Flora Sandes who fought in WW1, which I guess would meet your requirements of badass.

[AliCanTea]

Was going to suggest Flora (Sandes)!

[Choccywoccyhooha]

The magician Penn Jillette's daughter is called Moxie Crimefighter -that is badass.

Otherwise for badass i like Blaise (though traditionally a boy's name), Hilda (means battle), Thora (means thunder goddess), Scout or Jean-Louise after the character in To Kill a Mockingbird, or even Attica after her father, Atticus.
It's not for everyone, but we considered Io (pronounced simply i-o) for our daughter.

[AutoFillUsername]

Aphra (Behn)
Frieda (Kahlo)
Maya (Angelou)
Dorothea (character from Middlemarch)
Nancy (Astor)
Malala (Youseffi)
Rosa (Parkes)
Ruth (Bader Ginsburg)
Norma (Jean)

[Lucked]

Ripley ( or Ellen if you want to be more subtle)
Valentina after the first woman in space.

[Cosmoa]

Ezri (star trek character)

[jjemimapuddleduck]

I knew of a Wednesday once. That's pretty cool.

[Rachelover40]

Madonna
Lady GaGa
Germaine
Angela (from Angela Davies)
Rosa (Rosa Parkes)
Jody (Dr Who)

[Thetigerwhocameto]

We have the book ‘bedtime stories for rebel girls’ number 1 I suggest buying it for your daughter anyway it is a fab boon, number 2 you may find some inspiration in there for names!

[PinkAvocado]

Lyra (from Pullman’s Dark Materials)
Rey (Star Wars)
Trinity (Matrix)
Dorothy (Lawrence - journalist on the frontline in WW1 posing as a man)
Constance (Lytton - kick ass suffragette)
Valentina (first woman in space)
Rosalind (Franklin-scientist)

[QuaterMiss]

Sojourner (Truth)
Marghanita (Laski)
Harriet (Tubman)
Louise Bourgeois
Octavia (E. Butler)
Karen (Lord)
Simone (de Beauvoir)
Toni (Morrison)
Timberlake (Wertenbaker)

[spreadingchestnuttree]

Xena (warrior princess) or a Greek goddess name like Athena or Hera?

greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/

[blueskiesandforests]

If you want the equivalent of your son's name then surely you want

Elizabeth Catherine Lara

Or similar (2 queen's and a sci-fi character)

[bridgetreilly]

Aethelflaed was about as badass as you can imagine.

[Flamingosnbears]

Joan of ark

[Hermagsjesty]

Josephine (Baker)
Ada (Lovelace)
Betty (Boothroyd)
Sylvia (Pankhurst but also Plath)
Frieda (Kahlo)
Mary (Shelley and Wollstonecraft)
Caitlin (Moran but also Stark)

[BlueChampagne]

Boudicca
Olympias (Alexander the Great's mother)
Cleopatra
Matilda/Maud
Elizabeth (the first, or Garrett Anderson)

Check out some Roman empresses as well.

[mathanxiety]

Maeve (queen of Irish saga; very badass).
Araminta (original name of Harriet Tubman).
Christabel (Pankhurst).
Eleanor (Roosevelt - the original badass).
Grier (after Germaine; Grier is a bona fide name).
Juliana (of Norwich, aka Julian of Norwich; medieval badass, patroness of cats).

[Polkasq]

Cleopatra
Theodora (Empress of the Byzantine Empire)
Victoria (Queen)
Harriet (Beecher Stowe)
Audra, Audrey, mean "noble strength"
Adira "strong, noble, powerful"
Kyra "strong woman", Slavonic