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Original poster

Tell me a girls name I have never heard before!!!!!

288 replies

Hyperhelpmum · 28/06/2013 23:24

Thats it really! If she was a boy I would have called her Claude/ Casper/ Orlando. All girls names I like are friends daughters so need some I have not heard of!!

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DoveDovePigeon · 17/07/2013 19:10

Merle - means blackbird in French

Maud2011 · 17/07/2013 19:05

Damaris

saya11 · 17/07/2013 18:59

tyris

velvetelvis · 16/07/2013 23:29

Talla
Orielle
Zarina
Myla
Amity
Illiana

misssilverwings · 16/07/2013 13:45

Rondinella

burcham12 · 16/07/2013 13:44

Alfia

telsa · 16/07/2013 11:07

Zipporah
Rekba
Crimson
Silka
Augustina

Turniptwirl · 16/07/2013 06:31

Lymara
Brogan
Annaleah
Kopano
Channay

RalphtheTimid · 15/07/2013 17:59

Dymphna

TalkativeJim · 15/07/2013 09:43

Minka

MeerkatMerkin · 15/07/2013 06:57

Meddie
Margot
Morvern
Sabienne
Lark
Lenore
Persis
Winter

itried · 15/07/2013 06:42

Hepzibah

VivaLeBeaver · 15/07/2013 06:36

Amel

CheerfulYank · 15/07/2013 05:55

I went to school with a Saebyn, pr SAY-ben. I've never heard of another. :)

mathanxiety · 15/07/2013 04:46

Corazon (Spanish - 'heart')
Xochitl (Mexican flower name)
Eirene (Greek 'peace')
Theoni/Theone (Greek 'godly')
Arantxa (Basque 'thornbush')
Pernilla (Swedish name, short for Petronilla)
Dinah (Hebrew name that you never, ever hear)
Esperanza (Spanish 'hope')
Enda (Irish name that is pretty much unisex)
Elfrieda/ Frieda
Eliska (Czech pet form of Elizabeth)
Lida (short for Ludmila)
Philomene
Melisande
Damaris

SGJ · 14/07/2013 23:27

Only ever met one of each of the following:
Lisette
Myra
Aine (pr. 'Aunya')
Charyl
Aderryn
Aeryn

Most unusual (AKA stupidest) name ever goes to 'La-a', which is apparently pronounced 'LaDasha'

twinklestar2 · 14/07/2013 22:36

Kindra
Mahisha
Jaia
Mahi

Pumpkinsquid · 14/07/2013 11:38

If I ever have another daughter she will be Medea, i think its stunning.

Tubemole1 · 13/07/2013 22:45

A colleague at work is called Taieesh. She's of afro-carribean heritage.

Another colleague is called Farida, we call her Freda.

PestoSwimissimos · 13/07/2013 22:39

Banoffi - nn Noffi

PrunellaDeVille · 13/07/2013 22:38

ds is Claude, even if ds had been a dd would still have been Claude. love it.
There was a French queen by the name, had a pie/tart named after her.

PestoSwimissimos · 13/07/2013 22:25

Ruan

PestoSwimissimos · 13/07/2013 22:20

Agapanthus

ChristineDaae · 13/07/2013 22:19

Loving this thread!

raisah · 12/07/2013 14:45

Zerene
Sadeqa
Zinnia
Tahmena
Tasmin

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