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Edgy but traditional girl's names- do they exist?

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Laac · 16/10/2018 15:10

I'm really struggling to find a girl's name I like enough. We would like a traditional real name that's a big edgy or unusual. Any suggestions welcome!

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PossibiliTea · 16/10/2018 15:41

Love Eliza
Is Heidi classed as edgy?

enjoyingscience · 16/10/2018 15:40

Emmeline
Christabel
Sylvia
Emily
Lydia
Flora
Millicent
Edith

All suffragette names. You don't get much more kick ass than a suffragette.

OatsBeansBarley · 16/10/2018 15:35

Saskia

OatsBeansBarley · 16/10/2018 15:33

Just realised that's too like the very current Olivia. It just came to mind as I loved Sian Williams in the role in I Claudius!

Spreadingcudweed · 16/10/2018 15:32

Hester
Cressida
Ruth
Miranda
Giselle
Lucia

Rainbowturkey · 16/10/2018 15:31

Juniper

GraceMarks · 16/10/2018 15:30

Sylvia
Rosalind
Jocelyn
Vera
Esther

These are all names that once belonged to famous female scientists (as is my earlier suggestion of Ada) so you can't go wrong!

haverhill · 16/10/2018 15:30

Coral
Patience
Emmeline
Thora
Livia
Demelza
Florence
Edith/Edyth
Merryn

OatsBeansBarley · 16/10/2018 15:30

Livia

bringbackfonzi · 16/10/2018 15:29

Albertine.

MonsterSister · 16/10/2018 15:29

Dinah, Rosanna, Judith, Serena?

Sallylondon · 16/10/2018 15:28

Betty
Irene
Audrey
Iris
Olive
Daphne
Joan
They're all the names of my grandparents generation

Stuckforthefourthtime · 16/10/2018 15:27

Evangeline
Ottilie
Adelaide / Ada
Cressida
This blog has some great ones through the ages, from Cicely to Hepzibah...
www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2017/05/top-200-most-popular-names-in-england-and-wales-in-1850.html

LeeMiller · 16/10/2018 15:27

Freida
Greta
Willa
Tess
Tansy
Bathsheba
Colette
Nora
Frances
Olive
Lisette
Tabitha
Hazel
June
Maud
Sylvia
Nell
Millicent

PinguDance · 16/10/2018 15:27

Araminta - minty for short

IggyAce · 16/10/2018 15:27

One of my ancestors is called Thurza Lavinia I felt it was edgier than the other names in my family tree.

PinguDance · 16/10/2018 15:26

I actually love Ermingard to be fair

PinguDance · 16/10/2018 15:25

Ermingarde

NeedSomeTimeInTheSunshiiine · 16/10/2018 15:25

I like Margot...

Cora
Nancy
Sylvie
Nell
Ida
Ada
Mina
Frida
Mae
Juniper
Dinah

PinguDance · 16/10/2018 15:25

Lettice

NoParticularPattern · 16/10/2018 15:22

My cousin has just named her daughter Posey. I think that’s a lovely name and old fashioned and a bit edgy at the same time. Really lovely

froufroufoxes · 16/10/2018 15:22

Ruby
Cora
Marnie
Coco

GraceMarks · 16/10/2018 15:19

Ada?

MawkishTwaddle · 16/10/2018 15:18

Joan
Juno
Nancy
Edie
Loveday
Avril
Dorothy
Gertie

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Laac · 16/10/2018 15:17

Everything mentioned so far are names we have liked and discarded as not being quite right so definitely along the right lines!

At one point we were going for Margot, I also like Pearl.

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