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strong historical female names?

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sunshineandshowers21 · 17/11/2018 13:27

my beautiful baby girl was born six days ago and is still nameless! my partner is happy for me to choose the name so here i am asking for help. i’m thinking maybe a historical name? maybe a strong female from history? the names we liked are georgiana, evangeline, and lola - but none of them are sticking out to us now! her middle name will be charlotte, and we’ll maybe squeeze poppy in there as she was born on armistice day. any suggestions are welcome - doesn’t need to be historical!

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cariadlet · 19/11/2018 21:38

Lovely choice. 3 pretty and meaningful names, and they all go well together.

Flamingosnbears · 19/11/2018 13:44

Great name congratulations 🎊

StarsHollow123 · 19/11/2018 13:42

Beautiful names. Congratulations OP Thanks

CountFosco · 19/11/2018 12:29

Lovely. And I'm sure she'll love the meaning behind her name, DD2 has one of the names suggested above, and even though she was named after her great grandma (an artist who was a champion boxer, a real character herself!) DD2 particularly likes the link to the famous person.

IVflytrap · 19/11/2018 11:52

Congratulations! What a lovely name, with a great namesake. Smile

RudolphsJinglingBalls · 19/11/2018 09:38

Beautiful!

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sunshineandshowers21 · 19/11/2018 09:32

update! thank you again for all your suggestions. as a family we’ve decided on emmeline. emmeline charlotte poppy. she’s definitely a little emmy! we’ll just have to save georgiana for the next one... 🙈

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Twisique · 18/11/2018 08:07

Maude

fredleighton · 18/11/2018 07:41

Helen
Aphra
Eleanor
Caroline

moredoll · 18/11/2018 07:40

Athene (Ath-ee-nay) Greek Goddess of. Wisdom

rosy71 · 18/11/2018 07:39

Elizabeth, Victoria, Eleanor, Catherine, Mary, Christabel, Emily, Emmeline,

FairfaxAikman · 18/11/2018 07:31

Sashh even more impressive that Victoria Drummond was from nobility (a goddaughter of Queen Victoria) and had to fight to get her qualifications- they once failed an entire room full of other candidates, all male, rather than let her pass.
I think she sat it something like 16 times in the end and still had to get it in another country.

sashh · 18/11/2018 07:26

Valentina, the first woman in space.

Elizabeth - choice of 2 queens, first uk woman doctor, prison reformer and I'm sure you could find others.

Charity, after Charity Adams, standing up for women's and black people's rights in a segregated army cannot have been easy.

Ada or Grace for a computing connection.

Beatrice Shilling raced motorbikes and in WWII improved Rolls Royce engines (fitted to aircraft) so they didn't stall in battle.

Rosa Parks, already mentioned,.

Victoria Drummond, marine engineer who served at sea in WWII.

deptfordgirl · 18/11/2018 07:06

Matilda after emperess Matilda. Also means 'mighty in battle' which is a strong name for a girl.

AChefIsTrappedInMyCellar · 18/11/2018 04:29

Grace O'Malley (Gráinne Mhaol if you're Irish), also known as the Pirate Queen, was a force and a half to be reckoned with.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_O%27Malley

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sunshineandshowers21 · 18/11/2018 04:16

thank you for all your suggestions! there’s some really lovely names here so hopefully they’ll be one that fits. i’m going to sit down with my partner and two boys today and see if we can all decide on one that suits her! (although my four year old wants to call her pikachu so maybe not!)

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AliCanTea · 17/11/2018 20:25

Yes, also really like Georgiana.

Nacmonalds · 17/11/2018 18:41

I’m a big fan of Georgiana though x

Nacmonalds · 17/11/2018 18:40

Elizabeth after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - the first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor. She had to learn French and go to university in Paris because no British medical school would admit her.

userabcname · 17/11/2018 17:39

Marie (Curie), Ada (Lovelace), Rosa (Parks).
Or royalty - Victoria, Elizabeth?
Or authors - Jane (Austen), Emily (Bronte), Virginia (Woolf), Sylvia (Plath), Louisa (May Alcott).
Fwiw I love Georgiana!

AliCanTea · 17/11/2018 17:28

Flora (Sandes) would fit your Armistice theme well
Or:
Edith (Appleton/Cavell)
Dorothea (Crewdson)

Biscuitsneeded · 17/11/2018 17:25

Eleanor (Roosevelt or of Aquitaine), Mary (Seacole or Wollstonecraft), Rosa (Parks), Nancy (Astor), Edith (Cavell), Emmeline, Sylvia or Christobel (Pankhurst), Elizabeth. And yes I think you should definitely get Poppy in there as a middle name given your DD's birthdate! Congratulations xx

OwlDoll · 17/11/2018 17:23

Constance (Markievicz), the first woman elected to Westminster.

helpmum2003 · 17/11/2018 17:14

Emmeline NN Emmie would be fab it's 100 years since (some) women got vote. Love the Poppy idea as well and Charlotte.

gallicghoul · 17/11/2018 17:06

Emmeline is lovely.

There's also Maya, Eleanor, Katherine.