“Strong”/ unisex girls names

Stick with Alexandra

It is badass

Or

Regina (Reggie)
Henrietta (Het)

Jocelyn

Rosalind is a nice comnbination of femininity and strength imo.

Miranda ditto.

Maybe also Cassandra (cd shorten to Cass)

Do you mean unisex Like Aubrey or just not pretty girly type names?
I think these are strong girl names;
Victoria
Elizabeth
Harriet
Greta
Margot
Florence
Julia
Charlotte
Catherine
Frida
Dorothea
Phillips
Erika
Vivienne

Octavia
Cameron

Brodie
Hayden
Quinn
Jordan
Blake
Drew
Jules
Dallas
Morgan
Jesse/Jessie
Gabby
Dakota
Sidney
Georgie
Madison
Kit
Harley
Maxi
Freddy
Devon
Andie
Harriet (Harry)
Henrietta (Henri)

Robyn/Robin
Frankie
Cidonie/Cid
Jaime

All ones that I like

I know female Dylan and Blakes. I agree all the -ie girls names are very girly and, in my observations, can become a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. Certainly if I think of all the girls at my son's school who are particularly girly and don't want to join in with football and video games and Physics, they are generally named like this. Sorry if that offends anyone but it is a reasonable generalisation where I live. The ones that are more gender robust shall we say are called things like Eleanor, Anna, Amanda, Claudia and yes a Juliet. I think Juliet very much fits the criteria of being a strong woman's name without having to go down the unisex routes and being accused of giving them a boy's name.

Pip
Billie
Darrell

As an Alexandra I wholeheartedly agree

Rae

Cyd

Instead of trying to portray ‘strength’ by giving her a name which (in the UK at least) will be assumed to be a boy’s name, why not get some inspiration from strong women, e.g.:
Rosa (Parks)
Ada (Lovelace)
Greta (Thunberg)
Harriet (Tubman)
Amelia (Earhart)
Serena (Williams)
Eleanor (of Aquitaine)
Amy (Johnson)
Elizabeth (Fry - or Elizabeth I!)
Emma (González)

I like girIs' names that are not derived from a boys' name - for example: Anne/Anna, Astrid, Bonnie, Eilidh, Eleanor/Elinor, Elizabeth, Genevieve, Ginevra, Grace, Grainne, Imogen, Ingrid, Isabella, Lily, Margaret, Mary, Penelope, Rachel, Rebecca/Rebekah, Rose, Sarah, Sigrid, Sophie, Susannah, Veronica, Virginia, Winifred, Zoe.

Some others that can work easily for a boy or a girl:
Ash
Aspen
Blair
Blake
Blyth(e)
Frances/Francis > and nicknames like Frankie
Greer
Hilary
Kit (short for any Cat-/Kat- name, or Christopher/Christian)
Lee/Leigh
Lesley/Leslie
Linden
Lindsay
Morgan
Nico/Nicky (short for Nicole, Nicola, Nicholas)
Rowan
Sage
Sasha
Teagan

[I]n the UK we are more “conventional” with names. Depends what you mean by conventional. Last year in Scotland, the name Evie was more popular than Eva, Eve, and Evelyn combined. Who on earth gives their child the legal name "Evie"? Or Rosie, Annie, Alfie, Archie, etc.? British people, not (primarily) Americans.

Dale

Kim
Kip
Pip
Merle
Joss

As a girl with a traditionally boys name I urge you to think of her having to spend the next however many yrs: being called the wrong name, teased at school, have people check “are you sure” and ask what it’s short for etc.....

Jessie 😬

Dylan doesn’t work for a girl because the pronunciation makes it unfortunate- dull Ann.

I absolutely love Dylan for a girl.

Other than that you could try:
Piper
Juno
Billie
Margot
Rosa
Anna.

Do you see names ending in A -typical Latinate ending - as girly/frilly? That would rule out a lot. Do you see names ending inE - typical French ending - as girly/frilly? That also rules out a lot. Names that are diminutives? Like Alison or Juliet? That rules out more. All flower names? All virtue names? Virtues tend to be personified as female. Do you want to rule out all names that are a female equivalent of a male name? Julia? Alexandra? I’d be looking back to Anglo Saxon names. Edith. Ethel.

What about Pascale? Do you like it?

Theo is a boy’s name. Thea for a girl.

This is standard but not universal

Theodosia Burr Alston – of “Dear Theodosia” fame from the musical Hamilton – answered to Theo.

OP I think it's perhaps a little bit more than a matter of simply being conventional/unconventional. What Frogs says is very true, but also:

Many names have long histories, some going back for thousands of years, and this gives them an identity that is normally perceived as either typically female or male. Yes, you can go against this, but why would you? What message are you sending? (There are several possible answers to that. One of them has traditionally been to do with inheritance - "give the child my name and I'll leave my money to him/her "- or to stop a family name dying out, but another of them is - alas - that you consider boys' names 'better' than girls'.)

Many names also have meanings that are still readily understood by people speaking the relevant languages today. For example, Beau means 'handsome male'. Blair means 'field' or 'meadow' - and it's also become a surname. That's what comes into their mind when they hear those words, not a baby girl. Yes, of course they will soon understand that it's also your baby's name, but (again), why would you do this? What message are you trying to send?

Other names are linked with male or female characters from myths and legends or famous characters from the past. Dylan, for instance, refers to a male mythological water spirit and/or a great poet. People who know about these things will first think of the male in the story or from history when the hear the name, rather than a baby girl. Will that always be to her advantage? Of course, if you're a passionate fan of the poet, then you could use that as an explanation, I suppose...

Please excuse me. I really don't mean to be critical. Your baby = your choice.

@PlantPotting DD was very nearly a Rowan but we decided against for this very reason. Still love it though and it’s now her middle name - rowans are my favourite trees.

I think basically it’s all very subjective and down to personal taste and associations with particular names. I think some of the names we liked (e.g. Rosa) we saw as ‘strong’ because we linked them to particular people (Rosa Parks) rather than because they had a specific sound.

That said, I definitely shy away from both very long names with lots of vowels and short, cutesy, nicknamey names, both of which have been very popular in the U.K. lately. I’m a teacher and all the Millies/Tillies/Lilys/Ellies/Maisies started to blur into each other after a while!