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Help, I can't find a single girls name I like

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Wanderer1 · 01/05/2020 11:21

I'm 30 weeks with first, don't know what we are having but I've been convinced it's a boy. Because if that I've put little effort into thinking about girls names until now. And I can't find any I like, or any we both like.

I'd love some suggestions - I'll post my criteria

I would like something a bit rarer but not made up. I have ruled out pretty much every name in top 100. Don't like names that are too "girly".

I loved Ivy but it's become very popular.

I like Isabelle as I had a lovely book about an Isabelle when I was little but we've an Annabelle in the family.

We like Aurelia but my OH worries it's too unusual in the uk (we have a German friend of that name)

I like Raven but OH vetoed as too out there/ 'hippy'

I quite like names to have a unisex nick name but not a must.

Can I please have some suggestions? Anything, hit me with them! TIA

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Ricekrispie22 · 01/05/2020 11:57

Alexis
Sasha
Theodora
Allegra
Juliet
Meredith

Wanderer1 · 01/05/2020 11:57

Some great suggestions thanks all!

Boys name is Atli/Atley (not decided on spelling yet) Atli is Icelandic and Atley is the English version.

We've considered Teal too for a girl

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 01/05/2020 11:56

Cora. Faye. Nia. Ferne. Lydia. Angel. Cassie. Eden. Greer. Coral. Georganne.
Jodanne. Roxanna. Raina. Delia Mallory. Faraday. Vivienne. Clea. Hailey. Indiana Bronte. Sybil. Brooke. Iona.

Ricekrispie22 · 01/05/2020 11:55

Saffron
Robyn
Heather
Hazel
Fern
Cecily
Sydney
Lois

Warmhandscoldheart · 01/05/2020 11:49

What are your boy choices? Have you tried the feminine version of them?
Harriet
Jamesina
Adriana
Leigh
Jo
Alexis or Alex

Whatsyourflava · 01/05/2020 11:48

What's your boy name out of interest.

Other girl name ideas (mostly well outside the top 100 as requested):

Greta
Martha
Willa
Sadie
Edith /Edie
Margaret /Maggie
Clementine/Clemmie
Pearl
Delilah
Roxanne/Roxanna/Roseanne
Ottilie /Ottie
Cora
Liberty
Jemima
Cleo
Mabel
Peggy
Margot
Wren

Whatsyourflava · 01/05/2020 11:47

Aurelia really isn't that unusual in the Uk. No one would bat an eyelid. There's lots of toddlers called Fox Winter Autumn - all sorts. Aurelia is totally pedestrian and a lovely name

How about Aurora or Aria or Amara?

GorillaManilla · 01/05/2020 11:46

Aurelia is lovely. Alina? Cornelia?

Standrewsschool · 01/05/2020 11:44

Dawn
Rowena
Lucy
Marianne
Monica
Octavia
Corinne
Myrtle
Blythe
Marcella
Brooke
Lucinda
Noelle

Vanadis · 01/05/2020 11:44

Matilda? nn could be Mattie or Tilda
Imogen
Andi
Harriet nn could be Harri

MikeUniformMike · 01/05/2020 11:43

Ivy- not keen, popular, a bit samey with all the Evies, Evas, Avas...

Isabelle and Annabelle aren't all that similar. Izzy and Annie.

Aurelia - very popular on here. Too Disney and too similar to Amelia for me.

Raven - I like it. How about Linnet?

Sillybillypoopoomummy · 01/05/2020 11:39

Phoebe
Scout
Wren
Manon
Petra
Artemis

MikeUniformMike · 01/05/2020 11:38

Inge
Ingrid
Astrid
Polly
Samantha
Regan
Lowenna
Rowella
Cordelia
Tamsin
Zena

MikeUniformMike · 01/05/2020 11:35

Halcyon nn Hal/Hallie

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