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UNUSUAL SOPHISTICATED GIRL NAMES PLEASE!!!

159 replies

heyyyyyyyy · 12/06/2020 20:04

Hello

I want RARE girl name (doesn't have to be trendy) that sounds or looks

  • sophisticated
  • educated
  • relatively strong
  • a bit literary maybe
  • beautiful (I mean the spelling)
  • it's OK if it's a bit hard to pronounce (and spell)

please give me some name suggestions!

Here are some of my favorites

  1. Joyzelle (JOY-zelle)
  2. Aoife (EE-fa)
  3. Leontyne/Leontine (lay-ON-teen)
  • I'll call her Leo as a nickname
4) Faustina (FAU-s-TINA)
  • nickname - Tina
5) Louella/Luella (loo-WELL-la) 6) Rosalind (ROSE-a-lind) 7) Rosamond/Rosamund (ROSE-a-mond) 8) Amaryllis (am-muh-REEL-lis) 9) Cassiopeia (kass-ee-OH-pi-ah)
  • nickname Cassie
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BikeRunSki · 14/06/2020 00:13

Elise

bubbleup · 13/06/2020 23:47

You'd pronounce Rosalind, Rosamund? Really?

Bouncingbelle · 13/06/2020 23:41

Rosalind is lovely from your list (tho I would pronounce it Roz-amund)

Theodora (Thea or Dora as a nn)
Decima
Louise
Evangeline
Phaedra
Alkelda
Portia
Margot

Quackersandcheese3 · 13/06/2020 22:33

Asterope
Meredith
Celeste
Thea

Roseburn · 13/06/2020 22:17

I like Maryanne.

bubbleup · 13/06/2020 18:45

Catering? 😂

FizzyGreenWater · 13/06/2020 17:38

I quite like Catering

user1493494961 · 13/06/2020 17:31

Some dreadful suggestions.

Toddlerteaplease · 13/06/2020 17:30

Angharad. I've always loved that one.

monkeyonthetable · 13/06/2020 17:27

Zelda (Fitzgerald)
Cassandra (narrator of I Capture the Castle)
Rosamund
Isolde (Iz-oll-duh with almost no sound on the final syllable)
Viola
Portia
Vivianne
Cressida

waltzingparrot · 13/06/2020 17:18

Calissa
Bethia

bubbleup · 13/06/2020 17:16

Why is everyone suggesting Ottillie? The UK is literally teeming with them.

My suggestion: Santa

dobbyssoc · 13/06/2020 16:08

Adelaide
Arabella
Clara
Cora

PixieN · 13/06/2020 16:04

Morwenna
Anastasia
Estelle
Evangeline
Rosemary
Annalise

1forsorrow · 13/06/2020 16:02

I quite like Berengaria, wife of Richard I. Definitely unusual. I've never met one and never heard of another one.

AragornsManlyStubble · 13/06/2020 15:57

Taygete
Alcyone
Asterope
Electra
Maia
Merope
Celaeno

Taygete is my favourite.

Hesperatum · 13/06/2020 15:51

Nerissa

inappropriateraspberry · 13/06/2020 15:17

Also, Cassiopeia has the emphasis on the pi sound, not the oh. Cass-ee-oh-PEE-ah

TypicalMeBreakMyTypicalRules · 13/06/2020 13:02

Tulia

TypicalMeBreakMyTypicalRules · 13/06/2020 13:02

Paloma

mylittleavalon · 13/06/2020 11:16

I actually know of an Araminta!! She goes by Minty. Not my cup of tea but obviously someone else's!

turnthebiglightoff · 13/06/2020 11:13

Pandemia is looking good. Surely Araminta isn't a name? Some of these are just horrific. I stand by my plain names. Nowt wrong with molly or sarah.

Krazynights34 · 13/06/2020 07:50

Varya
Veronica
Rosemary
Francine
Dorabelle
Florence
Flora
Celestine
Antoinette
Ingrid
Aster
Aurora

ttigerlilly · 13/06/2020 07:40

Bathsheba just reminds me of the evil witch from The Conjuring!

Peachbubble · 13/06/2020 07:38

Vivica/Viveca