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"cool" girls names

162 replies

TedsaidFred · 31/01/2022 19:11

Subjective I know, but what girls names make you think, that's a cool name.

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elvis4nuts · 31/01/2022 20:47

@Rainallnight

I really wanted Hero for my but husband was having absolutely none of it 🤦🏼‍♀️

Pixilicious · 31/01/2022 20:43

Ariana
Nova

Notbluepeter · 31/01/2022 20:35

Sloane (Ferris bueller's day off)

Hightemp · 31/01/2022 20:33

@Hopepark

Suki
Definitely another really cool name …really like it .
Hightemp · 31/01/2022 20:32

@Blubells

Olive 🫒 is not cool...!
It really is ! What you actually mean is that you personally don’t like the name !
Rainallnight · 31/01/2022 20:29

Hero

TopsieGreenwood · 31/01/2022 20:28

Jean, Joan, Marianne, Marion, Marian, Mary, Daphne

Toomuch2do · 31/01/2022 20:26

Viva
Astrid
Thea

tomyeggs · 31/01/2022 20:23

The 'cool' names are the ones picked by people often (unknowingly) influenced by trends on Instagram etc. Margot, Ottilie, Ivy, Freya, Mabel etc all spring to mind.

They are also the names that will be the future Barbaras- names that spiked in popularity out of nowhere then become deeply dated and unfashionable again.

The darker greener website is a good indication of which names it will happen to - any huge spikes mean they're currently 'cool' but will be deeply uncool within a generation's time.

Hopepark · 31/01/2022 20:23

Suki

Cotswoldmama · 31/01/2022 20:20

I don't think there are cool names. It's the person who then makes the name cool by association.

funnyasduck · 31/01/2022 20:14

Roxy
Jude

itssquidstella · 31/01/2022 20:12

I think Audrey is becoming cool. When I was at school it was a mega old lady name, though. As a pp said, these things go in cycles so 'cool' now won't be cool in ten or twenty years!

mistermagpie · 31/01/2022 20:11

I think it's subjective. My daughter is Iris and people have told me that's cool but others say it's 'old ladyish'.

Personally I think the very coolest name of someone I know is a woman called Stevie. No short for anything. I wish I was called that or Billie or something quite androgynous.

My son goes to school with a girl called Rebel and he thinks that's a very cool name!

WitchWithoutChips · 31/01/2022 20:05

Martha
Saskia
Sasha
Kasia
Juno

Fridafever · 31/01/2022 20:04

The coolest woman I’ve ever met is called Cordelia

toadstool389 · 31/01/2022 20:02

billie
frankie
indie

2orangey · 31/01/2022 19:40

I think tomboy or androgynous names sound cool
Drew
Billie
Blake
Dylan
Harper
Kai
Morgan
Reagan
Rory
Shane
Stevie

HoliHormonalTigerlilly · 31/01/2022 19:38

Violet
Olive
Sylvie
India
Paloma

PinkSyCo · 31/01/2022 19:35

Bertha.
Gertrude.
Edna.
Sharon.

Comedycook · 31/01/2022 19:32

Saskia

BasiliskStare · 31/01/2022 19:32

@hamsterchump - Actually I am sort of with you there - Jane is so classic and so underused

BasiliskStare · 31/01/2022 19:30

Well I think Anna , Margot ( i know popular), Celia or I have to say Vivienne (though had not thought of it before. ) I might say Elizabeth - as so many shortenings . Oh hang on Veronica - ha ha

ChocolateMassacre · 31/01/2022 19:27

Quinn
Lyra
Artemis
Nora

hamsterchump · 31/01/2022 19:26

I always think very plain names are quite cool and not at all try hard so Jane for example. But no name can make you cooler than you are.