Help Margot or Monroe or something else

Margot, definitely.

Popular names are popular because people like them. That being said I have 3 kids in primary school and haven't met any Margots so they aren't that common in my world!

Montpelier is an improvement.

Monroe was a victim of autocorrect to Montpelier!

Monroe is beautiful

Thoughts on your list;
Darcy - meh, my mind goes straight to mr darcy.
Ophelia (Fifi/Effie). ❤️
Winifred (Winnie)❤️

Stella - Artois lager. “Wife beater” as it’s nicknamed where I live.

Clementine (Clemmy) ❤️
Primrose (Prim) - nah, pretentious.

Celeste (Cece) - meh. cece is cute,
Penelope ❤️
Dolly - a dogs/ horse/ hamster name.

also Margot is a lovely name. Just because a name is in the top 10 or whatever doesn’t mean little one will have one in their class…Noah & Olivia were the most popular name in Scotland, I know one baby Noah and no Olivias.

Margot.
It's your favourite and you keep coming back to it.
Of your other names I like Stella. Has a similar feel/era to me. I don't necessarily think your child will be in a class with another. As a registrar I must have registered 100s of babies but even the top 10 names don't actually come up that often!

I love Penelope and would call her Nel as an alternative to Penny.

Cecelia is a great name and has the vibes you’re going for. I’ve only ever met one in real life.

Margot has 70’s vibes so how about names like Sylvia, Marion/Marianne, Frances/Francesca, Lynne/Lynette or Cynthia?

How about Juno?

I really like Monroe, I know a Monroe (girl) and always thought how cool the name is.

I actually like most of the names on your list but not the shortened versions that you have. Primrose is a lovely name but Prim is hideous. Clementine is a lovely name but Clemmy is awful. Ophelia is nice but not Fifi or Effie. Interesting that you didn’t mention Penny as an abbreviation for Penelope; that would be nice!

Margot is a bit twee for me, I do know a couple of boys called Munro but we are in Scotland, Monroe spelling is dire.

Monroe?? For a girl. Beyond dire. Margot is a very nice name.

Margot - trendy
Monroe - awful
Darcy - dated and downmarket
Ophelia (Fifi/Effie) - not keen, too tragic. Fifi and Effie are dogs' names
Winifred (Winnie) - like
Stella - like
Clementine (Clemmy) - don't like but it's ok
Primrose (Prim) - don't like but it's ok
Celeste (Cece) - Babar the Elephant's wife. Cece is dreadful
Penelope - fine
Dolly - like

Marlo is awful. I don't like Carys. Lilah is likely to be one of many Lila, Lilah, Lylas.

Margot is ok but I think v trendy. I think I prefer Montpellier but it does seem like a homage to Marilyn so if that’s not your vibe I wouldn’t go for it

I prefer Celeste, Penelope and Stella from your list.

Other ideas:

Serena
Lottie
Ianthe
Francine
Helena
Nora
Una
Romily

Winifred, Stella, Clementine and Celeste are my favourites and less likely to be numerous in a class. However probably also be the only Margot in class on average.

estelle
audrey
willa
mabel
eloise
giselle
cleo
juno
coralie
Esther
beatrix

Jeff Lewis, of the American tv show "Flipping Out", has a daughter named Monroe, together with his former partner Gage Edward.

Why don't you have Marilyn instead of Monroe?
Monroe also reminds me of the word mongol. Not nice at all.
There are lots of Margots atm.
Margaret?
Leoni
Lilah
Barbara
Cassandra
Verity
Augusta
Shona
Marjorie
Joy
Fay
Georgina
Yvette
Harriet
Dalenie
Xanthe
Lois
Rosemary
Angelica
Erica

Margot is a beautiful name, also love Clementine and Penelope, all strong names

Margot's very cute but there are a few around. Primrose also seems to be on the up. I liked Celeste (Cece) until someone pointed out it's a birth control pill 😂 There was a Celine at my DD's nursery which I thought was quite cute and could also be Cece.
I LOVE Penelope. A friend of a friend called her DD that ~10 years ago and since then I have always thought how lovely it is. I haven't heard of many others either!

I would have assumed Monroe was a boys name.

Margot is fine. From your list, I like Clementine and Primrose. Penelope is also gaining popularity.

Suggestions-
Maddison
Marnie
Meredith
Jasmine
Paige
Freya
Tansy
Mabel

I'd stick with Margot if it's the one you keep coming back to. The stats say that 1025 babies were named that in 2023, and there were 288,031 female babies born, so that is 0.36% of female births, or 3.6 girls in a thousand. So still fairly rare.

It is having a moment, and is one of the names discussed in the ONS report under popular culture, section 4.

You could consider Marlow / Marlowe / Marlo, which is much lower in the rankings. I love Winifred, which is about a tenth as popular as Margot (105 babies in 2023), but it's your child and it sounds like you love Margot.

Margot is lovely, I don’t think it’s overly popular.
Don’t like Monroe for a girl at all sorry

From your list I like
Ophelia
Clementine
Primrose (probably like this more than Margot actually)
But if you love Margot go for it, you can never predict what her classmates will be called

Monroe is awful but DD has a friend called Marilyn which is pretty unusual these days.

Margot is lovely. Monroe is a surname, so please don’t saddle a child with that for a first name.

As others have said, who cares if she’s got the same name as someone else? And for what it’s worth, I have the most common forename for a girl in England and Wales in the year that I was born. I grew up in a large English city and went to a four form entry primary school and then an eight form entry secondary. There were no girls with the same name as me in my primary year at all, and only two in my secondary (and I was never in a class with either of them). So popular doesn’t necessarily mean that they’ll ever even encounter someone else with their name throughout their whole school career.

We chose an unusual name (DH and I are from different countries so chose a name that reflected the other culture to the one we live in). Had never met a child with the same name in this country.
Lo and behold, my daughter went to school, had another girl in the same class with the same name, and became best friends with her 💁💁. It's fine! I really wouldn't let that possibility turn you off from a name you love.
(I like Margot by the way).

Monroe reminds me of the Jack who in my opinion, has written cookery books but can't actually cook anything decent and who has an unpleasant online presence against anyone who might disagree with them. Or the Munro mountain range. So not the best associations for a baby, for me personally.

Given the list of names you like, how about Carys? It means loved and could be shortened to Carrie.

A lot depends on your family name and how names flow together.

I love Margot too but yes there are loads of them

Monroe reads like a Marilyn homage which is weird. I spose you could spell it Monro if you like hillwalking, but even in Scotland it’s more of a middle name.

How about Clio, Marianne, Meredith (Merry)?

Darcy - it’s the Tracy of the 2020s
Ophelia (Fifi/Effie) - too tragic. Octavia?
Winifred (Winnie) - ok, bit twee
Stella - I like it
Clementine (Clemmy) - same as Winifred
Primrose (Prim) - ghastly. Why would you want your daughter to be prim?
Celeste (Cece) - it’s ok but it’s a birth control pill. How about Cecile/Cecily/Celia/Cecilia which also give you Cece
Penelope - I don’t like penny which feels a bit inevitable. Felicity?