Feminine, unusual, ethereal girl's names- any ideas?

[sleepyhead3]

I would like some ideas for girl's names that are not too commonly used, feminine but not feminissima if that makes sense!

Am looking for something light and slightly exotic sounding.

I have a few ideas so far:

Adela
Jessamine
Marguerite
Juniper
Vivienne
Marina
Camilla

Any opinions or other ideas??

frogs- I haven't read Cold Comfort Farm. Can you explain please?

Searches thread for Sleepyhead wanting to name child Seth or Ada Doom.

mines a meadow.

What about

Freya
Faye
Fearne

You can tell I'm all about the Faeries

I googled Cold Comfort Farm :)

I do like Juniper.

Re Cold Comfort Farm -- the message is that etherealness ends in tears, and robust common sense wins the day. It's a lovely book, everyone should have read it.

The girl in question is called Elfine, iirc.

Just watch out for the sukebind.

My daughter's called Carissa.We have only met one Carissa in 6 years[but i am not sure how ethereal a name it is!]

Vivienne is beautiful and timeless. Adela I think may sadly get Ella as a nick name and Ella is v. popular. Vivienne has a certain charm to it and is very elegant(IMO).

Melusine

it's the name of a beautiful water witch IIRC

can't get more feyly feminie and eldritch than that!

frogs- will have to look it up!

Hopefully, you can have a feminine name and common sense too!

I love Seraphina and Alyssia.

Why ethereal, OP? Just curious... I can think of a lot of things I hope dd will be, but that ain't one of 'em (and rofl at the memory of reading Cold Comfort Farm).

Serina/Serena?

I really like Jessamine, Vivienne and Adela.

Another suggestions: Ariana.

Selena is nice.
Honeysuckle
Artemis
Linnet
Lark

dorothea- I'm not sure I hope a DD would be ethereal herself- I just like feminine, slightly delicate names.

Some of the suggestions eg Seraphina are much too girly and airy fairy for me though!

Alithea
Persephone
Hero
Antigone
Beatrice
Kerenza
Demelza

Laurel
Daphne
Hazel
Elsa
Astrid
Aurelia
Sylvia or Sylvie
Cynthia
Aphra
Giselle
Eilidh
Marsaili
Aveline
Avery
Helena
Leonora
Athena
Charis

Chantal
Pearl
Calista

Aeriel

I absolutely LOVE Jessamine from your list.

It's really unusual but so pretty. Jess or Jessie is stronger yet still feminine if she prefers when growing up. It's also a good alternative to Jasmine which is lovely but becoming more popular these days, or Jessica, which is also very nice but probably over-done at the moment.

So Jessamine would be at the top of list, then Camilla, (I also love Cam as a nn). Adela, then Vivienne next but although stylish and pretty I wouldn't say Vivienne is that light and Viv is not as feminine as Jess, Cam or Delle as a nn. I would say no to Marguerite, Marinan and Definitely No to Juniper!

Seraphina
Ophelia
Delphine

Celeste
Marianne
Estelle
Serena
Georgiana
Viola
Anneliese
Miriam
Sylvia
Rowena
Anastasia
Cara
Larissa
Penelope
Clementine
Amanda
Alexandria
Leonie

bellepink- your post made me laugh! Maybe Juniper is a bit daft!

I can see what you are saying about Vivienne actually. Perhaps it is the spelling (enne) that makes it look so feminine but actually it is a strong sounding name.

Thank you so much to everyone for their fantastic suggestions!!