Strong historical female names

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DD is named after an inspirational woman from history.

We're thinking of names at the moment, and were trying to come up with similar strong female names with a historical focus (while staying away from names that are too common)

We're also trying to stay away from names beginning with G, J or A. Or ending in A (just to be difficult)

Any ideas?

esther old testament name stood up to the king ,her husband at considerable risk to her own life in order to save her own people

deborah a judge in the old testament who served israel when no men were willing to lead

Astrid
Beatrix
Caroline
Charlotte
Dorothy
Eleanor
Florence
Hero (if you can abide the MykleeneAss associations)
Mary

Clytemnestra?

Salome Alexandra, Queen. Completely turned over the religious systems than her husband had put into place, strengthened her boarders, and was in general a well loved and respected ruler (named my daughter Alexandra Salome after her - my MIL threatened to call her Sally).

Mirabel(la) [depending on the writer], was an independent business woman money lender to King Richard. Also Eva Mirabel, one of the Navajo translators during WW2.

Irena (Sendler). Saved 2500 children by smuggling them outside of the Warsaw ghettos at great risk to her own life.

Zofia (Kossak-Szczucka) Founder of Zegota, writer, protester, and resistance fighter.

Joan ( of arc)

Victoria love this name not so popular now.

Oh, good topic.

Rosalind (Franklin, after the biophysicist)
Eleanor (of Aquitaine, or Roosevelt)
Lilian (Baylis)

arabella arabella churchill grandaughter of winston and cofounder of the glastonbury festival
or arabella mansfield first female lawyer in the us in 1869 she was also active in the woman's suffrage movement

weakhorse- the OP wanted to avoid names beginning with A, and names ending with A... sorry

chateaurouge i'm not alone in offering a names beginning with or ending in A . interstingly i think you actually offered Astrid .the op only stated she was trying to avoid A names not that they were a definite no.

while they may not be suitable for the op other people reading this post might find them useful .

apologies op if i misread your post , i was concentrating more on strong female characters than the names themselves .

I know you said no "A" endings, but you just can't have a strong historical female names thread without a mention for Hypatia of Alexandria....

Aphra (Benn)
Clementina (Black)
Mary (Wollstonecroft)
Sojourner (Truth)
Abigail (Adams - 18th century feminist thinker)
Alice (Paul - suffragette)

Odette. After Odette Sansom hallowes

here

Florence?

Evangeline (Cory Booth)? First female general of the Salvation Army.

(admittedly a little obscure, and most likely people will annoy you by asking if she's named after that actress from Lost).

cornelia (corrie) ten boom

names not ending in a are hard to find
how about
octavie as a nod to octavia hill the social reformer

I'm really loving this thread! Some great names - and we've had some great fun reading up on some of the people who I didn't quite recognise.

Top of the list so far are Charlotte and Celine (the Celine is coming from Odette Hallows, whose middle name was Celine - and has the kind of historical story that appeals to the military history nerd in both DH & I!)

Ending in 'a' isn't such a bad thing - but as DDs begins and ends with A, we're just trying to avoid having too similar names....

Thanks again everyone! Looking forward to seeing if there are any more suggestions.

May I submit DD1's name?

Lilith

I know a lot of people associate Lilith with a demon/succubus but in Jewish mythology she was the first female, and the first feminist too as she refused to submit to Adam (who she was created from the dust with as an equal) so was cast out of Eden with her children. She was one of the Suffragettes 'mascots' and is the name of a feminist festival in the US (Lilith Fair).

Personally I like Emmeline, you could shorten to Emma if you wished.

www.handbag.com/celebrity/events/movies/inspiring-women-through-history-67004

Love Coco,

Have a look at www.biographyonline.net/people/women-who-changed-world.html

Harriet, as in Harriet Beecher Stowe, the little woman who started the great war?
Gertrude, as in Gertrude Stein?
Marlene, as in Marlene Dietrich?

Some Irish names

Maud (gonne)
Grace (o'malley)
Constance (markeviez)
Sarah (curran)

Rosa (Parks)?

Zoe - after some v. ancient Zoes (greek name meaning "life")

Zoe of Rome (died ca. 286) martyred saint
Zoe Karbonopsina (died ca. 920), Byzantine empress
Zoe Porphyrogenita (ca. 978 ? 1050), Byzantine empress
Zoe Palaiologina (ca. 1455 - 1503), wife of Tsar Ivan III of Russia

Don't know much about their characters, although I'd imagine the saint was of good virtue!!

Love all the biblical O.T. names: Ruth, Leah, Naomi etc.