'Masculine' sounding girls names.

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I cannot abide overly twee girls names, and am hoping to find something that sounds 'masculine' and almost surnamey.

At the moment I like-
Sloane
Tate
Blair
Peyton
Quinn
Whittier

Any other suggestions? Ideally they'd go with classical, albeit more feminine name like Charlotte, Alice, Jane...

How about Mallory?

Another vote for Scout! Lovely girls name

Taylor?

I know a girl Kendall. Not my cup of tea but quite unisex.

Darrell - per Mallory Towers.

I think you're thinking of 'aviary'.

Yes i know the spelling, but sounds the same. Thanks

Spencer? Eden?

I love Parker for a girl. Very rare in this country (less than five so called in the last five years) but quite popular in the US I think. I'm not brave enough to use it though.

I think it makes perfect sense - if you've got a frilly surname, then a 'strong' sounding first name balances it out. Its not like calling a girl Benjamin or something, is it!

I like:
Morgan
Rowan
Kim
Robyn
Ashley

And of course all the traditional girls names that shorten to more unisex nicknames:

Samantha - Sam
Joanne/Josephine - Jo
Charlotte - Charlie
Frances - Fran or Frankie

Riley
Billie
Rae
Terrie

We took the cover-all-bases approach of a long first name that has both frilly and short nicknames; dd currently uses a more 'girly' version, but if she wants to change it when she grows up (or - to quote endless MNers - if she feels the urge to become a High Court judge) she can use a shorter less girly nickname.

Robyn

Brogan?

DD1 (who is 13) has a friend called Peyton. She hated it so much that she has changed her name to something quite frilly. And Mackenzie has also asked to be called by her middle name.

Robyn or Erica?

Alex, jude, Robyn

Teddy?

I love frankie for a girl

What about Stevie?

Lesley

Why don't you just go with a traditional unisex name like Frances or Lesley???

And give them a more girlie middle name to give them the option...:

A lot of these suggestions sound very American influenced and don't really translate to the UK IMO

I don't think sounding American is a bad thing tbh, if everyone was only ever to use names that were traditionally English there would be very few to go around. I would much prefer one of these names to the likes of Lilly/flora/clementine! (no offense to those that have kids called this, it's just not my taste!) I have a unisex name and it's never bothered me one bit! A lad with the same name came into our group of friends and everyone chucked Fred on the start of his name to tell us apart.

You could use Sam. I see that Charlie sheen's daughter is called that. Not short for Samantha. Maybe the Charlie sheen bit isn't that great a recommendation!

How about Juno?

What about Kindra / Kendra?