Which girls names do you love that are outside the top 100?

[DessieLou]

A couple of the names on our shortlist turned out to be in the top 10 and although we like them we have not found one we love yet. We seem to be going round in circles and most names are boring me now so we need some different suggestions. Help!

Desiree and Irene. I dont even think Desiree is even in the ranking's it means 'much desired'

Nancy

Faryn
Lucritia
Ashling
Marin
Marnie
Ivy (this may be becoming more popular though)
Bracken
Faine
Yvaine
Aveline

Always loved-

Scarlett (soooo annoyed it's now got so popular!!)
Sadie
Rachel
Esme

What names were you thinking of? Give us some idea of your taste. Moon Unit might be your idea of a perfect childs name!

Francesca, Aislin, and Alexandra.....also Daisy

Daphne

doggus, I like Daphne too!

I also like Hariven, Klothilda and Heiderose.

Ayla, Araminta, Astrid, Avery, Addison, Anoushka, Adrielle, Arabella, Aria, Autumn, Alexis, Bailey, Briley, Bryony, Bronwen, Cerys, Cassidy, Cecilia, Cara, Delaney, Enya, Eden, Ebony, Eriskay, Eilidh, Felicity, Francesca, Farrah, Giovanna, Giselle, Genesis, Georgina, Hayley, Hallie, Iris, Ingrid, Juliette, Julianna, Kaylie, Katherine, Lara, Layla, Miranda, Mila, Makenna, Natasha, Natalie, Naomi, Ophelia, Octavia, Rhiannon, Robyn, Savannah, Sadie, Sorcha, Tegan, Taylor, Thea, Verity, Vanessa, Xanthe, Xaria, Yvette, Zia, Zillah

Ottilie, Esmeralda, Ursula, Juliet, Zelda, Lieselotte

Well Mothership , Moonunit has not made it to the shortlist. Neither has Leaf (I know a boy called this ) or River. We also don't like cutesy names like Maisie/Daisy/Millie etc. We're looking for something that would suit a wee one and an adult (Holly was vetoed for this reason). We also want something that is pretty but not sickly.....am I making any sense?!
Unfortunately OH and I have very different taste but one's we both quite like are Emily, Emilia, Felicity, Leila. OH has vetoed so many as he has quite boring traditional taste ( Ariella, Persephone, Harper-damn the Beckhams!).
I like a few of manics suggestions including Iris which I'm pretty sure has already been vetoed by himself but I will suggest again as he tends to come out with suggestions he previously said no to! Also loving Ayla but I've a feeling he'll say no.
Are we just overthinking and being unrealistic about finding the 'one'? We love our boys name so much and really want to feel the same about our daughter's name.

Marianne
Shirley
Nancy
Felicity
Sally
Karen

Nell

Eden

Elsa

Saskia

Blaise

Hero

Honor

Marina

Natalia

Ida

am i on the right tracks? could i ask what your son's name is?

Pretty much all our list was outside top 100:
Antonia
Adelaide
Octavia
Astrid
Honoria
Solveig
Cosima
Leonie
Rosalie
Ariane
Alix
Garance
Celestine
Louise
Apolline
Sibyl
Zelie
Isolde

Also love Constance, Esther, Maxine, Lucile, Philippine, Domitille, Ines, Alexa, Hazel, Isaure, Valea and Zea.

Basking if bump was a boy he'd have been Reuben but midwife assures us it's a girl!
Some really good suggestions here, thank you all.
Currently considering Nyla and Madeleine...any thoughts?

I like Nyla, I've not heard it before - is it Arabic?

Personally, Madeleine is on the list of 'lovely names I could never use' because of Madeleine McCann: the name just makes me feel so sad as it's so tragic. But that is a personal opinion that I'm sure has been well debated on this board.

Well, I thought I'd made Nyla up but according to my trusty book it means 'winner' in Arabic and was the name of an ancient egyptian princess.
We have considered the Madeleine McCann issue but despite the tragic circumstances she was a beautiful little girl who deserves to be remembered, not a murderer....does that make sense? Not sure I explained that very well!

Sorry to hijack the thread but I think it's so sad that people are put off the name madeleine. It's like saying you shouldn't name your child freddie or rose because of the wests orben because there was boy kinapped years ago called ben etc. It's just nonsense. I am biased because madeleine is my name & I find it weird that someone would therefore associate me with a child kinapping that happened years ago. Anyway rant over!!

I obviously think madeleine is a great choice but how about
Florence
ida
ottillie
mabel
martha
Joni
Stephanie
Josephine
Joy
dorothy

Nancy

It's 6month old dd's name

I think you are right not to go for a cutesy name. When thinking up names for ours, I tried to picture an adult with a name and not a child. They will be lumped with whatever you pick for the rest of their lives. It wouldnt even cross my mind about Madeline McCann and you should go for it if you really like it. But longer names will probably be shortened and maybe you should think about how you feel about the nickname too. Do you like Maddie? (thats the most obvious). I have always loved eatmyveg's Nell and someone suggested Honor which I like. I think Isabella is very pretty but it would end up Bella. I had a friend when I was little called Shara (mix of Sara and Sharon) which was unusual. I met a gorgeous little girl called Alex and have since liked the name.

TBH not keen on Nyla. Emilia is pretty and Ayla too and not that unusual - think it is pronounced the same as the Scottish name Isla. Yes it is a shame about Harper! We both made quite comprehensive lists independently (using a good baby name book) and then made a list from names on both lists and talked them through. However, it sounds like you both have very different ideas for names and so this may not work! Some parents wait for the baby to be born so they can decide names that suit them but this isnt always a good idea as I know one couple who had a 4 week stand-off because they could/would not agree. Good luck and please let us know which one you go for

one last thought: mw may be wrong and you may end up with a Reuben (lovely name and nickname Roo is quite sweet too) anyway

Delilah. Love it.