What is your absolute favourite girls name?

[wildpoppy]

We're still seeking inspiration. Can you give me your absolute favourite girls name - just one - never min whether it goes with siblings or surname or is too posh or dh doesn't like it. I'd just love to know everyone's favourite. Maybe we'll be inspired.

Tess, not Tessa, just Tess.

Lydia.

Have two boys (both with lovely names) and won't have any more DC, so I'll never use it. Better get a female cat!

Esme
Estelle
Emma

ALL vetoed by ex for dd. it's ok though I love her name.

Imogen
Rosa
Lydia
Erin
Elsie
Kitty
Jemima
Beatrice
Isobel

Elena (meaning light, from Greek or Italian)
Also my mum's name
Lucia (also meaning light)
Ella (my DD)
Sophia (her middle name)

Shona - LOVE but would prob never use
Thea - love, may use
Emily - love but friend had a cat we called Emily pin head so just cannot use!
Renae - love but think needs to go with more unsual surname than ours
Amy - current most-likely-to-use-if-we-have-a-DD name. Family connection, its poss bit 'safe'? but suits any age, easy to say/spell etc
Megan - really liking this lately

sorry, just one: would have to be Elena then

Emma

Clarissa

• alas, DH doesn't like it.

Georgia :)

Anya is my most fave.

I have 2 DS's and have never had to think seriously about girl's names!

Harriet

Sophia Grace

Bridget. I'm glad DC2 turned out to be a boy as we'd already used up my favourite girls name on DD

Maria/ Mary

Elizabeth

Nn

Liz
Lizzy
Eliza
Beth
Betty
Betsy
Libby
Liza
Lilibet
Queenie

And so many more

And it is ageless

No one ever looks at the name Elizabeth or hears of someone called Elizabeth and thinks "oh yes, child of the sixties/seventies/eighties" (that's why I hate my name - soon as you hear it you know how old I am to a couple of years)

how can you not love it?

Hannah

Yolanda

Madeleine, which DH vetoed as Madeleine McCann was still very much in the news.

It's changed over the years (as as child always wanted to call a daughter Nicola which I now don't particular like)
But over last few years, always rather liked the milder Puritan type names -
Faith
Hope
Grace

sophie /olivia

Violet - named dd this. Loved it.

Sprouts - that's my DD!

Ex-H wouldn't agree to use my favourite girls names for our DD unfortunately.

They are: Octavia (one of our chickens got this name)
Tess (this name went to the dog)
Tallulah, Tabitha and Anastasia

DD says why didn't we call her Phoebe, it is the most beautiful name in the world?

Frances or Hilary.