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Tell me a girls name I have never heard before!!!!!

288 replies

Hyperhelpmum · 28/06/2013 23:24

Thats it really! If she was a boy I would have called her Claude/ Casper/ Orlando. All girls names I like are friends daughters so need some I have not heard of!!

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RedlipsAndSlippers · 29/06/2013 18:13

Tagan
Cerys
Amelia
Roo

Oubliette0292 · 29/06/2013 18:14

Juniper, Cleona, Hebe, Ingebourg, Shelby, Takako (and I think Claude can be used as both a boys name and a girls name)

PipkinsPal · 29/06/2013 18:19

Maybelle
Demelza

ShowOfHands · 29/06/2013 18:21

Aphra
Jessamy
Mirabel
Romilly
Willow
Seraphina
Clara
Ines
Artemis

You'll have heard of them all but just thought I'd suggest them as you have similar taste to me (considered Orlando and Caspar for ds and Willa for dd) so thought I'd just tell you some of my favourite names.

LineRunner · 29/06/2013 18:23

Loskel
Sebren
Frokille
Dantilly

LineRunner · 29/06/2013 18:24

Or you just call her Claudie.

BeQuicksieorBeDead · 29/06/2013 18:27

Tanith and Linnet, pronounced Lynn-et. Love both of these names as they come from favourite books.

RedundantExpat · 29/06/2013 18:28

Heghine

RedundantExpat · 29/06/2013 18:32

pronounced Hay-ghee-nay with emphasis on last syllable

Isatdownandwept · 29/06/2013 18:37

Antigone. Tiggy or tigger for short.

Mamafratelli · 29/06/2013 18:37

Phine short for Josephine pronounced fina

MrsEricBana · 29/06/2013 18:37

Name in our family but never met another one is Kindrie (shortened to Kinny). I also love Celeste.

Mamafratelli · 29/06/2013 18:37

Hattie

DiamondDoris · 29/06/2013 18:38

Edurne, Nakane, Yosune, Oihana, Olatz, Nerea... pronounced phonetically, Basque girls' names.

SoulTrain · 29/06/2013 18:39

Sabine

SummerMyArse · 29/06/2013 18:40

I know an Apolline, Petronille, Aline, Ly-Lan...

Zynia41 · 29/06/2013 18:40

Fraoch (irish for heather and pronounced FRAYoch)
Siún (short for Siobhan pronounced shoon)

PicardyThird · 29/06/2013 18:41

Some German ones (or at least ones I have heard of in Germany):

Maren (long 'a')
Wiebke (veeb-ka)
Enie (eh-nee-a)
Hermine (German form of Hermione)
Katinka
Madita (think this is from an Astrid Lindgren book)

PicardyThird · 29/06/2013 18:42

Oh, the db of a friend of mine had a Minna recently. V pretty.

apatchylass · 29/06/2013 18:43

Ghislaine

Eulalia

Laetitia

Btw - what's wrong with Claude for a girl? It's a great girl's name. V chic.

hawkmcqueen · 29/06/2013 18:44

Angharad - knew one can't remember origin
Zaria - I was really surprised to see this mentioned already! I just came across it the other day and thought it was fab, means sunrise I think

GiraffesAndButterflies · 29/06/2013 18:45

Gavenna. I believe it's Spanish.

yegodsandlittlefishes · 29/06/2013 18:50

Emmerdale
Lucifia
Zera
Normatrice
Isambara
Claudzilla

MrsSchadenfreude · 29/06/2013 18:50

Roswitha. Pronounced Rosveeta. Vetoed by DH.

Donki · 29/06/2013 18:59

Heulwyn
Ibtissam
Zayna