Useable girls names outside the top 1000

[BananaHammocks]

I kept going through the ONS list and getting bored a few hundred into it so I decided to start at 1000 and make a list of real names. I've left out nicknames, misspellings, very foreign names and names that, to me, seem a bit made up.

I'm not looking for a critique on the list, I'm sure I've added some that you wouldn't, not added some that you would have and missed some. I just thought it would be useful for people looking for something really rare and also show people that you can pick a very, very underused name and it can still be perfectly straightforward to spell/pronounce.

They are in popularity order.

Alexandria
Christine
Marianne
Rosalind
Adela
Janelle
Georgiana
Lucinda
Cordelia
Davina
Jocelyn
Mara
Seraphina
Una
Cassandra
Isadora
Jane
Mariella
Nadine
Whitney
Barbara
Brogan
Susan
Valerie
Joyce
Kirsten
Octavia
Ramona
Winifred
Caroline
Celia
Linda
Petra
Roberta
Simone
Tina
Cadence
Frida
Julie
Nuala
Bridie
Brodie
Carolina
Catalina
Celine
Deanna
Dora
Hester
Monica
Paloma
Siobhan
Susannah
Carrie
Clarissa
Ingrid
Lilith
Marcelina
Persephone
Adelina
Alessandra
Bronwyn/Bronwen
Elowen
Gianna
Juliana
Miranda
Cynthia
Ursula
Viola
Luella
Manon
Ariadne
Elektra
Melina
Rochelle
Aliona
Dahlia
Elaine
Elora
Monique
Pia
Rosina
Eileen
Eunice
Lucille
Marla
Priscilla
Sabina
Alethea
Danica
Eliska
Felicia
Adeline
Blythe
Clemency
Delphine
Denise
Kristen
Patience
Willa
Bethel
Candice
Christabel
Christiana
Coralie
Dorathea
Elsbeth
Gwendolyn
Indira
Janice
Judith
Laurel
Maxine
Pandora
Raffaella
Wendy
Artemis
Charlene
Cornelia
Esmeralda
Evangelina
Giovanna
Leonora
Mona
Olympia
Shona
Zena
Bernadette
Clodagh
Colette
Darla
Irene
Jacqueline
Jean
Judy
Araminta
Avril
Carmel
Emmanuela
Janet
Marlena
Olga
Cheryl
Dolores
Enid
Ilona
Kerry
Marcia
Renata
Roseanne
Virginia
Yvonne
Atlanta
Bernice
Corinne
Hebe
Opal
Pamela
Philomena
Flavia
Loretta
Mirabel
Shirley
Alberta
Carmella
Cressida
Desiree
Diane
Imelda
Joan
Rosamund
Trudy
Cosima
Dominique
Ethel
Eugenie
Isolde
Lorraine
Margarita
Morgana
Noelle
Pauline
Thora
Belinda
Beulah
Brenda
Callista
Christy
Coraline
Eugenia
Geraldine
Justine
Minerva
Portia
Rhoda
Rhona
Violetta
Wilhelmina
Angelique
Annette
Blaise
Carlotta
Dawn
Edwina
Gretel
Zinnia
June
Marguerite
Maud/Maude
Maureen
Myrtle
Odette
Phaedra
Sheila
Sybil
Beverley
Bronagh
Edna
Linnea
Marcella
Marlene
Perdita
Rowena
Thomasina
Anthea
Benedicta
Carol
Doris
Eartha
Elvira
Glenda
Golda
Hilary
Hilda
Jacinta
Julietta
Magda
Mildred
Morwenna
Posy
Rosetta
Thelma
Therese
Antigone
Apolline
Augusta
Cassiopeia
Delphina
Demelza
Donatella
Elfreda
Euphemia
Fernanda
Gretchen
Loveday
Mavis
Mireille
Nerissa
Nicolette
Phyllis

I like

Octavia - totally ruined by Skoda though!
Eugenia - NN Genie! Cute!
Seraphina
Bronwen
Willa
Coralie
Raffaella
Cosima
Thora
Zinnia
Antigone - Tiggy!
Elfreda - Elfie/Freda
Fernada - Fern
Nerissa

My currrent two faves are in the top 500 though, probably unusual enough for me!

Anything you like?

Awwww one of those names is mine

Kind of makes me want another baby.

NOOOOOO

This is really interesting. I too want a list for boys! OP, where did you find the list? I can only find one that goes up to the top 1000.

My name is on this list :). I don't mind popular names and DD1's is way up the top of the charts. Our current favourite for DD2 is rising in popularity and I still love it. This list has given me food for thought though - thank you OP!

Got them from the ONS lists, there's an excel spreadsheet where you need to click on the 6th tab to get the list of ALL the names in popularity order (down to names given to 3 or more babies).

www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-318071

Might do boys at the weekend if I can be bothered! I know I'm having a girl now so boys names are not of as much interest! For future reference though maybe!

I wonder how much influence the ONS list itself has on baby name popularity? I know quite a few people who used the top 100 list and a few who used the full list (incl me) to make baby name choices. an interesting example of statistics reporting influencing the very statistics being reported...

hawkmcqueen that is DD's name We love it because it isn't overly popular - though if you add all the Alexandra, Alexa, Allie's together it's relatively popular - but it still sounds very familiar.

My DD2's name is on that list, I was always worried people hated it (which they do!) but now I panic everytime I see it written that its going to get popular!

Wow thanks op, that's a gorgeous list (or most of them!) I especially love Marianne, and it's interesting that quitea few pps do too. Only potential nns put me off using it.

A boys list would be amazing if anyone feels inclined... ;-)

love love love Bronwyn & Blythe but no way hubs will move from pretty girlie classic names. which all feature in top 20.

Dd is on your list, born this year. She's one of four so only just made it. I LOVE her name, LOVE it, can't stop saying it

I like Rafaella especially.

Whats her name URI?

Thank you so much for this list! I love Marianne, Seraphina and Thora.

Nosied in the boys list and was really surprised to find DS's name within the top 1000 (just), I though it would be much less popular than this...

Theres lots of really timeless names on there. Not sure I would use them all. I know an Octavia, she's in her mid 30's and gets constantly ribbed with the Skoda joke.

I Like;

Mara...definitely adding it to my short list
Dahlia
Luella...reminds me of the clothing label
Cosima
Raffaella

I'm so surprised some of these names aren't top 1000 - like Susannah, it's such a beautiful name (I have a lovely friend by name of Susannah so maybe I am biased).

My name is on there. Its one of those names that never seems to have had a popular era but there are always afew each year.

I've never really liked it.

I adore laurel & it would be very high up our list for a possible DD3. We almost used it for DD2 but it felt a bit 'matchy' with Hazel (DD1) so we went for Celeste instead.

Surprised some of these are so out of fashion.

Mind you, DD's (fairly ordinary) school has all of these from your list -- several of them sisters:
Lucinda
Seraphina
Susan
Octavia
Winifred
Bridie
Celine
Susannah
Clarissa
Persephone
Bronwen
Danica
Blythe
Clemency
Christian[i]a
Pandora
Shona
Atlanta [in the same class as Georgia, which makes me chuckle]
Cosima

and we also know
Beulah
Rowena
Morwenna
Kirsten [x about 5!]

Ooo, the name I desperately wanted to use (Ramona) and the compromise name we both liked so used (Petra) are on there. I still dream of a little Ramona one day

Like Lancelottie,

If you chose one of those names to be different, at my DDs school, you may well find yourself disappointed! 9 of those names (at least) already belong to children at my daughters' average sized primary (200 kids), yet there is not a single Holly at that school (top 50 when my DD1 was born). At my DDs school, the fashion is for slightly different middle class names, so there are several boys called Hugo (ranked 88) for example, but not a single Charlie (ranked 4th).

In our wider circle of children we know (through extra curricular activities and friends' children), I could scrub off another 10 names from that list!

Born last year not this. Theonlyone I couldn't possibly say!

Awww Boo!

Aww all my fave names for potential future dd are on there :) hope they don't get too popular!

Thanks OP! Love some of them :)