Here's a challenge...

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Names for a baby girl that don't start in A or E, end in -a or -ie (or y), are outside the top 50, not shooting up the popularity charts AND not too barmy.

Told you it was a challenge

Everything I love so far seems to tick one or all of the above boxes, so I'm looking to add a bit of variety to my list. The names on my longish longlist that meet these criteria so far (none of them feels quite right though):

Juno
Camille
Juliet
Claudine
Vivienne

Any more?

Oh, and Carmen. I forgot Carmen

Thanks grown.

Clare is the name of a young relative - underused classic though. I actually really like Pearl but it would clash spectacularly with our surname.

Christabel
Clara
Helen
Claudette
Yvonne / Yvette

Clara is lovely but ends in 'a' and Grace has to be top 50, doesn't it? Told you it was a challenge!

Opal wouldn't work for the same reason as Pearl - she would sound like a piece of costume jewellery

Faith and Christabel....now they are lovely

Hope
Fleur
Scarlett
Beth

Florence
Willow
Violet
Iris
Beatrice/Beatrix

Rosalind
Christine
Joanne
Diane
Sharon
Charlene
Maureen
Florence

Oops - missed that re Clara.

Maeve
Louise
Sarah
Rachel

Pretty certain Scarlett is top 50 too! Warned you it's tougher than it looks.
Hope is a great suggestion. Ticks all the boxes.

Meredith
Tess
Josephine
Romily
Rowan
Judith (NN Jude) - I know it's old school but I love this at the moment!
Rose
Rozen
Tamsin
Bronwen

Honor

Oooh struggling to keep up now. Some great names coming (hello Maeve!), some I love but have to disqualify on the grounds of popularity/shooting-uppedness.

-th ending names don't appeal to me - they feel a bit buttoned up. But since they meet the criteria, they're going on the list.

Harriet
Norah
Quinn
Lilian
Wren
Nell

Cleo
Honor
Coral(ine)
Callisto
Hester
Roisin
Rosalind
Amber
Constance
Tamsin

Mirren
Mabel
Hope
Rose
Rosin
Edith

Oh sorry, Coral or Amber wouldn't work. Coraline is still good.

Coraline is just gorgeous - sadly DH gave me the Raised Eyebrow Of Death when I suggested it recently.

DD has a version of a Rose name, so Roisin, Rosalind etc all out for us.

I think Norah is ripe for a revival though possibly not by me. -ah ending names are slightly bending the rules though, people.

Hero
Tess
Nell

Zenobia
Ariadne

Ruth
Dawn
Heather
Hazel
Christine
June
Juliet
Frances
Francine
Phoebe (ie sound)
Tess

Lois.

Rhiannon
Celeste
Suzanne
Josephine
Bethan
Cerys

Second Tamsin, Meredith, Judith

Kate