Here's a challenge...

[adaloveslace]

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?

lovely suggestions already.

I love Juliet, Vivien, Christabel

Also like Margaret (i do, really)

Marcelle
Karen
Madinah (bent rules but its so pretty)
Rachel
Violet
Virginia (cheating again)

Vivienne
Josephine
Dawn
Seren
Lauren
Rowan
Shannon
Helen

Brook
Bethan
Delilah
Hannah
Helen
Harriet
Pearl
Rachel
Rhiannon
Sarah
Tegan

Sybil
Merryn
Linnet
Justine
Gabrielle
Fern
Saffron
Aisling

Lots of these wouldn't be my first choice, but they may meet your criteria. Good criteria IMO. Too many cutesy names around.

Mildred
Maud
Caroline
Celeste
Constance
Ffion
Beatrice
Germaine
Kathleen
Nicole
Olive
Rachel
Seren
Ula
Winifred
Yvonne

I haven't checked top 50 and some will be repetitions but here goes:

Marianne
Miriam
Madeleine
Caroline
Tamsin
Naomi
Robyn/Robin
Ruth
Tess
Maud
Mabel
Frances
Beatrice
Anouk
Clementine
Charlotte
Genevieve
Gwendolen
Astrid
Ingrid
Heidi
Hazel
Phoebe

I was bored at work so took a scientific approach. Took the spreadsheet of 2012 names, took out all ending in -a, -ie, -y, -ee, -i, or starting with a or e, took out all the top 50. Then compared with 2011's list and took at all that had jumped 100 places or more since then. This left me with 200; it was a bit hard to program out 'barmy' names ;-) but these were my favourite of those that were left (huge apologies for all lower case but I couldn't be bothered to spend the extra 5 minutes remembering how to get them back into sentence case...):

beatrice/beatrix
beth/bethan
bridget
caitlin
carmen
carys
catherine (any other spelling variation)
claire
cleo
coral
fern
frances
gabrielle
harriet
helen
hope
joanne
josephine
lauren
lois
margaret
merryn
robyn
rowan
seren
sian
tess
violet
vivienne
willow

Tamar
Megan

Catherine
Harriet
Bethan
Rose
Skye
Frances
Mathilde
Caitlin
Nathalie
Seren
Beatrice
Gabrielle
Iris
Naomi
Yasmin
Jennifer
Josephine
Saffron
Sapphire

Sorry, a few may have slipped through that don't meet all the criteria!

Marianne

Fabienne

Xanthe

Emmeline

Brigid, Cairenn, Dilys, Phyllis, Fay, Fleur, Isolde/Iseult, Gail, Gwenllian, Gwyneth, Joyce, Kathleen, Maureen, Mavis, Kirsteen, Lilian/Lilias, Melanie, Meredith, Merewin, Muriel, Susan/Suzanne, Nerys, Olwen, Rhiannon, Sibyl/Sibylle, Tamsin, Tanis, Winifred/Wynne, Cadence, Celeste, Gillian/Julian, Jean/Jane, Joan/Joanne, Constance, Damaris, Charis, Dinah, Hannah, Lenore, Ianthe, Hester, Ruth, Magdalen, Millicent, Selene

French: Delphine, Martine, Francine, Seraphine, Melusine, Laure, Pauline/Paulette, Clarisse, Sabine, Lucille, Minette, Heloise, Chantal, Genevieve...

Or nature names: Sorrel, Willow, Linden, Marguerite, Juniper etc

Hazel
Phoebe
Carolyn
Gail
Valerie
Tamsin
Rachel
Nicole
Stephanie

Bronte

Agnes
Margo(t)
Coral
Hester
Esther
Beryl
Mabel
Muriel
Ingrid
Penelope
Xanthe

Crystal
Dawn
Heather
Tamsin
Jennifer
Iris
Lilian
Lauren

Gretl
Ingrid
Winter
Fern
Morag

Moggle, I reckon you win the internet today! That's just amazing, thank you. It's quite a short list, all things considered, isn't it?

I'm going to go through all these suggestions with a pencil and paper and make up a sparkling new list (on the phone in a hospital waiting room this morning). At a glance, I really like Hope, Celeste, Fern, Faith. Anouk has to be one of my favourite names ever but my first cousin's child is called that. I never see her or her parents (different countries) but my mum is close to the sibling whose granddaughter she is. It would be weird, wouldn't it?

Emmeline was top of my original list, but it was almost completely populated by 'E' names or -a endings. I still think it's a beautiful name but don't want her to spend her life going "no, sorry, not Emily..." "actually it's Emme- LEEN...."

I also love Lois and Kate but can't use either of them sadly. I've never come across Madinah before Uri and it's very interesting so I will overlook your shameless flouting of the rules

Sian (my DDs name)
Rosalind
Marianne
Avalon
Elizabeth

Merryn, Minette and Cerys are all lovely, unfrilly names too. Some great suggestions on this thread - thanks everyone

Blanche

Tanith?

Susan
Hero
Margaret
Janet
Carol
Miriam
Karen
Maureen

Lois
Naimh
Estelle
Esther
Hannah
Ruth