Proper girls names to call your daughters (that nobody else will use and aren't surnames or nicknames)

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Mary
Susan
Caroline
Michelle
Karen
Linda
Sandra
Deborah
Pamela
Kimberley
Julie
Christine
Angela
Pamela
Jennifer
Denise
Cheryl
Diane
Jacqueline
Catherine
Melissa
Paula
Anna
Juliet
Rosalind
Dawn
Patricia
Janet
Andrea
Valerie
Beverley
Jane
Monica
Melanie
Virginia
Yvonne
Rita
Sylvia
Lorraine
Audrey
Felicity
Marcia
Glenda
Hilary

Mabelle

My DD's name is on that list!

What a borrring list.

You need to add 'Fugly' as the second word of your OP. Anna excepted.

Judith! (My name...but I am 44...)

(And EVERYONE just calls me Jude anyway. Except my mother...)

Add Tracy to the list and it encompasses every female aged between 55-40 that I've ever met. Juliet & Anna are the only names I would consider naming my child nowadays.

Should add they're the only names from the OPs list I would consider!

Mary
Karen
Kim (not Kimberley)
Katherine or Kathryn (I hate the C spelling for some reason I can't put my finger on)
Paula
Anna
Juliet
Rosalind
Jane
Rita
Sylvia

-- are all names I kinda like

I like Jacqueline .

I don't mean any offence or anything, but my grandmother holds a book club every thursday and about seventy per cent of them have names on your list.
You should concider your child's feelings when naming them-how are they going to like being the only Pam or Audrey in a world of Chardonnays and Emeralds when they're teenagers?
There are plent of proper names that aren't totally out-dated. How about Sara or Matilda?Or maybe Beatrix?You could shorten that to Trixie without it sounding tacky.

I'm a Pamela, in my 30s, and I love my name thank you very much!

Amongst dds' friends (all under 5) from your list I know an Audrey, Catherine, Anna, Felicity, Sylvia and Andrea.

FWIW would prefer Julia and Diana to Julie and Diane.

I only like Melissa and Juliet. There are some shockers in that list OP so I won't be taking your advice sorry, far far too dated examples.

Dated, but will probably come back in fashion when my daughter has a baby in around 2050. Juliet, Dawn, Felicity and possibly Kimberley might be ok now. Glenda, Linda, Cheryl, Janet and Rita sound terribly old fashioned.

I love Rita. Another olde name I love is Kay, and I don't know why as I used to think it was horrible when I was younger. Also Kim (but not Kimberley).

2 of those on my shortlist. The others are quite nice too. Dated doesn't worry me in the slightest.

I know a few small Annas, Felicitys and Jennifers.

I believe (but can't check on phone) that Anna is currently one of the top 100 girls names.

I reckon you need to go furthur back if you really want to be standing out.

Maybe as far back as Etheldreda or Mildburga (real anglo-saxon names)?