Feminist baby names

[ChequeredPasta]

Just fantasising about having another baby...

What good feminist baby names are there? So far I've got...

Emmeline - obvs
Emily - Davison, suffragette
Lily - name of the first US paper written by and for women
Matilda - Ronald Dahl heroine
Amelia - Earhart

There must be LOADS more but my tired, tired mind is coming up blank.

**Not men's names that can be used for women please

Germaine (Greer)
Sylvia and Christabel (Pankhurst)
Florence (Nightingale)
Elizabeth (Fry)
Margaret (Atwood)

Ada (Lovelace)

Lilith - adam's first wife

Lilleth. She was Adams first wife.

Kicked out of Eden for refusing to submit to Adam.
The very first feminist, mother of the demons

Marie (Curie)

Crows post!

Yes. I was here for Lilleth too

Oprah
Maya (Angelou)
Charlotte, Emily, Brontë

I just posted on your other thread.

Feminist writers?

Naomi (Wolf)
Eve (Ensler)
Simone (de Beauvoir)

Dorothy? (Hodgkin, only British woman to win a Nobel prize for Science)

Joan
Margaret (nn Peggy)

(sidenote from other thread re: giving women male names:

I don't think giving a male name means it's a feminist name. It acknowledges that men are treated better than women and being able to 'pass' as a man makes things easier. Also, it only works until people meet you, surely?)

(Copied from the other thread)
Because feminism is about equality, i.e women being equal to men. Giving girls a 'male' name just perpetuates the idea that women are lesser. I.e. You can 'pass' as a man. And it's considered taboo to call a boy a traditionally girls name, as being 'girly' is seen as being lesser.
'Female' names, traits and characteristics should be celebrated, not bumped down to a shit second. Sort of like the way girls are encouraged to take on traditionally male jobs like engineering, but men aren't encouraged to take on traditionally female jobs, like nursery school teaching. Because the traditionally female jobs aren't paid as much, of course....

It's all about the female power movement 🙌🏻

I LOVE Lilith
I like Margaret too, and love Maggie, but i can't shake off Thatcher...

Hello! I was mooting unisex names based on my experience of having a name often considered a boys' name.
I feel it set me in good stead- obviously once met it's obvious I'm female, but starting every conversation with someone new as a child with a 'yes, it's a girls name too' made me assertive. As an adult it's a good twat metre.
I think it's one of those things that you don't realise. When I did it was a real 'check your privilege' moment. It'd be interesting to hear from posters with an obviously 'ethnic' name- which either matches or contradicts their background.

Rosalind (Franklin)

Graine (O'Malley)
Constance (Markievicz)

Malala

Georgia - for Georgia O'Keefe.

And yes, I would have said Lilith too.

Valentina (Tereshkova: first woman in space)
Nancy (Wake: French Resistance badass)
Ada (Lovelace: computer wiz)

My godfather gave his daughter the middle name Lilith because of the feminist angle. It rocks.

Another for Rosalind Franklin.

Juno - Goddess of Childbirth and Marraige.

Rosa - for Rosa Parks and Rosa Luxemburg (if she's your cup of tea!)

Millicent - for Millicent Fawcett (if you're more of a suffragist rather than suffragette type)

Eleanor - for Eleanor Rathbone
Josephine - for Josephine Butler
Barbara - for Barbara Castle (if you want more of a "retro" vibe)
Zora (for the writer Zora Neale Hurston) would be an amazing name!

Oh and don't forget

Elizabeth - for Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, does double duty not only as a pioneering woman but suffragette too, and you can get lots of great nicknames to pick from throughout life... Betsy or Eliza (or Liza) would be very current but Lizzie would be unusual in that generation and you can even go for Beth at a push

Whoops, I meant suffragist not suffragette for Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (= wrote letters and petitions, didn't chain herself to railings or go to prison!)