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

Gertrude (Stein)
Virginia (Woolf)
Boudicca (or if you are feeling less brave, Victoria)

Aphra (Behn)

I love Aphra too! Off to google what it means....

Aphra is awesome.

Love this thread. Others I can think of...

Sadie (mossel alexander) - human rights lawyer and first african american woman to earn a PhD

Grace (hopper) or ada (lovelace) - basically the inventors of computer programming

Malala (yousuf) - still young but winner of a nobel peace prize and advocate for girls education

Serena (williams)

Moana, elsa, ana (Disney!)

Susan (b Anthony) - American women's rights and civil rights campaigner

Harriet (Tubman) - civil rights campaigner linked with the Underground Railroad

Elizabeth (queens I and II)

Victoria (queen)

Matilda or Maud, both meaning "strength in battle or similar.

I'm sure there must be lots of other girls' names with strong meanings.

How about Theresa (strong and stable)?

Mary (Seacole), pioneer nurse. Her statue remains at St Thomas hospital.

Mary (Wollstonecraft)

Yay for all the love for Aphra - my sister is one; it's lovely!

Otherwise: Grace (Murray-Hopper, Computer science pioneer. Left her husband and went on to invent the compiler.)

Sojourner (Truth)
Eleanor (Roosevelt)
Katharine (Hepburn)
Gloria (Steinem)
Coretta (Scott King) love the name Coretta

Another vote for Dorothy as in Hodgkin - imo a better choice of woman crystallographer than poor Rosalind Franklin, having had a long and eminent life in science, active into old age - I think she pretty much died with her boots on, except they were slippers.

And the Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships seem like a very good idea, well aligned with feminism (open to both sexes, rightly).

Mary also works for Mary Anning, fossil hunter (and quite a marvellous source of inspiration for a young girl I should think)

Ada (Lovelace) - Ada is a beautiful name

Off the top of my head... Emmeline or Christabel (Pankhurst); Eleanor (Roosevelt); Marianne (Evans, aka George Eliot); Rosalind (Franklin); Jane (Austen - not an obvious feminist choice but created some of the most rounded, opinionated and funny women in literature, demonstrated their total paucity of choice and brilliantly depicted their lives); Mary (Wollstonecraft); Hillary?!

Ooh, or you could go for one of the more feisty Shakespeareans... Beatrice, Katharine, Viola, Miranda?

I'm not sure Shakespeare's Kate is exactly a good choice tbh!

No, fair point!

Eva - Peron
Vera (Brittain)
Leanora (Cohen)
Flora (Stevenson)
Christabel (Pankhurst)
Adela (Pankhurst)
Sylvia (Pankhurst)
Florence (Nightingale)
Helen (Keller)
Lillith was the first one that sprang to mind.

Was coming on to say Aphra (my dd's name) but I see I have been beaten to it!!

I love it of course

I think Lilith is totally a kickass name and the nickname Lily is lovely.

Jasmine (from Aladdin), Tiana (The Princess and the Frog), and Moana are all lovely names from badass Disney heroines too.

If your going to suggest Rosa (parks), then you have to acknowledge Claudette Colvin who was the first Black Woman to refuse to get out of her seat and who Rosa copied.

Also Mary Seacole.

Kitty (Wilkinson).

I think it's to easy to discount the struggle and gains made by 'ordinary' women, globally.

The suggestions on here have been very White/British.

The point is, unless OP is planning on giving her dc the first and second name of her preferred woman, all she's got is a list of very ordinary names; Mary, Florence, Katherine, so i'm not sure in what way this thread has helped.

Rosalind is excellent, both as a reminder of Rosalind Franklin, and for the fabulous Rosalind in As You Like It. Plus, it's my name and I've always liked it.

The point is, unless OP is planning on giving her dc the first and second name of her preferred woman, all she's got is a list of very ordinary names; Mary, Florence, Katherine, so i'm not sure in what way this thread has helped.

Huh?

Did you miss Aphra, Vera, Claudette, Boudicca, Gertrude, Malala, Sojourner, Gloria, Christabel et al?