Strong girl names

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As it's the centenary of women getting the vote I'd like a strong female name for my daughter political, musical or scientific name but not too unusual. My list included matilda Lydia Elza Jane Olivia Marie, aurora, lilly, lyra Anne, bess... Bodica? Too radical... I don't like the sound of matilda, could be tilly I suppose... I could have multiple middle names, but only want one, a family member as a middle name. Maybe I'll look up historical events around the due date, mid July and pick a name based on that.. Need to do some history homework...

Ruth nickname Rue. They don't come stronger than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Hester?

Hester makes me think of Hester Prynne...

matilda Lydia Elza Jane Olivia Marie, aurora, lilly, lyra Anne, bess... Bodica?

Agree with:
Matilda
Eliza (although I think Elizabeth is tronger)
Anne

But I don't think these ones sound strong:
Lydia
Jane
Olivia
Marie
Aurora
Lily
Lyra
Bess

And I don't think Boudicca is usable.

Lilith is a great alternative to Lily. Lilith was the first feminist.

Emmeline is one of the best. As in Emmeline Pankhurst. You could, of course, give her a ubiquitous name like Emily (after Emily Davison, for example), but Emilys are a dime a dozen. Emmeline is still rare enough that it'll remind some people of Pankhurst, who was an eminent suffragette.

Another good one is Aphra, for Aphra Behn. Virginia Woolfe summed her influence up when she wrote, "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."

Diana, the roman goddess of nature

My daughter was to be Carys, she arrived with a mop of jet black hair and just didn't look like she was going to be cute and innocent.... I went with Saskia

I'm gonna be doing some history research and get some documertories ready for mat leave. Thanks everyone. I remember liking boudicca at school. And lyra from the Philip pullman books is a rare female horoine in a fantasy/adventure, they're normally male. I know what you mean about 'a' names sounding week but they are named after powerful figures and easy to say and write. I keep saying matilda to myself and just don't like it.

I taught someone with middle name Boudicca (actually I think it was spelt the Boadicea way) once!

Winifred (Freddie).
Ada
Rosalind
Miranda
Juliet

Thea-titaness of light

I like Rosalind. Franklin was born in July, also I read she was a charactor in a Shakespeare, as you like it. Not one I've heard of, so not sure if she was a strong character, just a shame there were no suffragette Rosalind, it's close enough to Rosa (parks) though.

Sophie after Sophie Scholl, brave young German woman, member of the White Rose a peace anti Nazi movement.

Zelda just makes me think of Zelda Fitzgerald and mental instability. Xena?

Geraldine - ruler with a spear
Thora - feminine version of Norse God of thunder
Victoria - means victorious
Zenobia - ruler of Syria who defeated the Roman Empire
Clementina - Clementina Black was a founding member of the Women's Trade Union League

The Lily was the first newspaper edited by and for women, brilliant feminist name!
And Lily Potter is a badass too

Ignore the people saying some names aren’t ‘strong’. What they mean is they aren’t masculine sounding enough, or sound too feminine, which is hardly very feminist is it? Feminine things are brilliant, but as good as masculine.

Aphra, after Aphra Benn?

Did you know, I learnt from qi that pink used to be a strong baby boy colour and blue was a soft girl colour? Really depends on context, I don't like hot pink colour, personal preference along with barbie. I like pastels for babies anyway. I love lilly, didn't know about the newspaper. I may have to give my daughter lots of middle names. I get quite emotional about girls wanting to be boys and this 'transgender tollerence.' you can't even discus it without hostility... it's like a girl is not allowed to be a tomboy anymore without identifying as a boy...and visa versa, And gender and sex are different but fluid... Surely just body image and shame issues... Makes my mind boggle..gotta read some old feminist litriture I think... Or Harry Potter.

Constance - Connie.
First woman to be elected to the Houses of Parliament but she didn't take her seat. Countess Constance Markievicz nee Gore Booth.
Landed gentry Anglo Irish woman who fought for Irish independence.
However if you are English perhaps not, sadly because of history.
But it is a strong name

Rosa ?
After Rosa Parks

The current world’s strongest woman is called Donna if that helps?