strong historical female names?

[sunshineandshowers21]

my beautiful baby girl was born six days ago and is still nameless! my partner is happy for me to choose the name so here i am asking for help. i’m thinking maybe a historical name? maybe a strong female from history? the names we liked are georgiana, evangeline, and lola - but none of them are sticking out to us now! her middle name will be charlotte, and we’ll maybe squeeze poppy in there as she was born on armistice day. any suggestions are welcome - doesn’t need to be historical!

One of dd's friends is named Emmeline after Emmeline Pankhurst and is known as Emmie. I think both the long and short versions sound pretty.

Aphra (Behn)
Eleanor (Roosevelt)
Rosa (Parks, Luxembourg)
Emmeline (Pankhurst)
Rosalind (Franklin's- scientist)

Boudicca is rather nice, nn Boo?
Victoria, Elizabeth...

Catherine
Anne
Mary

Eleanor (of Aquitaine), Florence ( Nightingale ) Mary (Seacole) Elizabeth (various strong women have had this name) Jennie(Lee) Mairi ( Chisholm)

Lileth. The first woman. She was so much trouble that she got kicked out of Eden. Which is why Eve was made from one of Adams bones, so she wouldn't be so much trouble. Ha!

Cleopatra

Love Cleo (could be short for Cleopatra as PP suggested)

Elizabeth
Victoria
Eleanor
Lileth
Florence
Joan
Margaret

Mary (Somerville)
Caroline (Hershal)
Dorothy (Hodgkin)

Also love Aphra, Emmeline, and Eleanor.

Melisende - Queen of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem

Emmeline- love the name - it’s so beautiful

Ada (Lovelace)
Aphra (Behn- one of the first women to earn her living by writing)
Diana (the goddess, obvs)
Emmeline (Pankhurst, natch)
Eleanor (plenty of canny English/French queens or Roosevelt)
Florence (Nightingale)
Frida (Kahlo)
Gaia (mother of all life in Greek mythology
Maya (Angelou)
Nancy (first female MP to take her seat in parliament. Also -Wake, badass WW2 ambulance driver/resistance operative)
Odette (Hallowes- amazing British spy in WW2. ^ "She was condemned to death on two counts in June 1943, to which she responded, "Then you will have to make up your mind on what count I am to be executed, because I can only die once."^)
Tamara (Łempicka, fabulous Art Deco painter)
Valentina (Tereshkova, first woman in space)

I had fun doing this you know! Thanks op!

Catherine is very strong and traditional
Elizabeth ditto

Mary. As in Mary Shelley.

Mary Charlotte is lovely and I absolutely love the idea of Poppy because of her birthday!!

Joan.

Edith , as in Cavell for a further WW1 link

Emmeline is lovely.

There's also Maya, Eleanor, Katherine.

Emmeline NN Emmie would be fab it's 100 years since (some) women got vote. Love the Poppy idea as well and Charlotte.

Constance (Markievicz), the first woman elected to Westminster.

Eleanor (Roosevelt or of Aquitaine), Mary (Seacole or Wollstonecraft), Rosa (Parks), Nancy (Astor), Edith (Cavell), Emmeline, Sylvia or Christobel (Pankhurst), Elizabeth. And yes I think you should definitely get Poppy in there as a middle name given your DD's birthdate! Congratulations xx

Flora (Sandes) would fit your Armistice theme well
Or:
Edith (Appleton/Cavell)
Dorothea (Crewdson)

Marie (Curie), Ada (Lovelace), Rosa (Parks).
Or royalty - Victoria, Elizabeth?
Or authors - Jane (Austen), Emily (Bronte), Virginia (Woolf), Sylvia (Plath), Louisa (May Alcott).
Fwiw I love Georgiana!

Elizabeth after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - the first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor. She had to learn French and go to university in Paris because no British medical school would admit her.

I’m a big fan of Georgiana though x