Names for a ballerina?

[ThePandoraBox]

Hi! This is just a character design, not having child.
I am currently trying to write a book, and need some help for one of the main character.
She is shy on the outside, but once you get to know her, she is the craziest person ever. She's kind, sweet, soft-hearted, gentle, and love animals. She is also a dog person. She is Asian and a ballerina. She likes to paint, dance(obviously), explore the nature(ex: play in the forest),sing and is pretty good at it. Ballet is her everything.
Since this is more like a "daily life" theory, I would prefer all of them to have a middle name, just in case I need it.
I would like it to be an uncommon, three or two syllable, soft-souding(ex:luna, definitely not harper), feminine girl name(also, it would be great if it ends in a). Her last name is jing.
So what do you guys think?

Having read all the replies, but Luna is actually having a moment. Three baby Luna’s in one baby swimming class we went to (5kids total!). My three year old thinks all ballerinas are called Nina, so I would suggest that.

Oh, you said NOT flowers!

Callista
Ursula
Phoebe
Aurora

all celestial. Or Celeste / Celestia / Celestine of course.

Defnitely NOT Pauline, Posy or Petrova, the girls in 'Ballet Shoes' (though how about Noelle, in homage to Noel Streatfield?). Also, in Angelina Ballerina there are girls called Flora and Felicity, so I'd avoid those.

Darcey

Tara
Hero
Dion
Wren
Robin
Marisol

Posie

Bracken
Winter
Fearne
Forrest

Maya

Hebe

Willow

Sorry to derail threat but @daisypond what is the difference between a ballet dancer and a ballerina? I thought it was the same and that ballerina was the feminine and therefore not considered acceptable anymore - similar to actress as opposed to actor.

Am I wrong?

Lyra?

lots333 - In popular parlance a ballerina is a female ballet dancer. But in the ballet world a ballerina is the principal female dancer in the company - highly accomplished and critically acclaimed, known internationally even.

Mara
Téa/Thea
Rowan
Lina

But the information you've given us has no bearing on what her name is. Unless as a pp says, she's chosen a new ballet name, her name will be whatever her parents gave her, so key information will be where are her parents from (you say she's Chinese but want her to have an English name -- does that mean she grew up in China and decided to Anglicise her name?), age, social class etc. A lot of the Chinese people I've come across who used 'English' names here are called things like Kenneth and Hilda.

Nina - if you like the Abba song, Nina Pretty Ballerina

Sorrel

Coral
Fauna
Bella
Airia- means air
Ela means earth
Fleur

Marnie
Tara
Sara

Dancers are normal people and have normal names - nothing airy-fairy about them,. To be honest, it's slightly disparaging if people think they need some sort of fairy name - unless of course the dancer's parents were some sort of hippy back in the day. Look at the names some of the dancers of the Royal Ballet have - Tierney, Sarah, Lauren, Gemma, Meaghan, etc, etc. I wouldn't believe a story where the main character was a dancer who had a fairy-type name.

And hippy-type parents would be less likely to put their daughter into ballet classes in the first place - too regimented and strict a regime - so it's even less likely that our story dancer would have a fairy-type name.

In defence of artistic license with naming though:

Nominative determinism wouldn't exist as a phenomenon, if it didn't, um, exist as a phenomenon. (Yes, could just be that a world without coincidences is less likely than one with).

Arty, creative parents, with matching naming styles, may well have dcs who are encouraged into dancing.

People who believe their child will / should / may become 'something special' may well name, and push, accordingly. Thus their child puts in the necessary 10,000 hours and succeeds at whatever the chosen activity is. (I heard a fascinating programme about what the factors are that drive this sort of pushy success. Immigrant status, strong cultural identity and parental self-belief were common aspects).

Darcey Bussell is not a 'normal' name. People with extraordinary names may not succeed any more than anyone else (though, as above, I suspect some do) but some people who succeeed do have extraordinary names. (I've always wondered what Jarvis Cocker could possibly have become, if not a popstar).

And, people do change or amend their names.

So yes, she could be called Sarah Smith or Jennifer Jing. But she could very easily be called something arty and/or extraordinary.

Lottie - fair points!

Arabella
Valentina
Luciana
Katerina

Stella or Seren

Kayla

Clover

Lola Nokabolakov 😂