Strong girl names - suggestions please!

[TheRedFox]

We're expecting DD1 in a few months and would love some suggestions for strong girl's names.

We have a double barrelled surname so don't want anything too fussy - DH says that growing up the DB surname led everyone to think he was "posh" and so doesn't want the same assumptions to be made for her.

All suggestions greatly appreciated!

Do you have any interesting women in your family tree who you could name dd after?

Lydia
Eliza
Sydney
Nancy

Just to say, my OH has a DB surname and had the same assumptions that he was 'posh'.... tbh though I think these days people will just expect that it's parents aren't married. We are not which makes people doubly confused with a DB surname and a mother with a different name.

Strong girls names:

Elizabeth
Matilda
Violet
Astrid

Frances
Penelope
Louisa
Harriet
Eleanor
Mary

Astrid is another one (I'm not a big fan but it's strong).
I like Natasha and Phoebe suggested by PPs. There's Daphne too.
My favourite is Ada, though. I'd use it myself if I had a girl and it worked in DH's language (it doesn't!)

Alexandra
Claudia
Francesca
Frances
Elizabeth
Catherine
Eleanor

Cross post!

Lacey,
Paige,
Carina,
Samantha,
Elisie,
Caroline,
Audrey

I know a 2yo called Agatha and it totally changed my opinion of it. Very strong but beautiful.

Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel too....

Traditional names tend to last, avoid anything ending in a y (apart from Mary). You can always shorten a name so the full name was my preference for the birth certificate.

Georgia
Charlotte
Millicent
Ada
Piper
Matilda
Caitlin
Prue
Cleo
Coco
Josephine
Harriet
Maya

Brunhilde
Elizabeth
Caterina
Boudica
Angela
Granuaile
Medb

Ok, some of those might be a bit much.

Elizabeth
Francesca
Olivia
Margot
Suzanna
Julia

Elizabeth
Katharine
Emma
Jane

Lucy
Harriet
Emily
Louise
Elizabeth
Maria
Victoria
Charlotte
Tabitha
Florence
Georgina
Emma
Matilda
Paige
Sarah
Daniella
Jennifer
Alice
Sophie
Rachael
Leanne
Stephanie
Megan
Caitlyn

Elsie
Astrid
Betty
Enid
Gladys

Some of these are great thanks - our shortlist has grown.

I can see that we tend to favour shorter names, but also ones that aren't TOO traditional.

Agreed re the DB surname - I couldn't give a toss what people think but can also see that if went for something overtly 'posh' it would sound OTT. Luckily I don't think either of us are attracted to those types of names anyway.

We have looked back at family names and have some good (and goddamnawful) ones. Sadly I think the ones we love will have to be relegated to middle names...

Astrid
Lara
Eve

YY to Caroline, Margot and Megan

Ooh I like Eve too. And Eva but Eve is more unusual and nicely symmetrical, yes I'm weird.

@NameChange30 Eve is a nice name but too much of the Evie / Ava / Ivy genre I think.

DH will not contemplate anything 'granny vintage' so that rules out names like Margot, Gladys, Margaret etc

I hate "granny vintage" too but I like Margot, it's not in the same category in my mind (probably because it's French).

Please do tell us your shortlist or at least the names you like from this thread!

I think some "granny" names are classics ie used for more recent generations too.
Other "granny" names have not been used for several decades for a reason! Gladys being one

@NameChange30 Yes unfortunately he casts that net pretty wide but I wouldn't want him to impose a name on me that I didn't like so that's fair enough.

Am going to compile a shortlist (not sure how short it'll be though!) of favourite first and second names to try and narrow things down....!