Strong but feminine girl names

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Hi,

I've got a little girl on the way and I'm looking for any strong but feminine names

So far I like Astrid and Nova

I already have DS called Max

Thank you

Leona, Leonora, Thea, Bethan, Elen, Vivienne, Harriet, Athena, Olive, Frances.

Tamara
Emmeline
Adelaide
Genevieve
Leonora

I love the kind of strong historical queen names or the kind of names that would suit a feisty mill girl in a Catherine Cookson novel.

Maude, Edith, Beatrix, Hattie, Norah, Evelyn, Gwen, Hilda, Dorcas, Lillian,

I love both Astrid and Nova - both really cool sounding.

I'm not really sure about 'strong but feminine' - very few girl's names sound masculine to me. I suppose names with consonant endings have a stronger sound to vowels? Things like:

Autumn, Brynn, Bronwen, Cerys, Charlotte, Clare, Devon, Dylan, Eirlys, Evelyn, Edith, Elise, Eve, Ellen, Elizabeth, Faith, Florence, Frances, Grace, Giselle, Gabrielle, Harriet, Hope, Isabel, Imogen, Iris, Juliet, Jasmine, Jade, Josephine, Kate, Katherine, Lois, Lauren, Madeleine, Merryn, Miriam, Nadine, Olive, Paige, Pearl, Quinn, Rachel, Ruth, Rhiannon, Rose, Saffron, Seren, Scarlett, Tegan, Taryn, Tess, Vivienne, Wren, Yasmin

Many names I think of to match your description have already been suggested, so I'm seconding them:

Greta
Ingrid
Cleo
Saskia
Claudia
Sigrid
Georgia
Bridget
Matilda
Harriet
Tess
Tamsin
Demelza
Kate
Brenna
Beatrix
Kerensa
Zara
Pippa
Pippin

Joan

Astrid is great.

I have a Margaret. She is opinionated, independent, fiercely feminist and generally awesome. She is also VERY hard work to parent! I love the variety of diminutives you can have with Margaret. Daisy, Greta, Margot, Meg.....

Love Astrid.

Anya
Briony
Romilly
Saffron (Saffy)
Thea
Romy
Tamra
Soraya
Marcia
Alexandra (Alex)
Francesca (Frankie)
Claudia
Juniper
Lois

Rhea or Lyra! I will never have a girl so I give you these wonders :)

Anne Marie (mimi)
Sasha
Hazel
Josephine

Cordelia, Tabitha, Beatrix, Eartha, Penelope, Hazel?