Serious girls’ names

[HarrietM87]

I’m pregnant again (after many losses and it’s early days so might not work out) and if it’s a girl I’d really like a strong and serious name - not one that ends in “ie” or “a” sounds, and nothing cutesy or frilly or floral.

Any thoughts? My son has a classic Irish name so one that would go with that would be nice.

Millicent
Hillary
Gertrude

Congratulations and fingers crossed. Niamh or Siobhan are both beautiful names

Hillary still ends in the “ie” sound...others are good!

Alice

Emmeline?

Charlotte
Grainne

Catherine
Helen
Sarah
Alison
Susan
Jane

Those are the most non-cutesy or frilly names I can think of at the moment.

I get you. I'm a fan of names like Katherine and Caroline and Rosamund and Rosalind. Think You could do worse actually than plough through some Shakespeare for strong girls names.
My DD's name doesn't have a diminutive 'ie' ending

Rebecca

Eleanor
Eilidh
Elspeth
Siobhan
Catherine

Helen
Jillian
Robyn
Sean
Brooke

Penelope
Judith

Catherine
Elizabeth

Love Catherine and Caroline of the options so far. Also Alice but can’t use that one. Keep them coming!

Josephine
Deborah
Rachel
Roslyn

Simone

Harriet
Margaret
Joan
Elizabeth
Kate
Susan

Genevieve, Vivienne, Juliette, Roseanne, Harriet, Katerina, Robyn, Eleanor, Beatrix, Gabrielle (maybe frilly and fussy but I love!)

Myrtle

Imogen
Claudia
Elizabeth
Beatrice
Fern

Ruth and Bridget are the most serious names I can think of.

Harriet
Astrid
Elizabeth
Catherine
Jasmine
Persephone
Eleanor
Imogen

Katherine/ Catherine
Charlotte
Morgan
Jocelyn
Madeleine
Olive
Audrey
Alexis
Vivienne
Beatrice
Margaret
Irene
Alexandra
Elizabeth
Sylvia
Penelope
Eleanor
Virginia
Ruth
Irene
Astrid.
Helen

I’m not sure how serious some of those are but they mostly come out of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls so they are at least associated with women of a achievement and pioneers.

Bernadette.

Margaret. I had an aunt Margaret. She was definitely serious.

Also,

Elizabeth
Frances
Josephine
Ruth
Gwen(doline)
Patricia