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Help, I can't find a single girls name I like

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Wanderer1 · 01/05/2020 11:21

I'm 30 weeks with first, don't know what we are having but I've been convinced it's a boy. Because if that I've put little effort into thinking about girls names until now. And I can't find any I like, or any we both like.

I'd love some suggestions - I'll post my criteria

I would like something a bit rarer but not made up. I have ruled out pretty much every name in top 100. Don't like names that are too "girly".

I loved Ivy but it's become very popular.

I like Isabelle as I had a lovely book about an Isabelle when I was little but we've an Annabelle in the family.

We like Aurelia but my OH worries it's too unusual in the uk (we have a German friend of that name)

I like Raven but OH vetoed as too out there/ 'hippy'

I quite like names to have a unisex nick name but not a must.

Can I please have some suggestions? Anything, hit me with them! TIA

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Daysofpearlyspencer · 02/05/2020 13:05

Henrietta, Harry for short
Norah
Paige
Piper
Robyn

SE13Mummy · 02/05/2020 13:15

Constance (Stan)
Darcey
Echo
Eden
Francesca/Frances (Frank/ie)
Harriet (Harry)
Hero
Jude
Noa
Philippa (Pip)
Reese
Robyn (Bob/Bobbie)
Roma/Romy
Sally

Marimari93 · 02/05/2020 13:33

Louisa, Marisol, Lisa, Dahlia, Saskia,
Sylvie, Victoria, Christina, Laurel, Lucy, Rihanna, Celestine, Polly, Meryl, Jodie, Marigold, Lindsay, Angelina, Marie, Annette, Uma, Carmen, Virginia, Ava, Barbara, Rose, Suraya, Susanna, Elizabeth, Lorraine, Athena, Willow, Willa, Ellen, Angela.

SylvanianFrenemies · 02/05/2020 13:36

Cora
Etta
Aurora
Hope
Mary
Erica
Coral
Adeline

FizzyGreenWater · 02/05/2020 13:37

Sigrid

Anouk

Hero, Hebe

Josephine, for the Jo nn.

Sabrina/Sabina

Aster

turnthebiglightoff · 02/05/2020 13:43

Robin

Maria53 · 02/05/2020 13:56

@Carouselfish I am so pleased you like Rae! It is my middle name ans I have felt ashamed of it my whole life. I pretend I dont have a middle name!

SylvanianFrenemies · 02/05/2020 14:56

Really @maria53? I know 2 Raes, and I've always liked it.

autumnkate · 02/05/2020 17:50

Maeve
Merryn
Hero
Willa

Also really like Lark and Wren

Changedname81 · 03/05/2020 20:34

Hadley?

If you desperately needed a unisex nn - Lee

Hadley Hemingway / Richardson - fab namesake 😊

Juno231 · 04/05/2020 11:48

Sage? That's unisex and I've always loved it :)

BeyondMyWits · 05/05/2020 19:48

Sage? - haha and very apt at the moment - do you think we will get a flush of Sages (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies)

17caterpillars1mouse · 05/05/2020 20:26

Rowan
Madeline /Madeleine
Astrid
Harper
Rachel
Laurel
Liesel
Petra
Tamsin
Samara
Danica
Roberta
Nella
Natasha

Edenember · 06/05/2020 17:17

My Current List -
Agnes
Alyse

Arrietty
Aurora
Beatrice
Betsey
Cecily
Clara
Daisy
Eliza
Eloisa
Erika
Eve
Flora
Florence
Francesca
Freyja
Harriet
Heidi
Honor
Indiana (Indie)
Ingrid
Iona
Isla / Eila
Isolde
Isotta
Louisa
Lucinda
Luna
Mary
Nancy
Nell
Ottilia
Pippa
Poppy
Romilly
Rowena / Rowenna
Sarah
Theia
Tilda
Xanthie

Names knocked off the list that I liked - Eleonora, Eseld, Norah, Aphra, Evelyne, Ivy, Iris, Orlagh, Elspeth, Astrid, Opal, Orpah, Tabitha. Liked Phoebe as well but it was given to our cat.

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