Girls name- classic but not “try hard”

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Looking for inspiration! I am soooooo fussy about names and have read pages of threads here. I would a name that is classic, that most people would have heard of/ know how to spell, but is not popular. I reeeeally don’t like the current trend for very frilly/ over the top sounding names (sorry, just an opinion!)

I like:
Rosalind, Susannah, Alexandra (maybe a bit too popular), Juliet,

Dislike: Ottilie, Amelie, Freya, Ophelia, Verity, the whole Ada/Eva, Ivy Evelyn set etc

Margot, Clara etc becoming too popular

Don’t like too complex names like Arabella, Genevieve,

So if there is anyone left I haven’t offended would be great to hear your thoughts! 🙈

I think of these as classic but not used much:
Margaret
Anne
Mary
Jane
Katherine
Alice
Lucy
Sarah

Eliza
Julia
Alexandra
Estelle
Annabel

Juliet is beautiful and I don't know any.

Verity

Rowena
Roberta

Elizabeth
Anna
Rebecca
Charlotte

Audrey

Zoe, Hannah, Abigail, Olivia, Louise, Helen

I love Suzanne (not ‘Susan’) and think it’s really underused.

Laura
Melinda
Maria
Lauren
Jayne
Lucy
Anna
Mary

Elinor
Evangeline
Josephine
Mary Rose
Rose Mary
Eleanor
Madeleine
Grace
Rose

Lucille
Elizabeth
Alice
Jemima
Matilda
Jodie
Beatrice
Charlotte
Penny
Sophia
Gegorgina
Tiffany

Marian or Esther.

Saskia
Rachel
Merryn
Anthea
Lara
Colette
Dorothy
Bridget
Maeve
Jillian
Hannah
Lois
Marina
Constance (Connie)
Francine
Pearl
Annette
Elspeth
Cora
Melanie
Angela
Harriet
Susan
Marlena
Nadine
Sonia
June
Miriam
Paula

Maria
Annie
Rosalind
Marianne
Wren
Emmeline

Tamsin
Louisa
Ingrid
Fiona
Laurel
Bridget
Blythe
Flora
Keziah

My only advice would be don't assume a "not popular" name will stay that way, even in a short period of time. My eldest is one of the names you've listed as too popular yet when we called her it in 2013, it was >280th popular name. A few years later it became more well known after a character in a TV show was called it and now its shot up the rankings!

I have 2 of the perfect names for your criteria with my girls!

Frances and Esther. I also have a Josephine but may come under complex names for you.

From your list I love Juliet. That's the name of my next (never to exist) child!

My niece is Philippa, also a lovely name!

Faye
Hayley
Zoe

Theodora
Eleanor / Eleonora (Italian version)
Rosamund
Marie
Allegra

Susannah is a great one. I think Diana is due to be part of the early 20th century revival. Philippa, Francesca, Lydia and Julia/Juliet might be getting a bit popular for you.

Serena, Louisa, Claudia, Cassia, Caroline, Cosima, Frances, Lois, Adela, Edwina, Henrietta, Hermione, Ismene, Iona, Ione, Jocasta, Catrin, Jocelyn, Leonora, Marina, Octavia, Persephone, Perdita, Rosamund, Rosanna, Annalisa, Christabel, Seraphina, Teresa nn Tessa, Yolande, Estella / Stella, Oona, Honor, Flora, Genevieve, Gwendoline, Cassandra, Margaret / Marguerite, Davinia, Octavia, Annis, Lucinda, Lucienne, Vivienne, Victoria, Viola, Miranda, Verity, Constancia, Rosaria, Georgiana, Camilla, Laura

Annie
Violet
Rosie
Betty
Harriet
Grace
Pippa
Megan
Camila

Greta
Frida
Nora
Honor
Hope
Finola
Oona
Jane
Kirsten
Frances
Nancy
Sally

Eliza

Christina or even Christobel

May

Tessa

Monica

Harriet

Constance

Honor

Annabel