Girls name- classic but not “try hard”

[Cinnabomb]

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! 🙈

My daughter has one of the names on your first list. Honor is the one that got away for me
I think it meets your criteria.

Jennifer
Alice
Jane
Caroline
Ruth
Anne
Marie

Clarissa
Julia
Annabel
Emma
Felicity

Charlotte, Elizabeth, Olivia, Sophie, Violet, Rose, Lily(hmm spotting a theme there) Florence, Georgina, Isabella

Enid
Emma
Elsie
Jane
Vera
Judy
Eliza

Louisa
Elizabeth
Selena
Bethan
Iris
Alice

We chose our two girls’ names after a close study of the recent ONS charts.

Your criteria were exactly ours: classic, not try-hard, not too frilly, a ‘real’ name that everyone knows, but currently underused. I’m not going to tell you the names we went for, because I think the two together might ‘out’ me, but we’re really happy with them and they suit our girls.

There are some surprisingly classic names near the bottom of the charts!

Pippa
Trudy
Bellatrix
Tara
Constance /connie
Bonnie

@Cinnabomb

Eleanor/ Helen/ Ellen etc all very similar to close family member so they would be out.

I like Jocelyn, Phillipa

Really like Diana but is it useable? It’s such an iconic name I’m not sure anyone would think of anyone else other than Princess Di?

Sarah/ Rachel/ Clare/ Anna/ Laura all a little too much my generation. I was at school in the 90s and my class was filled with them!

Matilda/ Beatrice too popular for me (I know loads under 5!)

Deanne/deanna? Instead if Diana

Hope
Mary
Juliana

Connie or Ivy

Nina
Sadie
Lucia
Stella
Madeline
Lorna

May
Ava
Georgia

Cordelia
Claudia
Verity

Robyn, Thea, Dorothy, Harriet, Sophie, Caroline, Jennifer,

Heather
Ettie
Helena
Olivia
Jemima
Juno
Nancy
Laura

Mabel, Betsy, Alice…

Vivienne?

Elizabeth
Mary
Susan
Joanne/Joanna
Sarah
Amanda
Charlotte
Emily
Anna
Harriet
Josephine
Laura
Sylvia
Frances
Francesca
Patricia
Georgette
Edith
Enid
Margaret
Marguerite
Caroline
Lucy
Lucinda
Grace

In the name of all that is holy, not Lucy or Emma

Marianne, Julia, Camilla, Alexa, Francesca, Christine, Anna, Elisabeth, Miranda, Leonore?

Lucille, Gabriela, Therese, Rebecca, Jessica, Margret, Gemma

I love your choices.
How about Jessica or Jennifer?

Annie
Margot
Beatrix
Violet (all time favourite, classic and elegant)
Penelope
Juliet
Dorothy nn Dottie
Persephone

Oh yes, Penelope is lovely