For an unusual elegant timeless classic name?

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Bianca

Whenever I see Bianca my brain instantly hears Lubianca/Lubyanka prison and thinks of torture. Maybe a tad niche though 😂

I do like Lydia
Also saw Cassidy on here a while ago and think that is very nice

@Bluebellsbells who in God's name watching Eastenders 🤣- especially anymore.
I think of it more from Shakespeare! A foreign name.

Frances ticks every box

I always like Renee too

@whatausername I'm looking that up 🤣

I've always loved Christabel.

Clementine
Marina
Violet
Annie
Kate
Eleanor
Leander
Mariella
Alexandria
Agatha
Tabitha
Emma
Natalia

@Justhereforaibu1 yes that's lovely.

I heard Talia the other day. I thought that had a nice ring to it!

Jemima I thought nice too!

I always think of Bianca in Eastenders shouting Rickaaaayy!

I’ve always liked Juliette

Laura

Josephine

Ingrid

Meredith

Primrose

If you want unusual as well as timeless elegant and classic- and Shakespearean- what about Inogen

Genevieve

I can’t stand eastenders, never watched it, never want to. Bianca screaming rickaaaaayyy is still the first thing that popped into my head. 😂😂 Everyone knows it. The problem with it being quite unusual is that most people won’t know of any others apart from that one terrible reference, so that’s what they will think of.

Wouldn’t they have a lifetime of being called Imogen, though?

I like Bianca. Also Rosalind and Rosamund,

I think @mambojambodothetango and whoever suggested Marina are on the money for timeless, elegant and unusual names!

You can’t be my generation, or you’d think of Bianca in Eastenders not Shakespeare! https://eastenders.fandom.com/wiki/Bianca_Jackson

Rickaaaayyyyy!!!

Caroline
Gwendoline
Genevieve
Roberta
Sylvia
Phylis

🤷‍♀️ Mispronunciation is a risk you take with unusual names. ‘Common’ names are no particular protection to be honest, from personal experience. Rosalind is quite likely to get Rosalyn…

It remind me more of Kanye West new wife, ex supermodel Bianca Jagger, that Romanian super model and Othello!
😆

I like names that are really unusual without being made up like Chardonnaynay-May etc

I haven't watched Enders for over 30 years but I hear Bianca and shout RICKY.

Really unusual, not made up: Etheldreda

I have an Allegra