Baby girl names

[OpalK24]

I am really struggling with baby girl names. Our boy name is Hudson and he would be named after someone whereas a girl wouldn't.
I like:
Milah- our friends used it 😢
Maela
Mylah
Lilah
Autumn

Hubby doesn't like any. Please suggest other slight unique names I might be able to get him to agree to ❤️

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As a teacher, please don’t give your child a name that is very hard to pronounce (or work out how to say from how it is spelt). I often have pupils having to explain how their name is said (I always tell them to correct me if I get it wrong because they deserve to have their name said correctly) but if I only teach the child once a week sometimes they have to do this multiple times and I just think ‘oh bless you, you are going to have to do this forever’.
(I do get there in the end by the way, I end up jotting it down phonetically to try to help!)

Exactly. Some of those names are very ambiguous in their pronunciation, and your kid might have people with a very similar name which is pronounced differently in their class. When you have teachers who see 250+ children per day, some of whom they only see for an hour at a time, it’s really hard to deal with who pronounces their name what way.

I have an unusual but not “weird” name (it’s actually quite an old fashioned name, think along the lines of Edith in terms of simplicity) which is pronounced phonetically and it was still butchered by everyone because it’s similar to a few other names. I spent my entire childhood correcting people. Even now as an adult, people get my name wrong a lot. It drives me mad.

I like Lilah and Autumn on your list. The others I think are a bit try hard for uniqueness but that may just be because I’ve never heard of them.

I like Maeva that others have suggested.

A number of these names end in “a” 😂

I always liked Eleni which is Greek and otherwise I've only heard it when I lived in Australia.

Others may have suggested some of these already but:

Farrah
Delilah
Minna
Brontë
Hebe
Iona
Jessamine
Leila
Leonie
Mara
Tessa
Willa

I think Hudson could be a unisex name I’d probably use that if you both liked and agreed on it :) my little girl is called Marley and would also have been Marley if she was a boy x

Hudson is not a unisex name, it's a boy's name, -son means 'son'.

@Emsbutterfly , Hudson means 'son of Hugh'. It's about as unisex as Harrison or Jackson.

@OpalK24 , If you like Hudson, how about Harriet, Harper, Manon or Alison?

Just so you know Lilah / Lyla are both SUPER popular names now. We know 3 and hear it at soft play etc all the time.

We also know 2 Autumn, 3 Summers (seen that's been recommended a lot).

Don't focus on finding a unique name because you're just going to be disappointed when it's not unique. Names are getting more obscure you're more likely to have her be the only one with a name you perceive to be common!

Also grandparent names are more common now too.

Here are some lovely Welsh names
Carys
Cariad
Nerys
Rhiannon
Seren
Gwen
Bethan
Angharad
Bronwen
Catrin
Ceri
Mali
Sian

Is it 1965?

These names are all really pretentious, I'm with your other half.

Names like Mila/Myla/Lila are very popular where I am.

Adelaide, Alora, Avaya, Bronte, Callie, Cleo, Elena, Elodie, Eloise, Gia, Ida, Laia, Leni, Maeve, Nia, Nola, Odette, Raya, Reeva, Romi, Talia

@littlecats In response to your comment on my post, I said in the post that my suggestions had some names with an a at the end...
It's literally right there if you'd actually read it properly. 🙄

These were the names on our list if we had a girl, I wanted something a little unique but not crazy. My name was unique in the 80s but not out there, so I wanted similar.

Juno
Olive
Cecelia
Sloan
Aster
Briar
Persephone
Astrid
Stella
Imogen
Effie/Ethel
Noor/Nori
Vida
Alba

Whatever you choose make sure the spelling is the same as it sounds or she will be forever be correcting people (I’ve done this my whole life for my surname)

autumn is lovely but I wouldn’t use for a summer born baby

Milah and Mylah are the same so I wouldn’t use those

Going with your M and Ls
I love May.
Also Mabel
Lyra
Lilia

Second these! Very unique!
better than some crazy names in the lists above that sound so trash!

What’s wrong with Hudson for a girl? I like typical “boy” names for girls. I think Hudson sounds cool for a girl. I also like Billie & Stevie.

I totally agree. I love typical “boys” names for girls. My favourite is Stevie.

Blythe
Paige
Darcy
Remi
Tansy
Tara
Faye
Posy

@ElvinBoys , Stevie and Billie have been used as girls names for a while and make me think of Stevie Nicks, Stevie Smith, Billie Holiday and Billie Piper.
Hudson makes me think of the butler in Upstairs Downstairs, Rock Hudson and River Hudson.

Malia
Maliyah
Monica

miah?

Layla

I know of a Kyra (pronounced Ky-ra, not Keer-a as in Ciara/Kiera). Might be to your taste.