Inspiration for female baby names

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Hello moms!
Any idea for a female baby name? I'm thinking Grace but my husband is suggesting Esther lol help!😂

Sophie
Stella
Louise
Amelia
Lucy
Emma
Polly
Ida
Rebecca
Alice
Mila (Mila means sweet, kind, gentle, nice, graceful in South Slavic language, and usually refers to children or women, pronounced Mee-la)
Elaine
Elena

I prefer Esther to Grace.

Martha is my current favourite girl's name

If I'd had a daughter, it was going to be Cyd, after Cyd Charise or Winter, after a character in an M M Kaye book, Shadow of the Moon, just because they were names that stuck with me. I like Esther and have a friend with the name and we were never able to successfully shorten her name, so Esther always gets her full name in a conversation (I know many hate that names are shortened, so could be a consideration).

Another name I like is Ellen and this is often shortened to Nell.

Similar vibes to Grace and Esther maybe….

alice
martha
edith
eve
eliza
rose
eden
enid
stella
esme
meredith
eleanor
emily
estelle
phoebe
clara

I think the question is, what do you like about Grace, and why do you think your partner's suggestion is so far off the mark that it's laughable? I could imagine sisters called Grace and Esther, so I'm curious.

I love Grace, and Esther.
Also like Nancy and Martha.

Grace and Esther are nice.

How about

Lydia
Leah
Charlotte
Chloe
Lucy
Clara
Phoebe
Heidi
Holly
Hazel
Layla
Amber
Lily
Eliza
Margot
Georgia
Zoe
Madeleine

I like Esther, Grace is overly popular at the moment. Other suggestions ;

Mary
Frances
Maeve
Alice
Anna

I love both of your names!

My top twenty at present are:

Ella
Charlotte
Alice
Kate
Zara
Laura
Amelia
Olive
Rhiannon
Juliet
Emily
Genevieve
Frances
Amy
Lucille
Nina
Tessa
Ruby
Freya
Eve

Esther is lovely, Grace a bit overused. Both are nice.

Grace and Esther are both really lovely. I might be tempted to go for Esther because it's less common (and I have a stupid, overthinking worry about calling a child Grace who then turns out to be really ungraceful!)

Obvious alternatives would be:
Faith, Hope, Felicity, Patience
Naomi, Miriam, Abigail, Rebecca, Lydia, Elizabeth, Deborah, Ruth, Rachel, Leah, Hannah, Martha, Mary, Sarah, Joanna, Zipporah

For girls I like names in -ine like Séraphine, Joséphine, Celestine, Charline...

If my DD had been born a year before or a year later she'd have been either Séraphine or Celestine. As it is I gave her another -ine name.

@Maxorias I love Delphine.

Agatha
Cora
Delia
Enid
Fearn
Gaia
Heather
Imogen
Kitty
Luna
Margot
Nell
Ophelia
Penny
Rosa
Sienna
Tess
Una
Willa

Love Grace. 🥰

Hesper
Leonora

Love both Grace and Esther.

Others ..

Gretal
Aster
Hannah
Lisa
Maisie
Eliza
Elizabeth

I prefer Hester to Esther.

Also consider:
Honor
Joy
Faith
Felicity
Hebe

Sounds like you both like biblically inspired names! Esther is Old Testament and Grace a concept in Pauline theology the New Testament. Have a Google!

Esther is one of the prophetesses. Also: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Miriam, Deborah... And Huldah, which never caught on.

Later significant women are: Anna (mother of Mary), Mary, Elizabeth, Salome, Lydia and Joanna, I think.