Uncommon baby girl names

[PlanBea]

Hi Mumsnetters,

Baby girl is due in August, and is currently nameless. The top pick name is Elodie which we love, but the rise in the 'El's puts me off this a bit especially if people are likely to nickname her Ellie and she's one of 10 in her class. When DS was born, we were going to use Erin if he was a girl, and while we still like it I'm not as in love with it as I was.

Other names we like (but probably not enough as a first name)
Violet
Clara
Imogen
Paisley
Madeline - unlikely to use this as I'm not keen on something with lots of spelling variants
Zara
Autumn

I lean towards names with a touch of uncommon but still easy to spell and pronounce as my name is one people don't immediately know how to pronounce. I'm not worried about picking something 'rare' but also not a top 10 name. Due to surname beginning with an O I don't want to use B or H for the first name and give her the initials BO or HO!

My daughter is Adaliè Saoirse

Have you thought of Nell?

Easy to spell, quite unusual but has the ‘el’ sound of Elodie. Could be a nickname but we have a Nell who is just that, no long form, because we loved it as it is.

Floral names:
Zinnia
Azalea
Heather
Camellia
Susannah
Tansy
Nerine
Veronica

Non-floral names:
Senna
Marissa
Michaela
Davina
Anna
Vivienne
Alessia
Alexandra

Our DD was born in April and we named her Zara. Classy, not too many around and we get lots of compliments on her name

The Elodie I know is known as Dede! Love Imogen, Zara and violet from your list.

Maya?

Underused but everyone will have heard it.

Joan.
Deborah.
Martina

I knew a Meredith, Miriam, Tamara (Tammy), Giulia, Celia and Pura in my childhood and haven’t met many since.

My dgd is Nina. Just about to start school and she is the only Nina.

Augusta?

Two of my three dds have been mentioned multiple times on here. The third whose name hasn't been mentioned is Jemima.

NO name is 'wasted' on a pet hahahah
Maisie is a dog name anyway IMO. Nowhere near serious enough for a kick ass lady who is going to do great things.

I like Clara most from your list. If you're Scottish how about an unusual Scottish name? Eilidh and Eilish spring to mind if you liked Elodie.

Justine
Maire
Loujain
Kenza
Carine
Mairead
Hazel
Sandrine
Niara
Maxine

Anya
Julia
Laila
Talulah

@PlanBea Cora is gorgeous and I don’t hear the name at all. Also love Eira (Welsh for snow) Maeve and Noa.

My absolute favourite, though, is Beth. Only heard of one in the last 15 or so years that’s a child. I think it’s lovely as a name in its own right rather than shortening Elizabeth.

Ruby
Joni
Lois
Cora
Sadie

Lilias

Merle

Estelle

I'm not keen at all on Elodie. It's just the letter sounds-L.O.D.

Peyton
Celia
nina

Eden
Rowan
Taryn
Marnie

Phoebe
Laetitia
Cecily
Sabine
Ondine
Mirella
Rosina

I know more Cleos than El-names.

The El name trend has been overtaken by Ev names - Evie, Evelyn, Ava etc.

I do know an Elodie but she’s 25.

I have 3 kids, year 6 year 3 and nursery and none of them have any El-names in their classes.
LOTS of Violets though.
Lots and lots of vowelly names (Isla, Evie, Amelie, Amelia, Amalia, Emilia, Ava, Eira, Erin, Isla)
and lots of lots of L names (2x Lily-Ann, Lila, Leila, Layla, Lyra, Lola, Lana)

What about:
Penelope
Jemima
Heidi
Willa
Nora
Alyssa

I have a Zara, and an Allegra.

If you like Elodie and Erin, could you combine them? I don't think you can do Erodie but you could do Elan or Elin.... Elin is a Swedish name and Elan is a Welsh name. Don't know if they are current or old fashioned though.

Elodie is so lovely, such a beautiful classy name. I know like 2 of them but I know like 5 Margot, 3 Violet, 2 Daphne, and 2 Maisie (which I also think is a dogs name) and yes agree lots of Layla/Leila/Leah/Lia/Lara names beginning with L (way more than El) And I know 2 Zara.

If you like Elodie, you should just go for it (and both Elodie I know have not been shortened to Ellie at all)

I dislike the name Eloise - it sounds like Louise to me and reminds me of geez Louise and it’s a mouthful