Favourite girls names

[Bella1905]

Please could you tell me your favourite girls names. I like quite traditional, strong, pretty names and am undecided on my daughters name due in a few months. Thank you

Current top twenty, in no particular order …

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

All time favourite girls names are Tabitha and Aurora

Arietty from The Borrowers?!! You do realise her cousin was called Eggletina.

Mine is Gwendolyn/Gwendoline. Never used it as I had 4 boys. Also like Céleste.

Jean
Olive
Pearl
Rose

I also like Albertine, Indiana and Finn for a girl but they are a bit more "out there".

Names we didn’t pick but were on the short list

Flora
Malin
Agnes
Beatrice
Frida
Linnea
Norah
Ada

Yes there is an Arietty in the borrowers, a very brave and resourceful character from memory. I have no idea what that character's cousin's name is/was, and I'm not sure why that matters?

Arietty made our name list similarly to Harriet, Henrietta and Arabella.

The cousin's name is relevant to show all the names are made up yet sort of familiar sounding. Pod, Homily and Arietty (and Eggletina). The author had a lot of fun with those names but they are not actually names!

Lily
Poppy
Grace
Isla
Millie
Lucia
Violet
Rose
Rosa
Elodie
Ava
Eva
Clara
Amber
Alice
Mia
Maya
Milla
Darcie
Ella

But Arietty could be a sweet nn for Harriet

All names are made up until they are popularised though. See - Wendy (Peter Pan), Miranda (The Tempest), Jessica (Merchant of Venice) and other such literary examples, etc etc.

It's no 'X Æ A-XII' though...

Arietty is not to your taste. That's fine.

@PrincessOfPreschool I've just thought of Nevaeh as well. Popular and yet....made up.

Not against it's made-upness, more it's tongue-in-cheekness (hence the eg. of Eggletina).