Please can you spare 2 minutes and post your top 5 favourite girls names?

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This name thing is really irritating me, I go through lists on the internet and they just blur into mush.

So if everyone just posts their 5 favorites here I may actually find something I like!

Lois
Eloise
Isla
Erin
Ellie

I wanted Eloise and call her Lois for short but my partner won out and we named our daughter Lois Elizabeth Wood.

Estelle
Francesca
Araminta
Lucinda
Anna

Sasha
Amelie (friends of ours have a daughter named this so can't use it)
Jemima
Isabella (can't use it best friends daughter is Isabelle)

Um can't think of another...good thing we had 3 boys!

Someone else beat me to it with my absolute favourite which was vetoed by him indoors on our girl babies...Celeste..it's gorgeous.

And the others..

Claudia (v popular)
Petronella
Harriet
Genevieve

Lilias

Rowena

Cassandra

Virginia

Lydia

(all old family names, which I never liked as a child, but now think are lovely)

Anya
Peta
Nadine
Lois
Beth
Melody
Leah

Rosie

Elizabeth (Beth for short)

Erm... can't think of any more...

Layla (just read it on another thread and liked it!)

Esme
Lyra
Maia/Maya
Amber
Tabitha

Also love Estella - Estee For short?

SO hard to decide!

Gemma
Natalie
Amy
Lorena
Carina

Rowan
Isla
Eilidh
Eliza
Jessica

Lois
Francesca (Frankie)
Mischa
Violet
Lily

I have found it easier to think of a name when placing it with a middle name, this also helps with a difficult surname. Easier for us as all our middle names are family names so picked in order.
ok my dd is Alannah which means dear child. If ds1 had been a girl he would have been jocelyn and if ds2 had been a girl would have been heather. Now expecting dc4 and thinking of sticking with heather.
However i also like violet, teagan and esther but dp not keen

Isabel(le) / Isabella
Sophia
Emily
Aimee
Annabelle

I also really like Delilah, but if we were to ever have another girl there is no way DP would let me use it. Could you imagine how many people would sing at her "my my my Delilah!" It also reminds me of 'Friends' "oh great! She's a biblical whore!"

We struggled for ages on our daughters name - our sons was so easy and she was going to be Jake or Samuel if a DS.

She was Ruby for 2 weeks but we decided it was to popular. We loved
Drew
Hallie
Neve
Nell
Phoebe
Kizzy
Summer
Tally
Frankie
Dylan
Georgie I like this one with your last name

We decided on Phoebe Mae Summer but then realised it was PMS so went for Phoebe Mae Piper and have now after a year changed her name to Phoebe Nell Piper plus our last name. Its a huge responsiblilty naming a child. Please let us know what you decide on

I wanted to call my dd Lois which would of been after her Great Nanna, it was considered really old fashioned 14 years ago, I can not believe how many have put it on their lists.

Astrid
Ingrid
Stella
Anna
Annouk

Connie
Dulcie
Drew
Esme
Kizzie
kitty
Keavy
Larnie
Marnie
Mabel
Marcie
Tilly
i can't count!

millicent (Millie) (my dd)
Elizabeth (mine and dds middle name)
Harriet - love it, but my son is Elliot...
Lydia - Love it , but surname starts 'la' so a bit iffy
Claudia - love it, but odd meaning

all of which have prob been mentioned...

oh, and Imogen... if i canhave six

Here are my three suggestions, they are also the names of my three girls

Thea
Evie
Mae

My shortlist for baby girls before I had a boy:
Gwyneth
Isolde
Caroline
Elizabeth

As a child I loved the names Grace and Bethany, I still do love them but they are so incredibly popular at the moment that I discounted them.

Basically, I looked at the top 100 names lists for the last five years and discounted all the names which were on the up through this period or were in the top twenty five as too popular and dating. I also didn't want dc to be one of 5 Millie's or Isy's or Josh's in their class at school because I'm too lazy to write dc's family name on everything plus I guess I just like classic names.

Lily
Molly
Evelyn (Ev, Eve, Evie)
Grace
Caitlin (pronouced Catchleen if being authentic)
Niamh/Neve
Orla
Maewin (pronounced Mywin I think)
Milly

Oops - more than 5.

hi teaching in an all girls secondary school for the past 10 years I found myself drawn to names that i had not heard very often (although this changes over the years), slightly less used but not too wacky!!! 3 girls called Ruby in my sons primary class at the moment:

Matilda / Mattie / Tilly
Betsy
Florence
Primrose
Maisie

Good luck!!! Its boys names that are the killer!!!

Ps forgot jemima !!!