Need some good girl names

[Squatch]

We're having our second kid in Mar/Apr timeframe. While we have some kickass boys names, we're not coming to a consensus on girl names.

Here are the ones thrown out by my wife, which I nixed:
- Penelope
- Portia
- Mercedes
- Chevrolet (just kidding)

Anyways, what are some kickass girls names? I like Welsh/Irish names, but they can be somewhat hard to pronounce.

[Critters2]

1. My favorite girl's name is Anna.

If I had a girl that's what I'd name her.

[Bucky]

45. Anna is NOT a "good girl" however.

She is naughty. And I love her for it.

[likesmountains 52]

2. I guess Nevaeh is out huh?!

[Squatch]

6. I actually like that.

[Dystopian]

14. Nevaeh

I knew a beautiful little girl named Nevaeh, and her grandmother told me it was 'heaven' spelled backward. I also love the name Maeve, an old Irish name ....I only know one Maeve (pronounced 'Mave')
Congratulations...you must be so excited....
Very happy for you....

peace~

edit .. spelled the name wrong.

[Writer]

41. Nevaeh: Isn't that a hand cream?

[MissMillie]

3. Lately it seems, there are some very lovely names that are never used anymore

Carol
Mary
Anne
Rose
Teresa
Diana



A child with one of these names will be "different" without sticking out like a sore thumb.

[Dora]

4. Caitlin. Fiona.

Sophie or Sophia

Josina

Please don't name your daughter after a car.

[mainegreen]

5. I always liked Angelica.

:shrug:

[BurtWorm]

7. Veronica, Vanessa, Viveca, Velveeta

Don't thank me. You're velcome.

[Squatch]

9. Velveeta? Like the cheese?

[BurtWorm]

16. You gotta admit, it's pretty.

:crazy:

How about Veruca? Viva? Vampira?

[seemunkee]

117. My BIL is using Velveeta for his baby's fetal name

The haven't picked the real name yet, or at least not telling anyone.

[AllegroRondo]

8. My list

Rose
Grace
Melanie
Peri
Tegan
Nyssa
Romana
Leela
Sara Jane
Josephine
Elizabeth
Zoe
Victoria
Polly
Dorothea
Susan

[Inchworm]

10. Here is a list

http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/births_d_m/2006/babiesnames_2006.pdf

I reckon it is all the babies names that were born in Ireland, 2006. Not real sure.

:hi:

[Sequoia]

11. Okay, here's a list

Sierra

Elizabeth

Kimberly

Emma

Emily

Caroline

Eva

Athena

Natalie

[Swede]

12. Are they any good girls left?

:shrug:

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. Madeline

Cheyenne

Those were the two I had picked out when I had my son...

Also like:
Piper
Mariah
Alaine
Alessandra

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Sasquatch, Underwear, Beligerent, Arvatrix, Tribble, Squonk, Jutland

Spackling Compound, Disease, Roundabout, Washing Machine, Kewpie, Fiddler Crab, Fiddlehead Fern, Ermine, Plasticene, Ombudsman

[Critters2]

19. What the hell!

If people are naming girls "Madison", which wasn't a girl's name until the movie "Splash" made it one--it was a reference to Madison Avenue in the film....or "Sierra", which means "mountain range", not something I'd name my daughter....then why not "Jutland"? "Ermine" is nice, too.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

79. Way too many people naming their kids after soap opera characters these days

or, my pet peeve, giving girls boys' names.

[Dulcinea]

125. Agreed.

Madison? Ugh!

Shelby is a name for an Old English sheepdog, not a girl!

I really hate that trend too.

[unpossibles]

30. I like those.

What about Climentia or maybe Hooters.

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. Or Chlamydia

I mean, why not? It's the 2000s - anything goes, and the fucking dumber the better.

[Critters2]

83. When I worked in day care, we had twins...

Rwanda and Uganda. These two were in my class, but I heard they had a sister named Burkina. I assume her middle name was Faso.

[Sweet Freedom]

139. I was shopping in Target one day

and they overhead paged an employee named "Angina" and then my cashier was named "Edema". :rofl:

[Tikki]

17. Congratulations to your family....

maybe it will be a sweet little lady...

Our extended family is expecting a baby in July.

Girls' names they have considered are Danina or Danica or Helena.

Tikki

[Xipe Totec]

18. Adriana, Berenice, Carolyn, Diana, Elena...

Fiona, Grace, Holly, Imogen, Julia...

[RubyDuby in GA]

20. Ava Isabella - don't think I'm having any more kids so here ya go

:)

[Squatch]

23. Great name...thanks!

[RubyDuby in GA]

25. Glad you like it. That's what we were going to name a girl, then we found out Carter Dean was on

his way :)

Wouldn't trade that boy for anything in the world.

[XemaSab]

87. I'm sure any political connotations are coincidental

:D

[RubyDuby in GA]

120. Exactly!

It's an amazing coincidence that I love Jimmy Carter dearly and that my husband and I met working on Howard Dean's campaign.
Crazy... :)

[VenusRising]

21. Siobhan.

Pronounced (Sha-von). Love it!

Also Irish/Welsh names:

Caitlyn
Molly
Bridget (form of Brigid)
Cathleen
Colleen
Brenna

[AlCzervik]

22. Anastasia.

yeah ok thats my daughter's name but i always loved it.

[CBHagman]

24. Siobahn.

Pronounced "Shi-vaughn."

Bryn, even though the most famous Bryn I know of is a big, burly Welsh singer.


Bronwen/Bronwyn

Angharad

Hm. Will have to put the thinking cap on.

[KitchenWitch]

26. Emily

[Drum]

27. Seven

This will probably end all discussion of the matter. You're welcome. :)

[Arugula Latte]

49. ... or Soda.

:thumbsup:

[Drum]

50. ..

:D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

80. "Seven" is actually a woman's name in Turkish

I once met someone with that name, and she was from Turkey. Apparently it means something like "beloved."

[Sanity Claws]

28. Eileen

It was the only Irish name that I could think of that didn't make the names on the lists already mentioned.
Congratulations on your new family member.

[DarkTirade]

29. Morticia.

[RainDog]

31. Remy

that's sort of celtic-y.

a lot of people I know have named their kid "Isabelle" lately. it's pretty, but it's not fun to be the fourth Isabella.Izzy,Bella, Belle, whatever, in the room.

Lily is a very nice name. I'd go for a flower over a car... I know that's not where the name comes from, but I just had to say it... :hi:

[GirlinContempt]

32. Here you go.

http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html

[hippywife]

73. LOL! I was just getting ready

to post that site. I think I spent a whole evening reading that. What a buncha weird folks!

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. Gwendolyn, Gwenyth, Maureen (scottish, actually I think), Shannon (irish-american) Moya/Maire,

Heather (scottish American), Geillis, Morgan/Morgana

Good luck and felicitations!

[XemaSab]

89. Moira

:)

[kid a]

35. if we have another girl, i'm going with STELLA!!!

[rosesaylavee]

36. Ceridwen?

http://www.babynology.com/welsh_name-meaning_Ceridwen_f.html

Welsh goddess of poetry... more names at that link.

[davsand]

37. Dread Pirate

We told my husband's idiot sister that was what we were gonna name our daughter and she got all freaked out.

:evilgrin:


We wanted a name that wasn't gonna be real popular because we didn't want seven girls in the same classroom named the same. Some of the names we considered (other than Dread Pirate.) We also were mostly drawn to Celtic girls' names:

Joy
Brianna
Darcy
Eleanor (hey--Eleanor of Aquitaine was married to Louis of France, got annulled, then married the King of England and gave birth to both Richard the Lionhearted and John)
Shannon
Siobhan, and Brigid.

[Orangepeel]

38. Mulva, Aretha, Dolores

oops! maybe those are bad girl names. :evilgrin:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

39. My favorite girls names are Carolyn, Susan, Virginia, Mary, Mary Anne, Mary Beth,

Mary Clare, Lisa, Andrea, Patricia and Catherine

[GCP]

40. Annabel, Joanne, Juliana

Are all favorites of mine.

[krispos42]

42. Well, it's a bit more difficult without a last name to work with

But this link could help.

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.female.first


I like Sarah, Laura, Judith, Madaline, Lori, and Katrina myself.

:shrug:

[HuffleClaw]

43. Miffy

Moira
Celeste
Cliffordinia
cyrano

[Deep13]

44. Mulva

Gipple?

Seriously, I'd forget about Mercedes. Don't think it is much better than Chevrolet.

[Bucky]

46. Delores.

Also, think about "Chesty LaBoomboom" as a girl's name. She's bound to excel in science.

[marzipanni]

47. Corrina, Corrina,

gal, where you been so long?
(An old song Bob Dylan sang on his first album about 43 or so years ago...)

[NewJeffCT]

48. Here is a really lengthy list linked below:

the 1000 most popular baby names this century so far:

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/decades/names2000s.html

I did similar when our daughter was born almost 5 years ago - got the list of names and decided I wanted something that was not in the top 10, but also not too unusual. Then, my wife threw out some names and I said "yea" or "nay" to them until we settled on Grace.

[NewWaveChick1981]

55. Geez...my first name is 244th on that list...

:bounce: That means I'm somewhat special! :P :rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

61. I didn't think my daughter's name would be too common

but, there were 3 other girls named Grace in her preschool... luckily, none in her kindergarten.

[Burma Jones]

51. Rosalie..........

That's what I wanted to name our second daughter, but my wife vetoed the name because I had been too obsessed with the song "Everything Merges With The Night" by Brian Eno in which Rosalie figures prominently......She figured it was a passing phase.

Other Daughter names we have considered:

Maisy
Althea
Thalia
Lynn (my middle name)
Juliet

[MrsMatt]

52. We're not having any more children

so here are our leftovers!

Vivienne
Desideria
Delphine
Isabeau
Geneva (my mother's name)
Bettina (short for Elizabeth)

[Bake]

53. Diarrhea. Very popular with children.

:rofl:

Bake

[Pierre.Suave]

54. I cant believe this has not been mentioned yet, but...

I have always thought, Lilly was a very pretty name.

Especially for a young girl.

[NewWaveChick1981]

56. Viagra, Levitra, Lunesta, Fallopia, Urethra...

:rofl: :hi:

[qwertyMike]

57. Emma, Kathleen n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

58. Spatula

but Nora would do if you didn't want to be silly.

Congrats! :D

[LanternWaste]

59. Clarissa.

Clarissa. Dunno why-- but I've liked that name for quite some time...

[applegrove]

60. Sofie, Phoebe, Samantha I like.

[skygazer]

62. I've always loved the name Claire

Colleen is nice, too and easy to pronounce. :)

[gbate]

116. Claire is one of my favorites.

[GirlinContempt]

63. Emily.

[elana i am]

64. i like my name...

elana (pronounced ee-lay-nah)

i also adore:
sophie/sophia
hannah
ilene/irene (old fashioned spelling)
daisy
lila/lilah/leelah
kaylee/cailey

[rug]

65. Rabrrrrrra

[Rabrrrrrr]

66. YES!!! YES!!!!!!!

:woohoo:

:woohoo:

:woohoo:

[lightningandsnow]

67. Asha,

it means "Hope" in sanskrit.

I also like Cassidy, Bellamy, Rhiannon, and Shaye... if you're looking for more Welsh/Irish sounding names.

[AspenRose]

68. Lydia

Candace
Olivia
Jacqueline
Grace
Eden

Those were all on my list last summer (we ended up having a boy)

[dbackjon]

69. Molly Ivins (first and Middle names)

Can't do much better for an Irish name than that.

[porphyrian]

70. I don't have any good ones, but I have some really bad ones.

Mucoida
Plaguebearer
Ornithopter

I can keep going...

[youthere]

74. MUCOR.

[youthere]

71. Aubrey or Kendall

[Lyric]

72. Rhiannon

Pronounced "Ree-ANN-un". Rhiannon is a Welsh mythological figure, and also the title of a song penned by the gypsy lady herself, Stevie Nicks. That's what I was going to name my son if he'd been born a girl. :)

[appal_jack]

75. Niamh or Nieve

I think the Irish write it "Niamh" but then no teacher or friend will ever successfully pronounce it on the first try. So you may want to go with "Nieve."

Years ago I helped on several Peregrine Falcon release efforts ("Hack sites" with the Peregrine Fund for fellow/sister raptor geeks here). One year we had trouble with an adolescent wild peregrine harassing our juveniles (not one of Mother Nature's prettier moments). "Niamh" (yes, we used the Celtic spelling, figuring that a falcon doesn't care if someone pronounces her name wrong...) was one of the intrepid survivors who refused to let the larger adolescent driver her away (being driven away meant starvation & death for juveniles as young as we had:cry:).

I liked the name Niamh before (which is why I gave it to the falcon), but I like it even more after that summer that Niamh the falcon successfully fledged!

-app

[hippywife]

76. One that kinda fits

your criteria is Alain, I think.

[blockhead]

77. Britta

game over.

[graywarrior]

78. Babs.

(Kidding)

[Throd]

81. Throdette, Throdalyn, Throdia, Throda-Mae

Just don't name her after my great aunt Throdita. She was bad news.

[AwakeAtLast]

82. I've always liked Maya or Mya

and also Mia - all were too close to our last name, so we couldn't use them.

[Critters2]

84. Some friends of mine are in the process of adopting an intersex infant

They thought they'd have trouble finding good unisex names, but they ended having a hard time settling on one. They're naming the baby Loren. I told 'em I like it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

85. I like your idea of Penelope - or how about Priscilla or Cassandra?

I love the name Priscilla. I love those kinds of old-fashioned names that sound like they're out of old romantic novels.

[femmocrat]

86. Please do her future teachers a favor and do not come up with "creative spelling."

I have multiple McKenzies, Lindsays, Katelyns, Michaelas, Kristas, Cheyennes, and Alicias of every possible phonetic spelling variation you could ever think of.

I also have approx. 900 students... please don't ask me to remember who spells it which way! Thank you ever so much! :hi:

[jmm]

92. It would also be a favor for those of us who

have traditionally spelled names. On a daily basis at work I've got to explain to people My name is Jessica. Yes, it's spelled J-e-s-s-i-c-a. That's "J" not "G." Like I said J-e-s-s-i-c-a. S-S, not "s" not "z". :argh:

[femmocrat]

96. Gezzica?

I haven't seen any variations on Jessica yet, except for Jessi, Jessie, and Jesse (which is usually a boy's name). I have seen Jessamyn and Jessilyn, though. Those are kind of pretty and still fairly unusual.

[SPKrazy]

88. only names of "good girls"

but good girls don't

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0vCdC3CSNI

:spray:


i dunno

lots of good suggestions

[Generic Brad]

95. That's how I read it too.

I was thinking, what would we classify as a "bad girl" name? Winehouse? Spears? Lohan?

[SeattleGirl]

90. Hanna/Hannah

I love that name.

[XemaSab]

91. Here are mine:

Stellula, Firn, Neve, and Arete. :)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

93. Here are some old-fashioned French girl names

Ghislaine, Violette, Isabelle, Aurelie, Charlaine, Delphine, Solange, Clarice, Melanie, Claire, Aimee, Desiree, Aubrey, Chantal, Jasmine, Giselle, Shantelle, Demi

[Fire Walk With Me]

94. Nicorette.

[femmocrat]

97. LOL

I do have a "Nicolette".... you know they will call her Nicorette by the time she is in middle school!

[kwassa]

98. Mehetabel

A common girl's name in early America. I had many in my family.

My wife vetoed it, however.

also the name of the cat in Krazy Kat

[auntAgonist]

99. Mariah, Moira, Anne, Helen, Susan, Isobel, Margaret, Katherine

Katy, Elizabeth, Mavis, Rowena, Rachel, Sarah, Brianna, Brigit, Ciara, pronounced Cee Rah

Deirdre, Norah, Isolt, pronounce Ee Solt.



just a few.

Congratulations to you and your family on the expected arrival of a new daughter.

aA

[Redneck Socialist]

100. Britney

What?







:evilgrin:

[Flaxbee]

101. Maeve, or Elinor

... two I like. A friend named her daughter Elise, and another Ava.

Good luck! Looks like you got a lot of suggestions!

[Dystopian]

136. Another for Maeve!

:hi:

Simple, beautiful and not a common name...I was surprised to see it here again.


peace~

[Adsos Letter]

102. Kendall...

...YAY...!!!

[last_texas_dem]

103. Nemonia

Hey, it's a real name. I've been stuffing envelopes for a survey project I've been working on, and noticed today that one of the people receiving the survey is named "Nemonia." When I first read it, I thought it sounded pretty, and then I thought about it a few seconds... haha

[Breeze54]

104. Call it 'Enough'! ~~ or 'Orla' = means "Golden Princess"

:P

JUST kidding with ya about calling her enough!

----------------------------------

Some I'd consider if I was having a baby girl.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Betha - 'bay-thah' - From the Irish word for 'life'.

Brigid, Bridget - 'bridge-id' - Brigit - The name comes from the Irish 'brigh' meaning 'powerful' or 'high one'
- In fact St Brigid predates Christianity...

Caoimhe - qwee-vuh or key-vuh - 'Keva'
- From the Irish word 'caomh' which can variously mean 'gentle, beautiful or graceful'.

Erin - ayr-in - The Irish word for 'Ireland'. Not used as a name in Ireland, but quite
common in America and other places to which the Irish emigrated.

Macha - 'mock-ah' - A Goddess or Queen of Irish myth, associated with battle and horses.
The Irish word 'macha' means 'plain' - as in a flat area of grass, not as in ordinary looking!

Orlaith, - Orlagh - 'or-la' -Orla - Or means gold and the name is taken to mean Golden Princess.

Sorcha - sork-ah - A medieval name which died out for many centuries but has become
used again lately. Sometimes used as the Irish for Sarah.

http://www.dochara.com/stuff/names-old-girls.php

Good Luck! :D

[last_texas_dem]

105. Actually

my favorite girls' names are Aubrey, Leora, Michelle, and Natalie. For whatever that's worth...

(I figured I ought to give some serious input to balance my "Nemonia" suggestion a couple posts up!)

[FunkyLeprechaun]

106. I do like Irish and Welsh names

My fiance has a Welsh name and I have an Irish name. While we won't be having kids for sometime now, I've got some good ones and am thinking of combining a Welsh and Irish name. In my family, the tradition is the first born boy gets the name John and the first born girl gets the name Ann, my sister has a form of Ann and whilst I'm a female, I've got the femme form of John.

Here are my favourites for a boy: Eoghan Ruadh (Owen Roe) after the poem "Cumha Eoghan Ruaidh Uí Néill", (Eoghan can be a form of John, and Owen is a very Welsh name anyway!). And also after an Irish historian I greatly respect who happens to be Welsh, Emyr Estyn. His nickname could be Stan! :-) My fiance wants plain old English names... He might not mind Eoghan/Eoin because it's a slight nod to our favourite books/movie Lord of the Rings (Eomer and Eowyn).

I have a couple of female friends whose names I really like so I may use a form of their names in Welsh/Irish. I love the name Siân Ffion and also Mairead but I'm not sure what middle name would be kick-ass with it.

I have a cousin named Porsche... I'm not kidding.

[Lady Freedom]

107. Amber!

A personal favorite of mine!

[Lady Freedom]

113. Trust me! go with AMBER!!!!!!!

[quip]

108. Natalie, Tovah

My favs. :hi:

[Catsbrains]

109. Emma, Catherine, Lauren, Shayla

[Callalily]

110. Grace n/t

[YankeyMCC]

111. Santina

I like Penelope though you nixed it already :)

Miranda is another good one.

[FooFootheSnoo]

112. Lydia

one of my personal favorites, it's not too common and is feminine without being overly girly. Unfortunately, it's one of my nieces names so I can never use it.

Other favorites: Veronica and Emmaline.

Not Celtic, but I thought I'd throw them out there. Congrats!!

[pink-o]

114. Just call her Anja

...Rhymes with mangia or ganja, not Ann-yah.

I only say that because it's my name and I don't have a daughter to carry it on.

(Kidding, BTW)

[SarahB]

115. Audrey

Amelia, Erin, Grace, or Sarah of course.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

118. Friday

Unless you're in Rome
http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/odd/2007/12/19/Friday_s.Child/?cvqh=itn_friday


I don't suppose "Squatchette" would be high on your list, either.

Someone suggested Fiona. I kinda like that one.

:hi:

[MrsMatt]

119. Myrth

pronounced "mirth"

It was the middle name of one of my college roomates - i always thought it very pretty.

[SteppingRazor]

121. Have you read Freakonomics?

They have a section where they take the most popular names from previous decades, then extrapolate what will be popular in 20 years. There's still time to take a name from there list and be seen as a trendsetter! :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

122. Elspeth, Gwendolyn, Grace, Faith, Hope, Paige, Pamela, good luck

I can go on ...ad nauseum :D

[dry99]

123. My daughter had a baby girl

She named her Evangeline. I call her Evie.

[Dulcinea]

124. Something Shakespearean?

Rosalind (As You Like It)

Miranda (a character in The Tempest long before Sex and the City)

Mary Blythe (I just like that combo)

Genevieve

Meredith

*Those last 2 are my daughters' names!

Congratulations!

[zanne]

126. Elizabeth. My fave. nt

[Zoigal]

127. Our new great granddaughter is being named Nadia.

Somewhat unusual. No middle name. z

[Rhiannon12866]

128. I've always liked Siobhan, Irish and it's a pretty name.

Congratulations...:hi:

[CreekDog]

129. Jamie Lynn

Wait, nevermind.

[yellowcanine]

130. Elizabeth, Susannah, Hannah, Eleanor, Katherine, Carolyn.....

I like the old fashioned names, partly because they often have a lot of potentially nice nick-names/diminutives that can be updated as the child grows up and chooses what she wants people to call her.

[BlueCollar]

131. Cecilia

I've always liked that name

[JCMach1]

132. my daughters are Anaisa and Katerina

[tandot]

133. Isabella, Vivian, Katherine

[SmokingJacket]

134. I like plain, simple names.

I have one of those hard-to-pronounce and spell Celtic names, and fuggedaboutit!

Mary is awesome. My friend named her daughter "Mary Leona," which is lovely.

Jane

Laura

Ruth is my favorite, I think.

Can't go wrong with Ann.

Nora, Cora, Nina.

[ceile]

135. Here's some:

Irish:
Maebh (maeve)
Dierdre
Enda

Others:
Grace
Elizabeth
Rose
Caroline
Annemarie
Jean

[judaspriestess]

137. Kelby

is a cute name

[IronLionZion]

138. My first daughter will be named Tessy with a Y

after my biological mother.

[carly denise pt deux]

140. Here's some

Mia
Giana (it's not exactly welse/irish LOL)prounounced jeeanna
Bijoux....never mind, it sounds like a sneeze
Lauren
Alexandra
India
Zoe
Aja
Deia

Carly