Want a girl name that’s not popular, but also not made-up?
I looked through the names at the bottom of SSA’s 2011 mega-list and found a bunch of hidden gems:
- Alberta (9 baby girls)
- Alexandrina (6)
- Amity (28)
- Apollonia (21)
- Augusta (31)
- Augustina (15)
- Avelina (34)
- Bernadine (6)
- Bertha (45)
- Bettina (8)
- Blanche (6)
- Bryony (5); Briony (16)
- Carlotta (20)
- Celestina (19)
- Celestine (7)
- Cicely (14)
- Claribel (19)
- Clarice (37)
- Clarity (17)
- Claudette (9)
- Claudine (9)
- Clementina (7)
- Constantina (5)
- Coretta (5)
- Corinna (37)
- Cornelia (17)
- Damiana (10)
- Davida (10)
- Delphine (26)
- Dinah (44)
- Dolores (39)
- Dorothea (15)
- Edwina (8)
- Eloisa (42)
- Enid (15)
- Ernestina (5)
- Eugenia (29)
- Eugenie (8)
- Eulalia (25)
- Euphemia (5)
- Evita (13)
- Fabiana (47)
- Faustina (21)
- Flavia (12)
- Floriana (6)
- Florina (6)
- Georgette (24)
- Gertrude (16)
- Gloriana (22)
- Golda (34)
- Goldie (37)
- Heloise (8)
- Henrietta (34)
- Hilda (40)
- Imelda (23)
- Io (9)
- Ione (26)
- Isidora (13)
- Jeanne (39)
- Josette (27)
- Junia (17)
- Linnaea (12)
- Lucette (7)
- Lucienne (43)
- Lucilla (12)
- Marietta (22)
- Maude (9)
- Mavis (38)
- Minerva (38)
- Nanette (8)
- Nell (32)
- Nella (38)
- Nicola (30)
- Nicoletta (19)
- Nicolina (29)
- Odette (48)
- Olympia (22)
- Orla (28); Orlagh (6)
- Phillipa (10)
- Philomena (41)
- Phyllis (20)
- Rhoda (28)
- Romana (6)
- Rosabella (46)
- Rosalba (17)
- Rosaline (20)
- Rosella (26)
- Rosetta (25)
- Rosette (5)
- Rosina (17)
- Rowena (15)
- Rubina (5)
- Rue (13)
- Sebastiana (5)
- Seraphine (19)
- Sigrid (15)
- Stephania (32)
- Sybilla (5)
- Talulla (5)
- Therese (47)
- Thomasina (6)
- Thora (19)
- Tova (43)
- Ulyssa (8)
- Ursula (25)
- Vashti (16)
- Verity (38)
- Violetta (46)
- Vita (36)
- Wanda (23)
- Winifred (30)
- Winona (20)
- Xanthe (7)
- Zenaida (36)
- Zenobia (22)
- Zillah (9)
- Zipporah (41); Tzipporah (12)
(In some cases, a different spelling of the name is more popular than what’s shown here. For instance, Isidora is rare, but Isadora is more common.)
Like any of these?
Did you spot any other great end-of-the-list names?
See the boys’ list, or check out the Rare Baby Names page.