Want a girl name that’s not popular, but also not unheard of?
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?
P.S. Here’s the boys’ list.
Image: Adapted from Birmanian rock crystals by Mauro Cateb under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Some of these were on our short list. I think Flavia’s my favorite. I keep thinking it will be used more because of its similarity to Olivia.
Claribel will always be a clown in my mind.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarabell_the_Clown)
I love a lot of names on this list.
Some favorites are:
Vita
Bernadine (nn Birdie!)
Delphine
Dolores
Maude
Orla
Rue
Apollonia would be a great choice for the adventurous. I like the nicknames Polly or Lola for it.
I love Maude, Eulalia, Zenobia, Eugenie, and Rosaline.
I quite like Apolline and Ulyssa. :)
You chould use other names the are not on the list like Christy, or Sienna I have a friend Her name is Sienna and that’s is all I know for Siennas. There is also Grace, or Gracie. There’s Aaron and a lot more but I do like the ones on the list but I thought I might give you some other names as well. I like Coretta or Rue. Good luck I hope you have a name. Hope this helped.
I love the names Rue and Coretta.
I love those names but I also think Azalea and Florence are strong names.