
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?
(Here’s the boys’ list.)