Feminine, uncommon girl names

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Registered: 05-06-2004
Feminine, uncommon girl names
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Mon, 08-01-2005 - 9:51pm

Hi. I would like some girl name suggestions. I like names that are feminine and not overly popular, yet names that people have heard of before.

Please help! Thanks in advance.

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Registered: 08-15-2005
Sat, 09-10-2005 - 2:38pm
I love the name Alyssa, but don't like that spelling. I like Alisa better for a different twist. Very feminine and soft sounding...yet not too out there.
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Registered: 07-01-2005
Sat, 09-10-2005 - 7:03pm
I LOVE the name Meradith! I haven't heard it in a long long time.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sat, 09-10-2005 - 10:13pm
I've always heard Alyssa and Alisa as two different names with different pronunciations. Alyssa is "uh-liss-uh," and Alisa is "uh-lees-uh." I personally prefer Alyssa, although I think Alisa or Elise would be less common.

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Registered: 09-12-2005
Mon, 09-12-2005 - 2:03pm
How about combining two more common names to get a more uncommon name. Like Annalee. Try it with a few names and see if it helps. You can rearrange letters from words, too. like yours and your husbands names, or names of your other kids. Sometimes it's just fun to try. Good luck!
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Registered: 09-13-2005
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 12:37am

Hi there!
feminine uncommon girls' names seem to have attracted a lot of really flowery names, which is good, but there are lots of plainer girls' names, equally feminine, which are currently completely uncommon. Examples:
Anne, Alice, Brigid, Catrin, Ellen, Frances, Griet, Helen, Iris, Jane(t), Lucy, Maude, Margaret, Moira, Norah, Ruth, Robin, Sadie, Tilda, Una, Willa.
Fancier ones:
Annabel, Beatrice, Caroline, Eleanor, Florence, Genev(r)a, Harriet, Imogen, Jeanine, Josepha, Lillian, Louise, Mathilda, Ophelia, Philippa (Pippa), Penelope, Roberta, Susanna, Tabitha, Ursula, Vivian, Winifred.
There are also things like flower names which were once common, but are now more or less limited to Heather, Rose and Lily. More unusal- Ivy, Iris, Daisy, Poppy, Myrtle and Hazel (drat you Julia Roberts!) and so on, there are thousands.

Good luck, and let us all know her name!

Sisilou
(who, for the record, always wanted a 'traditional' name rather that the one that definitively tells the world I was born after 1970)

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