With the growing popularity of Celia and Cecilia, this vintage canasta-playing nickname name could be due for a comeback.

If there's an ancestral Earl you want to honor, consider Early instead.

Christmas is a day name long and quietly used as a name for babies born at Christmas. Prettier and more modern than Noel or Noelle.

Chelsea with dyslexia.

One of those feminizations that came over shortly after the Mayflower but has been lost at sea ever since.

Place name and surname that sounds a tad snooty.

Charming Dickensian route to Nick.

Yeats, the strong name of the great Irish poet, would work better for a boy. Also has possible pronunciation problem with people who might think it rhymes with Keats. Yeats rhymes with the word from which it's derived: gates.

The cake company pretty much knocked this otherwise-pretty compilation name out of consideration for most parents.

Mythic lumberjack Paul may inspire some namesakes despite relation to similarly pronounced foot problem.

A diminutive diminutive, too tease-worthy.

Twiggy was the working name of English international supermodel and original 'mod squad' girl Lesley Lawson. While the name conjures images of cool 60s parties and glamour, be warned that this could be a hard name to wear as a teenager, particularly if you're not stick thin. Perhaps best to keep this one as a middle name or nickname.

Does not improve on the pretty but overused favorite.