Unique Unisex Names for Girls

Updated Thu Dec 03 2020

Unique unisex names are one of our favorite categories for baby girls. (For boys too, but that’s another story.)

The 136 names here were all found below the Top 1000 baby names for girls on the most recent Social Security list. They also are all truly gender-neutral, used between 40 percent and 60 percent of the time for baby girls, Therefore, all of them are both uncommon and unisex.

Unique unisex names are becoming more popular for both baby girls and baby boys. Some unisex names that were once quite rare, such as Harper and Riley and Quinn, now rank among the Top 100 baby names for girls in the US.

If you’re looking for unique unisex names sidestep conventional gender identity for your daughter, all of these have a lot of style.

Top Unique Unisex Girl Names

This list ranks our group of unique unisex names for girls by popularity, with the top names such as Bellamy and Khari given to more than 200 baby girls last year, while those at the bottom of the list were used for only a handful of baby girls.

Unique Unisex Names Ranked by Gender

This list ranks our group of unique unisex names by their relative usage for girls and boys. Remember, all these names are truly gender-neutral, so the names at the top of the list, starting with Peace, are used 60 percent of the time for baby girls, while the names at the bottom of the list are used 40 percent of the time for girls. Honor, Sidney, Kiernan, Britain, and True hit the 50-50 mark, achieving true gender parity.

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Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.

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