Girls Baby Names: Hidden Treasures

Girls Baby Names: Hidden Treasures

By Linda Rosenkrantz

A couple of months ago, we blogged about names that were given to only ten babies in all of the US in 2016. Well now, for all you popularity-phobes and unique-freaks, we’re prepared to go even further and edge even closer to the absolutely unique –short of making up a new name or spelling.

Here we present a dozen names each that were give to only nine, eight, seven, six or five girls across the country, and they’re all names that have some history, meaning and are totally usable.

And so Jennifer and Jessica, Ashley and Amanda, here are some names that we can promise will pretty much insure that your daughter will be the only one in her class. (And don’t worry, Mike and Matt—we’ll be doing the same for the boys.)

Given to only 9 girls last year

Amabel

Anthea

Blanche

Bronwen

Clemence

Elsbeth

Eudora

Pixie

Sascha

Sonnet

Thessaly

Vashti

Given to only 8 girls last year

Avis

Carmel

Edwina

Lucrezia

Meridian

Oceanna

Orchid

Rosamund

Tulip

Velvet

Venezia

Wallis

Given to only 7 girls last year

Britt

Dulcie

Jamaica

Kitty

Margery

Moon

Persis

Prima

Romilly

Sinead

Sophronia

Tansy

Given to only 6 girls last year

Anwen

Bess

Bijoux

Briony and Bryony

Djuna

Freddie

Hyacinth

Oonagh

Theodosia

Thisbe

Topaz

Xanthe

Given to only 5 girls last year

Elleanora

Frederica

Iseult

Lilias

Manon

Marine

Myrtle

Paolina

Rosamond

Sidonie

Tiernan

Ynez

How about picking one from each of these groups that you would consider using?

About the Author

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz

Linda Rosenkrantz is the co-founder of Nameberry, and co-author with Pamela Redmond of the ten baby naming books acknowledged to have revolutionized American baby naming. You can follow her personally at InstagramTwitter and Facebook. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed New York Review Books Classics novel Talk and a number of other books.