Rare Girl Names You Don’t Know (Yet!)

A good deal of these were new to me which is a nice surprise!
Corisande has been one of my favourites for years however!! I wish I were brave enough to use it!

Many of these I didn’t know.

Some of them I have known and loved for awhile:

Berengaria
Corisande
Delphia
Gwyneira
Leocadia
Ligeia
Ngaio
Orinthia
Pomeline
Tegwen
Verbena

Of all those, I would choose Ligeia Ngaio (love the sound) or Corisande, which to me sounds like the name of a heavenly baking spice. Gwyneira is particularly lush too.

Great blog.

I like

Corisande
Delphia
Dorrin
Evora
Merrigan
Willodean
Zerynthia

I LOVE Cirilla, Pari (my daughter’s middle), Tanwen, Mereigan, Orana, and Sabra.

Most of these I don’t know, but a few I did:

Corisande
Delphia
Ffion (my dad’s Welsh cousin is named this)
Gwyneira (a long-time GP of mine)
Hila (I have a friend named this, it means ‘halo’, and I adore it)
Isra
Leocadia
Lowri
Merewen
Merrigan
Nephele
Pomeline
Rhonwen (dad has another Welsh cousin with this name, her and Ffion are sisters!)
Tanwen
Urbana
Yesenia

Of those I didn’t know, I like these:

Berit
Dorrin
Eleusine
Ellisif (WOW WOW WOW)
Ferelith
Flordelis
Halona
Medora
Nereida
Willodean

I taught a Svea (pronounced sah-VEE-ah), and it was very wearable.

Surprised by how many Welsh names are on here, especially as some of them are fairly common ones? Talking Ffion and Rhonwen especially. Eilonwy i’m sure is a disney character that quite a few people would recognise. Tanwen is a gp of mine and has been for a long time and Prideaux and Zennor are both Cornish place names- I’ve used them both in the “baby a day” thread in the games forum

Loving Azra, Gwyneira, Hila and Svea!

Wow! I was actually surprised to see a handful of names I didn’t know. Most of these are familiar to me. I’ve even known some people with these names.

I once named a little kitten Rialta. She was the cutest little thing.

What about Eirawen? First time I heard of it. It is also a welsh name I believe and means snow and white, similar to Gwyneira. Anyone heard of it?

Many of these names are on my ‘like but would never actually use’ list (with a few spelling changes), and some on the real deal list too :

Aroa, Azenor, Azra, Cleona, Delphia, Doveva, Elucine, Erendira, Evora, Gwynora, Halona, Hila, Nephele, Nerea, Pomeline, Verbena, Yareli

Great post!

Really quite like Svea and Pomeline. Very pretty.

I like Antinea. My tastes have definitely become bolder over time, but I really doubt I’d be brave enough to use Antinea!

Thoughts on the name Ora for baby girl?

Ora reminds me of a mom who was going to name her daughter Orally. She wanted the nn Rory.
I suggested maybe Auralee or Auraleigh could be nicknammed Rory.
From this list, I think Aroha would work with nn Rory.

She went with Sherry. No nn needed. ☺

I actually knew quite a few of these. You know you’re spending too much time on this site when… 😉

Leocadia was on my list for a long time! Also love Xanthe and Verbena is such a cool under the radar nature name

I am familiar with the following names:
Alouette
Calandra
Elke
Eluned
Endellion
Genoveva
Jerusha
Joliet
Jessamy
Kerensa
Netta
Ondine
Otillia
Ottoline
Rhonwen
Sandrine
Sunniva
Corisande
Svea (my celebrity crush’s grandmother’s name!)
Verbena
Xanthe
Tegwen
Corisande
Leocadia