Girl Names

Manzie

Music name

Manzie was an obscure one-person name until Woody Allen used it for his young daughter, named after jazz drummer Manzie Johnson. Johnson played with another jazz musician, Sidney Bechet, whose last…

Eliane

Variation of Eliana, Hebrew, or Latin from Greek

"my God has answered; sun"

Eliane is a melodic name with the very fashionable El- beginning. Lovely and lilting as it is, be aware that there are many El- variations around these days, and little girls called Ellie as a result.

Dilys

Welsh

"genuine, steadfast, true"

Common in Wales, but would really stand out here. One of the middle names of Stella McCartney's daughter Reiley; Dilys Powell was a well-known British film critic, Professor Dilys Derwent a Harry…

Alizabeth

Variation of Elizabeth

"pledged to God"

Unusual and attention-grabbing, but this unusual spelling also could make your child's life more complicated than it has to be.