Frilly and Edgy Girl Names

A beautiful and evocative place-name that deserves wider use, Sahara brings to mind deserts and heat. Derived from Arabic, it is the name of the world's largest hot desert, located across the North of Africa. Similar in appearance to Sarah and Zahra and similar in feel to Savannah, it was selected by reality TV star Georgia Harrison for her daughter Sahara Jean Stacey in 2025.

Shoshanna is a variation of one of the best-known original Hebrew baby names for girls , the original of Susanna. This is the spelling used by Shoshanna Lonstein, a designer who creates the Shoshanna clothing line and also the name of one of the four leading characters on the TV show Girls, Shoshanna Shapiro.

This name of the Roman goddess of fruit trees is also associated with a suburban town in Southern California.

A heroine in a Victorian novel written with a quill pen, has an unusual, offbeat charm.

Suzie (and Susie) was the one of the It Nicknames of midcentury America, right up there with Debbie and Kathy.

The name of the lead character in Toni Morrison's novella A Mercy, an enslaved woman who is sent in search of medicine for her sick master. Flora and Florence will both be less likely to create confusion, though that's no reason to avoid this version if you're a big fan of the book.