amelianaire's list "If I Ever Have a Daughter" of 3 great name ideas: Mika - Vivien!

If I Ever Have a Daughter

A list of names I might give a future daughter. Some are meaningful, some simply strike me the right way, and others are “guilty pleasures” that I’m not likely to actually use.

Mika is a sparky and stylish Japanese girls' name that translates easily to English. Also used as a Slovene and Hebrew diminutive for Mihaela and Michaela, as an alternative spelling to the Biblical Micah, and as a Greek diminutive of Dimitra (via Mimika), it is a truly multi-cultural choice.
 
Also used as a masculine name, usually as a short form for Michael and its variations, Mika is a Top 100 choice in Israel for girls, while in the US, it is a unisex choice, given to 157 girls in a recent year, along with 49 boys. In Japan, it was a particular favorite back in the 70s and 80s.
 
Notable bearers include actress and singer Mika Nakashima, television host Mika Brzezinski, singer Mika Arisaka, and social media star Mika Salamanca.

Mika

A strong Greek name with pan-European charm, Petra is a relatively recent feminization of Peter, though it relates back to an incredible ancient city in Jordan that was rediscovered in the early nineteenth century. 
 Currently among the most popular girl names in Croatia, Hungary, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Petra ranked in the US Top 1000 every year from 1880 to 1951, reaching a high of #493 in 1929.
 There have been Petras in two European film classics: Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. The most prominent Petra in recent years is gorgeous supermodel Petra Nemcova, who is also an international disaster relief activist. Petra is also the name of a famous Christian rock band.

Petra

Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh was born Vivian. Some sources give Vivien as a relative of the Irish goddess name Bebinn and a literary name invented by Tennyson. Others say it's related to the Latin-based Viviana, meaning life. This spelling of the name is as legitimate as many others.