tweleveclouds's list "Likable Girl Names" of 3 great name ideas: Lucille - Peony!

Likable Girl Names

Lucille is a name that had long been overpowered by its link to Lucille Ball, with an image of tangerine-colored hair, big, round eyes, and a tendency to stage daffy and desperate stunts. But with the newfound craze for double-L names like Lily and Lila, Lulu and Luna, and as the choice of Lucille by hipster parents Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson, Lucille is breaking free from its old clownish image, moving rapidly up the charts over the past decade after a long nap.
<br/><br/>Lucille has a history that far predates Lucille Ball and the 1950s.  It was well used by Christians of the Roman Empire and began to be used in the U.K. and the U.S. in the nineteenth century, making it one of the most <a href="https://nameberry.com/list/322/classic-baby-names-for-girls">classic names for girls</a>.  Reaching as high as Number 27 on the <a href="https://nameberry.com/popular-names">popular names</a> list of 1919—when there was a vogue for French sounding names like Marguerite and Genevieve—Lucille stayed in the Top 40 from 1906 to 1924.  This was followed by an almost thirty-year slump starting in 1977, when it fell off the list completely, only to return in 2003. 

Lucille

Albert Einstein's first wife was Mileva Marić, a Serbian student and his classmate at the Zurich Polytechnic (her childhood nickname was Mitza.) With the newfound popularity of Mila, this obscure Old Slavic name may be discovered outside of its native land.



Mileva

One of the rarest of the floral names, though not without some teasing potential. <em>Peony</em> is a historical 1948 novel by Pearl S. Buck.

Likable Girl Names

The names

Lucille

Mileva

Peony