Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 13:26     Subject: Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Sylvia
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 13:22     Subject: Re:Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Anonymous wrote:We’re thinking about Meera/Mira. Anyone know one?


Yes, she's in elementary now.
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 13:07     Subject: Re:Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some of my favorites that I don't hear often are:
Juliette
Carly
Brooke
Clio
Elle
Paige
Bryony


How do you pronounce Bryony?


It's Bry-o-nee. That's actually my cats name because I liked it so much and didn't have a girl!


Which syllable gets emphasized? The first?
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 12:53     Subject: Re:Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some of my favorites that I don't hear often are:
Juliette
Carly
Brooke
Clio
Elle
Paige
Bryony


How do you pronounce Bryony?


It's Bry-o-nee. That's actually my cats name because I liked it so much and didn't have a girl!


Isn't that the awful girl from Atonement, but she spelled it Briony.
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 12:46     Subject: Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Regina
Melissa
Bernadette
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 11:52     Subject: Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Belinda
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 11:30     Subject: Re:Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some of my favorites that I don't hear often are:
Juliette
Carly
Brooke
Clio
Elle
Paige
Bryony


How do you pronounce Bryony?


It's Bry-o-nee. That's actually my cats name because I liked it so much and didn't have a girl!
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 10:32     Subject: Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Anonymous wrote:Eva


Ava is ranked in the top 5 most used names... They sound the same.

Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 09:31     Subject: Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also, Gen X-er here: it’s funny listening to these names, which are all names of my peers or our parents. Guessing most of you here are in your 20s-30s, so it’s funny how trends shift.


I'm in my late 40s and suggested Jenny, even though there were always 3 Jennifers in my class at school-I think a nice name that was popular a generation ago is still a nice name.


My husband's great grandmother was named Jenny! or was it Jennie? Anyhoo, we thought about honoring her but, decided Jenny was a nn but, didn't want Jennifer.
Anonymous
Post 05/24/2020 09:29     Subject: Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Anonymous wrote:Also, Gen X-er here: it’s funny listening to these names, which are all names of my peers or our parents. Guessing most of you here are in your 20s-30s, so it’s funny how trends shift.


I'm in my late 40s and suggested Jenny, even though there were always 3 Jennifers in my class at school-I think a nice name that was popular a generation ago is still a nice name.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2020 22:18     Subject: Re:Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sloan
Kathleen
Vivian
Margaret


This is extremely popular amongst the UMC on the East Coast. I don't expect it will make national U.S. traction, but it has hit peak in certain demographics. Vivian is right there as well.


I’m in Seattle suburbia and Sloan/Sloane is very common here too.



Sloane is SO popular among UMC preppy set. I think its a bit derivative of the whole Sloane Ranger thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloane_Ranger
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2020 17:22     Subject: Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
I know a Laura who is 6, and I swear I had another friend that used it, too

One of my friends has a girl named Linden (honoring a Linda). That might work for you
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2020 16:42     Subject: Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
My 13yo DC has a name that has hung out in the 200's on both the boys and girls SS names lists for years and we've met maybe 6 or 7 other kids who share the name.
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2020 16:29     Subject: Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
I just browsed, but a few I didn't see-

Cecily
Bridget
May
Elsie
Anonymous
Post 05/23/2020 15:22     Subject: Re:Pretty but currently unused names for a girl
Anonymous wrote:We’re thinking about Meera/Mira. Anyone know one?


Yes we have met several but it’s not super common. We used it for the middle name but our DD is 13.