15,000+ Two-Syllable Girl Names

A more unique take on Lydia — both names refer to Lydia, the area of Asia Minor recognized in the Bible. Lydian has an added musical connection, thanks to the Lydian mode — a chord progression often heard in jazz.

Whether you pronounce it like the original Amy or the Frenchified Ay-may, this form adds considerable elan to an old favorite.

Faigy is notable as New York State's quirkiest favorite name, widely-used in the Hasidic community.

Old English name as outmoded as the use of the word maid for a young girl.

Somehow, the S versions are even more passe than the C's.

This mythological sea monster, as described in Homer's Odyssey, lives on one side of a narrow channel of water opposite her counterpart Charybdis. Scylla is described as having 12 feet and six heads on long snaky necks, each head having a triple row of sharklike teeth. She had the habit on snacking on passing sailors, including several of Odysseus's crew.

Part of a group of similar midcentury names rarely given to babies today.

Unlike Pamela and Melanie, Mela feels fresh and unusual.

The name recently given to their daughter by Susan and Robert Downey, Jr. is pronounced like Avery and may be seen as a kree8tiv spelling variation of that popular unisex name or a girlish short form of Avraham, the Biblical Hebrew form of Abraham.

A potential nickname for Lake, or in professional surfer Lakey Peterson's case, Laura Louise.

This anagram of Agnes is not related to that name; rather it comes from the Gaelic word seang meaning "slender".

Your teenager will either love you or hate you for choosing this name. Better: Fox.

Paul Cézanne was a French post-Impressionist painter whose intriguing surname is of uncertain origin, although it may be related to Suzanne (from the Hebrew Shoshana, "lily"). It has been used as a girls' name in South Africa, due to its familiar -anne ending.

An old-fashioned Slovene nickname for Gertruda — the Jerca variation is considered more stylish.

Has an incomplete feeling....

Magee became one of the first gender-bending Irish surname names so popular today thanks to New York television newswoman Magee Hickey. In case you don't know, the g is hard, as in Maggie, but with the opposite emphasis.