Two Syllable Names for Girls

This common variation of Tanya makes it less international and more ordinary.

This old-fashioned word for poetry has some antiquated charm but doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

The goddess of dawn, twilight, and dusk, is also the patron goddess of beauty, virgin women, and flowers in Incan mythology.

A new way to get to the fashionable nickname Jovie.

Alyce is an aceepted enough variation that there were more than 50 baby girls given the name with this spelling in the US last year. Of course, there were more than 3600 baby girls named Alice, spelled the conventional way.

A soft, sweet, distinctive name with a noble meaning.

Quirky tree name with baby name potential.

Cute Japanese name with a nickname to match. Rini was used in the Sailor Moon series.

Like Mitzi, the bubbly Fritzi/Fritzie shows signs of rising again,

Mirembe is a feminine Ugandan name stemming from the Luganda word "emirembe" meaning peace, quiet. In Luganda, Rs are pronounced similar to Ls, so mill-EM-beh is an approximate pronunciation.

Payton and Peyton are both very popular names for girls as well as boys, but Paityn is a spelling variations used almost exclusively for girls.

Kaidence is a newly-introduced variation of musical, rhythmic Cadence. Kaidence entered the Top 1000 in 2013, the same year it was rumored to be the frontrunner for Kim and Kanye's daughter. (It was wrong, of course - Kim and Kanye named their daughter North.)

Tetra is a Greek numeral prefix meaning "four", so it could make a fitting choice for a fourth child or for an IV.

Many parents these days are responding to names meaning peace, and this is one of the more unusual ones (more often heard as a surname). Pronounced PACH-ee-a, it relates to such other peaceful names as PAZ, PAX, and PAXICO

A modern invented name, possibly a variation on Ziola, which comes from Greek Zoilos meaning "lively". It appears in several songs by the band Jane's Addiction, inspired by the adopted name of a former girlfriend of one of the band members.

Easton is a stylish Waspy-sounding surname that's climbing up the popularity charts. TV actress Elisabeth Rohm named her daughter Easton August Anthony, which seemed like a real gender bender, and now Rachel Leigh Cook has made it the middle name of her baby Charlotte. Note that Easton is now in the Top 100 for boys--for whom directional names are a real trend-- but we won't be surprised to see more and more little lady Eastons arriving.