15,000+ Two-Syllable Girl Names

This spelling gives a nickname feel to a modern word name. The Journee and Journey spellings are both within the U.S. Top 300. But Journie ranks behind her wayfaring sisters with a little under 200 girls receiving the name each year in the U.S.

Popular in Azerbaijan - where is is normally spelled Ni̇gar - Nigar derives from the Persian name, Negar. Beloved as it may be in it's native country, and regardless of it's very different meaning in Persian, it is probably too close to a racial slur to work in an English speaking context.

Saori is a beautiful Japanese name that is rising, but still only given to around 50 baby girls in 2022.

Probably an offshoot of Deanna, lacking much identity of its own.

A pretty Persian name with an equally lovely meaning

This Catalan classic — spelled Nuria in Spanish — is the name of a valley in Catalonia with a shrine to the Virgin Mary, making this both a Marian name and simply a place name. Or maybe not so simply: during Franco's dictatorship, place names were a way to sidestep the rule that all names had to be Spanish, so Núria became popular as an act of Catalan patriotism. It is still in the region's Top 100 girl names.