Two Syllable Names for Girls

If you love the venerable Southwestern painter but feel Georgia's gotten too overheated, you might want to go all the way to this Irish surname in the fashionable O' family.

The geographical spelling of the Scottish surname Sterling, now starting to be heard for girls, too.

Kemper is a familiar surname that is sometimes adopted as a given name. As such, it is a gender-neutral choice, though an incredibly rare one at that.

This cute Ethiopian girl's name fits right in with today's trends. Mix trendy Lumi with stylish Romy, and you've got Lomi! Pronounced "LOH-mee", this is the Amharic word for lemon, and is used as a given name for girls in Ethiopia. With "traveling lite" names (short and sweet, 4 letter names ending in "i" being a huge trend, from Remi to Esti to Zuri, Lomi fits right in while standing out.

A Top 100 name in Israel, where it is overwhelmingly feminine. Zohar is currently used equally between girls and boys in the US but is rising far more quickly for boys.

Could be a modern virtue... or perhaps not for the parents!

Actress Kirstie Alley popularized this short form that's been off the popularity register for a decade.

An attractive Japanese name with appealing meanings.

One of the few K names that sounds middle-aged.

Derived from the Latvian word for frost.