Two Syllable Names for Girls

Where's Walda? Out of the running.

Seventeenth-century German polymath Johannes Kepler discovered the laws of planetary notion, along with the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. Kepler is a solid-feeling but unique gender-neutral name with a great, aspirational namesake.

An attractive unisex surname name, possibly derived from Adeline. May also be a variant of Eadlin.

Icelandic short form of Birgitta, which may derive from the Irish Brighid "exalted one" or from the male Norse name Birger, meaning "help, rescue". A famous bearer is Icelandic feminist Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (1856-1940), founder of the first women's magazine in Iceland.

An elegantly simple Indian name with a powerful meaning. Medha is one of many names used for the Hindu goddess Saraswati.

Nanny, like Fanny, is an old-fashioned nickname not due for a comeback any time soon.

Waylla is a name from the Quechua language of the Peruvian Andes, as well as the word for the stipa obtusa grass that grows there. It is also a mountain name — Waylla is in the Andes on the border between Bolivia and Chile.

Swapping the C for a K makes Kartier less luxe, yet this variation is quickly catching up to the original.