Two Syllable Names for Girls

Flanna is an uncommon name for a red-haired girl, not as familiar -- or some would say, as pretty -- as its nickname, Flannery.

Peanut is a name you might call a baby in the womb, but at least one set of parents put it on the birth certificate too. General Hospital star Ingo Rademacher and his fiance Ehiku named their son Peanut Kai.

Writer James Baldwin could make this an inspirational choice for a child of either sex.

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.

Jamais should be used as often as its meaning.

This spelling of Bennett is typically seen as a surname, but gets moderate use as a first name for baby boys and girls.