Six Letter Girl Names

Unusual and unfashionable name found in Toni Morrison's novel Tar Baby.

A perfect example of what a difference a single letter can make. Add an 'a' to the ho-hum Cathy and you have the old name for China, often used by such poets as Edna St. Vincent Millay and Ezra Pound.

Somewhat flat-footed spelling variation.

The relationship to "ill" makes this and similar names less pleasing than the versions that start with A or E.

One of a number of religious word names that have started to see some use since 2000.

Five sets of parents were recently inspired to use this floral Japanese name by the anime series Dead or Alive, which features a martial artist and student character named Honoka.

Japanese feminist Raicho Hiratsuka chose the name Raicho for herself - no doubt because of its fabulously meaning. As a journalist and publisher, Raicho fought for the rights of working class women in Japan’s textile industry and eschewed conventional domesticity, openly living with a lover and having her children out of wedlock. Thunderbirds are GO indeed!

A Welsh word name with a pretty nature meaning.