UK Girl Names

A city name that sounds more legit than most because of its similarity to Peyton and other such names in circulation.

Echoes of two dated names: Lori and Linda.

A bit too close to "quandary" and "queen".

Keats is both poetic and easier to pronounce (it's keets) than Yeats (which is yates).

Somewhat flat-footed spelling variation.

One of those feminizations that came over shortly after the Mayflower but has been lost at sea ever since.

The spelling makes the tradition Non even more of a non-name.

In 2014, six little girls in the US were given the name Starlit. Starlit has a sweeter meaning than the similar Starlet, and a better ring than Starlight.

In the Plymouth Colony of the seventeenth century, Thankful was the third most popular of the abstract word names. It disappeared after 1700 and has virtually no chance of returning.

Ivy League choice many will mistake for the Israeli favorite Yael, which has a different root and meaning.

Shaw is a streamlined and more modern-sounding Shawn, with many notable surname namesakes.

Ilisa is a spelling variant that's less appealing than the original.

Kerr, a simple, unusual unisex middle-name choice, can be pronounced either car or kehr.

Prettier: the growing-in-popularity Paisley, a suburb of Glasgow, or even Scotland itself, used as a middle name by Kourtney Kardashian.

Big Band-ish name could easily be confused with Darcy.

This Celtic saint's name is the most offbeat Jen name of all.