One-of-a-Kind Names for Girls

McCarthy is one of the most common Irish surnames, all fair game as first names for American babies, especially baby girls!

Ferdinanda gets you to the attractive short form Nanda, but Fernanda is sleeker.

Phillida is a "Masterpiece Theatre" appellation, proper to an almost comical degree yet might make an original way to honor an ancestral Phyliis. Actress Phyllida Law is the mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson.

Evocative of the beautiful South Pacific islands; we've also heard Samoan used as a name.

Love Quinn but find it too popular? Quinby is a rare spin on names in the Quinn and Quincy constellation, familiar as a surname and a fresh nonbinary choice.

One African choice that might be easier to understand if spelled phonetically: it's pronounced TAH-shee.

An attractive, one-of-a-kind girl name with the covetable X initial.

Clemma is a one-hit wonder, appearing on the US popularity list only once, back in the 19th century. This is one case where the diminutive is not cuter than the proper name.