my fav girl names and middle names

This lovely orange-scented Spanish place-name would make an inventive namesake for an Aunt Valerie.

For a girl, we'd say Val-en-teen, though many would insist on pronouncing it like the holiday.

This name of one of the most romantic cities in the world could easily find its way onto an American baby girl's birth certificate.

Vida is a multicultural gem, familiar in a number of languages by not overly popular. It featured in the US Top 1000 in the first half of the 20th century, and in recent years, it has seen renewed interest.

Vienna is one of the more popular of the European place-names, with a particularly pleasant sound, evoking elegant images of the Blue Danube, of castles and cafes, sweets and sausages and Strauss waltzes—and Sigmund Freud. It could be a possible substitute for the popular Sienna, although Vienna has been climbing the charts herself. Vienna was one of the fastest rising girl names in 2023.