Beautiful Underused Girls' Names

If you love Puritan virtue names and want to move beyond Hope and Faith and Grace, this is a wonderful choice, both for its meaning and its sound. A rare find here, though occasionally heard in England. It was used in Winston Graham's Poldark novels, was Madonna's name as James Bond's fencing instructor in Die Another Day, and made a brief appearance in Harry Potter. Not to mention being a fixture on British and Australian soaps. Verity also appears in one of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple mysteries.

Verona is a scenic place-name with the added attraction of a Shakespearean connection, as in Two Gentlemen of....

X marks the spot in names these days, usually at the middles or ends of names, but here is one that puts it squarely up front.

There are many variations of this name, with or without the initial T and the final h, with one p or two. In the Bible she was the wife of Moses.