Animal Names for Girls

Actress Hepburn made the Katharine spelling famous, which seems to be the inspiration for this spin on Catherine.

Blakesley is the name of a village in England, also sometimes found as a surname along with Blakely and Blakeley, turned into a first name for their daughter by reality stars Trista and Ryan Sutter. Blakesley joins other -ley ending names -- Hadley, Finley -- as one of the most popular forms of unisex names with a girlish spin.

Channary, a sweet and preppy sounding name with a lovely lunar meaning, belongs to a character in the Lunar Chronicles series. Her relatives Levana and Selene have similarly moon-inspired monikers.

The Dutch feminine diminutive is thought to be derived from Ave, as in Ave Maria.

Affable and creative and perfectly able to stand alone; nothing Scroogish about it.

Though Abigail has long been a very popular girls' name in the US, modern Hebrew form Avigail is rare here but among the Top 10 girls' names in Israel.