Six Letter Girl Names

Oakley is one of the truest unisex names for babies, achieving a 56-44 gender distribution, favoring girls. Oaklee is 80% female and may serve as a clearer identification of sex, if that’s what you’re interested in.

Corona was once an improbable choice due to the beer brand. After the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, its firmly cemented its status as a nonviable baby name.

Faunia is more often rendered as Fauna, who was a Roman goddess of fertility, women and healing. Faunia was the downtrodden yet loving heroine of Philip Roth's Human Stain. Faunia and Fauna have more gravitas than the doe-like Fawn.

Pretty Welsh name with potential. In a folk tale from north-west Wales, Meinir and Rhys were lovers whose wedding day came to a tragic end.

Spelling this name with a y instead of the conventional way -- Bailey -- makes it a tad more feminine and also adds a touch of water. Baylee is another popular feminine alternative.

If you want people to pronounce Andrea with an Ah sound beginning, this spelling would guide the way.

Bryher, a homophone of Briar, is the name of an Isle of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall. It was the penname of novelist Annie Winifred Ellerman, who chose the name in honor of the island. Today, Bryher is seen as a girl name in Cornwall, where it is used as a variation of up-and-coming Briar.

The feminine form of Caelius, from caelum "skies, heavens".

Unusual surname with rowdy quality.

The biblical Zilpah was a handmaiden of Leah who had two sons with Jacob, Gad and Asher. Zilpah is a one-hit wonder, appearing on the US Top 1000 only one year, 1881. No baby girls were named Zilpah in the US last year.

A modern Welsh name coming from the Welsh word for "rose".

Best known to the West through the story of Sadako and the thousand paper cranes, which tells the story of Sadako Sasaki, this name has become synonymous with peace.

Fedora is occasionally heard among the British Mayfair and Belgravia set, but we're afraid that in this country there would be too strong an association with the man's felt hat.

Ezlynn is a name popping with modern sounds and style. While it might appear to be an American invented name, Ezlynn comes to us via Ezlynn Deraniyagala, who was the first female barrister in Sri Lanka. A founding member of the feminist movement in Sri Lanka, Ezlynn also turned her attention to international matters, acting as president of the International Alliance of Women in the crucial days of the early 60s. This is a international choice that doesn't compromise pronounceability or pep while honoring the sisterhood.