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Baby Girl Names: Elegant, Exotic, Unusual
Baby Girl Names: Elegant, Exotic, Unusual
Apr 3, 2026 5:50 AM

  by Pamela Redmond

  If you’re looking for baby girl names that are unusual but not weird, international yet familiar, we’ve pulled together this list to suit your style.

  All these names are below the Top 1000 baby names in the US. They hail from a range of cultures, from the Italian Flavia to the Irish Fia, the Hebrew Shira to the Arabic and African Aziza.

  You may recognize a handful thanks to their star connections: Ilaria is the name of Alec Baldwin‘s Spanish-born wife, for example, and Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds named their younger daughter Ines just last year. The African-born daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is named Zahara, and actress Uma Thurman got her name from a Hindu goddess.

  Here, 31 baby girl names that are exotic, elegant, and eminently usable.

  Adela

  Anisa

  Aziza

  Cassia

  Domenica

  Elodie

  Fia

  Flavia

  Ilaria

  Indira

  Inez or Ines

  Junia

  Kateri

  Keren

  Leonie

  Lorna

  Mairead

  Mariel

  Mattea

  Neva

  Nika

  Pallas

  Persia

  Saskia

  Seren

  Shira

  Soledad

  Tamsin

  Uma

  Zadie

  Zahara

  Which of these names might you use for a baby girl?

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