Baby Girl Names: Elegant, Exotic, Unusual

Sep 22, 2024 7:21 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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