{"id":7097,"date":"2009-02-06T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/02\/06\/baby-girl-vahsstill\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:48:00","slug":"baby-girl-vahsstill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2009\/02\/06\/baby-girl-vahsstill\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Girl Vahsstill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello! We&#8217;ve been narrowing down names for our soon-to-be-born little girl. The last name is Germanic\/Dutch and sounds like VAHSS-till. I don&#8217;t want to give too many specifications because we&#8217;d like to be surprised.  I&#8217;m kind of hoping for a &#8220;never once considered&#8221; suddenly blooming as The Ultimate Choice. Suggestions?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Boy names are difficult because there are so few; girl names are tricky because there are so MANY.  There are so many STYLES:  there are the gender neutral ones like Cameron and Bailey, or you can go ultra-feminine like Alissandra and Arabella.  There are the modern names like McKenna and Cadence, and there are the old names like Margaret and Victoria.   Ack!  It can be overwhelming!<\/p>\n<p>Since you aren&#8217;t giving any hints about where your preferences lie, what I&#8217;ll do is give you a list of my own current favorite girl names.  And then I hope readers will do the same, so you&#8217;ll have a nice broad spectrum to consider.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a complete list of my favorites.  These are more the names that jump out at me when I go through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0767917529\/ref=nosim\/?tag=88K18-20\">The Baby Name Wizard<\/a>.  There are many other names that, if I were to give them a moment&#8217;s thought, would be on this list in a heartbeat.  My own daughter&#8217;s name NEVER CAUGHT MY EYE in a million perusals of baby name books; I never noticed it until I saw it in a magazine when I was pregnant.  So, anyway, my partial list:<\/p>\n<p>Anastasia<br \/>Angela<br \/>Anna<br \/>Annabel<br \/>Audrey<br \/>Beatrix<br \/>Bridget<br \/>Camilla<br \/>Celeste<br \/>Clara<br \/>Clarissa<br \/>Cora<br \/>Eliza<br \/>Ellen<br \/>Elsa<br \/>Emily<br \/>Eva<br \/>Felicity<br \/>Fiona<br \/>Florence<br \/>Genevieve<br \/>Georgia<br \/>Helen<br \/>Hope<br \/>Jillian<br \/>Joy<br \/>Liana<br \/>Margaret<br \/>Millicent<br \/>Minerva<br \/>Penelope<br \/>Rose<br \/>Ruth<br \/>Stella<\/p>\n<p>Hm.  I seem to prefer the first half of the alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>All right, now your turn, commenters!  Leave a list of your favorite girl names for Jane to search through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane writes: Hello! We&#8217;ve been narrowing down names for our soon-to-be-born little girl. The last name is Germanic\/Dutch and sounds like VAHSS-till. I don&#8217;t want to give too many specifications because we&#8217;d like to be surprised. I&#8217;m kind of hoping for a &#8220;never once considered&#8221; suddenly blooming as The Ultimate Choice. Suggestions? 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