Super-Rare Girl Names That Are as Unique & Beautiful as Your Baby

Rita Templeton
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Rare girl names are hard to find — or at least, it seems that way. Sometimes it feels like all the prettiest girl names are taken (over and over and over again), while the names you don’t run into every day are often … well, not your cup of tea. It can be frustrating to try to find unique and rare girl names, only to end up feeling like all the good ones have already been used.

But don’t worry: we know the best-kept secret in baby naming, and though it’s right under your nose, it isn’t always the first place people think to look. It’s the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), and they’ve diligently kept records of all the baby names registered in the United States since the 1880s. For over a century, the SSA has not only kept tabs on the most popular baby names every single year, but how often each name was used.

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While they make their information available to the public via their website, going through the data can admittedly be … a lot. Combing through literally thousands of options to winnow out the rare girl names is time-consuming, but we’ve done the work so you don’t have to! This list is compiled of some of the most beautiful names we found in the most recent batch of SSA records, and the best part? Each was used only five times or less, per national data.

Now, if you want your baby girl’s name to have a strong meaning or history behind it, these aren’t necessarily the picks for you; many of them are recently-invented names that are aesthetically beautiful, but not necessarily meaningful. If there’s a name that’s close enough to share a meaning, we’ve linked it to the SheKnows Baby Name Database.

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But whether it has a documented meaning or not, you can tell your daughter the story of how you spent hours poring over the SSA data (we’ll let you take ALL the credit!) to find the most beautiful, most unique, most rare girl name out there — and how it ended up being perfect, just like her.

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