These are all family names from the Rhoads, Wainscotts, Millers, et al . . .
Edith
Iris
Irene
Robin
Lila
Linda
Jody (or Joyce)
LaJune
Michelle
Noelle
Rya
Teddi
Mindy
There are a few others, but those should tide you over nicely.
Brogan? is another word for shoe.
I do like Maureen (my charming and successful sister, who is also having a baby almost any moment.)
Mairead (Mah-raid) is Gaelic for Margaret. Bridget is nice, and almost no one in the country shortens it to Bridie. Eileen is a classic
hey Cristi… I’m a lamb too 
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
Moving along with the literary theme, how about Cordelia? It’s classic, and won’t make the Top 10 lists any time soon.
I’m fond of the names Sophie and Clara.
I’m also fond of Katie, but aren’t there about 50 bajillion little Katies now?
I have always thought that you need to see the child before assigning the name. Why not get your top two or three choices together, and decide in the delivery room which one best suits the next member of the Ujest clan?
Almost forgot! My aunt seriously favors the name Brigid, but I would give careful consideration of what the kids in the playground could do to that or any other potential name.
Wouldn’t this name fit your criteria?
Zoe (from the greek word for life)
[ul][li]two syllbables that cannot be broken down to a one syllable name[/li][li]cannot be trendy (unless Zoe is trendy, I don’t know)[/li][li]cannot begin with “e” or “ah” sound[/li][li]it’s a european name[/li][li]isn’t anbn or anna[/ul][/li]
My other suggestion:
Robyn
Well, if my son had been a girl she was going to be Miriam Grace. Doesn’t fit your criteria, but what the heck.
An instructor I had in college was named Leda, which I always thought was pretty cool. She had a Greek surname, though.
“Zoe” sounds pretty trendy to me.
Well, somebody’s gotta say Goneril now, so it may as well be me…
The IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in the group.
I don’t know about you, but if my folks ever told me that my name was chosen by a stranger on an internet message board, I’d beat them with my birth certificate and make a trip to the courthouse the very next day.
Hell is Other People.
Grane? Wasn’t that Brunhilde’s horse in THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG?
Robyn is cool, or even Robin. The only Robin I currently know has parents who were VERY original in their choice of names…Robin’s younger sister is “Linen.”
Pick a nice pagan goddess. Diana is good, and out of favor with the trendy right now. Hecate?
Uke
Tegan–is that pronouced Tee-gan or does it rhyme with Megan? Either way, I guess it’s not bad, although it sounds pretty soap-operaish.
Keely, on the other hand, is an abomination. Feely Keely? Playground torture ensues for years to come. Not to mention 10,000 people spelling it wrong on credit cards, etc., by calling her Kelly.
I’m looking at babynames.com, and coming up with a few suggestions that fit your standards, I hope.
Caelan, or any spelling thereof (Meaning: Victorious People)
Callie (Meaning: Beautiful)
Dagan (Meaning: The Earth. I have no idea if this is a girl’s name, but it’s kinda neat nonetheless, given what you seem to like)
Darcy (Meaning: Dark)
Darian
Devin (Meaning: Poet)
Danica (Meaning: Morning star)
Fiona (Meaning: White)
Gwyneth (Meaning: Blessed, Fortunate)
Haley (Meaning: Heroine)
Helen (Meaning: Torchlight)
Jocelyn (Meaning: Light-hearted)
Kailey (Meaning: Laurel, Crown)
Rachel (Meaning: Ewe)
Rhiannon (Meaning: Witch-Nymph-Goddess)
Siobhan (This is a Celtic form of Joan, meaning you could name your kid after you, but not really! In case you don’t know, it’s pronounced Shavan, or something similar)
Terena
And that’s it. Hope this helps.
You might want to check www.babynamer.com
They have this to say:
Hope it helps!
-Frankie
Lack of charisma can be fatal
Tegan? Oh, she won’t get beat up or teased every day (sarcasm). How is it pronounced? Like vegan or Reagan?
I’m all for unusual names as long as they don’t set the child up for disaster. A friend of mine named his son Kalil Thoth. His other son is Oak. Hideous. I can’t imagine what those kids go through.
I like names that are rare, but not freaky.
Some suggestions that fit your requirements:
Sonja (my sister’s name)
Daiva (friend’s name: pron. Dive-a)
Elza (granny’s name)
Mara (my cousin’s name)
Formerly unknown as “Melanie”
Siobhan is pronounced “Shevaun,” but don’t do it unless you want your daughter to spend her life spelling her name for people and being called “SYE-o-bann” by telemarketers. Same goes for “Grainne.” And Anglicized – that is, pronounceable – spellings of Celtic names are not my favorite thing (Catelynn, Grania, etc.), so I wouldn’t take that route.
“Keely” shows signs of becoming trendy, at least in L.A.; there may be a boatload of little Keelys in a couple of years. It also doesn’t, to my ear, go as nicely with the middle and last names as Tegan does. Allison, as suggested above, is a really nice match for the other names.
Just a personal note: There are a lot of annoyances inherent in having an unusual name, as I know to my sorrow, including the continual mispronunciations and misspellings, the requests that one explain it (“What kind of name is that?” asked in tones of varying civility) and those who will not, in spite of repeated corrections, ever pronounce it right. A surprising number of people’s brains seem to fuse in the face of any name more complicated than “Debbie.” I’m glad to have an uncommon name, but it’s also been, in many ways, a lifelong irritation.
Catrandom, whose real name is not Rita, Frida, Britta or Brenda
Hey Coldfire, why don’t you create another big-assed spread sheet and post the results later
- Hastings Marie
- Madalyn Louise
- Lorraine Sophia
- Marian Joyce
I have a friend who plans to name her baby “Macey”. I think it’s a wonderful name.
I named my daughter “Hayley”, but I picked the name out in 1980, before anyone used it; it’s just a tad too popular now.
And Debbie is a complicated name. I’ve spent my whole life being called Debbie (your classic cheerleader, blonde airhead name, and I’m not an airhead or a cheerleader), because people have trouble with my real name. Deborah is pronounced De-Bra, not Dee-Bore-Ah, as people seem to think. And when they do pronounce it right, it’s because they’re spelling it wrong.
Oh, you wanna talk about names that’ll get you beat up? How about what my brother named his son, currently aged 19 months:
Beck.
Allow me to go even further and say that our last name is pronounced BOO-nuh-shek. Now, put Beck in front of that.
I’m betting it takes about 2 seconds before he either starts going by his middle name, Alexander, or going by Baxter, which is what my dad calls him.
Anyway, back to baby names. I’m still pulling for Maxine.
Wiley
(the fact that this is my cat’s name should have no bearing on the matter at all)