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I'm really excited to see Chiara and Cosette, both so pretty!

Femme is the French noun for "woman," or sometimes "wife." I never though people would actually bestow it on a person as their name...

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However, I L-O-V-E Anastasia!!!

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Lol, Femme is how my mom, sister, and I refer to tampons when my little brothers are around... "Mom, when your out can you get me some femmes"
I really like the rest of the list, except Ketmara and Ateiram. They kind of sound Star Wars-y to me for some reason.

Too many Elise's? That's strange.

Great name selection! Ketmara and Ateiram are interesting; Ketmara is apparently a switched-around version of Marketa, and Ateiram is Marieta reversed.
I'm hoping Shan is Chinese and Femme is Dutch. I quite like the sound of Femme in Dutch, but it would be much too easily confused with the French word here.

Chiara - like it
Agnija - not my style
Cosette - don't like it
Anastasia - love this name!
Shan - don't like the way it sounds.
Bea - like it as a nickname for Beatrice
Ketmara - never heard of this
Ina - not my style
Ateiram - never heard of this
Femme - ick. Makes me think of butch and femme lesbians. There's nothing wrong with being a lesbian, but Femme doesn't look like it should be a name.

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I love Elise, and I'm surprised that it's getting very popular.

This message was edited 1/7/2011, 12:13 PM

One of my favorite secondary-school teachers is named Inah (pronounced like Ina) -- she's Korean.

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I like Agnija and Bea (as a nickname for Beatrice / Beatrix).

I'm really not a fan of one syllable names like Femme and Bea, which seem more appropriate as nicknames for longer names. Shan is the name I go by (nn for Shannon), so I'm a bit partial to this one, but am glad that I have the longer Shannon to fall back on for more formal situations. I like Bea as a nn for Beatrix.

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The others I like are Cosette and Ina. It is unfortunate that Elise has become so common. I live about a girl named Anneliese, and have really grown to like this similar sounding name.

I like Cosette (mn only) and Ina. I also like Elise; shame that it's that popular though.