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Geneva - this is cool! Not a personal fave, but I know a little girl named Geneva. It doesn't sound stuckup in real life, but it presents itself with a certain prissiness on paper, which I think is a good thing for a woman's name.

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Keira - becoming a little generic in my experience. I like the sound of it, it's very breezy. Just oddly forgettable since I know 3 elementary school Keiras.

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Mirabel - it's a peculiar name. I like it pretty well. I like how it vaguely evokes the word miracle but sounds totally secular. Mira is a good nick. Lol at Mirabel Leigh Bush. Mirabel Jean

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Calista - I like this too. Only good things to say about it..

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Maisie - no, this is a dogname, a cowname, so cute that it is trivial and small. If a Maisie is powerful it's ironic.

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Sylvie - I considered this for my daughter briefly. It's a good name.

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Second tier:
Ainsley - ugh.
Aurora - pretty on paper, clunky pretentious sound
Camille - eh ... it's alright. I don't care for the stress and sound of it personally
Echo - you have to really want to use this.
Galena - pretty and likeable and memorable
Gwendolyn - another one I really like a lot. I'd spell it -en to distinguish it more from all the Madelyns and Brooklyns.
Hannah - classic, good name
Iseult - awful. Reminds me of insult. Isolda would be nicer
Lila - nice, pretty, a little weak maybe
Magdalen - hm. Yeah it's okay, needs a nickname IMO. Maggie?
Marin - interesting and cool
Morgan - good unisex name
Noemi - not my style but fine
Rhiannon - also nms but fine
Rivka - seems very Hebrewy to me. Do you speak Hebrew?
Rosalie - nice. Has the same prissy-on-paper thing going on that Geneva does, but is bright in real life. Also you get Rosie from it, which is a plus
Wren - I think you have to want this, too. It's better than Echo though. Kind of nifty.

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- mirfak