- Bridget Cruise - Turlough O'Carolan
- Carolina Rua - Mary Black (YouTube)
- Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
- Emanuelle Beart - The Would-Be-Goods
- Emily Jean Stock - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- Fanny Power - Turlough O'Carolan
- Ingrid Bergman - Billy Bragg
- Janie Jones - The Clash
- Judy Teen - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
- Maggie May - Rod Stewart
- Mary Blaize - Kate Rusby
Monday, 29 October 2007
Girl's (Full) Name Songs
Songs
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Girl's (First) Name Songs
The name of the song must be purely the name. Dear Prudence doesn't count. See also the list of Girl's Full Name Songs.
- Adella - UB40
- Alison - Elvis Costello
- Aja - Steely Dan. Is it about a girl?
- Amanda - Aisha Duo
- Amelia - Joni Mitchell
- Amie - Damien Rice
- Anna - Arthur Alexander
- Anna Stesia - Prince
- Angelina - Louis Prima
- Angelou - Van Morrison
- Angie - Rolling Stones
- Angie - Bert Jansch (instrumental)
- Babooshka - Kate Bush
- Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys
- Bernadette - The Four Tops
- Bertha - Four Men & A Dog
- Betty Jean - Chuck Berry
- Billie - Pavement
- Billie-Jean - Michael Jackson
- Brandy - The O'Jays
- Britney - Busted
- Calypso - Suzanne Vega
- Candida - Dawn (odd to write a song about a yeast infection)
- Carol - Chuck Berry (Chuck teaching Keef)
- Caroline - lots of these
- Concrete Blonde
- David Gray
- Kirsty McColl
- Seventh Day Slumber
- Status Quo
- Fleetwood Mac
- Captain Kennedy
- Concrete Blonde
- Carolyn - Merle Haggard
- Carrie - Europe (YouTube)
- Carrie-Anne - The Hollies
- Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
- Cecilia Ann - The Pixies
- Charmaine - The Bachelors
- Christie Lee - Billy Joel. Written about Christie Lee Brinkley.
- Christina - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
- Christine - Siouxsie & The Banshees
- Clare - Fairground Attraction
- Clair - Gilbert O'Sullivan
- Claudette - The Everly Brothers (written by Roy Orbison and named after his wife)
- Cleopha - Scott Joplin (instrumental)
- Corrina, Corrina - Bob Dylan
- Daphne - Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
- Darlene - Led Zeppelin
- Deborah - Dave Edmunds
- Deborah - T. Rex
- Debra - Beck
- Deirde - The Beach Boys
- Delilah - Tom Jones
- Diane - The Bachelors
- Donna - 10CC
- Eleanor - Hot Chip
- Eloise - The Damned (YouTube)
- Emma - Hot Chocolate, Sisters of Mercy
- Emma - America
- Emma - Alkaline Trio
- Eugenia - Scott Joplin (instrumental)
- Evangeline - Icicle Works
- Francene - ZZ Top
- Francesca - Richard Thompson
- Gigolette - Roy Orbison
- Gloria - Van Morrison (YouTube)
- Grace - Jeff Buckley
- Grace - Supergrass
- Grace - U2
- Hanna Hanna - China Crisis
- Hannah - Andrew Gold
- Hazel - Bob Dylan
- Helen - Bridge. Brilliant record from the Oxford band.
- Helena - My Chemical Romance
- Henrietta - The Fratellis
- Imelda - Mark Knopfler
- Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
- Isis - Bob Dylan
- Isobel - Dido
- Isobel - Bjöaut;rk
- Jacqueline - The Coral
- Jacqueline - Franz Ferdinand
- January - Pilot
- Jennie - Richard Thompson
- Jenny, Jenny - Little Richard
- Jessica (instrumental) - Allman Brothers
- Jessie - Joshua Kadison (YouTube)
- Jet - Wings. I'm almost convinced that Jet is meant to be a girl's name.
- Joanna - The Walker Brothers
- Jolene - Dolly Parton, Sisters of Mercy (LastFm)
- Jolene - Cake (LastFm)
- Josie - Steely Dan
- Juanita - The Flying Burrito Brothers
- Judy - The Pipettes
- Julia - The Beatles
- Julie Anne - Kenny
- Juliet - The Four Pennies
- Kayleigh - Marillion
- Kimberly - Patti Smith
- Kitty - The Pogues
- Lana - Roy Orbison
- Laticia - The Spectres
- Laura - The Scissor Sisters
- Layla - Derek & The Dominoes
- Layla - Richard & Linda Thompson
- Leah - Roy Orbison
- Lola - The Kinks
- Loretta - Townes Van Zandt
- Louise - The Human League, Tony Christie
- Louise - Alexis Korner
- Lucille - Little Richard (YouTube)
- L-L-L-L-Lucy - Mud
- Lucille - Kenny Rogers
- Lyla - Oasis
- Lyla - The Districts
- Mandy - Barry Manilow
- Maria - Blondie (YouTube)
- Marie - The Bachelors
- Mariella - Kate Nash
- Marina - The Gibson Brothers
- Margarita - Traveling Wilburys (sic! sic!)
- Marta - The Bachelors
- Martha - Tom Waits
- Mary - The Scissor Sisters
- Mary Jo - Belle & Sebastian
- Mathilda - Scott Walker
- Maybellene - Chuck Berry
- Melinda - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- Melissa - The Allman Brothers Band
- Melody - Steve Perry
- Melusine - The Would-Be-Goods. Well, not so much a girl as a mermaid-type thing.
- Michelle - The Beatles
- Molina - Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Mona - Captive State
- Mona - Bo Diddley
- Monica - The Kinks
- Nadine - Chuck Berry
- Natalia - Van Morrison
- Nellie - Lindisfarne
- Nikita - Elton John
- Peg - Steely Dan
- Peggy-Sue - Buddy Holly
- Polly - Kate Rusby
- Polly - The Kinks
- Prescilla - Bat For Lashes
- Ramona - The Bachelors
- Renee - Talk Talk
- Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
- Rosabel - Bella Hardy
- Rosalee - Jack The Lad
- Rosalie - Thin Lizzy
- Rosalie - Alejandro Escovedo
- Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) - Bruce Springsteen. Disallowed for gratuitous addition of a parenthetical subtitle
- Rosanna - Toto
- Rosetta - Georgie Fame & Alan Price
- Rosie - Jackson Browne
- Roxanne - The Police
- Roxette - Dr Feelgood
- Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs
- Sally Mae - John Lee Hooker (YouTube)
- Sandy - John Travolta. Why-ay-ay-ay-ay?
- Sara - Bob Dylan
- Sara - Fleetwood Mac
- Sarah - Thin Lizzy
- Sarah - Bat For Lashes
- Shambelle - The Police (instrumental)
- Sherry - The Four Seasons
- Sheila - Tommy Roe
- Sheila - Jamie T
- Sibella - Richard Thompson
- Sunny - Bobby Hebb
- Sussudio - Phil Collins. Might be a girl's name, might just be random meaningless drivel. Who cares?
- Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
- Suzanne - Lou Reed
- Sylvia - Focus (instrumental)
- Sylvia - Pulp
- Tara - Roxy Music (instrumental)
- Tulane - Chuck Berry, Steve Gibbons Band - I'm assuming Tulane is a girl's name, but, hey, who knows?
- Valerie - also popular
- Velouria - The Pixies
- Venus - The Shocking Blue, Bananarama
- Vera - Pink Floyd
- Veronica - Elvis Costello
- Victoria - The Kinks
- Victoria - The Fall
- Yvonne - The Saw Doctors
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