Most lists of female dog names are somebody's taste. This one is a count. Every name below appears in public pet-licence registers and shelter records, and its position comes from how large a share of those registers it holds — not from how nice it sounded to an editor.
Two things matter more than fashion when you choose. A name you will shout across a park should carry: two syllables with a clear vowel at the end travel further than one clipped syllable. And it should not rhyme with a command you plan to use, because a dog learning no and Bo in the same week will learn neither well.
Where the gender in this list comes from
A name is marked female here when real animals carrying it were sexed female in at least 65% of a sample of five or more — from shelter records that state the sex, not from an assumption about how the name sounds. Names below that sample floor are left unmarked rather than guessed at, which is why some common names carry no gender at all.
If you want something less common
Popularity cuts both ways: a name in the top twenty means a park with three of them. The catalogue can filter the other way, towards names that appear in the registers but rarely.
Every count on this site is a tally of real registrations: pet licences and shelter intakes published as open data by New York, Seattle, Austin, Montgomery County, Cambridge, Zurich, Basel and three Australian councils. Popularity here is the average share a name holds across those registers, so a name common in a small city is not buried by one common in a large one. Nine of the eleven sources are North American, so read the ordering as naming in those places rather than worldwide.