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I agree that most of the names in your top list would not seem out of place on a modern American girl. Cerys seems more British Isles than American, but it could still work.

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On your second list, the following also strike me as fitting in with current styles in America.
Astrid
Miriam
Harriet
Gwen
Rowena
Amalia
Noa
Winona
Veronica

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The only names that would be strange to encounter are Halcyon, Leopoldine, Dunya, Devika, Ursula, and Phaedra. Phaedra seems like a very odd namesake. In myth, she was a woman who tried to get her stepson Hippolytus to sleep with her. After her stepson rejects her advances and is understandably upset that his stepmom would try to seduce him, Phaedra falsely accuses him of raping her and kills herself. Due to his stepmothers false accusations, Hippolytus is exiled and is eventually murdered by his own father, who believed his wife’s claims.