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Anyone actually managed to pick an unusual name?

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Carlitawantsababy · 05/10/2011 18:44

I'd really love my DC to have an unusual name and personally wouldn't like it if there ended up being 4 others in his/her class at school etc. I gathered together a list of names I like bit looking on here loads of other people like them too so I've clearly, subconsciously, picked up a penchant for fashionable names. So..I was wondering, did you pick an unusual name for your DC which is actually still unusual now they are at school? How did you do it and have you got any tips for avoiding the latest trends?

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CupOfBrownJoy · 06/10/2011 20:13

Is it too much to ask that if a parent is going to give their DC an unusual name, they at least check the spelling first??

Amanowl · 06/10/2011 20:09

PS group of Islands. The ones off Ireland. Living in Scotland I often get an extra r added.

Amanowl · 06/10/2011 20:07

I have a fabulous name and it was unusual. My Mum is a geographer and picked an island. Aran.
Now it is unusual because so many boys have been given it people are genuinely surprised when I turn up, because I am a 51 year old woman.

Can someone please tell me why so many people nowadays call their sons Aaron (air-on) but mispronounce it as Aran! Why?! Sad
It genuinely upsets me.

My daughter would have been named Nora Maud. Grandmother & great grandmother of parents. (my grandmother gave me strict instructions not to name our children for her, so I'd have chosen her mother's name. They were both Maud.)
In the end, I had 2 sons!

Coconutty · 06/10/2011 20:07

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seeker · 06/10/2011 19:57

Why do people mind so much about the possibility of meeting other childrennwithnthe same name? It's a new preoccuption, isn't it?

NhameCage · 06/10/2011 19:49

I love Serafina and Horatio.

february1970 · 06/10/2011 19:47

How can you see how many children were named Isabella, for instance, last year. Can see that it is popular but wondered if possible to get exact number. Anyone know the link please? Thank you!

girliefriend · 06/10/2011 19:42

When I choose my dds name it didn't occur to me that it would be popular and I choose it as it was a favourite great aunts name, now know it is very very popular!!! A bit annoying tbh!!!

stegasaurus · 06/10/2011 19:36

DD has an unusual Welsh name though we aren't Welsh or living in Wales. It isn't on the ONS stats lists for the past couple of years which I think means there were less than 3 born each year. She is only 5m so it could turn out to be popular by the time she gets to school but I doubt it. We didn't set out to give her an unusual name. Our second choice was Emily.

CheerfulYank · 06/10/2011 19:33

I went to school with a Saebyn. Pronounced Say-bin.

wickedwitchofwaterloo · 06/10/2011 19:29

My Dad made my name up, I'm yet to meet another with the same spelling of my name, but I have seen the odd variation crop up in the last 29 years.

I just put it into google and the first 4 posts are from various internet activity I've had over the years, a few are my name minus one letter, so I'm pretty sure no-one actually has my name due to its spelling Grin

CheerfulYank · 06/10/2011 19:28

Lily is pretty, DidYouSmash . :)

DidYouSmashHerShireHorses · 06/10/2011 19:27

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LinzerTorte · 06/10/2011 19:21

Cup Isolde is lovely. Our three all have fairly traditional names that work in both English and German, but I sometimes wish I'd gone for something a bit more "different". And I should have insisted on a Welsh middle name at least!

Scathac · 06/10/2011 19:20

my boss was called Rex in the 1980s ... actually, even tho i can't say i liked him, i didnt dislike him. i DID like his name, tho!!! and Rex Harrison ... mmm ....

BustyDeLaGhetto · 06/10/2011 19:07

If DD had been a boy I would have called him Loki (Norse God of mischief, I think, amongst others.)

Feilefoo · 06/10/2011 19:05

My brother has the most unique mane I've ever known, I've never met another person with his name anywhere I've ever travelled. I may use it for my ds if we're so lucky to get a sticky this time around!

GenevieveHawkings · 06/10/2011 18:59

I can't really see the point of this thread if people aren't prepared to reveal the unusual names they've managed to pick!

thisisyesterday · 06/10/2011 18:57

ambrose is a great name

also Clement

I have a very ordinary name. I was one of about 8 in my year at school. However, it has 3 different spellings so despite it being very. very normal I still have to spell it all the time.
ditto my surname! very normal but 2 diff spellings

Flamingredhead · 06/10/2011 18:30

oh downside they all have to spell their names for people .Except ds 3 as he cant talk properley and i do love seeing what people come up with for his name

Flamingredhead · 06/10/2011 18:29

ds1 and ds 2 nope there Italian names so not heard another one at school .Though ds2 is also used by spanish.Dd name not another at schoo but have hard a few with the same name when out but often spelt Eric claptons way

and ds3 is very Irish and never head another one atall in the uk and people often comment they never heard his name

GeriH · 06/10/2011 18:26

I really really like Caoimhe but for some reason don't like it spelt Keeva at all- silly eh?

DawnOfTheDeementedDead · 06/10/2011 18:26

Glakit - You have impeccable taste Wink

BikeRunSki · 06/10/2011 18:24

I had a little promotion of my brother's unusual but not odd name earlir, but forgot to say wheat it was. Anyway, it's Ambrose.

GetOutMyPub · 06/10/2011 18:04

I know a Tierney girl version (apparently) of Tiernan

Also knew a Breezy who had a lovely calm personality & was well suited to her name.

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