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unusual names, but we all have the same ideas!

29 replies

Monkeyandanimal · 02/08/2013 11:48

Hello all. I'm finding this name finding thing really frustrating, don't know about you guys. As soon as i think i've found a nice, traditional, old-fashioned, slightly unusual but not ridiculous name, i then see it in all your lists! And I don't want there so to be more than one of these in my child's class! How can we avoid all having the same great ideas? Short of ridiculously strange names......all the good ones are being used up! Sorry, this message doesn't merit reply; just needed a rant. I have seen my best names suggested by several people today, and there was i feeling smug and thinking noone else would have thought of them! Serves me right.....

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scaevola · 02/08/2013 12:04

Very unfashionable might be the way to go: Nigel, Neil, Godfrey, Dirk or Tracey, Sharon, Gertrude, Berengaria?

scaevola · 02/08/2013 12:02

I think it can be worse if you have put a great deal of effort into finding a name that won't be duplicated and then it is, than if you just choose the name/s you and DH like best.

MortifiedAdams · 02/08/2013 12:02

But there are hundreds of thousands of babies born each year and not all.of their parents are on here.

Apparently Jack is beyond common yet I know one.

Saralyn · 02/08/2013 11:59

If you choose a name from your parents' generation, there probably wont be many children with that name.

problem is, you probably aren't interested in those names, as we tend to choose names from our grandparent's generation instead.