If you gave your DD a very unusual name

I don't have a daughter, but if I did, I want to call her Mallory.

Our youngest dd came home today and proudly announced that in their maths class today they looked at how many babies were registered with their names the year they were born. Hers was 9, so pretty unusual I think.

Didn't tell anyone before hand and I think they quickly got it, as a child there were 3 of us girls in my class with both first and middle names the same, so going less traditional certainly not a family trait!!

My dd is an Orla which originally got lots of 'oooo I've never heard that, where does that come from?' But now nearly 4 years on I've heard of a few and fear it is going to do an Isla and ruby

If you Google my Christian name. You will never find me.

There are 12 people worldwide on facebook with DD's name. Google shows 3 of them in the UK, so I generally never post her name online.

That's the worst thing about unusual names, actually, I'm finding. The lack of internet anonymity.

Here's hoping for a successful name change.
DD's name is Eirlys. It is Welsh and means snowdrop, pronounced like air-liss, but I think it is pronounced differently in different areas of Wales. There are about 6 born each yeAr according to the ONS stats, presumably the others live in Wales unlike us. We have never met another one. I sometimes feel we were unreasonable to give her a name no one can pronounce or spell, but it was one of our favourite names. I also have an unusual spelling of an unusual name and it didn't cause me problems.

Aargh too soon - when we picked dds got a lot of negative about how common it was compared to ours so you can't win either way

Never convinced that names are so unusual it = outing and makes this thread v frustrating! Given we have 3 antigones how unusual are they??

I am corrie (not abbreviated that is full name) never seen it in the uk lists in any year - my dad chose it ( geography student and he said my eyes were blue like the water at the head of a glacier.

However if you google you'll just get coronation street so I'm safe. DH name unusual as well our dd has a top hundred name. Her middle name is ursula though which i've nit heard in the uk for a while.

I know two Athenas. I also know your friend, I think, Roomba.

There's a girl in DS's class called Matya!

I was desperate to call my first DC Matilda if they were a girl, which was very unusual at that time. He was a boy, so it didn't get used, but now I know loads of Matildas. I wanted Ygraine for DC2 but he also had the temerity to be a boy (funnily he has the most traditional, 'boring' name of all our friends' children but it just suits him perfectly).

My friend has 5 DC, all with unusual but beautiful names. I won't list them all as it would definitely out her, but my favourite is Iskander (boy).

I do like Antigone and January too.

I know two Athena's - one a greek lady, and the other a toddler (whose father is a student of Greek).

I'm not going to give DD's name because it is unusual enough that there have never been enough babies with it for it to show up in the records. I told people after DD was born. She likes her name, although she does get a bit annoyed when everyone she meets for the first time tells her what a beautiful name she has.

My DD has a bog standard name - Jennifer - and though she is one of three in her year at school it doesn't feel overused and instead says classic elegance to me.

A name I really wanted to use but couldn't as it would have been a bit daft was Mirren, I think that is lovely.

Theo how do you prn Data?

My kids and some of my friends kids have less common names, I like it.
I live in Somerset and I think ithat is quite a bohemian/alt county on the whole so unusual names are pretty well regarded.

I know-
Rainbow
Bluebell
Clover
Meadow
Luna
Innes (boy)
Atro
Alba
Zulieka

As discussed on here previously, DD loves her name even though it is traditionally a boys' name. We're really pleased that she's unique and still believe that Data is actually quite feminine-sounding anyway.

We didn't tell anyone beforehand!

thespork Mirabelle is beautiful, my DD is Mirabella, and Ive never met anither one!

Not Bernadette (less popular than that back in the day, even more unpopular than that now). I think I've prob given out a bit too much info actually because it would be quite easy to out me now...so no more guesses, yes? Clearly our names must be Hambel Maud and Ephigenia.

As someone who regularly suffered as a child, please don't give your daughters names that might be considered male names usually.

I suffered on 2 counts - first from direct bullying "You've got a boy's name, you must be a boy!!" And then secondary bullying because my older brother got grief about having a sister with a boy's name (WTF?!?!) and he would then come home from school and hit me because he was being bullied.

I loathe my name, and especially cringe when the full version is used.

If you want to know what my name is - think 80's TV programme about 4 male students, one of whom had their name screeched at high pitch and volume. Every single day when I was at PS, and many days once I started Senior School too.

annie Bernadette was my first thought too!

Fabulous!

My dd has a fairly unusual name, less than 30 babies ayear called it, we just chose it because we liked it, it's a saint name, merryn :)

Oh this is so frustrating... Would love to know all these unusual names!!

Re Afton: I knew of an Afton Rose + surname. Afton is a river in Ayrshire and the parents lived near it. No idea why it isn't used more often. She must be about 25-30 now.

I also knew a Tuesday. No middle name, and a common surname. Raised eyebrows all round, even from the Dad ! Must be in her 30s now.

My daughters both have unusual names, not completely 'out there' but not ones you hear very often. With the eldest we announced before, with the youngest, we kept her sex a secret so announced her name at birth. We often get people pronounce them both wrong when they're actually really straight forward names :/

I'm guessing Bernadette for Rabbit's DD1 - my primary school was full of them in the 70s!