Unique girls names

I love the name Allegra, but the Byron connection is such an awful, depressing story.

Anyway, the baby's here and already well-named. Congrats on Kala!

Allegra. It's not on Mumsnet list, but Allegra was one of Lord Byron's daughters: the other was Ada Lovelace, one of the earliest prime movers in inventing the computer.

Kala is very pretty and unusual but not complicated or gimmicky. I like it. Congratulations!

Kala Mai is lovely. Congratulations.

Congrats lovely name

Congrats! And yes, Koa is a lovely name. Bang out another, OP!

Oh just read the update. Congratulations! I know a few kids with Hawaiian names, Koa is a popular one here for boys if you have another - I've been told it's name for trees.

I live in Venice beach in Los Angeles and think Brooke is a pretty but not uncommon name. I also know a few Kendalls.
Most of the Brookes I know are toddler age and older and the moms who would have chosen that three years ago are now going for names like Vale, Quinn, or even Arrow.
Other names that are on trend here but not as common in Britain are Aubrey, Henley, Soleil.
I also know girls called Campbell, Garland.

Lovely!

Congratulations!

Aawwwww awesome! Congratulations!

Luka is Hawaiian

Tia, 'Tiarna' as in Irish for 'lord'?

Unique means there is only one. You mean unusual. Not the same thing.

People go on on here about people being weird or snobby about unusual names and how silly it is that people make judgements. Well, in the real world, people make judgements because they make sense....if you call your child Tiianni-Rae or whatever people know something about you. Same as if you call your child George. You can complain about it all you like, you can call is snobby or unfair or silly but its reality. And its true. We can take a guess at who Georges parents are and who Tiianni-Raes parents are and well likely be right.

My daughter is called Tiarna I also like the name Maeve

Wavyglass, I think Thalia is more often pronounced with a hard T, like Thomas, but it's not quite so clearcut. Apparently there's some confusion about mistranslation/pronunciation of the original Greek character, so it could be interpreted as THaylia, too...? I don't know; not a Classicist! But DN is a Talia, so have heard much about it from DSis.

Isn't Thalia pronounced 'THAY-lee-uh? In Antonia Forest's novels, a character called Thalia is resigned to having to repeat her name because people keep mishearing it as 'Failure'...

I share the irritation at the misuse of 'unique' with regard to names, when what people mean is 'unusual'. Or, in some cases, 'classic name whose spelling I will mess around with in order to stamp it with my yooneekness.'

Naming is so fraught with class identification and anxiety in this country, I agree. In fact, I was just thinking it while my son was watching the birthday card shout-outs on CBeebies - the babies' and toddlers photos were largely identical, but in this country, Lexi-Mae is already classed in relation to Piers. Even though they're both 1.

I think the problem with Kailia is that to us it does sound made up, because of the Kayleigh/Kayla/Kayley type names.

Is Taleah pronounced TAH-leeya or Ta-LEEYA?

Can you give us some examples of Hawaiian names that you like OP?

DressedUpJustLikeEdie: Thalia is a beautiful, classic Greek name. Talia is a beautiful, classic Hebrew name. It's not a variant -- they're from different languages and have distinct meanings.

Tallulah
Tula

Or just use Sophia like pp said friendship don't always last and if it does, the girls might like having similar names. Your friend doesn't own the name!

Kailia pronounced kai-lee-ah

I think people will always struggle with knowing how to spell and pronounce this - it's just to fussy. Kalia is easier - Kailia looks confusing with the ili letters all jumbled together, you have to really look at it carefully to get your head around it.

I like the idea of a Hawaiian name though, can you find a different one that is both unusual and pretty and is not complicated to spell?

Taleah pronounced ta-lee-ah, commonly spelt talia

This is a beautiful, classic name that should be spelt Thalia not Talia or Tahlia of any other variant and certainly not Taleah! And the emphasis should always be on the first syllable, so TAR-leah. Not Teh-LEE-ah.

Brooke
Kendall

Both to American and a bit chavvy for my tastes.

I know Brooke's and Talia's - two of each in my kid's friendship group. Not unique here. I prefer Talia.
Don't like Kendall.
Ambivalent about Kailia.
Absolutely right about latent class anxiety, but I do understand the desire for the unique. Sadly, the 'unique' name that we picked that no one had ever heard of, that fitted exactly with our heritage, got picked up by a minor sleb when dd1 was 3mos, and there are now kajillions of them.
It might be unique now, but give it three months and it might be ridiculed as ten a penny common as grass on every man baby names thread forever more.

Luka?