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Your favourite unusual names?

137 replies

Yawninghippo · 09/10/2016 18:36

What are your favourite ones? Boy or girl. Anything out of the top few hundred names. Smile

I'm looking for inspiration! My name tastes run to most things, particularly love anything Italian, pretty girls names, anything nature related or strong boys names. TIA!

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FastWindow · 18/10/2016 02:12

Some incredibly lovely names on here, not the usual stuff! My dds name has been mentioned - which never happens.

I love the name Lita. It's the Swedish for 'trust'.

cockadoodledoooo · 18/10/2016 02:06

I love ilaria, that was one my top five, along with ariety, Luna, elspeth but we went with Avalon

KittensWithWeapons · 18/10/2016 01:57

Oh, and Ruadhán. I love Ruadhán.

KittensWithWeapons · 18/10/2016 01:55

Doireann
Sadhbh
Persephone
Ailbhe
Frances
Iseult

Thor
Setanta
Boaz

badtime · 18/10/2016 00:30

My absolute favourite girls name is the beautiful (but not at all unusual in Italy) Ilaria.

(that looks weird in the MN font - it's ilaria, not a doubled letter at the beginning)

SansasEscape · 16/10/2016 22:23

Vera. Favourite name of all time.

Wikkitikki · 16/10/2016 19:39

Cassius, Killian, Dion, Felix
Isolde, Veronica, Marguerite, Aldyth, Sylvie

crapfatbanana · 15/10/2016 18:51

My daughter's name is Elspeth :)

I love:

Loveday/Lowdy
Morenwyn
Rosenwyn
Bennath
Maude

Jowan
Percival
Tilo
Veryan

liquidrevolution · 15/10/2016 12:37

Merrily for a girl.

I just love it but sadly couldn't use it as have ridiculous long surname.

Fadingmemory · 15/10/2016 12:34

Fabian, Gudrun

ample · 15/10/2016 00:15

Xander.
Cassius.
Linus.
Milo.
Edgar.
Griffin
Wyatt.
Holt.
Everett.
Sterling.
Heath.
Boyd.

Lorelai.
Greer.
Bliss.
Rosalind.
Elspeth.
Daphne.
Lacey.
Lark.
Kinsa.
Aisling.
Mallory.
Mara.
Mirabelle.
Indigo.
Willa.
Ludivine.

More of a timeless classics fan in RL

Natsku · 14/10/2016 23:27

Boy:
Aslak
Manu
Matias
Otso (means bear - pronounced ot-soh)

Girl:
Iita (pronounced ee-tah
Inkeri
Katariina
Magdaleena

minifingerz · 14/10/2016 23:05

Some great names on this thread.

minifingerz · 14/10/2016 23:05

Kays - boys name
Talitha

minifingerz · 14/10/2016 23:03

Sabire - (Sabiree)

minifingerz · 14/10/2016 23:02

Sidonie/Sidony

I used to know a woman called Rodney. That was her birth name. Shock

aforestgrewandgrew · 14/10/2016 22:56

Anouk
Arianwen (pr. Arri-ANN-wen)
Romy
Ramona
Indira
Mahe (pr. Maah-hey)
Etta
Zilla
Mari

Inigo
Osian (pr. Osh-an)
Taliesin (pr. Tal-YES-in)

Thewolfsjustapuppy · 14/10/2016 22:53

Wilma
Petina
Petunia
Patricia

Herhighness · 14/10/2016 22:30

Channing, for a girl

happypotamus · 14/10/2016 20:44

Ariadne
Bethan
Olwen
Rosanna

Orrin
Rowan

GinAndTunic · 14/10/2016 12:41

To clarify: bow to rhyme with 'dough', not 'ow'.

GinAndTunic · 14/10/2016 12:39

It's not ignorance at all! It's an unusual French name.

It's pronounced Tee-bow.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 14/10/2016 12:30

Gin, forgive my ignorance, how do you pronounce Thibault ?

GinAndTunic · 14/10/2016 12:19

Demeter and Thibault.

I also love Calypso, as someone else suggested.

user1476441366 · 14/10/2016 11:47

Mika is my favourite girl name. Flowers