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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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OrlandaFuriosa · 14/10/2016 08:57

Love Amyas. In the old song, you and I and Amyas go to the green wood..

OrlandaFuriosa · 14/10/2016 08:55

Veronica
Verity
Clemency
Llinos
Merran
Mirran
Thecla/Tecla
Lavinia
Bronwen
Blodwen
Amaryllis
Phillida
Philomela
Angharad
Alicia
Dorothea
Juno
Juniper
Jessamine
Loveday
Guinevere
Ghislaine
Iseult
Isolde
Matilda
Mechtilde
Marina
Marietta
Nell
Netty
Danae
Iolanthe
Ianthe
Athena
Peta
Petrova

Roland
Roderick
Rory
Hector
Hubert
Rollo
Jocelyn
Inigo
Benedict
Hugo
Algernon
Augustus
Tristram
Tristan
Col
Colin
Corin
Edmund
Clive

Thewolfsjustapuppy · 14/10/2016 08:22

Elethia
Liefe

NotYoda · 13/10/2016 20:40

Anita
Solange
Farrah

Raphael
Malachi
Levi

DerelictMyBalls · 13/10/2016 19:13

Amyas
Corvin
Solomon
Lamar
Ford
Marcelo
Geffen
Judd

I can't do girls'names at all.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 13/10/2016 17:42

Robson
Grayson
Hudson

Zinnia
Ebony
Hepzibah

SovietKitsch · 13/10/2016 14:01

Serafina
Xenia

Ambrose
Mungo

RattieOfCatan · 13/10/2016 03:40

Artemis and Minerva. They are our two girls names and I must admit I am leaning towards wanting a girl purely so that I can use one! (37 weeks pregnant so not long till I find out!)
Boys names: Caspar, Caspian & Dara, though can't use any of them :(

MissisBee · 12/10/2016 22:26

Merlin and Aurora

dropaheartbreakaname · 11/10/2016 23:10

Heard a little boy being called Cassius the other day. Love it!

ABCFamily · 11/10/2016 22:59

Oh, and Eris. Although she was the goddess of discord and strife, so perhaps not the best namesake!

ABCFamily · 11/10/2016 22:51

I floated the name Hester on this board when I was pregnant a few months ago, and it was almost universally panned! My husband wasn't keen, so we didn't use it in the end; but it's still one of my favourites. My daughter did end up with one of the names mentioned on this thread though.

Some of my other favourite uncommon (for babies in England & Wales) names:

Tamsin
Clarice
Myrtle
Lorna
Sorrel
Celeste
Demelza
Elara
Simone
Damaris
Nyx
Jessamine
Cecile

Emrys
Quentin
Griffin
Edgar
Tobin
Leopold
Digory
Phineas
Tarquin

SK28 · 11/10/2016 17:18

Andrianna, Isadora, Amina, Clementine, Genevieve, Evelina - all some of my favourite girls' names :)

9troubledwaters · 11/10/2016 12:16

Lorna

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 11/10/2016 07:12

Aurora (Rory)
Alessia

Joinourclub · 11/10/2016 03:40

Ariadne

OhTheRoses · 10/10/2016 21:30

Oh not Myra, and my mum has a lovely friend called Myra (she's 77) but the connotation with Hindley (shudder emoticon).

MusicalChairsOh · 10/10/2016 14:49

Emmaris
Merlin
Brooke
Shira
Myra

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 10/10/2016 14:46

Ysanne
Tess
Wren

Thewolfsjustapuppy · 10/10/2016 14:29

Enora
Phylida
Merielle
Thomasina
Philomena
Nory

TempsPerdu · 10/10/2016 14:14

Oh, and also Auden and Ansel for a boy.

TempsPerdu · 10/10/2016 14:12

I love unusual names. Would use most of these in a heartbeat if DP would agree (which sadly he very much wouldn't!)

Calypso
Zinnia
Honor
Gaia
Marin
Merryn
Arianne
Arianwen
Linnet
Clover
Aster
Clementina
Sorrel
Lorien
Ginevra
Vita
Aphra

Cassian
Atticus
Torin
Tobin
Otto
Jago
Magnus
Dashiell
Linus
Stellan
Gustav
Orson
Merlin

Dogolphin · 10/10/2016 13:44

Soraya
Vita
Vitas

TristanFarnon · 10/10/2016 12:39

I know a Vivika who works with newborns and pregnant women. Always hoping to hear of a few more! I think it's really pretty and so unusual.

Dogolphin · 10/10/2016 12:10

Delphi