Regretted an unusual name?

LeeSee or Lizzy?

Thanks to those with suggestions, I like the sound of Lissi.

Very grateful, you've made my weekend.

Now, I may try a new bolognese recipe to celebrate.

I chose a very uncommon name. It isn't completely uncommon in other generations. It isn't an old fashioned classic or a particularly modern unique name. It just isn't in fashion right now.
I did get a few raised eyebrows when I told people and a few people gushed about her very classic middle name. When I hit the baby blues on day 4 I had a complete meltdown about it.
But I am so glad I stuck with it. Really suits my little girl and is elegant and will work in adulthood. I love that I haven't yet come across another baby with the same name.

I think it may well depend on the child. Did my name make me nervy, unconfident and shy or was I like that anyway? NB my 2 sisters with relatively normal names are loud, confident and as bolshy as they come.

I went against the grain to PP on here as my DCs both have names that are consistently in the top 20 if not top 10. However because of all the unusual names as discussed here we know a few people with those names but is not like when I was at school and there were 3 Joanne's in my class...and two of my best friends were called Rachel.

As an unusually named person myself I liked my name but hated that I could never get anything with my name on. My folks got me a named mug made - that was it! I didn't meet someone with my name until I was a teenager and even now I only know one other person. Makes you instantly recognisable in a work situation which is good.

What about Liss, or Lissi, Phyllis?

I think unusual names are lovely, especially if they are historic.

Made up names or daft spelling I judge harshly.

In terms of bullying, I have a really bog standard name and it was used as bullying ammunition. Frankly if someone has a bullying mentality they will use anything to do it.

I think Phyllis is lovely!

My dd is Kasia, which I love and is getting more common here with an expanding polish community- but (accompanied by her Polish surname) it is always mispronounced.

Might have looked for it too.....

totally looked for the Telegraph article but couldn't find it

I kinda regret using my dd1's name which was unusual when I chose it. I wish I'd chosen something that stands out more. I wonder if it is the same as crabbo's dd.

Kiana?

I posted a potential baby name on this board and the daily telegraph picked it up and ran with it in a 'crazy parents ruining their kids' lives with stupid names' type article.

I used the name anyway and have no regrets. She loves it, never any issues with pronunciation or spelling from anyone, and lots of NN potential that I hadn't even realised at the time but she uses when she wants to (but mainly prefers her full name).

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I'm happy to share the unusual name I didn't use, as I won't be using it. I won't say my DD's name as it is fairly unusual for her age group so would out me. I can't change my username without deleting my whole account for some reason , which is an arse pain.

Anyway, the unusual name I wanted to use was Maple (as in the lead / syrup).

Can everyone go name change and then tell me all these unusual names, I'm dying to know!

I have an unusual first name, it's not "out there" or even unpronounceable but everyone has always commented how unusual it is and I have always only had positive comments. I have only met a handful of people with the same name and I am now in my forties.
We named our youngest DS a very, very unusual old gaelic name and chose it's original spelling. People baulk at pronouncing it even though it is pronounced the way it is spelt but we do get all sorts of mis-pronunciations.
But my boy is a very precocious 4 year old and corrects them almost immediately, even telling them off if they continue to say it wrong as he is very proud of his unusual name.
We have also given him a get out clause as he has a more common middle name if he decides in the future that his first name is just too much.
Since we moved to a mainly celtic community a few years ago we have also received less of the raised eyebrows and looks of panic when people try to say it.
In general we have no regrets as my DS's name really suits him.

No, not for a second!

I did regret not giving my DD my mum's name as a middle name thought. I think it would have meant a lot to her and DD, whereas the middle name we chose - although pretty, doesn't mean that much to us really. I wish I'd given it serious thought at the time, I don't know why I didn't.

Mu mums name is Junita. She's not Spanish! She hates it as she was brought up in a small town where no one had ever heard it before let alone pronounce it. She goes by a nickname now.

My sons name is not unusual but is more connected with being a girls name. The name actually used to be a boys name years ago and it wasn't because I was being controversial- it was the only name I liked when scouring boys names for eons. I didn't realuse it was such a girls name but my baby name book had it as a boys. My son has said he's been teased but frankly best that than something else. ANYWAY he seems fine. Unusual names are becoming the norm and some are lovely and wished I'd thought of them first!

I have a friend whose parents gave her an incredibly bizarre name - I can't even remember what it is, but it's unpronounceable and almost certainly made up. Apparently they came up with it when they were on drugs holiday in India. She is so mortified by the name that she never uses it and goes by her middle name. I didn't even know about it until the run up to her wedding when she had to confess that the name we all knew her by wasn't the name we were going to hear at the ceremony. She was clearly terribly embarrassed about the whole thing and it must have spoiled her wedding a bit. I guess she hadn't formally changed her name to her middle name because it would upset her parents.

I also know a boy who calls himself Blue, which seems rather unusual, until you discover what his real name is: Furious. Poor lad.

Youngest daughter has a very unusual name, it's also the name of a male American actor. We have never come across another woman with this name.
Youngest daughter is now 30 years old.
We did give her a very traditional middle name though.
No, we have never regretted it.

My dd2 has a name that consistently registers 4 births a year. Which is odd because we know three other children with the same name, so we didn't realise how unusual it is. When I tell people her name, the response is usually "What? Did you make that up?". It's an old testament name and the diminutive is to a very common name, so I feel glad we've given her a choice over what she wants to be called by when she's older. I've regretted the choice on occasion (normally when trying to explain it to people) but I think she's growing into it.

Fi? Or you could have it as Phi?