Regretted an unusual name?

My dds name is unusual for the UK (it's Hawaiian) but doesn't sound out of place and is easy to spell etc - it's quite similar to a couple of other more well known names. It really suits her though and she gets lots of compliments on it.

Ca55andraMortmain, isn't it funny how that happens. I wonder how a name suddenly seems to be everywhere.

Catherinebee85 well it can be quite outing!

I have a slightly unusual name and my brother has a very unusual one so for me it was normal and I liked growing up and being easily identified I was a bit of a performer 👐🏽😆 not sure how my brother feels but he's never changed it and again, makes it easy for him to network for work etc.
DH has a very common name and was one of several in his class at every school he went to. He didn't like that much so it was easy to suggest more unusual names and him be receptive. DD does have an unusual name as a result and we love it and people often say they like it, not that that matters anyway.

It's driving me mad that everyone's posting waxing lyrical but not saying what the names actually are!

We used our much-loved very unusual name as DD's middle name, and used a top thirty name as her first name. She would have had a lifetime of spelling it, plus it would have been misheard as a similar but more common name. I feel we've got the best of both worlds.

Isis is a name of a 10+ dc I know. His parents his parents???

Reading this thread it would appear that almost every parent is happy with their unusual choice, but not all the kids are.

As someone with a unusual name (and bloody awful middle name) all I can say is think really carefully. I loathed my name as a child and dreaded telling people it. My school wouldn't allow me to be called the more normal version my family lumbered me with (but pissily allowed my sister to use her diminutive - think Katie for Catherine) but I was stuck with the name that caused me to be bullied mercilessly.

I've got used to it now but my middle name is still one that I cringe at.

My middle name is very unusual. It's religious. I have never met or heard of anyone with the same name and if you search for it on Bounty etc it's not there.
When I was younger it was a little embarrassing explaining how to pronounce it, but my parents gave me a very popular first name so I just didn't tell anyone. Now that I'm older though I love it, it fits me and I tend to use it in place of my first name as my surname is really common.

DD has an unusual spelling (about 7 births in 2014) of a more popular but not too popular name. No, it's not made up, it's an old Scandinavian spelling and version of a more traditional name that also happens to be the name of my sister, if that makes sense. Sometimes I think should have given her the more common spelling but that still has pronounciation issues...

Thanks

Cereal,

I look at names.darkgreener.com. It was linked to on the ONS site. You need to hover on the chart on your year to get the exact number

DS has an unusual name. Not totally far out but I don't know anyone else with his name and never see it mentioned here. He is 7 and loves it. His younger sister has a really conventional name and she doesn't like it. I don't regret it at all. We live in a cosmopolitan area which helps as a majority of names are foreign and not common.

No regrets on DS's unusual name. It's very unusual in the UK (only people I have ever met or heard of named this are from other countries or their parents are) but variants of it are fairly popular elsewhere and there is a famous historical one too, plus place names after him etc. so it's very recognisable and easy to spell for most people though some hesitate to use the British pronunciation (a bit like assuming someone called Jesus is Spanish and pronouncing it Hay-soos) when they have only seen it written.

My dd has a rare name, not really unusual but very rare, I don't regret it, she hates that she can't find a key ring/pen/drinks bottle with her name on!
Where do you find out how many other babies shared your child's name the year they were born? Thanks

You can regret that they did it. Or rather wish they hadn't.

I have a very common name but I have read on here many times that people with unusual names hate them. In fairness I've also heard them say they love them too.

I have a very unusual name, so unusual that in all my 35 years I have never met or heard of another one. It can be shortened to a very simple name which I like just as much as my full name. It's usually a nice talking point when I meet people and I do like having a name that others haven't heard of. My parents have me middle names which are very popular now in case I didn't like it, but I've never done so xx

Perhaps a more relevant question would be "if your parents gave you an unusual name do you regret it?"

No regrets at all (ds shares his name with 15 others in his birth year)!

Neither of my DS's names were top 100.
DS 2_has never met anyone with his name.
DS 1 - there is 1 other in his (big) high school.

They love the fact they have unusual names, they comment on it and are grateful they are not part of a pack. Never regretted it.

Before I had my children I loved the name Ava for years as I adore Ava Gardener. When I named my daughter in 2004 it was really unusual and lots of people commented on it. I still love the name but it became SO popular, so quickly. that I regret it a little now. My second daughter has a very uncommon but not unusual name. I love that she is the only one in her school. In fairness, Ava is the only one in her cohort but there are a few now in the pre-prep.

Glittter - a relative had a baby Isis. She's nearly 3. They changed her name just over a year ago to Iris.

I want to know what these names are!
My DS has a name which doesn't appear in the listing (so under 3 of them that year). The spelling is a not-made-up variation on a name which was given to about 30 children. I don't regret it at all but I think there's a chance it will date despite being unusual.

The only thing my mother ever did for me was give me a nice name.