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Most unusual names you’ve heard at baby group!

588 replies

Nameenthusiast · 25/01/2019 21:33

Thought this might be fun and may give some people some new ideas! What are the most unusual baby names you have heard recently? Mine are:
Moses
Claude
Nula
Herbie
Huckleberry

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Sarahandduck18 · 31/01/2019 21:37

E-jay

Cbeebiesrehab · 31/01/2019 17:51

Oh and I’ve just remembered...a girl called ‘Purple’

Cbeebiesrehab · 31/01/2019 09:01

Kiki
Misty
Bianca
Nara
Onix (boy)

Not too wild but not ones you hear every day. I really like Nara.

reallyanothername · 31/01/2019 08:04

Bristol (girl)
Aston (boy)
Honey (girl)
Trinity (girl)

HerRoyalNotness · 30/01/2019 20:53

Just met girl twins lst week called Massie (pron mazzy) and Anrie (I wondered if it was Henri but couldn’t be bothered asking). First was family surname and second was named after someone they knew in foreign climes.

BikeRunSki · 30/01/2019 20:47

I love Onyx!

Candace19 · 30/01/2019 17:36

Chardonnay (I kid you not)

Beeziekn33ze · 30/01/2019 10:20

Onyx (sister to Amber)

Mesosleepy · 30/01/2019 10:13

@ihavealwaysknown no Polish roots that I am aware of!
I work with a lady called Clever. I quite like it!

BooseysMom · 30/01/2019 08:13

@Slothcuddles... Tunnel is a name?! Note there are a few abbreviations instead of actual words.. this must be the fashion now! (Sounding ancient as I write this!)

@prembaby2.. I like Sula. The only one I know is from Bing.

prembaby2 · 30/01/2019 01:09

@Beeziekn33ze Cheyenne isn't unusal, is it? I've known a few.

Beeziekn33ze · 30/01/2019 01:08

Disney - boy
Cheyenne - girl
Apache - girl
Dannyboy
Retina - father a doctor!

Ihavealwaysknown · 30/01/2019 00:53

@Mesosleepy does Xochia have polish roots? We have friends who named their DD Zosia (pronounces Zo-sha) because that was the husbands grandmothers name (who was Polish). 😊

Ihavealwaysknown · 30/01/2019 00:48

Rogue (girl)
Delicious (boy)
Millennium (girl)
Syndie (girl)

All under a year old

MimiSunshine · 29/01/2019 21:16

In a baby group I went to there was an Eponine and a Bruce

Mesosleepy · 29/01/2019 20:15

Some new people at nursery today... Rocco, woody and buster 🤦🏼‍♀️
Also heard a mum call to Bluebell in the supermarket yesterday.
A friend of a friend called her daughter Xochia, pronounced Zosha. Surely that's a lifetime of spelling and correcting your name

Slothcuddles · 29/01/2019 15:33

Kids I’ve taught over the years:-

Star
Heart
Shakira
Diesel
Tunnel
Princess
Prince
Patience
Axel (what a horrid name)
Keanu
Dwayne
Joelle (I think is pretty)
Devon
Blue
Aston
Fluer
Zuzanne
Suvannah
J.D
T.J
Sonny
MJ

Thistles24 · 29/01/2019 14:24

The one that springs to mind is Abba, a girl. She’s probably about 12 now....

prembaby2 · 29/01/2019 13:35

I attend 3 groups a week.

None have particularly unusual names (mine have the most unusual!)

However we do have siblings: Stone, Storm, Sand and Sula (Sand, not SAndy)

midsomermurderess · 29/01/2019 12:52

Is Alec unusual?

l0psy · 29/01/2019 12:16

I used to teach a Donjour
Cutest little man ever though

Laquila · 28/01/2019 21:53

Ah I see, Weekend. That’s unfortunate!

Isitweekendyet · 28/01/2019 21:22

@lordpickle it's a small world!

It is pronounced with a gutteral Hu at the start, similarly to Chanukah.

It's easiest pronounced with a silent C like Hime.

Isitweekendyet · 28/01/2019 21:18

Chiam - not the unusual part.

His Mother pronounced it Cheeum and was telling everyone her ancestors were Jewish and it means happy.

As a Jew, I wish I had told her it means life and it was both spelt and pronounced wrong.

QuimReaper · 28/01/2019 21:12

Also Myrtle's sister was called Benn. I really like that.

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