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Unusual Girls Names

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xxmrsbxx · 27/06/2020 10:45

What’s the most unusual name you’ve heard for a girl? I have 2 boys with unusual names and really struggling for a name for our little girl.

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Redhair1 · 28/06/2020 02:24

Astrid
Sylvie
Josephine

Tillygetsit · 28/06/2020 00:20

Children my dcs know
Tasmin (not Tamsin)
Darla
Mirabel
Sorrel
Vebecka
Not saying they're my cup of tea but they're pretty unusual.

FawnDrench · 27/06/2020 21:32

Augusta
Cherish
Elspeth
Pollyanna
Artemisia
Isolde
Kythe
Birgit

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xxmrsbxx · 27/06/2020 21:15

Thanks everyone there is some lovely names and you’ve given me lots of ideas just need to shorten my list

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Lozz22 · 27/06/2020 21:00

Taomi

IHateCoronavirus · 27/06/2020 20:49

I love Serin

Krazynights34 · 27/06/2020 20:48

Lisette
Francine
Georgiana
Florence
Antoinette
Bertha
Grainne (Irish name with an accent on the a - pronunciation GRAW-nja).
Leonora
Imelda
Sorcha
Saoirse
Serena
Angelene
Isadora
Dorabelle
Cara
Delphine
Honey
Joy

puzzledpiece · 27/06/2020 20:45

Amaya? Pronounced ah-my-ah

starterfor11 · 27/06/2020 16:52

Piper
Dillis
Robyn
Paige

SweatyAmy · 27/06/2020 16:50

Gypsy and Jezebel.

Other names I have only met one of:
Larissa
Valentina
Dominique
Catriona (will be more common in Scotland)
Una (will be more common in Ireland)
Heidi
Ffion (will be more common in Wales)
Sioned (will be more common in Wales)
Juliet
Henrietta
Verity

florascotia2 · 27/06/2020 16:47

Thank you, Hopeful. Very kind!

Hopeful57 · 27/06/2020 14:10

florascotia2

Flora is such a gorgeous name!

whatausername · 27/06/2020 14:07

[quote florascotia2]This might be of interest, OP. All sorts of unusual names as you scroll down, from medieval and modern-in-Scotland to random 'name musings:
www.britishbabynames.com/blog/uncommon-and-unusual/[/quote]
Oh dear god, someone called their daughter Peculiar. Really!

pinkpinecone · 27/06/2020 14:02

Reya
Delphine
Romy
Marlowe
Juno
Nico
Gaia
Iona
Calla

Charis1503 · 27/06/2020 13:18

Ottilie
Ariadne (ar-re-ad-ne)
Halcyon (hal-see-on)
Octavia
Arrietty
Luciana (Lucy-arr-na)

Hopeful57 · 27/06/2020 13:12

Whether they're unusual is an other question (really depends on where you live). But I don't see them regularly recommended on mumsnet:

Akilina
Aviva
Adina
Bettina
Zipporah
Severina
Andreana
Augustine
Liora
Vered

AdelaideK · 27/06/2020 12:52

Lark not mark ha

AdelaideK · 27/06/2020 12:51

Dakota
Soleil
Tabitha
Sylvianne
Greer
August
Mark
Noelle

Chienloup · 27/06/2020 12:48

Soleil
Sorrel
Sennen
Vita
Viola
Teleri
Eleri
Isolde
Hilde
Temperance
Glory
Idra
Fenetta
Vanna
Thomasina

Happenchance · 27/06/2020 12:40

I like the pronunciation of Sequoia / Sequoya.

perfumeistooexpensive · 27/06/2020 12:36

I do family history and have found Levena and Theodosia in my family. I've never heard of them before.

bananaskinsnomnom · 27/06/2020 12:35

I know an Araminta, she’s known as Minty - pulls it off very well!

So less popular but not completely off the wall? Some of these are on my list:

Atlanta
Leilani
Marnie
Enya
Luna
Arabella
Skyler
Fern
Hebe
Aurelia
Aine
Anwen
Sydney
Nell
Saskia
Morgan
Lorelei
Adeline

Theyweretheworstoftimes · 27/06/2020 12:29

If any given name was only given to two children or less then the name won't appear for privacy reasons in the table above.

CMMum88 · 27/06/2020 12:28

Araminta
Rosamund
Cordelia

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xxmrsbxx · 27/06/2020 12:28

@LotusClover thanks Orla was one of the names I really liked but it seems to becoming quite a popular name now

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