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Names you have only ever met one of

755 replies

ladyinacampervan · 03/05/2021 21:36

What names do you like but you have only ever met one of before?

My sister is pregnant for the first time at 43 and wants an unusual but real name and wants some inspiration.

I named my own after only once ever hearing someone called the name.

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NotNowPlzz · 06/07/2021 20:53

Noeline (lovely name, heinous bitch)

NotNowPlzz · 06/07/2021 20:50

Loella
Fawn
Bonita
Liberty
Madonna
Misty

Bovrilly · 06/07/2021 18:33

Aloysia
Piran
Petroc
Bunmi
Anwen
Tirion
Coriander

35andThriving · 06/07/2021 17:48

Gwenna
Merlin
Lavinia

namcybotwinbloom · 30/06/2021 21:32

Helouise is beautiful someone suggested that unthread.

I wish I'd stuck with my original choose of Ophelia.

Doesn't sound so great shouting "Ophelia get in your tea is ready" where I live though. I love it though.

We are not in contact with my dd dad and she has said she wants it as a middle name so we will be adding it to her birth certificate when she is 16 as a middle name. If she still wants to.

namcybotwinbloom · 30/06/2021 21:30

My grandads brother was called Septimus. He was the 7th child of one of seven.

Not sure if that's why he was called Septimus.

I love it.

dementedma · 30/06/2021 21:09

One Fionnuala and one Guy

peaches99 · 28/06/2021 21:10

Amaryllis

feliciabirthgiver · 28/06/2021 21:08

Brook for a boy

mathanxiety · 28/06/2021 21:00

Also -
Zita
Nessa
Symphony

mathanxiety · 28/06/2021 20:58

Twyla
Antoinette
Lucia
Xochitl
Laurel
Tatiana
Regine
Naomi

Lev
Cormac
Lucien
Malachi
Eunan
Fergus
Casimir
Orlando

carolinesbaby · 28/06/2021 20:47

Saffron
Kaidence
Zilpah
Jolene

Onehotmess · 28/06/2021 14:52

Adelaine
Alaina
Catriona
Elvia
Abel

IVflytrap · 28/06/2021 14:05

Sequoia
Luna
Eleni
Avril
Eiluned
Meriel
Hayley
Deryn
Sherry
Gaye (wouldn't recommend this one)

Knut (probably wouldn't recommend this one)
Leif
Fergus
Clive
Merlin
Leith
Samson
Hayden
Enzo
Remi

Onehotmess · 27/06/2021 22:29

I love the way people are saying ‘I don’t know anyone else with my name/my DC name” but then not saying what the name is 😂🙈 The OP wanted ideas, not for you to say how wonderfully unique you are 😂🙈.
I only know one;
Xanthe
Xavier
Orlaith (although I’m sure there are plenty in Ireland!)
Elouise
Lois

Chunkymenrock · 27/06/2021 18:12

Suki, Damaris, Merlin, Prosper.

VanillaAndOrange · 27/06/2021 18:11

Keryn
Fernalith
Aurelia (I really like this one!)
Fiorella
Yaara
Kareena
Primrose
Antoinette

Eugene
Jeremiah
Ralph
Graydon
Quenton (yes, he did spell it this way)
Clayton

HyggeTygge · 27/06/2021 11:16

@roadwarrior

La-a (pronounced La-dash-ah), although I don't recommend you name your child that!
This bollocks crops up all the time. Really, you genuinely met an actual la-a?

www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/

Blossomandbee · 27/06/2021 11:04

Reef
Fritha
Anneli
Crystal

Slyn · 27/06/2021 10:55

Went to high school with a Kendra and Deodata. Never met others

amallierory · 27/06/2021 10:27

Haddie
Zyra
Olesia

(all girls)

Spandrel · 27/06/2021 08:06

@ZoyaTheDestroyer

Tuesday
I used to teach a Tuesday in a former job. If this is the same person, her middle names were a date, though I can’t remember what. Something like Tuesday February Fifth Surname.

Ace
Thiago
Hector
Floriano
Phineas
Percy
Storm
Lasairfhíona
Mimi
Lir
Concepta
Eucharia

captainprincess · 26/06/2021 22:28

Iona
Quin
Tanith
Tabitha
Czarina

lilyLl · 26/06/2021 20:29

@ladyinacampervan

What names do you like but you have only ever met one of before?

My sister is pregnant for the first time at 43 and wants an unusual but real name and wants some inspiration.

I named my own after only once ever hearing someone called the name.

Lavinia Adelaide Denisa
HyggeTygge · 26/06/2021 19:08

Surprised by some of these - i know loads of Imogens, Davinas (not children though), Annabels and Pippas!

I know one Loveday, Petra, Ethel, Cara.