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Most unusual girls names you've heard?

339 replies

shuz1980 · 22/07/2021 18:01

Im really stuck on girls names, theres not a single name me and my partner can agree on. I want something unusual but something really pretty and girly. Whats the most unusual names you've heard?

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EducatingArti · 22/07/2021 20:52

Some Shakesperian ones:
Marina
Perdita
Hermione
Paulina
Rosalind

Some more unusual Biblical ones
Dorcas
Eunice
Priscilla
Junia
Jemima(h)
Leah
Martha
Talitha
Lois

Old English:
Elfswyth
Ethelfleda
Boudicca
Merwenna

sorryiasked · 22/07/2021 20:51

Went to school with a girl called Fuchsia

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 22/07/2021 20:50

Emmeline
Romy
Romola

2tired2bewitty · 22/07/2021 20:49

Antigone (like Hermione) nn Tiggy
Xanthippe
Tsuru (silent T)
Dimienne

Yellowmoons · 22/07/2021 20:49

Ariadne
Kerensa / Kerenza
Sabrina

Cloverglens · 22/07/2021 20:46

Rowena

lenaperkins · 22/07/2021 20:42

I once knew a lady called Étrenne - (the meaning is NY gift), could be shortened to Etty.

Never met another Étrenne.

YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer · 22/07/2021 20:42

My cousin named her daughter Bradleigh and a girl at the school I work at was named Atlanta

hamsterchump · 22/07/2021 20:41

@YourCakesAreShit Yep!

YourCakesAreShit · 22/07/2021 20:40

@hamsterchump

Loveday, Isolde, Athena, Demelza, Artemis, Morwenna, Lowenna, Senara.
Do you live in Cornwall, by any chance?
Paivaa · 22/07/2021 20:37

My DD is Tula (too-la)

Slipperfairy · 22/07/2021 20:36

Beryl.

Lots of fairly normal names but with a oonicque spelling.

The only one I know is in her 70s.

Randomgal28 · 22/07/2021 20:34

Tia

DaisyWaldron · 22/07/2021 20:34

People I only know one of:
Yolande
Talitha
Kinvara
Eline
Xanthe
Eithne
Margarita
Tanith
Pieta

People I know more than one of, but suspect their names are still pretty unusual:
Elektra
Athene
Marina
Saffron

SirGawain · 22/07/2021 20:34

@Disfordarkchocolate

Olwen is a name I've only heard once and always thought sounded lovely.
I had a lovely aunt called Olwen, once I knew someone called Alwin which i also liked.
hamsterchump · 22/07/2021 20:32

Loveday, Isolde, Athena, Demelza, Artemis, Morwenna, Lowenna, Senara.

GreenWhiteViolet · 22/07/2021 20:28

Only met one:

Princess
Keturah
Privian
Thenila
Vania

Roselilly36 · 22/07/2021 20:28

Xanthe
Azalea
Bluebell
Angel

PatchworkElmer · 22/07/2021 20:28

I know a Taryn, and a Bronwen.

QueenAdreena · 22/07/2021 20:26

Not names that I personally love, but I’ve only ever met one Avocet and one Fenella.

Terrazzo · 22/07/2021 20:24

Also only ever met one Pytsje but think might be quite common in Holland.

Romina
Clarissa

GiveMyHeadPeaceffs · 22/07/2021 20:23

I quite like Sybille (pronounced Sybilluh) I knew a German girl with that name, she was lovely so maybe that why I'm quite partial to it.

I once worked with a woman called Zephryn, never met anyone with the name before or since.

Pogostemon · 22/07/2021 20:23

Is that not a boys name. Peace’s Geldolf named her boy Phaedra.

No, it’s a girl’s name. She was a princess in Greek mythology.

Terrazzo · 22/07/2021 20:21

@EleanorOlephantisjustfine Peaches named her son after a Greek princess.

Terrazzo · 22/07/2021 20:20

Only ever met one Jera.

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