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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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custardbear · 22/07/2021 19:42

Barley and Phaedra

sesquipedalia · 22/07/2021 19:38

I knew a Trilby, Nemesis, Blake, Clarinda, Leafy, Dimphy, Andromeda....

Bookaholic73 · 22/07/2021 19:38

@Bookaholic73

Sequoia. Names after After the National park. Had never heard of it before, but absolutely love it!
Sorry, meat to say she was named after the National park.
Bookaholic73 · 22/07/2021 19:37

Sequoia. Names after
After the National park. Had never heard of it before, but absolutely love it!

greatestdancer · 22/07/2021 19:36

My DD is called Darla, we haven’t met another one yet

17caterpillars1mouse · 22/07/2021 19:36

I also once worked with a Malita which I thought was quite pretty and a lecturer when I was at uni had a little girl called Galadriel

17caterpillars1mouse · 22/07/2021 19:35

Dd1 has a Serenity in her class and a Seraphine.

Blackcountryexile · 22/07/2021 19:33

I was at primary school,many decades ago, with a Terina. Never heard of another one.

Hm2020 · 22/07/2021 19:33

Isamara

BillyIsMyBunny · 22/07/2021 19:32

Junia
Memory
Amala
Oxana
Cushla

Hm2020 · 22/07/2021 19:31

Ooh and a chilli

RandomCatGenerator · 22/07/2021 19:29

Thanks @35andThriving!

Hm2020 · 22/07/2021 19:29

Valentina
cidarella
Lippy
carolyn
Tila lilly
Nanna
Petal
Was hard to get some of them past spell check.

CremeEggThief · 22/07/2021 19:28

Desdemona
Thomasina
Thirza
Rena
Adalgisa
Kerinza
Serenity
Vienna
Aleni

Former primary teacher. Only met 1 each of the above, apart from Kerinza and Thomasina. I knew 2 of both those.

ElizabethTudor · 22/07/2021 19:25

Chardonnay.

35andThriving · 22/07/2021 19:25

names.darkgreener.com

This website is fab, RandomCatGenarator. As long as the name is used at least 3 times in a particular year, then it shows up. It goes back to 1996.

Kanaloa · 22/07/2021 19:23

DD5 has a little girl named Louise in her class, although it seems common she’s the only child Louise I’ve ever met.

Also met children named Clarissa and Ingrid and a grown up Giana, these all seemed unusual to me but might be more common elsewhere.

Numnumcookie · 22/07/2021 19:22

Teala

RandomCatGenerator · 22/07/2021 19:20

Unusual names of girls I’ve met

Minuet
Precious
Savannah
Blue
Mercedes

RandomCatGenerator · 22/07/2021 19:19

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff

Ha, DD1 best friend is Odette! I think there were only 12 in the UK the year they were born.
How does one find this out? I’d love to see how many of each name there are!
hennybeans · 22/07/2021 19:17

Mavourneen
Lisanne

I once applied for a job as an au pair with a family whose DC were called Chili and Espresso. Not nicknames, their actual names.

chelsea82 · 22/07/2021 19:16

An ex colleague named her daughter Persephone (Persuhfunee). My daughters middle name is Ophelia

35andThriving · 22/07/2021 19:16

Gwenna
Nuala
Viola
Fable

CatCup · 22/07/2021 19:14

Melody

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 22/07/2021 19:14

Ha, DD1 best friend is Odette! I think there were only 12 in the UK the year they were born.

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