REALLY popular name with REALLY unusual siblings?

Name suggestions:
Jovian
Jacobi
Cedric
Leviathan

Hadley
Eudora
Forrestine
Eunice
Sequoia
Elmira/Elvira
Adelia
Gale

If you’re set on the very popular name with your very common surname then perhaps consider an unusual or second middle name. It could prove useful in the future to avoid administrative mix-ups or if your child goes into a career where it’s helpful for your name to be distinctive for citations, eg academia or medicine.

[quote CouldWeStartAgainPlease]@Pumpkinstace in Scotland they publish all names given, even to just one child. So my OP should have said just one/two in Scotland, I've never actually checked the stats for the other parts of the UK![/quote]
I didn’t know that! I’ve just had a look at 2019 when my son was born. 17 other baby boys with his name in Scotland.

Surprisingly only one Archibald-Blu😂

There are some… interesting names on the list!

Not these exact names, but very close - we have a George and an Edmund. Similarly classic but Edmund far rarer - we get lots of compliments and lots of people turning their nose up! They were genuinely the only boys names we could agree on.

Imo I have a unique (and people always say how beautiful my name is when I tell them) name which makes people remember me and dsis has the less exciting name.

I agree with you, and I certainly remember interesting unusual names much better than a top 10 name.

I have a name that is incredibly rare and people comment on whenever I introduce myself. dsis has an more usual name although not as common as Sarah/Katie names for our generation

I hate to say it but I feel sorry for dsis. Imo I have a unique (and people always say how beautiful my name is when I tell them) name which makes people remember me and dsis has the less exciting name.

Howver my kids have an unusual and usual name so I've repeated it some how! They are in the same vibe though

Though Ottilie and Otis wouldn’t work. Damn. Just realised.
Lysander, Ottilie, Rex/Jack/Theo… fine!
Ned or Ted, no!

How about Atticus?

I think Otis or Rex would be good names if you’re wanting something a bit less unusual but still a little bit ‘off piste’.

It might end up like the infamous mn triplets. Faith, Hope and Kevin.

Choose names you love but I wouldn’t want a name that every other child has too.

DD1 has a name that I thought was really unusual. I’d never met anyone else with it and only read it in books. I now know of several people with the name. Still love it though.

DD2 has a quite well-known (in Ireland) Irish name but it’s quite unusual in my part of England. A lot of people have never heard of it but more than I thought have met someone with her name. It’s a beautiful name and I’m glad we chose it.

The name DH and I had chosen for a boy has become incredibly popular and that’s sort of putting me off if we were ever to have a boy in the future. I wouldn’t want him to be in a class with several others with his name or a variation of his name…

How do you find out if there was one or two born that year?

ONS only publishes names over 3 babies per year.

My DD was a name less than 3 but we don't know if she is a 1 or a 2.

DH and I have the very common first name and surname thing and it is a bit annoying

I bet. Definitely worth remembering why we name a person (so they can easily be identified)!

Would Wilfred go with your first 2?

I have this with my own DC but I don't think it matters if the names 'go together'. After all, you can't depend on names staying unusual because (in theory) it just takes one celeb to name their baby that and suddenly it's top 10 fodder. X

As said above if they go together then it’s fine. I’ve got an extremely common name for dc1 then much less common for 2 snd 3 but they all sound fine together snd all names I love so 😱

I have 2 children with uncommon names and one with a more popular name. The popular name wasn’t even in the top 100 when I used it but it exploded. They don’t sound silly together I don’t think, but maybe it’s just because we are used to them.

My DD1 has a very unusual name and one that I would be surprised to come across ever, so had to give her sister a slightly more unusual name... that name is now becoming more popular, still out of the top 100, but have heard or a friend of a friend calling their child it.

Hepzibah, Kerenhappuch and Isla

How well do they go together otherwise? For example Edward is pretty popular, and Patrick and Alistair less so, but well known so if I knew 3 brothers named Patrick, Alistair and Edward that wouldn't register as they are all classic names with a similar feel.

If it's something like Hepzibah and Kerenhappuch with a new little brother called Harry or a new little sister called Isla then it's more noticeable as the unusual names are very unusual and less well known.

I've said before on here that I have a group of siblings in my family who all have very Welsh names, bar one - think Esyllt, Llŷr, Siôr, Gwawr and Malcolm. 'Malcolm' stands out and gets negative comments as a result.

So I would try and avoid anything that is very noticeably put of step with the existing DC's names.

More importantly than the siblings mix matching, I'd be concerned about giving my child a super common first name combined with a super common surname!