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What's the most unusual baby name that you've encountered recently?

416 replies

CaramelJones · 16/06/2022 14:33

I mean real names not La-A and Lemonjello or Chlamydia or other urban legends.

A friend in the U.S has called her baby son, Sundance. I rather like it in a way though I was taken aback at first.

I met a McLaren recently too, not as unusual as Sundance but not something that you encounter every day either.

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Soulstirring · 16/06/2022 21:42

Solar

NorthernWanker · 16/06/2022 21:41

Phoenix
Belladonna (just think of the herb)
Emma Dale was still my favourite

GorgonzolaSouffle · 16/06/2022 21:41

D’Niro was a surprise to me.

friends have also named their children
atticus
ophelia
aurelia
walter
stanley
edith

none would be my choice

felulageller · 16/06/2022 21:39

Sorley
Rory for a girl
Cairo

thegreylady · 16/06/2022 21:38

I know a baby girl called Atlas, she lives in Turkey so I am not sure if it is usual there.

MiseryWIthAStent · 16/06/2022 21:38

My daughter goes to school with a Dolphin.

Cantseethewindows · 16/06/2022 21:37

SmithsterSister · 16/06/2022 20:19

Colleague just called her new baby girl McVey. Which I thought was a surname but 🤷‍♀️

It is. Can't imagine they googled it or they would have realised it was he name of the Oklahoma bomber... Appreciate not many people will know, but not great...

Flaunch · 16/06/2022 21:37

a lovely little boy called Ivo which I thought was fabulous ❤️

sparechange · 16/06/2022 21:36

otter
tosha
sloane

at DS nursery

Lickerz · 16/06/2022 21:35

mistermagpie · 16/06/2022 15:48

Alan.

Not in itself an unusual name but quite jarring on a teeny baby!

Actually Love the name Alan for a boy, DD2 would have been an Alan if she'd been a boy

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 16/06/2022 21:35

Scania
Oracle
Sabre

I love Faraday and Tudor or the Welsh version Tudur.

Ginlovingmumof4 · 16/06/2022 21:35

I’ve taught a Birdie and an Ace. Most recent unusual name Noa ( baby a few weeks old). I thought it was an unusual spelling of Noah, but turns out it’s a girl. Perhaps it’s a thing now and I’m just old!

ArtichokeAardvark · 16/06/2022 21:33

Balthazar.

scrivette · 16/06/2022 21:33

Red

(Waiting to see if DD's name appears!)

LaLaLouella · 16/06/2022 21:32

My friend has just named her baby Agatha.

I hear that and think fearsome Aunt, not gorgeous baby....

Pleasecreateausername · 16/06/2022 21:32

I know of a Hades 😬

epythymy · 16/06/2022 21:31

Clarence

whattodo2019 · 16/06/2022 21:31

Monty Santorini!!!! Just love it

MarianosOnHisWay · 16/06/2022 21:29

Loell
(boy)

fizzyfood · 16/06/2022 21:28

Tulip

whattodo2019 · 16/06/2022 21:28

Gods Gift
Ty'nodasha
JT- Jesus' Treasure
Katinka
Lavender
Calypso
Banjo
Sholto (which is my favourite boys name)

KentishMiss · 16/06/2022 21:26

I met a Shem once, his brothers had Biblical names too but I don’t remember them.

soootiredddd · 16/06/2022 21:24

Also I shit you not, 20+ years ago met a couple at Glastonbury and their kids were called Star and Rainbow. They were being pushed around in a wheelbarrow 😂

soootiredddd · 16/06/2022 21:23

Ones I’ve heard recently that I’ve only heard once:

Moss
Crew
Jet
Scout
Archer
Kipling
Orrin

romdowa · 16/06/2022 21:23

There's a girl in my town called journey and another called cremma. Certainly the most unusual names I've ever heard and my own ds has a very unusual name but nothing like them.