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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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BarbaraVineFan · 16/06/2022 20:31

Met a little Fox the other day.

CatLadyDrinksGin · 16/06/2022 20:30

LadyEloise1 · 16/06/2022 20:28

@CatLadyDrinksGin
I think the name the poster gave was Nico'tiana, after the flower not Nicotine. 😀

That’s not what the kids at school will think of!

LadyEloise1 · 16/06/2022 20:28

@CatLadyDrinksGin
I think the name the poster gave was Nico'tiana, after the flower not Nicotine. 😀

Mymoneydontjigglejiggle · 16/06/2022 20:22

@NewtoHolland I like that!! Is that for a boy or girl or unisex do you know?

SmithsterSister · 16/06/2022 20:19

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

NewtoHolland · 16/06/2022 20:18

Loe. It's pronounced to rhyme with Chloe. I like it.

Mommabear20 · 16/06/2022 20:12

@VonTrippTrapp I love the name Athelstan! They must have been fans of the TV show Vikings! 😂 I'd never be brave enough to use it though 😂

CatLadyDrinksGin · 16/06/2022 20:11

Nicotine?? Really?!

Whitewolf2 · 16/06/2022 20:10

Nash
Reni
Axel
zelda

MolkosTeenageAngst · 16/06/2022 20:08

Boys:
Ramsey
Rogue
Cayman
Pace

Girls:
Oxanna
Harlow
Gigi (jee-jee)
Ecko

PinguTheLion · 16/06/2022 20:07

Pixie-Pandora 🤢

Yahyahs22 · 16/06/2022 19:54

Cassian

123derbyshire · 16/06/2022 19:50

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cptartapp · 16/06/2022 19:44

There's a Rusty in our family.

FirstFallopians · 16/06/2022 19:22

Loki always makes me cringe.

Like did the parents even do a two-minute Google before landing their kid with the same name as a malicious god from a different culture?

JustRestingMyEyesForAMinute · 16/06/2022 19:15

Could 'Arrow' be Arrio? I've heard of that as a name.

There's a little Frenchi (girl) around here which I find quite hard to get my head around.

Favouritefruits · 16/06/2022 19:11

Nick’ name not nice name

Favouritefruits · 16/06/2022 19:11

Friend of a friend has a baby called Birdie, thought it was a nice name but no the actual name is Birdie.

PaddleBoardingMomma · 16/06/2022 18:33

Sorrel and Echo, Oaken and Freeborn 🤦🏼‍♀️

Silenceisgreat · 16/06/2022 18:30

A little girl called Bloom
😬

Moonshine160 · 16/06/2022 18:17

“Moon Valentine” 😳

APurpleSquirrel · 16/06/2022 17:52

On holiday in Cornwall in half term, heard a little boy called Onyx.

TempsPerdu · 16/06/2022 17:35

Recently - Bellatrix and Diesel (at a local toddler group). Ever - someone I knew at university called her daughter Nemesis.

Yamaya · 16/06/2022 17:28

A baby boy called Estus.

Pallisers · 16/06/2022 17:28

I love Faraday!

For me a boy called Lucky.

I met a little girl called Larkin and when I asked her parents did they like the poet, they said who?