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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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Belshels · 08/02/2024 16:01

Croyde for a boy (celeb rower called son after Croyde Bay)
Farley, Oakley (preschoolers currently)

Makes me think of Farley's Rusks but then I am quite old and appreciate that a lot of people wouldn't make that connection.

Rhodora · 08/02/2024 16:09

Tain (Boy)

Place name first name so I wonder if his parents met there.

Belshels · 08/02/2024 16:01

Croyde for a boy (celeb rower called son after Croyde Bay)
Farley, Oakley (preschoolers currently)

User6761 · 20/01/2024 19:56

Cedar (boy)

Clawdy · 20/01/2024 17:28

Zephyr.

Blomdd · 20/01/2024 14:59

Ocean-Ray Sunshine Surname. Bloody awful.

MarianosOnHisWay · 20/01/2024 14:54

Boys:
Odin
Ragnar
Loel

Girls:
Coco
Ephrasinia
Iggy

Clawdy · 20/01/2024 09:27

Just seen Pebbles already mentioned on here! Little girl called Ripley at our local playgroup, found that unusual.

Clawdy · 20/01/2024 09:24

Pebbles. After the Flintstones character.

Belshels · 20/01/2024 08:55

Farley... Reminds me of the rusks

snoreb · 04/11/2023 17:12

Ariella

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 04/11/2023 17:09

Milan, male.

LizzieBananas · 04/11/2023 16:34

everythingcrossed · 16/06/2022 23:14

Many years ago I looked after a boy called Zeppelin. Since then I have come across a Pirate and, at my daughter's toddler group, there was a Lettuce - possibly not spelled like that but that's what it sounded like. I also knew (adult) Boniface and Isambard.

Lettice is an alternative spelling of Leticia.

LizzieBananas · 04/11/2023 16:29

scrivette · 16/06/2022 21:33

Red

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

I met a Red but she was legally Scarlet.

LizzieBananas · 04/11/2023 16:28

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guineakoo · 04/11/2023 16:11

Mayhemmumma · 03/11/2023 19:51

Lots at work as a social worker that are unusual but in my circle these have made me raise an eyebrow (to be fair my kids names are certainly unusual as not British)

Dorothy
Hamish (no Scottish connection)
Velvet

Dorothy and Hamish are pretty ordinary

guineakoo · 04/11/2023 16:08

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 31/10/2023 18:21

Was that a boy or girl @guineakoo?

I actually couldn't tell... I think a boy

Cindie943811A · 04/11/2023 15:07

Recently met a young person called Kristella which I thought very pretty.

PatchworkElmer · 04/11/2023 14:15

Dax and River.

AutumnIsMyFriend · 04/11/2023 08:20

Bentley.

C1N1C · 04/11/2023 07:58

Laquila · 16/06/2022 22:09

Celery, apples,.walnuts, grapes!!

(Not names although actually I wouldn't be remotely surprised to meet a kid called Walnut)

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What's the most unusual baby name that you've encountered recently?
Shoopshoopshoopshoopshoop · 04/11/2023 07:48

@SiouxsieSiouxStiletto a girl

Flobomobo · 03/11/2023 23:25

Our dog is called Fox - suits him and actually not turned off to it as an idea for a baby 🤔

Flobomobo · 03/11/2023 23:23

my DD went to school with and Ivo - his full name was Ivaylo

TootenCarMoon · 03/11/2023 22:45

A lot of these are really lovely, I love an uncommon name.

I knew a Trinity-Angel a few years ago and have met a Manhattan (girl)

Wolf (boy) Mum was very new-age.