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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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BlueBloodedBlue · 16/06/2022 16:09

Parsley - didn't see if it was a boy or a girl.

It’s a very friendly lion…

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 21/10/2023 14:14

I meant Cozy not Ozzy. Honestly this bloody autocorrect drives me batty.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 21/10/2023 14:11

@SiouxsieSiouxStiletto 🤣. She's a lovely baby but honestly I can't help it lol.

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 20/10/2023 20:33

Ozzy is definitely unusual and isn't BoBo another word for sleep?

Knowing kids though it will just get shortened to B.O.

monicagellerbing · 20/10/2023 11:25

Oh and a BoBo in my DD's class

monicagellerbing · 20/10/2023 11:23

My DD watches a YouTube family and their son is called Cozy

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 20/10/2023 11:19

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 20/10/2023 11:12

I have it in my head whenever I see her 😂

I would too to be fair Grin

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 20/10/2023 11:12

I have it in my head whenever I see her 😂

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 20/10/2023 07:31

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 20/10/2023 07:24

Navy
Colby

Now I've got "In the Navy" by the YMCA going through my head. Luckily for that little girl, it's a reference that anyone younger than Gen X probably won't get!

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 20/10/2023 07:25

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 20/10/2023 07:24

Navy
Colby

Sorry Navy (girl)
Colby (boy)

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 20/10/2023 07:24

Navy
Colby

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 20/10/2023 07:21

Marcipex · 17/07/2023 09:13

Mary (girl) and Plum (I think is a girl)

I think it's interesting that this was the most popular girls name for such a long time, think it was knocked off by Linda?

DC1 is coming up to 20 and in all that time I've only met one little Mary.

NoFitStateMum · 13/08/2023 12:00

Journèe - spelled like that. Like the French for day but with the accent going the wrong way. It's a boy.

Lelophants · 06/08/2023 06:46

Tygee (boy)
Blodwin (girl)

Hesperatum · 05/08/2023 15:55

Vaila

MagicClawHasNoChildren · 03/08/2023 19:56

Marcipex · 17/07/2023 09:13

Mary (girl) and Plum (I think is a girl)

I find it really interesting that Mary was once so ubiquitous and is now actively unusual. I know a little Mary, too, but I haven't met anyone else called Mary who's younger than about 40!

lavaplanet · 02/08/2023 08:45

Girls
Noy
Verity
Sonny
Candida
Mirabel
Hebe
Lamorna
Loxley
Emerald

Boys
Titus
Tristram
Braxton
Soren
Bede
Roland
Oaklynn
Lance
Tangwyn
Linden

lavaplanet · 02/08/2023 08:43

Cantseethewindows · 16/06/2022 21:37

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...

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His name was Timothy McVeigh. I doubt many people in the UK would think of a US bomber anyway lol.

I don't like Mc- or Mac- names for girls because it makes no sense, 'son of'.

HumanBurrito · 30/07/2023 10:15

Bacchus

Mistoffelees · 29/07/2023 07:22

Google for a boy, not English but as far as I could find out it also wasn't a name from his culture either

OopsieeDaisy · 27/07/2023 09:58

It’s been mentioned a few times already but I also know of a Pebbles.
Also a girl called Murphy which I thought was unusual.
And probably the most unusual I’ve heard, a little boy called Egyptian.

I don’t personally know of any Birdies but that’s one of those names I love but would never be brave enough to use.

Daisybuttercup12345 · 26/07/2023 23:36

Jett
Kitten
Twinkle
Bluebell
Over a few years.

SemperIdem · 23/07/2023 20:56

Daphne
Bodhi
Neo

Marcipex · 23/07/2023 18:24

Plum

CoffeeChocolateWine · 22/07/2023 17:57

Not all babies anymore, but I've known...
Sunshine
Pebbles
Sincere
Lolly-Bunny
Iolo