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Need a baby boy name that's unique

142 replies

Littleraindrop15 · 26/06/2022 21:19

hey

please help me find a baby boy name that's unique I have so far liked Lucien and that's as far as I got but I'm not 100% keen on it either.

I have had a look on baby websites but nothing is inspiring me

please help

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Tinkity · 27/06/2022 00:18

Xavier

TheSmallAssassin · 27/06/2022 00:13

It's got to be Balonz, surely?

Diverseopinions · 27/06/2022 00:07

Cedric ( Ced is good for short, too)
D'Artagnan

SiobhanSharpe · 26/06/2022 23:49

Jehoshaphat
(biblical, so not unique but pretty rare, I'd guess.)
Anson.
I recall a Spanish film in which one of the characters, a middle class boy, was called Tenochtitlan, the Aztec name for Mexico City, I believe. Bet there weren't many of them in his school.
Hmm. Aztec might work.

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 23:38

Yes - I spelt it wrong 🙄 - Should have been Joachim pronounced Jo A Kim. He is a very distant relative in my defence 😅

TheWayoftheLeaf · 26/06/2022 23:35

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 21:56

Joaquim? Not to my taste but used by a distant relative. Pronounced Jo a kim…

Isn't this usually pronounced wa-keem?

TheWayoftheLeaf · 26/06/2022 23:34

Dorian
Zadkiel
Arcturous
Amenadiel
Atticus
Aldred
Emmett

SausageAndCash · 26/06/2022 23:21

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:05

Again, none of these are unique.

Are people posting who don’t know what the word means?

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We know what unique means.
Most of us also realise that the OP means ‘very unusual, don’t know if a kid called this’.

Otherwise we would all be suggesting things like Rilly-Boo, Uffuncinal, Prog and Jekko, wouldn’t we?

Kite22 · 26/06/2022 23:16

MissBattleaxe · 26/06/2022 22:58

Why does his name have to be 'unique'? Every child is unique. It doesn't mean you have to saddle them with a name they have to constantly explain or spell just because his parents wanted to stand out.

This

DoamnaSmecher · 26/06/2022 23:15

Barry
Brian
Kevin
Craig
Dean
Nigel
Paul

thegreylady · 26/06/2022 23:15

Conrad
Kellan
Gethin
Ptolemy nn Tolly

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 23:13

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 23:08

They went for the English pronunciation of the name:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_(given_name)

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You can tell he’s a distant relative, I’ve never actually written his name before now. So yes

Joachim

Bilbobagginsoftheshire · 26/06/2022 23:12

Rumpelstiltskin

bellamountain · 26/06/2022 23:11

Gary?

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 23:08

PragmaticWench · 26/06/2022 22:55

No it really isn't. More like Wa-keem.

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They went for the English pronunciation of the name:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_(given_name)

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:08

SleepingStandingUp · 26/06/2022 23:07

Again, none of these are unique.

Are people posting who don’t know what the word means?

No just making an educated guess that she doesn't actually mean what she posted, given she also cited Lucien and Cillian and to have a unique name she's basically be asking people to make names up.

Hopefully she’ll go with my suggestion above then. It’s exotic, like Rothmans, or Frogmella.

SleepingStandingUp · 26/06/2022 23:07

Again, none of these are unique.

Are people posting who don’t know what the word means?

No just making an educated guess that she doesn't actually mean what she posted, given she also cited Lucien and Cillian and to have a unique name she's basically be asking people to make names up.

SleepingStandingUp · 26/06/2022 23:05

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads we nearly had a Zebulon

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:05

Blue4YOU · 26/06/2022 23:00

Sylvester
Caius
Andrei
Jerome
Jeremiah
Dorian
Claude
Wilhelm
Fergus
Silas
Lucius
Elian

Again, none of these are unique.

Are people posting who don’t know what the word means?

Ikeameatballs · 26/06/2022 23:04

Having said that.…

Hal
Victor
Cuthbert
Micah
Azriel
Ptolemy nn Tolly
Sullivan
Solomon
Abraham
Lorcan
Orlando
Draco
Griffin
Vaughan

suckingonchillidogs · 26/06/2022 23:03

Some of these suggestions Confused - please don't call a kid Pollux or Cnut (unless you really hate him).

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:03

daisypond · 26/06/2022 22:30

Cillian is pronounced Killian.

If you like an S sound along with an L:
Cecil
Solomon
Sylvester
Cyril
Selwyn

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None of those are unique. Far from it.

Caszekey · 26/06/2022 23:03

If yo u want UNIQUE
what about Flubertine.

If you want unusual, Lucien is gorgeous, twas on our list alongside
Atticus
Ignatius
Castiel
Giddeon
Malachi
Zebbediah

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:02

Littleraindrop15 · 26/06/2022 21:19

hey

please help me find a baby boy name that's unique I have so far liked Lucien and that's as far as I got but I'm not 100% keen on it either.

I have had a look on baby websites but nothing is inspiring me

please help

That’s not unique. If you really need a name that’s never existed before it’s probably going to be a strange one.

How about Rappapaul-cheesehead?

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 26/06/2022 23:01

you’re unlikely to come across any other babies called
Simon
Nigel
Michael
Ian
Jeremy
Geoffrey
Keith
Richard
Glenn
Darren
Stephen
Kenneth

or Eliezer or Zebulon

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