Wonderfully Unusual Names!

[SillyBillyBandy]

Just seen a thread about awful names and thought it would be nice to celebrate difference!

What unusual names have you heard that you've liked?

I have

Diamond - 101 year old lady who was friend of my grandmother

Saturn - cutest little girl ever

Gaia - never heard it before

I once knew a girl called Kerryn ,never known anyone else with the name, I think its pretty.

I went to school with a girl called Precious , I don't think it's all that unusual but I always loved it and thought she was really special because of her name!

And I've also never met another Precious

Merlin. Which he will be fine with as a toddler/small child but not so sure when he grows up.

Was just coming on to say I know an adult Merlin! He carries it marvellously!

I know a couple of Merlins, so it's probably not going to be that unusual when they grow up.

I went out with a boy called Valentine when I was a teenager, and I've liked it ever since. I have taught a couple of boys called Romeo.

I know an adult Merlin- he’s mid 40s- but I have known him for so long (since I was 12) that his name isn’t really remarkable to me anymore.

I once knew only one Noah - in his 20s now- and thought that was unusual, but then the Noah explosion of the 2010s happened!

Yes loads of Noah's!

We had a Valentine in my family and a Lucretia now that's a name!

My Aunty (now in her nineties) was named Pixie.

I like Zipporah. Never met one though.

Starla - girl name meaning is Star.

I do a lot of work in Africa and in some countries there is a trend where parents name their children English words that the like the sound of. Not English names but English words

I've previously worked with Colic, Saucer, and, weirdest of all, Potato.
I absolutely love these names because of the kind of "fuck it" attitude of the parents. They don't care that it's a non-name, it sounds nice and that's all that sounds

Back home in the UK, my friend's daughter goes to school with an Aristotle (boy), an Aloysius (boy), a Seren (girl), and a Cariad (girl) which are all lovely.

I know of a boy called Bubbles.

I know a Merlin too and an Oberon! Also love Peregrine and Gilbert for boys (all remind me of favourite books as a child!)

I really love names that 'stand out' although I don't have a particularly unusual name myself so not sure if it would become a burden?

We met a little girl called Ciel in the park the other day. French for ‘heaven’. Had a little brother called Herbie. They were so sweet!

My little one is Teodora. We call her Teo (TAY-oh)

Loveday is terrible! It sounds like some sort of Pride-related national day about sex awareness.

There was an orson in the park. That’s a bit awesome

Loveday is terrible! It sounds like some sort of Pride-related national day about sex awareness.

I think its a lovely name. btw pride is not about sex awareness.

Ocean-Rose.

I know a family with two boys called Zebedee and Diggory.

But there's Loveday Minette in The Little White Horse.

Loveday is a very old name, it's gorgous. There was a Loveday Beloved who went off to read Physics at Cambridge, 1947 on a school honours board. I wonder if she ever became famous, the name stuck with me.

Precious is a very common West African/West Indian name

I love some of the names which are common here (Shetland) but which I hadn’t really been aware of until I moved here.

My favourites for boys are Magnus, Zander, Erland, Hansi, Hanson, Hakkon. For girls I love the name Vaila (named after an island here)