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

All the Lovedays I've come across have been Cornish. I think it's a beautiful name but would hate to see it popularised.

Zeb Soans (Zebedee) from R4.
My friend is Finnish and her sister is Hannele, I like that name.

I know a Ptolemy. It doesn’t suit him at all

Zebulon

There are some great names on the old headstones on the cemetery beside my house:
Male- Urban, Jabez, Hosea, Willoughby, Norton, Peace
Female- Zilphah, Eulalia, Rosetta, Beulah, Angelia

Girls I went to school /uni with at one time or another -
Cherish
Lady
Kythe
Antonietta

Fabulous thread as I HATE the nasty name threads.
I've taught:
Fortune
Lavinia
Lily-bo
Olaf
Ieva (yeyva)
Tuppence
Bluebell
Ellis (for a girl)
Caledonian
I love the English words names!

whattodo2019

Is this a list of names you know people are Christened because I am surprised the Registry office allowed someone to call their child God's Gift.

I like new and different names. You can find other countries have some really unusual and lovely names like Sakura and Toya which are Japanese and made it to us via cartoons. It would be nice to hear that they've been used in the UK.

Albertine
Indiana
Juna

I knew a girl called Praise, which I think is really pretty.

My son was at school with a sundance and his sister Cheyenne.

When I was in hospital having DS2, the lady in the bed next to me had a dad called Roseanne. I thought it was quite nice.

I lived in SA for a while, some lovely names from the black SA culture of giving their children English words for names.

Alice Cooper (the 80s90s rockstar) has a daughter called Calico.

We have Tannith, Tamar and Joxter in our family.
I absolutely love Loveday and St.John.

How. About Mehetable, Hattie or Hettie for short. It is a biblical name. One of my long ago pilgrim ancestors had that name. Means something like God will make great.

A bit out there and you need to be comfortable with a biblical name, but it has kind of grown on me.

Just remembered some more;

Marceline (after the town Walt Disney was from).

On the Disney theme, I love the name Leota (of Haunted Mansion fame).

Paulina

Dina (Deena)

Aeris

Aeireian (Air-un)

Juanita

Margarita

Catalina

Jameelah

Caralee

Carlene

Suellyn

Jessamine

Sabina

Carenza

Horatio

Sonara

Elliane

Etty

Stefania

Orazio

Paolo

Cinzia

Valentina

Sapphire

Paris

Quentin

Raife

Jordanna

Fawn

Siobhana (Shi-vonn-a)

Seana (Shauna)

Joie

Imelda

Tanith

I love virtue names! I’ve met a Patience (who was a midwife! Suited her perfectly) and a young girl called Blessing.

Real people I know with the following names:
Nirvana
Charisma
Io
Merlin
Denim
Jojo

When I was about 7 I thought I'd call my little boy ( if I ever had one) Merlin. I thought it was really cool.

I've met a Sorrel, which is a nice girls name.

Corralie - which is pretty unusual.

A male Clemency, he was about 20.

Someone at DS' football mini's was called Atticus. I don't realise it is from a show.

What's interesting is you meet one child with an unusual name and think oh and then it's literally everywhere. And turns out to be not so unusual. Cue me meeting a few Heidi's and Quinn's after thinking wow different.

Loveday makes me think of Lovejoy. Showing my age but I really enjoyed that tv programme when I was a kid. Maybe it was on sundays, when we had crumpets in front of the TV for tea, as we had a big Sunday lunch instead of a big evening dinner. I digress. But I won't be using Lovejoy DS 2

I met a toddler named Ephraim the other day which I loved.

I’ve also met babies called Serendipity, Havana, Awesome, Raven and Ocean

Kel
Sequoia

Cathal mentioned upthread is a common enough Irish name

And either Iggy or Ziggy - I can't quite remember but I thought it was cool

Calisto. He had a brother with an unusual name too but I can't remember it!

There’s a boy called Taige in DS class.

I appreciate that @JuneSpoon but I’m not in Ireland or a place with a lot of Irish immigrants so none of us locally had heard of the name Cathal before.