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What the most unique baby name you ever heard/saw?

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MarilynMerlot · 30/08/2026 11:45

Happy to go first with Navy on a little boy. Not sure if they were going with the colour or a nautical theme but it kind of suits him actually. Also a little girl called Nala from the Lion King. My own legal name is a absolute clanger before anyone comes for me with the ‘sneery thread’ accusations 😂

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SmotherhoodandApplePie · 30/08/2026 16:54

Isola.

Coldwetlettuce · 30/08/2026 16:54

FieldOfPoppies · 30/08/2026 11:55

Most unique? It’s either unique or it’s not.

How is most unique not understandable? More unique than all the other unique names someone may have heard…

2ndHandLou · 30/08/2026 16:58

Coldwetlettuce · 30/08/2026 16:54

How is most unique not understandable? More unique than all the other unique names someone may have heard…

That would be the best unique name then, it might be understandable but it isn't correct

More unique makes no sense

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Coldwetlettuce · 30/08/2026 16:59

cheercaptain · 30/08/2026 15:58

Amarachi is an Eastern Nigerian name, specifically from the Igbo ethnic group. In Igbo, chi means God and amara means grace, so the name translates to “the grace of God.”

Across Africa, many names reflect the parents’ emotions or the circumstances surrounding a child’s birth. Over the years I’ve come across quite a few unique ones, but two that really stayed with me are Scholastica - an East African Catholic woman (Kenyan, if I remember correctly) and Regret - a woman from Zimbabwe.

Oh dear. Poor Regret, especially coming from a continent where your name reflects the emotions of your parents during their pregnancy/birth 😬

SewYellowLikeButter · 30/08/2026 17:08

Coldwetlettuce · 30/08/2026 16:54

How is most unique not understandable? More unique than all the other unique names someone may have heard…

Unique means one of a kind. Any name truly unique has only been used once and therefore no name can be more or less unique.

MabelAnderson · 30/08/2026 17:12

Sheherazade .
I’ve only met one, an adult. She said she’d hated it as a child but had grown into it. Such a beautiful name.
I also met a little girl called Emerald, and an adult Persephone.

FleurDeFleur · 30/08/2026 17:14

MarilynMerlot · 30/08/2026 12:18

Got to say I quite like Nerissa

I've come across a few, it's from Shakespeare.
Merchant of Venice.

FleurDeFleur · 30/08/2026 17:15

MabelAnderson · 30/08/2026 17:12

Sheherazade .
I’ve only met one, an adult. She said she’d hated it as a child but had grown into it. Such a beautiful name.
I also met a little girl called Emerald, and an adult Persephone.

Sheherazade Goldsmith?

Lifelover16 · 30/08/2026 17:15

Bopp. Baby boy born on the night of Hale Bopp comet.

Nursemumma92 · 30/08/2026 17:15

Spiro

Luckyboi

x2boys · 30/08/2026 17:19

Nursemumma92 · 30/08/2026 17:15

Spiro

Luckyboi

Spiro is Greek isnt it?

FleurDeFleur · 30/08/2026 17:23

x2boys · 30/08/2026 17:19

Spiro is Greek isnt it?

Yes

SewYellowLikeButter · 30/08/2026 17:23

Nursemumma92 · 30/08/2026 17:15

Spiro

Luckyboi

I had a teen fling with a man called Spyro once. I made him show me his driving licence because I didn’t believe him. And he was British!

Silverbirchleaf · 30/08/2026 17:26

Rory for a girl

Blackcountryexile · 30/08/2026 17:29

Came across a toddler Jagger(boy) recently. I quite like it.

SabrinaThwaite · 30/08/2026 17:50

I was at uni with a woman called Io (which I love).

FleurDeFleur · 30/08/2026 17:51

I was at uni with a woman called Psyche

Coldwetlettuce · 30/08/2026 17:51

SewYellowLikeButter · 30/08/2026 17:08

Unique means one of a kind. Any name truly unique has only been used once and therefore no name can be more or less unique.

Oh we all knew what she meant. Why is MN so pedantic about grammar? It’s so dull

AgnesMcDoo · 30/08/2026 17:53

Sparkle

SabrinaThwaite · 30/08/2026 17:55

FleurDeFleur · 30/08/2026 17:51

I was at uni with a woman called Psyche

That was the name a of a classmate’s mum (in the 70s).

FleurDeFleur · 30/08/2026 17:58

SabrinaThwaite · 30/08/2026 17:55

That was the name a of a classmate’s mum (in the 70s).

This was in 1978, could be the same woman.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 30/08/2026 18:00

SewYellowLikeButter · 30/08/2026 16:45

Song is absolutely gorgeous

She was a lovely girl, I used to teach postgrad. Very serene in a room full of rugby playing male civil engineers.

SabrinaThwaite · 30/08/2026 18:06

FleurDeFleur · 30/08/2026 17:58

This was in 1978, could be the same woman.

Was she married to a documentary producer?

PhaseFour · 30/08/2026 18:15

J'nai.

The child proudly told me it was French, but her parents clearly didn't speak French particularly well, if at all!

sleepyduvetcat · 30/08/2026 18:15

I knew a Trafford. Dad was apparently a big Man U fan

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