Anyone actually managed to pick an unusual name?

[Carlitawantsababy]

I'd really love my DC to have an unusual name and personally wouldn't like it if there ended up being 4 others in his/her class at school etc. I gathered together a list of names I like bit looking on here loads of other people like them too so I've clearly, subconsciously, picked up a penchant for fashionable names. So..I was wondering, did you pick an unusual name for your DC which is actually still unusual now they are at school? How did you do it and have you got any tips for avoiding the latest trends?

I think 'Baby' is used for a baby that is stillborn in the statistics (i.e. where the parents didn't register a name for the baby).

ready, is it Lucrezia? If so then I am afraid I have bad news for you...

my DD would have been Rowan Elizabeth, if DS2 had been a girl he would have been Rio or willow, middle name of ds1 is Haydn wish we did this first name as his is fairly common, also like Hermione, September, Troy, Reuben and Caitlin.

i live in france and i find the differences in trends for baby names fascinating. I know plenty of women in my age group (40's) called Florence, Béatrice; Nathalie, Virginie, Slyvie and Isabelle and no one would dream of calling a baby those names today. Most popular baby names are Léa, Manon, Chloé, Emma and for boys - Hugo, Tom, Enzo,Luca, Clément, Théo and Raphael.

I think there are lots of pretty french names for girls - my favourites are Constance, Joséphine, Solange, Sabine, Estelle and Maud

Thanks for all the comments and ideas everyone. We will not choose a name just because it's unusual, I have to love it but part of loving it and continuing to love it is that it is also unusual. If I didn't care about loving it too I wouldn't have started this thread and instead just called it Rumplestilskin regardless of gender! there are some fab suggestions here and thanks to all those with super unusual and gorgeous names who have PM'd me. I need to try to find these more detailed statistics, someone kindly linked me to the top 100 list for each year but I'd love to see the less popular ones for ideas. Will have a google! It's great all this names chat, DH is only interested in chunks of 10 minutes!

These are the names of children where I teach that I have never met another one of - or not in recent years at least. (terrible sentence!) I haven't included names that are only so unusual because of their spelling:

Girls: Aliya, Anastasia, Amreeta, Annalise, Athene, Camilla, Caprice, Cathy, Celest, Cerys, Christabel, Clare, Fenella, Fionnhuala, Gemma, Iona, Jaskiran, Juliet, Katinka, Mira, Meg, Nayana, Nyah, Pippa, Rosemary, Sadie, Samai, Samya, Sorcha, Zia

Boys: Alejandro, Arnav, Ayrton, Barnaby, Benedict, Craig, Cosmo, Diego, Douglas, Ferdi, Fitch, Gennady, Gregory, Guy, Hal, Hector, Joleyon, Keshav, Monty, Nelson, Niall, Nacho, Oluwakorede, Oluwatoni, Orlando, Orson, Paris, Peter, Rafi, Ranulph, Rex, Ruan, Shea, Simon, Tasimba, Tavish, Tawanda, Teo, Tolulope, Vishal

Some of those might not be unusual names in other cultures or countries at all, I don't know.

Being from Wales I always thought I would use Welsh names, I love lots of Welsh boys names; Iolo, Oisin, Ieuan, Gethyn, Iestyn...

However, DP is German and none of the German rellies would have a cat-in-hell's chance of ever pronouncing the name!

So far the only German/British name I can come up with that I like is Clara

I love Roscoe. DH was having none of it. Dog's name he said. Bah.

My daughter is Brogan, and its Irish.

I think the best idea is to go for names that everyone has heard of but you don't actually know anyone called that (if you get what I mean)

I'm thinking slightly old fashioned names like Nadine, Jill, John etc.

I'm surprised that Kieran had been mentioned, I've taught lots of them!

Yikes Deemented, I see you also have a Brogan, and the boys name I had picked for her was Brennan!

oh, google has just come up with Isolde/Isole/Isold (for a girl) which is German with Welsh roots - perfect!

Any opinions?

DD1 is Merren. Usual scots spelling is Meron AFAIK. She doesn't even appear on the birth list for her year as there were 3 or fewer with that name!

Actually, don't think it appears on any subsequent year either

cup Isolde is lovely, very pretty, great sentiment too!
tonks I like merren but one of my niece's to be is having mirin as a middle name so not an option for me.
Anna I prefer unusual names, not so keen on usual but underused although I suppose you could argue that a few in my lost fall in to that category.

howto brogan is cool, adding to list

I wanted Kester for DS but chickened out.

Isolde.

Just have to get pg now... we only started ttc yesterday!!

We have Everley(dd1)
Caius ( close to Cassius!)(ds)
Sommer (dd2)

Not run of the mill!

Okay, I am clearly useless. Can't find the list with all baby names, only top 100! Help!

Caius is lovely!

Kester is a great name

I also like:
Jago
Inigo
Ivor
Josiah
Lars
Soren
Noam
Conrad

Good list. Unfortunately one of my mum's cats is called Jago!

I know a labrador called Jago too...

I'm liking Soren - I wonder if I could pass it off as German?

If I'd had a boy he wpuldve been Xavier but I had a girl her name is a very well known English name (top 10 last year when she was born) but very unusual for an Asian.

Next one I would LOVE to call Muscat but doubt i will!

Muscat means Nutmeg in German