DH and I both teachers and looking for quirky names!

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My DH and I are both teachers and don't want a name that will remind us of any pupil in particular- so we need something quirky/unusual but not totally "out there"!
DS is 14 months and called Logan- a name which is unusual but not in the realms of wacky and everyone seems to love it.
DC2 due in August and we don't know the sex.
Any ideas?
We've come up with a couple:
Blake
Riley
Noah

Violet
Scarlet (I don't like but DH does!)
Summer (too corney for an August baby??)

OOOoooo I'd love to use Eric - but Dh has out his foot down. I think my tastes in names must be off though as he recently asked me if my name suggestions were genuine or just said to get a reaction.

I just love Eric (never had a boy though) and keep suggesting it on baby name threads (part of my procrastinating/work avoidance strategy) but so far I'm not sure anyone has actually gone with it...

I wouldn't [thicko]

Hector
Griffin

Sally
Bronwen

The only Lavinia I would think of was the one who died of Spanish flu in Downton Abbey (and a friend of mine's mother).

Lyra
Rex

Antigone = ann-TIG-onny. There was one on the Today prog last week, an economics professor from Athens talking about Greek financial problems. First time I've met it in RL.

Lavinia is pretty, but not if she gets called Lavvy

My dd2 is Hattie unusual but not too quirky (poor dd1 is a bog standard Ellie and there are 6. In her year of 90 at school)

Other names we considered had we had a boy
Fletcher
Leon/Leo
Zane
Charlie
Freddie

Other girls names were
Isabelle
Charlotte/Charlie

Some of my fav names of the dd's friends
Bibi (means lady in a certain language she is a Bibi grace)
tayla (ta li ah)
Henrietta aka hetty
Betty (that's her actual name no shortening)
Callie
Fallon

heard an Aubrey in the park today which surprised me. Also it was a girl - i thought that was a boy's name?

I love Seth, although may be difficult for a young sibling to pronounce! I also like Percy.
Loving Antigone, how about Sibley for a girl? 'Twas the name of my great grandfather's stepmother and was easy to trace her on the censuses, so not a popular name even in the late 19th century!

Be very wary of choosing a first name that can also be a surname. My niece did this and it causes no end of problems at hospital, doctors, and all official forms.

Hello fellow Mumsnutters! :)
It's with excitement and a little bit of sadness that I can bring this thread to its natural close.
There've been highs, there've been lows, sometimes educational and an interesting insight into some people's minds . But you've been very helpful!
DH and I have short listed 3 names for each and going to wing it when DC2 arrives and see what it "looks like" (iif anything like DS will be red, wrinkly and very angry....maybe Scarlet will be appropriate!)

Ok......
......drum roll please.......

Sienna
Violet ( still there!)
Arwen
Harmony (ok, so I sneaked in a 4th! I panicked!)

Blake (still there too!!)
Harley
Ruben

The Logan I know has a brother named Ethan.

Hmmm...I like August with Augie as a nn rather than Gus. Eric, for Magneto's real name? Charles/Charlie for Professor X?

Hmm...okay. Just saw your final list!

I love Sienna and Violet.

Blake is good with Logan. Harley is a girl's name to me. :) Not awfully keen on Ruben. Deacon, Corbin, Nolan? Grayson, Trenton, Dawson, Gavin, Easton?

I have a Skylar and an Elodie. I've got my heart set on Cohen if we ever have a boy but it's looking increasingly unlikely.
My niece is Darcie and my nephew is Flynn. Needless to say my mum thinks we're all a bit daft with names. We are Catherine and Elizabeth (dull).

glad to see Harley made the final 3 Naturally

Ethan makes me think of gas!

not keen on harmony, reminds me of the hairspray

Right now I am loving Fleur. I just think it's sooo pretty.
I like Angus and Nairn for boys, Scottish boys names are great.

:)

I agree fleur is pretty but also so very very pretentious

Ahem. I do believe Harley was mine. Waaaaay back at the top of the thread