What's the most unusual baby name you love?

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I love Ozymandias nn Ozzy for a boy.

Anakin too.I am a SW geek though.

Horatio.

And for a girl,Pepper.

I doubt that I'd ever use any of them.They're my guilty pleasure names.

What are yours?

Raindrops, my son's middle name is Bear :)

For a boy I love:

• Walker
• Kit
• Seth
• Judson
• Jesse (really wouldn't work where we live)
• Leonard
• Dante
• Tristan

I've been reading/watching Game of Thrones too and really like Theon but DH says no son of his is being named after a traitor

For girls I love:

• Annabelle
• Cadence (Caydence?)
• Mallory
• Brogan (I wanted a girl called either Brogan Blue or Brogan Belle)
• Pepper
• Emerald (Emer or Emmie for short)
• Earhart

It took DH and I ages to agree on names for DS and DD!

My Gran had a cousin called Rosabel (or Rosabelle?) which I think is just lovely.

Dusty
Ottelie

Scheherezade, Jezebel and Angharad for DDs.

Alaric for a boy, although I've just discovered there is a character in vampire diaries called Alaric, It was going to be dd name had she been a boy.Or Alvar, it was my FIL's name and I like it.

wantanorange One of my boys is Malachi. It's not irish when spelt and pronounced that way (Mala-Kye), The irish way of spelling it is Malachy (pronounced Mala-Key). I'd better leave this thread before I out myself

Metta for a girl, it is a loving kindness meditation. Love the word and the meaning.

George III (the mad one) called his 8th son Octavius - I like that

You'd have to have an awful lot of children to get to that name though

Euphrostne, nn Topsy, love it!

Tooimmature I love Wolfie - but I was a big fan of the sitcom Citizen Smith and his batty m-i-l always used to call him Wolfie (by mistake I think - very funny actress always played the batty old dear cant remember her name). In fact I used to have a Tshirt with Tooting Popular Front and the clenched fist and Power to the People on the back like the main character (Robert Lindsay) wore. or what ! I used to do cross country running though and the number of people that asked me where they could get one was unreal. Happy days - am I really that ancient though ?

Thank you Celticrepublic very kind. I have come to terms with it now it was a good few years ago and funny enough since he started occasionally featuring in my dreams ( starring with my two thirty-odd year old toddlers ) I feel even more at peace about it. Almost as if he is letting me know he is ok - wherever he is - and it makes me feel he does exist in some parallel universe somewhere. I'm sure that sounds mad but throughout my life I have found being a lunatic helps you get through most things really .

My 2 favourites have been said- Clover (another Clover Carr fan although if ds2 wasn't due right near royal wedding and had been female I'd have gone for Katy) and I love Taliesin for a boy but DH said no

Rinko for a girl -there's one in school but unfortunately I'm not japanese...

Merlin for a boy but I don't own most of Pembrokeshire so wouldn't get away with it :)

I know lots of babies and children with names from this board, including DD (although hers is one of least unusual and often comes up on the name boards here as a perfectly normal suggestion ) so I think people should just go for what they like. Most primary schools nowadays have all manner of names in them, round our way at least, and not much sticks out.

I love the girl's name Kerenhappuch (I assume it's pronounced with hard 'k' at the end not 'ch') - think it looks and sounds so pretty!

Too long for everyday though.

I was going to say that my sons name is unusual but compared to these his is like the name John

On my long list for my imaginary DD are: magnolia (maggie), clover, summer/summa, indigo (indy), blossom, Minnie, clea, carys, coraline/coralie, and coco.
IMO girls can more easily carry off an unusual name.

Starfishkiss my middle name is in that list and I love it! More than my first name actually.

Ooh I like carys too.

I'd forgotten caledonia nn callie. I'm Scottish btw!

For a girl:

• Annabel, also Amabel
• Celeste
• Aurora
• Melinda
• Lucinda

For a boy:

• St John
• Seth, although that's becoming more popular
• Ephraim

DS has a pretty unusual name, although it's Biblical and I did spot one in the local paper's 'Baby of the Year competition .

DD will be Annabel, all being well. Can't wait!

Clothilde for a girl-I see it has already been mentioned!

Julian for a boy-I know it is not unusual per se but far too famous five according to my dh

I now have 'I'm sorry Ms Jackson; I am for reeeeeeaaaal' stuck in my head

Julian is an ace name.

Lysander, Ezra and Ira for boys.

Smilla and Jerusha for girls.

Persephone, nn Percy. I LOVE it.

I really like the name Despo for a girl. It reminds me of the song Desperado and sounds a bit sad and heroic.

I reeeally wanted Camilla for our DD but as our son is called Charlie, thought it might be a bit daft, even in Jubilee year!