Looking for names which you have 'heard' off but aren't commonly used and are unlikely to become faddy or overused.

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Just for fun really

Names which you have heard off, yet aren't popular.

ie: Posy and Kit

Fenton
Clayton
Vivian

Girls
Ashlin
Blodwyn
Bliss

Vivienne now that's a name you don't hear often.

Roma
Philo
Rae

There are hundreds of Stanley's around here, and I know a 2 year old Vivienne known as Vivi, it's really lovely.

I don't know of any
Rachel's
Laura
June

Colin
Matthew
Reginald
Ronald

Names I like that aren't common are
Woodrow
Herbert
Winston

Girls
Dolly
Enid
Betty

Helena
Elijah
Natalia

Oh gosh I need sleep. I just wondered why on earth anyone would call their child, "girls"...

Soren
Tobias
Theodore
Jonah

Kitty
Honor
Ruth
Martha
Susannah
Flora

Nappies, there are loads and loads of little Theos and Tobys round here.

I do agree with Soren and your girls names though - lovely underused names!

i know a two sorens and three marthas!

i have a theodore, he is 12 tho and the only one of his age iyswim? there are more of them in the under 5 age group but its not that popular where i am, i think some names are more popular in different regions?

lostinfrance, I love your taste. Love Sarah, Stella, also Sylvie and Vivienne.

All the 60s/70s names are out of fashion now and due to return: Christine, Barbara, Dawn, Gillian, Laura, Julie, Susan etc.
Kenneth, Eric, Colin, Michael, Geoffrey, Mark etc for boys.

Not that keen on them myself, but I bet our Dc will be naming their kids from this era.

Janet, Pamela, Patricia, Ruth, Deborah, Adelaide

Michael, Peter, Iain, David, Nicholas, Stephen

Elsie
Annick
Eloise

Know a truck load of Marthas and at least two Eloise born this year. Maybe regional.

I know of a Martha born recently. Also a Connie :)

Marian
Phyllis
Brenda
Rolf
Desmond
Conway

OP, do you mean names that are not widely used AT ALL (e.g. Roma, Antonia, Cosmo, Florian) or are you looking for names that are CURRENTLY out of favour (e.g. Steve, Mike, Sharon, Tracy, Helen etc)?

In my 2009 pregnancy bubble, I thought that Lucas perfectly matched your description of 'heard of but not commonly used'! Oh, how wrong I was....!

Alan or Geoffrey and Doreen or Sandra. . . . . . .

if you want to be really ahead of the curve.

Yes, do you want 'out of fashion' or 'never been in fashion'?

Artemis. Susannah. Jethro. Raymond. Jean. Gillian. Christine. Gertrude. Beatrix. Ernest. Bertram. Rose.

Elodie, Magnus

Isolda, Domitilla, Siloe, Araceli, Greta, Ariadne, Dorothy, Genevieve, Sidonie
and Rudyard, Baltazar, Clement, Romuald, Thaddeus, Vadim, Willbraham?

Hebe

I know a Vivienne

Althea