If you gave your DD a very unusual name

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Care to share?

And also, did you tell people beforehand or is it best to just announce once they're here?

Never convinced that names are so unusual it = outing and makes this thread v frustrating! Given we have 3 antigones how unusual are they??

I am corrie (not abbreviated that is full name) never seen it in the uk lists in any year - my dad chose it ( geography student and he said my eyes were blue like the water at the head of a glacier.

However if you google you'll just get coronation street so I'm safe. DH name unusual as well our dd has a top hundred name. Her middle name is ursula though which i've nit heard in the uk for a while.

Aargh too soon - when we picked dds got a lot of negative about how common it was compared to ours so you can't win either way

Here's hoping for a successful name change.
DD's name is Eirlys. It is Welsh and means snowdrop, pronounced like air-liss, but I think it is pronounced differently in different areas of Wales. There are about 6 born each yeAr according to the ONS stats, presumably the others live in Wales unlike us. We have never met another one. I sometimes feel we were unreasonable to give her a name no one can pronounce or spell, but it was one of our favourite names. I also have an unusual spelling of an unusual name and it didn't cause me problems.

There are 12 people worldwide on facebook with DD's name. Google shows 3 of them in the UK, so I generally never post her name online.

That's the worst thing about unusual names, actually, I'm finding. The lack of internet anonymity.

If you Google my Christian name. You will never find me.

My dd is an Orla which originally got lots of 'oooo I've never heard that, where does that come from?' But now nearly 4 years on I've heard of a few and fear it is going to do an Isla and ruby

Our youngest dd came home today and proudly announced that in their maths class today they looked at how many babies were registered with their names the year they were born. Hers was 9, so pretty unusual I think.

Didn't tell anyone before hand and I think they quickly got it, as a child there were 3 of us girls in my class with both first and middle names the same, so going less traditional certainly not a family trait!!

I don't have a daughter, but if I did, I want to call her Mallory.

Ooh, Eirlys is beautiful. I adore Welsh names, but wouldn't it be odd of me to give DC one, having no Welsh blood?

I've never met someone with my name. It's the villain's name in the second Little Mermaid film.

Mine all have very common names, in fact we debated for days over using our favourite name for my DD1 because it had been in the top 5 for years. We went for it because there wasn't another name we loved as much...and we've seriously not yet come across another one! (She's 8). And yet in school there are less common names that there are multiples of. You can never predict how it will pan out!

MishMosh you surely aren't in Ireland where there are lots of Orla's - I'm 40 and many my generation - not so many under 10's but I do know one. But it is a nice name

My DD's first name is not that unusual (but she is the only one in her school) but her second name is unique so put together she is a one and only. DH wanted the second name for a first but I couldn't do that to her - in hindsight though it would have made her unforgettable.

We gave DD a name that is very well-known in France but v traditional so not common (she is 1/2 French) but v v unusual in English. We now know that we have subjected her to a life-time of correcting people as her name is fairly close to a common English name She doesn't mind, she loves her name, and most people say 'ooh what a lovely name' and 'how pretty' when they hear properly what it is, she likes that

Mydelilah, that sounds like my middle name. It is wildly unusual here, but traditional and a bit frumpy (very French saint) in France.

My name was considered unusual when I was younger. I went to school with one and met another on a course. I like it now but hate being called the formal version of it. I have been known to get a bit stroppy if anyone insists on it. I consider myself lucky though. My sister was nearly called Bunny or Pandora love my Mum!

It's now much more well known due to media interest in someone with same name. I do get odd comments though. This evening the guy in M&S who served me at the till told me "my friend's dog is called *^" I just smiled politely

Not in Ireland no, but I discovered it on the top 100 name lists for Scotland and Ireland.

It wasn't even top 1000 in England at the time but I darent check now!

We have 2DD's, Macushla and Rosetta. I did wonder if we were mad but we have only had positive reactions, and now they have started school I am VERY glad we did - they are never confused with anyone else! I had a very unusual name growing up, I have never met anyone with my name, and actually it's great, I think it is really healthy to feel individual even on paper. No one has ever forgotten me, or my daughters!
Go for it!!!
(Also there are so many whacky names out there it's almost normal to choose something more unusual)

Both my Dds have very old, very unusual names. They would totally out me.

We told family with dd1. MIL's negative reaction just meant we didn't tell them until after dd2 was here what her name is.

When I was young I knew a Lalania - la-lay-nee-a - and a Galadriel as in The Lady of Lothlórien from LOTR. There are lots of unusual and sometimes quite beautiful names dreamed up by JRRT.

My first name is rare, not 'unusual' as I would class made-up sounding names but I was still the only one in my school growing up. I have only met 2 others with my first name as an adult. I like it. I say go for it, be creative!

I have an unusual name, A n n i k a

I have to spell it out all the time and I get some strange pronunciations. It's a bit frustrating but I do quite like it.

I quite like Star from the lost boys but wasn't brave enough to use it

My dd is called Blossom.

I think I told my mother I was thinking about it, but we had intended to call her Grace. She didn't look like a Grace.

We didn't know exactly what to call her until exactly 6 weeks after she was born, when we were forced to decide.

Unusual is mostly in the eye of the beholder! Also, it is very cultural! There are loads of very normal Dutch names that UK people would find unusual, as it is the other way around. Emily for instance is fairly unusual over here, although it is perfectly normal in the UK.

I agree that names are cultural DS1 is M o s e which is almost unheard of in white middles class which I am It did raise a few eyebrows in my family when I announced it. Actually it wasn't my choice, I wanted to call him Manus

DS2 is Jude, I just had a look at the baby name thingy and it is getting very popular

There is not a single person in this country (UK) with the same name as me according to the baby name thingumy.

No but I know someone's DD who is called Chilli Pepper. And I know a cinnamon.