Yoonique names?

[TheCatsMeow]

Just wondering why everyone hates them? Surely at one point Catherine, Michael and Tom were unique? And people used to spell their own names multiple ways.

I'm not on about spelling a normal name differently. Jaymez instead of James will obviously just make spelling difficult.

But what's wrong with made up names or names that aren't usually names?

I am not a fan of unique or creative names, partly because of personal taste and partly because it makes me think that the parents are using the child as a kind of lifestyle accessory rather than a person in their own right.

I agree with this - and it's not mitigated at all if the parents are vey posh as opposed to (I don't like the word, but as a shorthand) "chavvy" - the kid still needs to function in today's world so heaping on the eccentricity isn't doing him/her favours.

Paul was coined by Jesus, wasn't it

Only if you believe in a mythical being such as Jesus, of course
In any event, all names were thought up by someone, somewhere, at some time in history.

I wonder what we would all be called if we didn't have names that had been dreamed up by someone?

I can remember when Chelsea and Brooks (or Brooke) were considered odd. Now they're quite popular in all walks of life.

Our choices for DC 3 were Corbin and Cleo. We now have a rabbit called Corbin and DD4 called Cleo. We hadn't quite clicked that it was unusual it was the one we both agreed on with nice meaning.
We can never get things with her name on and it s pretty irritating when people Call her Chloe constantly or spell it Clio when they do I smile and say were named her it because that's where she was conceived!

Originally, names had meanings. e.g. 'Susan' was the Hebrew for graceful white lily. So you were using a word that already existed in the language and naming your child after some quality you admired.

Yoonique names often have nothing to do with meaning or association. They're just a combination of sounds that the parent likes. So they sound like nonsense words. Meaningless. And some people have tin ears.

Or there are words that have never been used as names but sound nice, which can be dodgy when the namer has no idea of the associations others will have. I always thought Diphtheria would be a lovely name for a girl.

Chaos would make a great name.
I do dislike people altering the spellings of names - Irish has no v so it makes sense for Niamh to be written that way. It's not comparable to spelling Amy as Aimey (and I know an Aimey).

My DS is called Cosmo. It's an unusual name but not 'yoonique' - it's a name that has a confirmed etymology (from the Greek Kosmos). It also, in my case, reflects my Italian husband's heritage as it's a derivation of the Italian name Cosmo (FIL's) and Cosmo is also the patron saint of doctors (SIL a doctor).

Spelling it Kozmow - now that would be 'yoonique'!

Anyone who really wants an unusual baby boy name should consider Gary. Only 33 of them born last year

Other very rare names include Barry, Ronald, Nigel, Gerald and Maurice

We gave dd an unusual name. She's very much not a lifestyle accessory. I just liked the sound of it It's a nice word.