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Favourite unusual girl's name?

127 replies

ItchyFoot · 10/08/2016 20:47

If you had to pick one what would your favourite unusual girl's name be?

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GingerbreadGingerbread · 10/08/2016 23:47

Adore the name January. Obviously only really works if the baby is born in that month!

Snog · 10/08/2016 23:47

Ariya

bittapitta · 10/08/2016 23:50

Ilive Teresa is always shortened to Tess, never heard of it being shortened to Teri.

ghostspirit · 10/08/2016 23:54

i know of 2 girls called saphari and paris.

tararabumdeay · 11/08/2016 00:08

I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream.
I can tell by the mark he left, you were in his dream.
Ah child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas.
What you are, and what you're meant to be
Speaks his name, though you were born to me,
Born to me, Cassidy.

Quite like Arcadia, Electra and Hecabe.

My two (if they were girls) would have been Johanna (Dylan) and Dorothea (next door but one 'auntie').

ForeverEyesOfBlue · 11/08/2016 00:16

Marsaili (pronounced mar-suh-lay - Gaelic speakers feel free to correct me!)
Remony
Ismene

I also love Evangeline and Ramona as mentioned upthread.

orangebird69 · 11/08/2016 00:20

Love the name Lois. Not sure if it's unusual but I don't know of any. It was my girls name choice but we had a boy....

Wayfarersonbaby · 11/08/2016 00:22

Iseult/Isolde
Eleanora
Cecelia
Lenten
Hero
Clemency

minatiae · 11/08/2016 00:25

Calantha

MadameJosephine · 11/08/2016 00:28

Antigone
Calliope
Clemency
Temperance
Serendipity

NoncommittalToSparkleMotion · 11/08/2016 00:34

Coralie (maybe not very unusual but I don't hear it often)

Nola

Leda

5BlueHydrangea · 11/08/2016 00:37

Andrianna
Aurelia
Lucia
Violet
Ariadne

imwithspud · 11/08/2016 00:40

Saffron and Saraya

Whitetulipofpeace · 11/08/2016 00:44

Astrid, my favourite girls nameSmile

CakeRattleandRoll · 11/08/2016 08:00

Arianwen
Morwenna
Elowen
Elspeth
Tirion
And love Saoirse, although I know it's not unusual in Ireland.

babyblabber · 11/08/2016 08:16

Posy

Eminybob · 11/08/2016 08:26

My best friend named her daughter Aria back when it was pretty much unheard of, I love it but it's becoming more common now.

I love Elodie and Aurelia, and although not unusual, Abigail which you don't hear of as much these days.

Alisvolatpropiis · 11/08/2016 08:30

bitta

All the Theresa's I've known are known as Teri. The only Tess I've known is just Tess.

ItchyFoot · 11/08/2016 11:31

So many names that I love but dp is so fussy!

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KoalaDownUnder · 11/08/2016 11:37

Paloma
Odessa
Sabine
Anoushka

BlackAzalea · 11/08/2016 13:57

Mandana
Zaliyah (not sure of spelling...)

Anonymouses · 11/08/2016 14:00

A friend just called her baby margot. I love it.

ItchyFoot · 11/08/2016 16:09

Absolutely love Margot. I don't have a name problem I have a dp problem Grin

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BossyOfficerFlossie · 11/08/2016 18:01

My favourites are:

Margot
Edith
Agnes
Agatha
Posie
Hero
Honor
Hebe
Xanthe
Isolde
Thalia
Meredith
Merryn
Ottilie
Romily
Astrid

Not sure how unusual they are... So far I have only produced boys!

Volatile · 11/08/2016 18:12

2 of mine have made it on here!

I love Indigo.
And Xanthippe.
And Talitha.