Your favourite unusual names?

[Yawninghippo]

What are your favourite ones? Boy or girl. Anything out of the top few hundred names.

I'm looking for inspiration! My name tastes run to most things, particularly love anything Italian, pretty girls names, anything nature related or strong boys names. TIA!

Eben
Otto

Lorelli
Heloise

I like Elspeth. I'm also a huge Tolkien fan, as is my partner, so Arwen is very much a name I love. My partner wants Thorin for a boy which I have to say I'm quite taken with.

Ebba. Absolutely love it!

Ophelia
Xanthe
Hebe
Myrtle
Olympia
Marina

Merlin
Magnus
Caspar
Jolyon
Oberon
Tobin
Florian
Gawain

Raymond

Allegra
Alina
Cornelia

Ottilie

Quentin

Eglantine. Wish I'd had the courage to use it.

I know someone with a name pronounced peer-a-det not sure how it's spelt is that how you would pronounce peridot? I've always thought the T is silent.

my own dc have very boring plain traditional English names - probably a subconscious rebellion against my less than common first name.

But I still love lots of unusua/less traditional l names

Orlena
Lana
Lara
Joan
Jennifer/Jenny
Martha
Josie
Clementine
Willow
Naomi
Tierney

Patrick
Wilf
Ashton
Marlow
Luca/Lucas
Elias
Malachi

Angharad- forgot about that one! I absolutely love it!

My son is Magnus and we always get complements on the name especially as he is such a big strong baby.

I love these threads!

Sometimes I daydream about having more children purely to use more unusual names!

My DC already have great unusual names, but others I'd like to use are;

Xanthe

Ramona

Rex

Roman

Magnus

Sabine
Liviana
Adriana
Cecilia (pronounced) che-chi-lia in Italian
Alessandro
Cinzia
Roberta (dds name)

Reece & Rowan for boys

Bronwyn & Norah for girls

Torin
Roman
Reston
for boys

Morran
For a girl

Alecto
Jago

Minerva and Ylva. And Castor, but that's a huge no-no in any English speaking country...

And I've always loved the name Belatrix. And I was super upset when I realised that a certain villain got this awesome name.
I also love the name Peregrine. Not sure if it's unusual, but DW refuses to even consider it...

Henley and Riven for a boy (Riven rhymes with my surname so couldn't use it)

Autumn and Serendipity for a girl (my parents are relieved I didn't have a girl as DH and I really love the latter!!)

Arwen and Thorin are great names!

I know a Ramona, two Hester's and a Magnus. Love all three of those names!

Echo or Morven for a girl

Simone, Adele, Athena for girls.

I loved Persephone until partner pointed out it sounded like I was trying to say Stephanie with a lisp.

Amarys
Lorna
Stella
Mairi

Eustace
Struan
Sylvester
Dorian

Astrid
Lara
Nerissa
Ariadne
Andromeda
Acacia
Skyler
Dallas

Jago
Manus
Iolo

Nesta
Juno