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!

I floated the name Hester on this board when I was pregnant a few months ago, and it was almost universally panned! My husband wasn't keen, so we didn't use it in the end; but it's still one of my favourites. My daughter did end up with one of the names mentioned on this thread though.

Some of my other favourite uncommon (for babies in England & Wales) names:

Tamsin
Clarice
Myrtle
Lorna
Sorrel
Celeste
Demelza
Elara
Simone
Damaris
Nyx
Jessamine
Cecile

Emrys
Quentin
Griffin
Edgar
Tobin
Leopold
Digory
Phineas
Tarquin

Oh, and Eris. Although she was the goddess of discord and strife, so perhaps not the best namesake!

Heard a little boy being called Cassius the other day. Love it!

Merlin and Aurora

Artemis and Minerva. They are our two girls names and I must admit I am leaning towards wanting a girl purely so that I can use one! (37 weeks pregnant so not long till I find out!)
Boys names: Caspar, Caspian & Dara, though can't use any of them :(

Serafina
Xenia

Ambrose
Mungo

Robson
Grayson
Hudson

Zinnia
Ebony
Hepzibah

Amyas
Corvin
Solomon
Lamar
Ford
Marcelo
Geffen
Judd

I can't do girls'names at all.

Anita
Solange
Farrah

Raphael
Malachi
Levi

Elethia
Liefe

Veronica
Verity
Clemency
Llinos
Merran
Mirran
Thecla/Tecla
Lavinia
Bronwen
Blodwen
Amaryllis
Phillida
Philomela
Angharad
Alicia
Dorothea
Juno
Juniper
Jessamine
Loveday
Guinevere
Ghislaine
Iseult
Isolde
Matilda
Mechtilde
Marina
Marietta
Nell
Netty
Danae
Iolanthe
Ianthe
Athena
Peta
Petrova

Roland
Roderick
Rory
Hector
Hubert
Rollo
Jocelyn
Inigo
Benedict
Hugo
Algernon
Augustus
Tristram
Tristan
Col
Colin
Corin
Edmund
Clive

Love Amyas. In the old song, you and I and Amyas go to the green wood..

Mika is my favourite girl name.

Demeter and Thibault.

I also love Calypso, as someone else suggested.

Gin, forgive my ignorance, how do you pronounce Thibault ?

It's not ignorance at all! It's an unusual French name.

It's pronounced Tee-bow.

To clarify: bow to rhyme with 'dough', not 'ow'.

Ariadne
Bethan
Olwen
Rosanna

Orrin
Rowan

Channing, for a girl

Wilma
Petina
Petunia
Patricia

Anouk
Arianwen (pr. Arri-ANN-wen)
Romy
Ramona
Indira
Mahe (pr. Maah-hey)
Etta
Zilla
Mari

Inigo
Osian (pr. Osh-an)
Taliesin (pr. Tal-YES-in)

Sidonie/Sidony

I used to know a woman called Rodney. That was her birth name.

Sabire - (Sabiree)

Kays - boys name
Talitha

Some great names on this thread.