I need hippyish and out there names that won't get my child bullied at school.

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NC because nobody irl knows I'm pregnant yet.

I love hippy and unusual names, but they need to work beyond childhood too.

I have a few that I love like ziggy and cobain and bluebell and chakra but I couldn't use them irl.

Please help.

The one Fuschia I know her parents then joined some Indian cult with a guru and her name got changed again...

I knew a child with an unusual name Sunny or Sonny think he CS, know a Rowan who's lovely, friends have children with a moon or moon based name (like Luna or sow thing) seems fine, another friend has twins who are India and another (forget other) which seem good, latter ones from moon based onwards still kids so unsure how names affected them or will do.

Me and my brother have unusual foreign first names (and middle) which though they're nice and unusual they are certainly memorable and I rarely hear of someone with my name! Not saying it's not nice but there are time when I wished I'd been called my mum's other chosen names of Polly or Anna.

Was Jezebel a serious suggestion?

Please don't call uour child wolf. I mean really don't.

Rowen, Astrid, are not really unusual names. Neither is sonny or spike. There is some nice suggestions on here, but some suggestions are simply awful.

I mean wolf? Seriously?

I have a 'Butterfly' which is pretty odd. She's at school under that name and no one gives a fig. It suits her as she flits from one thing to another and is very 'free spirit'. She has a real first name (Octavia, Butterfly is her middle name) but she refuses to use it and I can see her keeping Butterfly into adulthood. I think any name can work on an adult as they just grow with it from childhood. They don't suddenly just wake up an adult and have to work out how to be taken seriously with an odd name, they make it their own over the years and I can't see it being a problem.

For what its worth, I went to a pretty dire inner city school and I never saw anyone get bullied for having a "different" or unusual name.

I do remember lots of people with standard traditional names that were incorporated into mean jibes, though (Luke the puke, fat Matt, etc.).

So I wouldn't worry about the bullying thing. The adult thing is definitely worth bearing in mind, however I'm also an idealist and believe that my kids will be able to achieve whatever they want to do, no matter what their name is. Hopefully they won't want to work with/for the corporate wanks that say things like halfapint has been saying in this thread anyway.

Rohan
Rowan
Marley

Hippies I know:
Nerissa
Jera
Sukhina
Ceri

Huw
Arthur

Joni
Janis
Heather

There's a famous female skier called Peekaboo.

Please don't call your child Peekaboo

Bendy I know an Arthur whose sister is India (forget her twins name!) they're not hippy per se but mum fashion designer so don't think she wanted run of the mill names re her daughters and she has an unusual first name (the mum) herself anyway though not that unusual.

Astrid is a proper name.

OP, there are millions of names that actually are names; just give your child one of them.

Not sure anything is "way out" anymore. lots of kids at my children's mainstream primary in Birmingham with many of the names you mention.

Wayne and Waynetta seem to have been replaced with some of the so called "unusual/wacky" names - these days it seems traditional names are now "cooler"

I used to know a lad called Indigo. He had hippy parents. I loved his name, always thought it was really cool and it suited him. He was quite hippyish himself.

There are loads of 'alternative' names you can get away with. Anything from nature, flowers, trees etc are quite hippy without being too zany. Equally, mythical names work, or Gaelic names if you have any Gaelic heritage work well.

I know children named after mountains, trees, colours, that reflect their parents' values and lifestyles without putting them up for public ridicule.

I don't see the issue with Bluebell. I know a little one, and think it's rather pretty. Presumably when she's older she will either:

(a) Call herself Bel / Belle / Bella, and blend in with the 000s of other Bellas out there
(b) Call herself Blue if she grows up a cool surfer girl (sure, most of the surfer/skater type girls around called Blue are probably nicknames, but it's not exactly unusual)
(c) Use her full name if she is happy to do so & wants to stand out a little.

Having said that, if I wanted a hippy-ish name, I'd choose Rowan (for either a girl or a boy), it's gorgeous, and underused without being unknown.

I agree with halfpint and she didn't say anything nasty ffs.

Out there and hippyish just sounds like you want to be different for the sake of it. Some of these names suggested are neither out there or hippie they're just plain ridiculous. Don't do it to get attention and be different OP because it's not being different at all.

In my experience you don't get bullied for names. You just get really bored by the constant spelling it out/explaining it/agreeing that yes it is unusual isn't it/ no I don't think my parents have ever been to Timbuctoo, they just liked the sound of it/ no I wasn't born in September.....

I know of a very well thought of and successful barrister called Spike. Names aren't a barrier, or an open door, to a particular future.

Would there ever be a Prime Minister called Bluebell or Meadow? Er... no.

Well we almost ended up with Gideon

Well we almost ended up with Gideon

What's your point?

Firstly, Gideon is a classical Biblical name. It is not "out there" or "hippy". It's just not particularly common and has strong Hebrew associations.
Secondly, the name which he is known by is George which rather proves the argument. He changed his name when he was about 12 I think.
Thirdly, we never really "almost ended up with" him.

It's just the style of name I like, I don't want to be too out there and unique, just to have a name I love that's still usable in day to day life.

Thank you everyone there are some awesome suggestions on here