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Yourshakraishangingout · 07/09/2017 17:52

What is the most unusual/some of the most unusual names you know for little girls IRL (whether they are your cup of tea or not)

Looking for inspiration... don't mind if they are nicknames, nature, 'made up', from a different culture...I'm interested in hearing them all. Thank you.

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BroomstickOfLove · 07/09/2017 22:24

Of the ones on my list, around half are adults and they've all kept their names.

stopbeingadramallama · 07/09/2017 22:37

La-a, pronounced 'ladasha'!!

Huh? I'm sorry but how?😂

Sogrowjo · 07/09/2017 22:59

Butterfly
Meadow
Roly

MadameJosephine · 07/09/2017 23:38

I love temperance!

cushioncovers it just makes me think of the plans that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and I wouldn't want my child associated with that

MadameJosephine · 07/09/2017 23:38

*the plane that dropped the bomb

Pottytoes · 07/09/2017 23:46

Jolene
Annandale Halfpenny
Cressida
California
Tennessee

Buntysoven · 07/09/2017 23:47

Zinnia
Tuppence Hmm
Hepzibah (now 14 and known as Zi Zi)
Blake
Jonquil

IckyPop · 08/09/2017 00:31

Vega
Summer
Bluebell
Indigo
Carissa
Ebony
Betsy
Star
Shylo/Shiloh (sp?)

joolspoon · 08/09/2017 01:01

Tallulah isn't unusual I know 3

ABCFamily · 08/09/2017 09:11

Ainsley
Allegra
Amara
Amani
Brigid (not a particularly unusual name, but it was unexpected on a baby)
Elodie (I see this one mentioned here all the time, but this is the only one I've met in the flesh)
Emory
Esra
Isolde
Kinsey
Lorna
Marin
Marlowe
Noa
Pearl
Riley (I think this is fairly common for boys, but I've only met one girl with this name)
Sabina
Sylvie
Thadie

euanthesheepiloveyou · 08/09/2017 09:44

Mercedes
Dympna
Talia
Kendal
Tia-Leigh
Porscha
Corinne
Carina
Hanley
Winter
Lilliana
Hetty

pear123 · 08/09/2017 09:48

Solace

hlc123 · 08/09/2017 10:20

Dennie
Celica
Colby
Kennedy
Posey
Tulisa
Wren

velocitygir1 · 08/09/2017 10:21

@stopbeingadramallama you pronounce the dash I presume? Funny tho!

BroomstickOfLove · 08/09/2017 10:36

I know at least two each of Pearl, Allegra, Sylvie, Summer, Magdalena, Clementine, Ursula, and Tilly.

BroomstickOfLove · 08/09/2017 10:41

I thought the La-a thing was just a racist urban myth. Have you actually met someone called that?

ibentmywookie · 08/09/2017 11:25

Ursula, Pearl, Persephone, Guinevere, Ottoline, Delphi, Domino, Clementine, Willow, Wren, Hester, Ottilie, Ida, Ivy.

QuirkyTiger · 08/09/2017 11:46

Una - Means one or first

insulecure · 08/09/2017 11:56

Tresnee
Katrina
Philippa

The latter two I don't see too often anymore hence including.

insulecure · 08/09/2017 11:58

I know an Autumn too.

MrsJoyOdell · 08/09/2017 12:07

Arietty - which I absolutely adore!

LovelyBranches · 09/09/2017 00:03

Peppa
Berry
Bebe
Carmel
Diandra
Marjorie (not uncommon but this was a baby Marjorie which is unusual.
Ismay

TallulahBetty · 09/09/2017 15:39

La-a is an urban myth. It's on snopes

Amee1992x · 09/09/2017 17:39

Met a baby called Zuri today at the hospital

MissJSays · 09/09/2017 19:02

Alynthia
Danika
Tarley
Maite (pronounced Mighty)

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