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Looking for a really unusual girls name!

225 replies

chicarubia · 26/10/2017 16:32

I'm 34 weeks pregnant with my second daughter and found my first's name by scrolling through this forum. Hers is very unusual but has a meaning and is not too much of a mouthful. We're looking for similar with this one. By very unusual I mean a name that's never shown up on the baby name chart which records any name that has been used more than 3 times in a year. It's a tall order I know!

We have Australian and Italian roots and surname ends in -ia so that rules out most -a or -ia ending names for us.
Nice nicknames are also a must.

As an example of what I like my all time fave name is Camira. It's Australian Aboriginal but unfortunately is the name of a shit Australian car so has been completely vetoed by OH.
Would love some help!

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LadyPug · 26/10/2017 18:55

Soraya

dotdotdotmustdash · 26/10/2017 18:56

Alexia

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 26/10/2017 19:02

Ulla, means sea pearl.
Jacinta
Lowenna
Evanna
Elfrieda (Elfie)
Eleska
Finola
Joyce

cakeandteajustforme · 26/10/2017 19:08

Love Boronia suggested above.

I recall another thread about a lady who’d visited Australia and liked the name Rosella, like the birds. In that vein (and if you like Roz which is a good nickname seeing as Aussies like to ad a z to most nicknames) then you amend the Rosella to Rosetta, Rosannah (which I just saw at nos 82 and 127 of that 1850s link posted above).

On Roz, I love Rosamund. Had a DS though.

cakeandteajustforme · 26/10/2017 19:09

(I realise most of this doesn’t abide with your ending rules but I think for the right name that shouldn’t matter. Personal view.)

LadyPug · 26/10/2017 19:12

I once knew a Leonie also, never met another

PotteringAlong · 26/10/2017 19:12

Marietza

MoonHare · 26/10/2017 19:12

Inish
Jacinta
Melisande
Inara

Chaffinch4 · 26/10/2017 19:29

Muriel?

NapQueen · 26/10/2017 19:30

Ember

lanbro · 26/10/2017 19:32

Neither of my daughter's names are on the birth list thingy...
Alannia, pronounced Al-ann-ya
Bromily

chicarubia · 26/10/2017 19:33

There're some great ones here. Lots I hadn't thought of and I thought I'd come across most! The 1850s list was brilliant!
It's funny, my name has come up a few times and my mums too which is also unusual.
Should also have said we particularly like names which begin with Z or which mean star in some way (as OHs grandma is called Stella).
Thank you!

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BewareOfTheToddler · 26/10/2017 19:36

Linnet
Carina
Isolde
Rosannah

Have only ever met one of any of the above!

Battleax · 26/10/2017 19:37

hould also have said we particularly like names which begin with Z or which mean star in some way (as OHs grandma is called Stella).

Is this going to be a long and increasingly obscure dripfed laundry list?

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OctopusLimbs · 26/10/2017 19:41

I skim read one of your previous posts and thought your older daughter was called LadyPug...now that would be unusual!

LadyPug · 26/10/2017 19:42

Hehehe hey that’s me!

InternetHoopJumper · 26/10/2017 19:43

How about Enheduanna?

She lived around 23rd century B.C, was the high priestess of the goddess Inanna and one of the first authors of known history.

Loveisthelaw · 26/10/2017 19:44

I've only met or heard of one Sylvana, which I thunk is very pretty.

chicarubia · 26/10/2017 19:44

Haha octopuslimbs it would definitely be unique!
Battleax - nope! (Sounds like you've given yourself an appropriate username tho :-))

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millifiori · 26/10/2017 19:44

Seren
Fidelia
Elodie
Claude

millifiori · 26/10/2017 19:45

Garance

millifiori · 26/10/2017 19:47

I like Zillah from that 1850s list

SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 26/10/2017 19:48

Pretty hard to find Italian girls names that don't end in a!

Dulcie
Lois
Olive
Alcie
Alma
Angeline
Bambi
Beatrix
Caprice
Coco
Fia
Fiore
Myah

SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 26/10/2017 19:48

Ooo love Sylvana too!

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