Unusual but not weird names

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Still searching for names. We would like something that isn't popular and unlikely to be in school with another. But nothing too weird that we spend the whole time telling people how to spell it/ pronounce it etc..

Susan, Janet
Kevin, John

Be careful... MumsNetters HATE ‘new fangled’!! 😂😂😂

I have just called my baby girl Meredith. All the nurses and midwives have commented on how pretty but uncommon it is.

Awful don't like those at all @Saisong

Ha @Sessy19 I know I'm asking a lot here

Sally? Meredith is lovely too, Sylvie is my current favourite though.

Lovely name Meredith.

I think a uncommon name is a better bet than unusual.

This thread is from a few years ago but useful. Useable but uncommon names from the top 1000 of the ONS list

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/1968547-Useable-girls-names-outside-the-top-1000

I have a Tabitha and that's not heard very often. We also liked Remy, Sorrel, saskia

And Phaedra

Jane
Wendy

Greta
Sadie
Pearl
Beatrix
Bonnie

Jago
Rory
Benedict
Robin
Gabriel

Merlin
Gawain
Gabriel
Clement
Florian
Horatio
Joss(lin)
Diggory
Giles
Caspar

Davina
Xanthe
Verity
Phyllida
Olympia
Calliope
Hermione
Araminta
Cecily
Cressida

Oh, and Lucia

Melody, Harmony, Rita, Vada

Falcon, Hunter, Scout, Smith

We called our boy Oakley (but it can also be used for a girl and with different spellings) - I hate 'common' names and love that he'll be one of the only ones in his class called this but without it being too 'weird'.

Maria
Celia
Dinah
Simone
Karin
Mara

Gawain
Eli
Sherwin
Morten
Jed
Andrew
Flynn

Merryn
Romilly
Cassia
Vanessa
Jasmine

Juno
Aster
Keeley
Jodie
Laurel
Corinne
Lisa
Elaine

Evander
Emrys
Lee
Cary
Hadrian
Drake
Jared
Julian

Maeve
Penny
Wilma

"Unusual but not weird" is what many (most?) people want. So they come up with an "unusual but not weird" name, only to find that lots of other people have had the same idea - hence names that seem to you "unusual but not weird" ending up as popular names - that's the zeitgeist for you. To be just ahead of the curve, I'd look at names that were popular in the 1930s/'40s. Or pick something very classical from the Roman or Greek myths, etc. Or something like a plant name, but not one of the commonly used ones like Lily - go for something like Tulip, etc. Or is that heading into "weird"?

Lucy
Imogen
Talia
Melanie
Nadia
Naomi
Sienna
Matilda
Melissa
Gabrielle/Gabriella
Daisy
Rayne
Aimee/Amy
Annabelle
Estelle

Ashley (for girl or boy)
Diego
Xavier
Joe
Thomas
Fletcher
Aiden

flumpybear we have a Tabitha also. There's 2 in her class. Out of 7 girls!!! Plus, there was 1 a year older, 1 at an activity she does and another friend of a friend. I didn't hope for unique but I had hoped for no more than 1 in any group, to avoid the use of surnames like her father and I had all through school!

Ross
Russ / Russell
Errol
Saul
Karl
Lionel

Dulcie
Prue
Marian
Veronica
Trudy
Daniella

splishsplashsplosh

Some of those names you have listed are really common and overused. They are the opposite of unusual.

Jago
Asher
Luke (don’t know any Lukes under 18)
Keir

Romilly
Aster
Carly
Leann

What kinds of names do you like? It will help to narrow down. Old-fashioned or modern? Surnames?

Some different suggestions:

Arden
Aurelia
Blythe
Cora
Delia
Elodie
Etta
Evangeline
Louisa
Mabel
Margot
Petra
Stella
Vivian

August
Calloway
Calvin
Evan
Gideon
Jasper
Malachi
Miles
Soren
Stellan
Tobias
Tobin