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..

Maria

I bought a car from a female Adrian and in the Rocky film Rocky's girlfriend is Adrian. Adrian Piper is a US artist.

It's much more common for boys in the UK bu can be used.

Meredith can also be a boys name as can Hillary.

Helena

Quentin

sassh

Oh, interesting. Adrian as a girl's name seems a bit like a spelling mistake to me personally... (Or like someone using Yves for a girl because it reminded them of Eve. Which really is rather unfortunate.)

I actually really like Hillary for a boy :) (Illarion and Illario are also lovely imo.)

Oakley
Cosmo
Guy
Clyde
Cassius
Luca
Bruce
Vincent
Dale
Ronan
Winston
Niles
Paul

Gaia
Nerissa
Brenda
Ursula
Yvonne
Wendy
Jasmine
Petra
Aria
Verity
Opal
Tamsin
Sorcha
Astrid
Zara

Adrien (aid-ree-un) is a girl's name. The Adrienne I know pronounces her name as Addry-enn.

Rowena
Erica
Vanessa
Diana
Blythe
Joy
Paloma
Belinda

Eric
Humphrey
Lawrence
Francis/Frank
Douglas

Adrien is simply a male (French) form of Adrian, as far as I know. Is it an English girl's name?

Anyhow, Adrian just doesn't work for a girl imo. (Well, about as well as Hadrian...)

My girls all have traditional but unusual names. They are all the only ones in their school/nursery. None of them are shocking and everyone always comments how much they love their names. I have been teaching 15 years and I've only taught 2 kids with any of my children's names.

I won't say what they are as too outing but some ideas

Francesca
Constance
Helena
Alana
Avery
Cora
Coraline
Celia
Erica
Iona
Genevieve
Julia

Only girls names!

Isn't it Adrienne for a girl? I love that!

Adrienne is lovely, I agree :)

I have heard of Adrian for a girl rather than Adrienne, I have no idea of the correct spelling though.

I heard it on an episode of Long Lost Family, and was a bit annoyed that the presenter was mispronouncing Adrienne, and then the woman's daughter called her Adrian too.

Oooooooooooo your asking a lot here op!

Do you have a 'type' of name you specifically like?

Edwin
William
Edward
Jenson
Jackson
Ryker
Gus
Miller
Reggie
Jack
Xander
Adam
Philip
Alex
Tristan
Alexander
Lenny/Len
Vince/vinny
Sebastian

Audrey/Aubrey
Annie
Elsie
Elspeth
Phylis
Charlotte
Maud
Emily
Heather
Violet
Josie/Josephine
Seraphina (went to school with one and I've never heard of another)
Carys (may not get past your easy to spell rule)
Danielle
Georgina/Georgia and other variations.
Zara
Eunice (although I don't think that will ever make a comeback :) )
Amy

What about naming her after the day of the week (s)he was born on?

When DSis had her DC2 they had no name for several weeks after DC2 arrived, despite having known what sex the baby was for many months. They wanted something 'unusual' and 'old-fashioned'. After many suggestions were rejected, I suggested a family name that was nice but hardly ever used as a first name. DC2 was named. They got several comments along the lines of "Oh, we were saving that for our baby". It has since become a very popular first name. DN2 is one of the eldest with it.

A friend and her husband, both teachers, picked names that they liked that they did not know any children with the names. The girl's name was fairly unusual at the time but is now very popular.

Jack is extremely popular. There were 3 in a group of 39 children, for nursery's sports day.

Nearly everyone I know has a Tom, Jack, Harry, Molly or Chloe.
Most of our friends are couples where each couple include one Paul, Lee, Claire or Rachel.

@MikeUniformMike what was the name??

My little girl is called Brie. Everyone looks at me with a weird face or ask me to say it again, but I don't mind, it suits her, it's a name we've always loved and it's different. Her middle name is a much more common name though

Suki
Cecily
Beatrix
Saoirse (Seer-sha)
Xochitl (So-cheet)

Malachi
Xander
Ellio
Mark
John

I can't tell you my DN's but it regularly comes up on here (Welsh name threads), and people love it or dislike it.
My friend's daughter is in her late 20s and is called Freya. Her brother has a quite ordinary 'dad' (think Alan, Mark, Graham, Neil, etc) name that really suits him.

A lot of these uncommon names are trendy at the moment.

Most unusual girl's name I've heard recently is Sasanqua - it's a type of camelia.

The Old Testament is a good source of unusual but "known" names, or old Anglo-Saxon names, e.g. Godiva, Azeline, Alric, etc.

Victor

Verity

No-one ever mentions my name. There were more girls called Doris in the last few years than my name. No girls have been given my name and it sits at the bottom of the list .

Tiegan
Tegan
Karin
Michaela
Carla/Carly
Zandra
Pia
Natalie
Claudia
Selena

I did LOL at Diggory up thread

What's your name @TroysMammy?