Give me your quirkiest/boldest/most unusual names

[BabyBee93]

Names you were too scared to use, names your parents told you they hated, names you made up, names you'd never heard of before and anything else in between

Some of mine...

Girls:
Saffron
Kendra
Olga

Boys:
Wolfie
Sidney
Ronnie

Girls names, that I like, that have been used less than 30 times, in England and Wales in 2019 (Latest available statistics): -

Patsy
Cherry
Colette
Celestina
Kerry
Shirley
Carolyn
Bryony

I haven't looked as closely at the boys' names yet.

I do like: -

Desmond
Kester
Clive
Judd
Jerome
Ross
Russ

River
Peaches - my nieces name

Otto and Bruno

Names I got a liking for in pregnancy before being brought to my senses

Boudicca
Edelweiss

The other one was Isis. Predating the terrorist organisation..

I used to think Camelot would make a lovely boys name. Also loved Merlin. Aeson is a nice boys name too

I've always thought Pandora and Persephone were nice names and I've always quite liked Petunia and Perdita.

I really wanted to give my first dd the middle name Daffodil but everyone talked me out of it.

Gawain
Ophelia (love the name but such tragic associations)
There was a girl at school who was blonde, glamorous and had a sports car for her 21st birthday. She was called Candida and I thought it was awesome - then I found out .

We fancied Cromarty for a boy but bottled out. Would've gone really well with our surname too.

I once met a baby named Wellington. I thought that was an unusual name.

I know a cherry, she’s about 10 I think

Know in real life:

Girl: Kyrie - beautiful but pronunciation issues

Boy:
Flash
Gulliver

@NameChangePropertyAdvice adore Bruno!

@Aroundtheworldin80moves those are bold indeed even for me!

@17caterpillars1mouse I love Persephone and Daffodil! Going on my list

Tigerlily

Also Pebbles.... think that’s Jim Davidson’s kid? May as well have gone for BamBam

I loved Lucifer when I was pg with DS but DH was mean and vetoed it.
DS is 12 now and says he wishes that were his name

@PotholeParadies Gulliver! Oh my! This might be my new top spot for boy names

Keziah for a girl

Yes baby Gulliver used to come into the cafe I worked in in London 😄 pretty cool. Gull kind of works. Like Gus.

Boy
Etienne - always loved it but wasn’t popular with my DH/relatives.

Girl
Keziah - I have an ancestor named Keziah. Old but also modern sounding IMO.

My children both have very traditional names.

@ZaZathecat

Keziah for a girl

Wow! I swear I hadn’t seen this post before I posted.

My DD is "Ripley" (as in the movie Alien).

I like Atreyu (never ending story) for a boy, but alas we are not having any more children.

Leofric for a boy

Tyche for a girl

Jezebel. I would never use it, the negative associations are too much - but God it's a cool sounding name!

Oh +1 for Atreyu!

Chihiro for any Ghibli fans out there? Love the name, love the movie.

Sharing some more of my bolder ones as I'm loving the outrageousness of some of these (I'm looking at you Cromarty )

Girls
Goa
Winnie

Boys
Eugene
Igor
Nelson