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

I’ve always loved Avery, but a friend of mine pointed out it rhymed with slavery and I couldn’t get past it. Also think echo is so cute for a girl/little sister/twin. I don’t have any girls, but am also not cool enough to use it anyway!!

I've always loved these names for a girl.
Blossom
Cerise
Piper
Silver

I work with Narnia

Allegro (m) Allegra (f),Mercedes (f) Aristotle (m). All from life.

Boys

Oberon
Rialto
Apollo
Fintan

Girls

Serenissima
Esperance
Sunniva
Twyla
Xanthe

Op I used one of the girls names in your original list.
I also like
Cassidy
Indigo

For boys I have a thing for “cowboy names” so
Nash
Tate

Also Sofonisba, after the Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola.

I was pretty strongly talked out of both Boudicca and Job on here. I still love Job

My actual children all have names at the very bottom or not on the charts at all, so mostly I went for my bold choices and dropped the common names. For example my alternative for DD1 was Nell but her actual name is far more uncommon.

If DD2 had been a boy, she’d have been Hazel after the rabbit in Watership Down, still sad I don’t have my little boy Hazel. My alternate girl name was Eris, I still love that too.

Other rarer names I considered or were roundly rejected by DH; Atlas, Cassiopeia, Rhythm, Rejoice, Sunrise (Sunny), Sesame.

Sophrosyne
Aglaia
Persephone
Drusilla
Viatrix

also Minerva.

Girls:
Sidonie
Tallulah
Scheherazade
Liselotte
Meika

Boys:
Isambard
Apollo
Pendragon
Merlin
Milan
Baron
Roman
Etienne
Heiko

Misty
Dusty
Posie

Sid
Gus
Gabe

Girls:
Persephone
Octavia

Boys:
Balthazar
Thaddeus
Atticus
Gideon

Also

Ocean for a girl

@Tomcullenisahero

Boys names I love Gabriel Wolf Valentine Kit

Girls names l love
Clementine
Storm

Some are not overly unusual I suppose but there are none around here.

I LOVE all of those boys' names. I also have a soft spot for Beowulf.

Anastasia
Seraphina
Susan
Delta

Zebedee
Zaccheus
Horace
Oswald

@35andThriving I know a Patsy! She is the boldest and most hilarious 6 year old! Its fab

For girls:

Laureline (a character name created for old French sci-fi comic)

Jetta (character in book - also could have the nn ‘Jet’)

Zelda (nice name but video game connection)

Delphine is my favourite name

IndiaMay, love it. Patsy is such a great name!

My partner is still disappointed we didn’t name DD2 Boudicca. I loved it too, but was worried she might consider it a burden. I love Hero, Lennox and Loveday. I would have probably gone with Loveday if it had just been down to me, but DP didn’t like it. We named her Isolde in the end.

@TheVanguardSix, Pendragon is just wonderful, isn’t it? If DD had been a boy, she would have been Uther. Maybe even Uther Pendragon if we were feeling particularly —cruel— brave.

@Hoppinggreen Objrctively, I’ve always thought Lucifer was an ace name with a cool meaning! Shame it’s basically unusable.

I’ve mentioned this on other threads but I adore the name Lysander. Wasn’t sure my kid would though so I’ll need to find a pet to inflict it on!

@Riv12345 love love love both River and Lane (though I'd use Lane for a girl and spell it "Layne")

@Rainbowqueeen Nash is looooovely!

@Hoowhoowho I also love Job! Was strongly vetoed by DP sadly

I'm so glad I started this thread, so many beautiful names cropping up! Have certainly shuffled our names list for sure

PS. Gulliver has been vetoed by DP and DM. I could cry!

[quote FizzingWhizzbee123]@Hoppinggreen Objrctively, I’ve always thought Lucifer was an ace name with a cool meaning! Shame it’s basically unusable.

I’ve mentioned this on other threads but I adore the name Lysander. Wasn’t sure my kid would though so I’ll need to find a pet to inflict it on![/quote]
I agree re Lucifer. It's a beautiful name but.... We considered Lucien but a school friend had had it, the boys would be a year apart but our eldest in the same year. It just felt weird. If I had boy girl twins alone of have Lucien and Lilith