Unusual boy names

[rbetty]

Hey just wondered if I could have some ideas on unusual boy names! I like names with 2 syllables or more 🤣

I went through historic lists - for DS1 I have a name that's unusual, but not hard to spell for an English person. DS2 wasn't quite so lucky, but it shortens to a common name if he ever needs it.

My only advice is wait as long as you can. I think that you can see if a name suits a child after a bit!

How unusual? You can look up the popularity of names each year online and go as far down this list as you want. I opted for a name ranked around 250th in popularity (so not very) but it’s a name that everyone knows. So it’s unusual but people do generally seem to like it I think it’s just never been overly popular as the anglicised version of it is much more so.

Ambrose
Fabian
Dorian
Wilbur
Leonard
Auden
Josiah
Boaz
Hudson
Brooks

John

Hardly any born these days it’s well down the list.

Efren
Idris
Inigo
Tadgh
Walter
Aerton
Emmett
Everett
Sandy

Aries
Tristan
Orion
Caspian
Cassius
Lysander
Chester
Griffin
Gulliver
Dash
Josiah
Thaddeus
Lorcan

I keep thinking about the name Rhett - really like it!
Keep seeing the name Blythe on unusual name posts too
Jasper is also nice if you don’t want to go too unusual

Wow you asked for unusual names and received lists of the most hideous names imaginable.

Just go for currently out of fashion:
Bernard
Eric
Stephen
Mark
Francis
Leslie
Andrew
Robert
Etc

We had Ari, Asa, Caleb and Spencer on our list. Friend has an Edison - I’ve never met another one.

Greg

Sebastian
Rowan
Hugo
Bertie
Sonny
Kit
Crew
Jody

It depends what you mean by unusual - unheard of or just not popular right now?

Personally, I'm not a fan of "out there" names so i'd probably go with currently out of fashion names instead.

Christopher
Thomas
Blane
Darren
Stephen
Leonard
Graham
Nathan
Warren
Xander

@rbetty

Hey just wondered if I could have some ideas on unusual boy names! I like names with 2 syllables or more 🤣

Landry

Joaquin

I love Erasmus

My youngest is called Eben, we've only met one before. The E is pronounced with an 'eh' sound like Emma, that's the only annoying thing he sometimes has people pronouncing it with an 'ee' sound! His middle name is Jago less unusual especially in Cornwall and seems to be gaining more popularity.

You've not said what type of name you like, so I looked at names that were only registered three times last year and are more than two syllables, so these all should fit your brief:
Aaron-Junior
Goodluck
Howie
Iain
Kaique
Marmaduke
Shabsi
Thorbjorn
Ugochukwu
Winner

My nephew is an Eben.
Harley
Ryder
Gabriel
Logan

Lemuel. Nn Lemmy!

I have a Daegan, I've never come across another

Avonlea
Beowulf

Willem.

My all-time favourite boys’ name.

Trader
Simeon
Balthazar

Feldore
Sebastian
Frederick
Artemis
Ignatius (Iggy)
Hector
Ivan
Elliot
Julian
Quentin
Tolly
Edmund