Most unusual girls names you've heard?

[shuz1980]

Im really stuck on girls names, theres not a single name me and my partner can agree on. I want something unusual but something really pretty and girly. Whats the most unusual names you've heard?

@ItsMeantToBe

Le-a

Pronounced Ledasha 🙄. Poor kid.

Bingo on the urban myth starter for ten!

@ItsMeantToBe

Le-a

Pronounced Ledasha 🙄. Poor kid.

Awaiting Pocahontas McGuinty and Female “feemalay”.

I'm constantly surprised at how a racist urban myth started off such a huge trend, because it's a name that gets mentioned so often. I'm expecting La-a to show up in the ONS top ten names soon. Or perhaps there are just a few La-as and they are all incredibly well-connected.

@DaisyWaldron

I'm constantly surprised at how a racist urban myth started off such a huge trend, because it's a name that gets mentioned so often. I'm expecting La-a to show up in the ONS top ten names soon. Or perhaps there are just a few La-as and they are all incredibly well-connected.

I never knew it had racist/urban myth associations! I work at a hospital and it was the name of a new born baby that I was registering about 4 years ago. Always stuck in my head.

Rua - means ‘red’ in Irish I think. I thought it was quite pretty.

Several of these don’t seem that unusual to me - it’s interesting isn’t it :) Thomasina for example - I’ve met a few, named after a Thomas Hardy character I think?

@ItsMeantToBe really?! Because yeah the urban myth is years old, at least a decade. Did you really meet one?

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I registered her and processed the referral, she was seen by colleagues. We do get some strange names (some lovely too). It really doesn't help trying to pick my own baby name!

I remember a thread on here a couple of years ago where the ops daughter was talking about her friend 'pancake' from nursery. The OP assumed a mistake and asked Mumsnet what this little girls name could actually be. In the end the OP searched the nursery register or something similar, and her daughter was correct... a real life little pancake.

“This got me thinking about children’s names in the UK. According to The office for National Statistics, Khaleesi is more popular than Claire. Other unusual names include Le-a (the dash being part of the name.... Ledasha) and KV111lyn which is pronounced Kaitlyn (the V111 being Roman numerals for eight – a bit of text speak)”

It might be real

www.wilkinsonwoodward.co.uk/site/blog/divorce/whats-in-a-name

I call my kids nicknames and it’s only just occurred to me that people in the park might actually think they’re called Squirtle and Munch.

Margherita.
DD thinks she should have been called it.

Ondine, Avalon

And Ira (pronounced eye-rah)

My DDs middle name is Meadow - haven't come across any others yet :)

Iselin (Norwegian)
Jessamine

Buppers Not Bethan as there was a girl in my class called Bethan so that's not unusual enough. It could very well be Betsan which is a Welsh diminutive form of Elizabeth as is Bethan.

I have met girls and babies called Meadow, Isolde, Leilani, Precious, Ondine, Pearl, Angelina, Angeline, Dotty, Maggie, Princess, Celeste, Barbara, Denise, Savannah etc... many of the names listed. I wouldn't say they were especially common though with the exception of Leilani which is extremely popular in some cultures.

So many of the names here are so pretty. I like the way names sound as well as look, especially singsong names like Angeline, Evangeline, Sonnet, Sarah and Kiekie.

I used to work with someone called Apolline which I thought was beautiful (hopefully I've got the spelling right)

Katalina
Asmara
Xanthe

Isadora

Makes me think of

Araminta

Minty is quite a cute nn

I think unusual names these days are the ones from my youth

Sharon
Tracey
Rebecca
Pauline
Paula
Michelle
Karen
Clare

I don't think I know any young girls without a "pretty" name these days.

I wouldn't say it's unusual, I think it's difficult to find a balance between uncommon names and names that are too out there which you would never associate as a name.

Anastasia is recognised but id say quite unusual to hear at the moment.

I also like Sutton, Cooper, Audrina, Raine as less common girls names

Probably not the look you’re going for but the most unusual girl’a name I know of is Isis, named long after ISIS became a problem. She was named after the Godess, but surely they knew…

That would be a tough name to live with LadyCatStark. If they just liked the sound they could have used Iris. Such a similar sounding name but without all the baggage that comes with Isis. Poor girl.

@Grainjar

Morwenna Elodie

Morwenna and Olwen are common name among Welsh speakers. An Olwen is an old woman in my mind's eye though.