Querky or alternative names - see my list of options

[Motherofrabbits87]

I like to be different. Just wondered what some of your querky and alternative names.
See my names list below for both genders, I think I would raise some eyebrows with some of them.

GIRLS:
nova
piper
raven
Harlow
Elara
robyn
xanthe
saxon
lexie
wren
kimberley
zero
khari
iris
kaia
tabitha

BOYS:
zakk
Harrison
Lincoln
falcon
corey
phoenix
jaxon
rex
Angus
hamish
blaze
ace
brandon
wolf
zeppelin
Zio
Balthazar
styx
toby
patrick
cooper

Both my kids names are on your boy list and I wouldn't have thought of them as unusual or unique 🤷‍♀️

Most are pretty mainstream but how would you like to be called Zero...as in nothing? Worst, cruellest name I've ever seen on here.

I've met kids with nearly all of these names. They don't seem too out there to me, not my taste though.

I will say, I know a Khari and he's a boy. The river Styx is the gateway to the underworld in Greek mythology ... not a good look for a person

Just seen Zeppelin. I'd drop that one too. It's an air ship. That and the Zeppelinfeld was a Nazi parade ground in Nuremberg.

Girls: Peta, Thalia, Blythe, Mona, Mhairi, Kaycie/Casey, Cassidy, Erica, Elodie.

Boys: Asa, Derren, Jerrod, Carson, Ryder, Brett, Felix, Austin, Ike.

The girls names aren’t quirky (apart from Zero which I don’t like). Most of the boys names aren’t quirky either.

My top choices would be Iris and either Patrick or Angus. I notice those are not the most unusual names on your list!

Zero and Saxon sound more like boys' names to me. I kind of like Saxon for a boy, although I don't know if I'd use it (my actual DC have got quite traditional names).

For what it's worth, the boy's name I loved and was talked out of using was Jago.

I’ve taught kids with most of these names so not at all too out there. I like Xanthe and Tabitha (taught girls with these names, both lovely). For boys I’m not too sure about Styx. Not keen on many from that list actually (though I am Scottish so Angus and Hamish are quite sweet). Actually thinking again, I quite like Rex. I like short names.

People are so mean on here . Of course not everyone is going to like every name. I thought OP was asking for suggestions of names like these, not how much people hate these names.

I have an unusual name and I've always loved that. So much easier than being one of a few.

A couple of my top names are on your lists! Raven and Phoenix. I also like Silas, Cassius, Clementine, Juniper, Jonah, Winter, Maeve, Sylvie and Fern. I love playing the name game.

(P.s. one of our children is called Indigo, which I did feel was maybe a bit too far at the time, but we have literally never had a negative comment (to our face 😂) and that's in 6 years. Good luck!

This looks like my register at the school where I work. Lots of alternative, quirky parents, many of whose kids are are growing up to be straight as a die and very conventional, just by dint of their own special, unique personalities developing freely.
Naming a person is such a huge responsibility. I look back at my initial list for DC1 and cringe; I thought they'd appreciate my 'gift' of an unusual name, and was unable to see how this was "making it about me". I reined myself in at the last moment and chose something more understated, a clean slate upon which my DC would be able to craft their own personalities. So glad I did. For all my own hippie, alternative schtick, neither of my DC are anyhing like me and naming them "in my image" would have done their individuality a disservice. I've a gothy punk and a mad scientist cheerleader, both with
timeless and classic, internationally viable names.