What's the most unusual baby name that you've encountered recently?

[CaramelJones]

I mean real names not La-A and Lemonjello or Chlamydia or other urban legends.

A friend in the U.S has called her baby son, Sundance. I rather like it in a way though I was taken aback at first.

I met a McLaren recently too, not as unusual as Sundance but not something that you encounter every day either.

Oh forgot about a little girl called Princess who mum literally treats her like one, have a little boy on the estate called Onyx, and my niece called her son Blaze after a firefighter she knows is called it.

I have come across:

Meriwether
Stoic
Cletus
Lancelot
Ulysses
Tuppy
Ransom

Sapphire
Tinkerbell
Estee
Holiday
Ladybird
Cissy
Philippine
Pollyanna
Arrietty
Moa

A little boy called Zephyr at toddler group. And one called Beauden, pronounced Boden.

Ignore me as not babies ( I think you are straying into identifiable with rare names of a certain age )

but the most unusual names I’ve encountered are

Hereward - a real Anglo Saxon name nit made up - just very unusual

and Arras. Which is a pretty much made up name really of a person no longer with us - born just after dad survived the battle of Arras in the 1st world war. So made up names ard not new . Not sure if I like it but much respect for the origin and not using a Nick name but baring it respectfully for nearly 90 yrs.

Elva. I'm not sure she realised she was calling her daughter a baby eel.

Viennna
Roux
Rouge

Came on to say Atlas. But it has been said.

poor kid

Quill. I thought they were talking about a pen.

Cub for a little boy, I can't get my head around it. Imagine being an adult with some of these names!
There's a little girl called Alison in my sons class, which isn't unusual but they're 6, I think it's lovely though!

Sweetie.

And she was such a sweetie it suited her

I know a Ruud pronounced Rude.

English family.

Lakota (girl). Isambard. Harbor (girl). Pepa (girl).

My sister used to be a teacher and she'd tell me all the unusual names she came across, the ones that stuck in my head are

Demetre
Zuzia
Odette
Aziel
Tansy

@everythingcrossed it will be spelt Lettice, it’s a really old name. I know of some older Lettice’s that are close relatives to Duke’s but it’s very unusual now!

Clearwater

Angel

Precious

No-amy is likely to be Noémie, which is a pretty French name.

Lander-Percy. It sounds really odd to me, although I’ve always assumed it was from a culture I’m not used to.

Percy for a girl. Very odd to me.

Houdini

Zenith
ludo
artto
ivo

ines
grey

A work colleague named their girl Cypress, nn Cy. I quite like it

I know a fox and a forest (brothers).

Lando. Which was then mentioned on a thread here and got the kicking it deserves

Somebody named their son Beau-Dylan. They always refer to him as the full name and never shorten it. Makes me cringe!