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Need a baby boy name that's unique

142 replies

Littleraindrop15 · 26/06/2022 21:19

hey

please help me find a baby boy name that's unique I have so far liked Lucien and that's as far as I got but I'm not 100% keen on it either.

I have had a look on baby websites but nothing is inspiring me

please help

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RosesAndHellebores · 26/06/2022 22:24

@RhubarbFairy Marmaduke is wonderful. When I was a little girl I had a magazine called Diana and one of the characters, very into fashion, was called Hermione and she had a brother called Marmaduke. Off topic - my apologies.

daisypond · 26/06/2022 22:30

Littleraindrop15 · 26/06/2022 21:50

I personally thought lucien was not very unique just slightly unusual.. I did like Cillian but husband said it sounds to close to silly.

live in UK but open to any names to be honest I just so far don't like any I've come across

Cillian is pronounced Killian.

If you like an S sound along with an L:
Cecil
Solomon
Sylvester
Cyril
Selwyn

TabithaTittlemouse · 26/06/2022 22:39

Gdhxff

titchy · 26/06/2022 22:44

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 21:56

Joaquim? Not to my taste but used by a distant relative. Pronounced Jo a kim…

Errrr it's really not...

sixtiesbaby88 · 26/06/2022 22:44

Torin

usernamealreadytaken · 26/06/2022 22:47

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 21:56

Joaquim? Not to my taste but used by a distant relative. Pronounced Jo a kim…

Isn't it pronounced more like whack-eem?

DandelionPocket · 26/06/2022 22:50

Evin
Fawn
Bertrum
Ned

MumofSpud · 26/06/2022 22:51

There's a reason names remain unique!
As PP has suggested - these will be the only ones in their class/year:
Gary
Alan
Keith
Barry

dropthevipers · 26/06/2022 22:52

Until mum put her foot down, dad was going to call me Hereward (anglo saxon head case)

Louise0701 · 26/06/2022 22:53

I love the name Zephan but wasn’t brave enough to use it and DH hates it

WingBingo · 26/06/2022 22:53

Jo-A-Kim? He’ll be mortified when he is older 😁

PragmaticWench · 26/06/2022 22:55

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 21:56

Joaquim? Not to my taste but used by a distant relative. Pronounced Jo a kim…

No it really isn't. More like Wa-keem.

hammsalllad · 26/06/2022 22:56

Faaris

Em308 · 26/06/2022 22:58

Only unique name I’ve ever heard - Cashel - but it wouldn’t be unique anymore if you used it.

MissBattleaxe · 26/06/2022 22:58

Why does his name have to be 'unique'? Every child is unique. It doesn't mean you have to saddle them with a name they have to constantly explain or spell just because his parents wanted to stand out.

Blue4YOU · 26/06/2022 23:00

Sylvester
Caius
Andrei
Jerome
Jeremiah
Dorian
Claude
Wilhelm
Fergus
Silas
Lucius
Elian

Ikeameatballs · 26/06/2022 23:00

I think you have to be really careful that, in your desire to be “unique” (really unusual), you don’t just end up giving your child a name that is rare because it’s bloody awful! Or, as in Cillian, a perfectly nice name that you don’t know how to pronounce because you’ve never heard it said in real life.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 26/06/2022 23:01

you’re unlikely to come across any other babies called
Simon
Nigel
Michael
Ian
Jeremy
Geoffrey
Keith
Richard
Glenn
Darren
Stephen
Kenneth

or Eliezer or Zebulon

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:02

Littleraindrop15 · 26/06/2022 21:19

hey

please help me find a baby boy name that's unique I have so far liked Lucien and that's as far as I got but I'm not 100% keen on it either.

I have had a look on baby websites but nothing is inspiring me

please help

That’s not unique. If you really need a name that’s never existed before it’s probably going to be a strange one.

How about Rappapaul-cheesehead?

Caszekey · 26/06/2022 23:03

If yo u want UNIQUE
what about Flubertine.

If you want unusual, Lucien is gorgeous, twas on our list alongside
Atticus
Ignatius
Castiel
Giddeon
Malachi
Zebbediah

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:03

daisypond · 26/06/2022 22:30

Cillian is pronounced Killian.

If you like an S sound along with an L:
Cecil
Solomon
Sylvester
Cyril
Selwyn

None of those are unique. Far from it.

suckingonchillidogs · 26/06/2022 23:03

Some of these suggestions Confused - please don't call a kid Pollux or Cnut (unless you really hate him).

Ikeameatballs · 26/06/2022 23:04

Having said that.…

Hal
Victor
Cuthbert
Micah
Azriel
Ptolemy nn Tolly
Sullivan
Solomon
Abraham
Lorcan
Orlando
Draco
Griffin
Vaughan

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:05

Blue4YOU · 26/06/2022 23:00

Sylvester
Caius
Andrei
Jerome
Jeremiah
Dorian
Claude
Wilhelm
Fergus
Silas
Lucius
Elian

Again, none of these are unique.

Are people posting who don’t know what the word means?

SleepingStandingUp · 26/06/2022 23:05

@IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads we nearly had a Zebulon