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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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SleepingStandingUp · 26/06/2022 23:07

Again, none of these are unique.

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

No just making an educated guess that she doesn't actually mean what she posted, given she also cited Lucien and Cillian and to have a unique name she's basically be asking people to make names up.

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:08

SleepingStandingUp · 26/06/2022 23:07

Again, none of these are unique.

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

No just making an educated guess that she doesn't actually mean what she posted, given she also cited Lucien and Cillian and to have a unique name she's basically be asking people to make names up.

Hopefully she’ll go with my suggestion above then. It’s exotic, like Rothmans, or Frogmella.

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 23:08

PragmaticWench · 26/06/2022 22:55

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

They went for the English pronunciation of the name:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_(given_name)

bellamountain · 26/06/2022 23:11

Gary?

Bilbobagginsoftheshire · 26/06/2022 23:12

Rumpelstiltskin

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 23:13

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 23:08

They went for the English pronunciation of the name:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_(given_name)

You can tell he’s a distant relative, I’ve never actually written his name before now. So yes

Joachim

thegreylady · 26/06/2022 23:15

Conrad
Kellan
Gethin
Ptolemy nn Tolly

DoamnaSmecher · 26/06/2022 23:15

Barry
Brian
Kevin
Craig
Dean
Nigel
Paul

Kite22 · 26/06/2022 23:16

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.

This

SausageAndCash · 26/06/2022 23:21

FemmeNatal · 26/06/2022 23:05

Again, none of these are unique.

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

We know what unique means.
Most of us also realise that the OP means ‘very unusual, don’t know if a kid called this’.

Otherwise we would all be suggesting things like Rilly-Boo, Uffuncinal, Prog and Jekko, wouldn’t we?

TheWayoftheLeaf · 26/06/2022 23:34

Dorian
Zadkiel
Arcturous
Amenadiel
Atticus
Aldred
Emmett

TheWayoftheLeaf · 26/06/2022 23:35

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 21:56

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

Isn't this usually pronounced wa-keem?

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 23:38

Yes - I spelt it wrong 🙄 - Should have been Joachim pronounced Jo A Kim. He is a very distant relative in my defence 😅

SiobhanSharpe · 26/06/2022 23:49

Jehoshaphat
(biblical, so not unique but pretty rare, I'd guess.)
Anson.
I recall a Spanish film in which one of the characters, a middle class boy, was called Tenochtitlan, the Aztec name for Mexico City, I believe. Bet there weren't many of them in his school.
Hmm. Aztec might work.

Diverseopinions · 27/06/2022 00:07

Cedric ( Ced is good for short, too)
D'Artagnan

TheSmallAssassin · 27/06/2022 00:13

It's got to be Balonz, surely?

Tinkity · 27/06/2022 00:18

Xavier

butterflyflutterby123 · 27/06/2022 00:20

Aethelred

SpangledShambles · 27/06/2022 00:23

Hmmm as someone with an unusual name- think it through. Kids prefer to have normal names to fit in. Later in life constantly spelling out an unusual name is a pia. Yes your kid is unique- you don’t have to saddle them with your quest to ensure they are the most unusual.

apapuchi · 27/06/2022 00:24

I think Joachim and Joaquin and all variations are pronounced Wah-keen/m. Might be wrong.

My baby boy is Marcel which isn't unique or maybe even unusual but I love it. We considered Solomon for him, love that too but maybe not unusual enough either.

AuntTwacky · 27/06/2022 00:25

Micah

AuntTwacky · 27/06/2022 00:25

Ethelred

apapuchi · 27/06/2022 00:25

saddowizca · 26/06/2022 23:38

Yes - I spelt it wrong 🙄 - Should have been Joachim pronounced Jo A Kim. He is a very distant relative in my defence 😅

Apologies I have just Google voice searched this and you are right, it's a new one for me and I quite like it!

Veescience · 27/06/2022 00:42

Herbert
Ernest
Eugene

etulosba · 27/06/2022 00:47

Rilly-Boo
Uffuncinal
Prog
Jekko

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