Need a baby boy name that's unique

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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

Loosy-en would probably be a unique spelling.

They searching Old English or Anglo Saxon names for something unusual.

yeah I think the question is how unique does OP want? - for him to be the only one in his class of 30 is certainly pretty reasonable, and not too hard to do stay out of the top 10 and you should be fine. Only one in his year group stay out of the top 100. Only one in his school probably stay out of the top 1000.

Slightly quirky fact is that there are many recognisable and easy to spell names that would still likely qualify as probably still rare enough to be the only one in their school like Colin Adrian Dougal and Isaac.

If you're aiming for "I've never seen that before" I'd recommend easy to guess pronunciation.

Possible suggests and examples of familiar / easy to read but still kind of unique:
Adam (#60) Adrian (#65) or Robert (#80) - likely the only one in his class, I think the OP is committed to the idea of something a little more unusual than this.

Jeremy (#231), Simon (#281), Martin (#301) Abraham (#319) Phillip (#606) Amos (#781) Alfred (#891) Devon (#884) or Dane (#927) he's likely the only one in his Primary school, and the only one in his school year once he hits Secondary, might well be the only one in his Secondary school.

Cedric (#1038) Allan (#1177) Elton (#1568) Harold (#1727), Caine (#1901) Barry (#1907) Roderick (#2168) Bradford (#2571) Alastair (#2602) and one of my favourites Eamon (#3169) Likely to be the only boy called this in his Secondary school.

Brennan (#1261) Bran (#6505) Cormac (#6635) Cavan (#6641) Archibald (#6691) Barack (#6699)Claude (#6712) Aiken (#9120) Selwyn (#11345) Colm (#12875) or Morton (#13688) Pretty likely to be the only one called this a person (even teachers) has ever met, well read people might recognise from fiction or history.

for comparison Lucien is #429

Invictus
Jove
Jupiter
Clint
Zebediah

Jonty
caspian
brekkan

So all of these names are being given to fewer baby boys than the name Lucien is
Maurice is #829
Fletcher is #880
Maximillian #891
Edmund is #1572 which I rather like (yes I have been watching Ripper street)
Greame is #6720
Ned #8573

Gervaise probably has a decent shout out at being unique as a first name - it's an old French / Norman surname that came over in 1066.

"The U.S. Social Security Administration (ssa.gov) public data has no record of the name Gervaise. Imagine that, your name is not present in the 6,028,151 public data. One possible reason is that there are fewer than five occurrences of your name."

Zebbediah was on my hormone driven list

When comparing names like Allan or Isaac I think you have to take into account Alan and Izaak etc, mostly our names are spoken not written. Being Izaak with a Z or Allan with two l's isn't OPs aim

thank you all so much 🙏 😊 ❤️

I'm going to go through the list of names on the website as well.

and thank you for pointing out statistics and how it ratios out much appreciated.

for the poster who mentioned I didn't know how to pronounce Cillian as Killian. My rationale behind it was based on Cilia cell, if you've never come across it before and haven't heard it pronounced I think it's a fair assumption it might be read as sil-ee-an.

also I I've added the name Cedric to the like list

I know several primary aged James/Jimmys

A 4yo Dylan
A 10 Bert
A 8yo Alan and 2 Primary aged Roberts.

i think some of these names are coming back

This is where you need to make sure you look up the correct pronunciation of a name. It’s going to be hard enough on a child to be given a “unique” name without them not knowing how to actually pronounce it correctly.

All my children have very uncommon names, but they are at least names people know and for the most part know how to pronounce. If people don’t get it right my DCs at least know the correct pronunciation and origin of their name E.g my name is pronounced x y & z, it’s Irish, don’t worry just call my x for short…

@howdoesatoastermaketoast where are you using for your statistics?

ONS has Lucien outside the top 1000 for baby boys in England and Wales 2020.

Isaac is only just outside the top 20 at 21 with 2074 baby Isaacs - that would seem like it wouldn’t guarantee being the only one in the school.

@AliceMcK James or Jimmy?
I know a few James, and Jamie's but I've only ever come across one Jimmy under the age of about 55.

One boy who is James but parents call him Jimmy.

yeah, I'm certainly happy to be corrected, the ons would be the source to use www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsboys

My list was a quick and dirty google search on each name and then reading the summary from the various websites in the results - some websites had been updated more recently than others but I was looking more at a general flavour of popularity. So it's more than possible I accidently had one or two American results accidently included, or some that were 2020 and some that were 2019 2018 or such.

Lucien was from here - www.ukbabynames.com/boys/lucian
I love the name but it does seem to have been growing in popularity.

Sorry if I phrased it poorly, I used the word 'probably' in that sentence because I hadn't looked the ranking up for those names . Isaac was a poor guess and is indeed more popular than I would have anticipated.

I think part of my point is that it can be really counter intuitive which names for used more often than others more.

Alaric
Anselm
Alured
Ailred
Jessamy
Roderick
Cuthbert
Lancelot
Percival
Gawain
Julius
Apollo
Ferdinand
Zebedee
Algernon
Aloysius

How about Jolyon?