Help me avoid a common name!!

[rusmum]

Hello. I named my daughter Ruby Mae 4 years ago, when this name was still quite unusual, However it is now No2 on 'the list'. I hate this fact!!!!! I want to aviod this with number 2 due in July. I fancy Oskar but fear this may go the same way (Eastenders!!).and nave no girl ideas at all. Any ideas for unusual but not wierd names!!

I know flipping loads of Oscars, it's the baby name of the moment. There are 3 at my son's nursery and obviously the Enders Oscar. It's a lovely name but there are going to be millions of them!

Oh, forgot to mention my son is called Kit which I love, and if our next one is a boy it will be Woody, or Orla for a girl

call it hero.

gosh woody is more popular than i thought. it's 1088 in the list.

oswald?

pace for a boy? zsa zsa for a girl?

zusa?

margie?

icarus?

ora, winter, mieke, ginger, spring, sunshine, suellen, dorothea, dotty, gerry, alannis, almas, almos, elmo, elmas, elma, alfonso, meriel, muriel, jocelyn, artemis, artemisia, artemisios, wilfredo, wolfe, gregory, taina, eloisa, celia, pax, pius, jannic, jemmy, jeana

It's like there# a common conciousness with names - all the same names come into fashion at once.
If you want to avoid a trend it's worth bearing in mind the hundred year rule - names that were fahionable 100 years ago are coming back in now - Ruby, Oscar, Archie, Alfie, Freddie, Eva, Mia etc.
Oscar's a great name - it was our 2nd choice for ds... but, there are lots of them - two of my firends went for Oscar.
You could either go for classic names that are never in or out of fashion or just go for something fairly unusual that you like and don't worry about the trends - Ezra, Rory, Fergus and Roland was our boy list and we liked Tabitha, Leonie, Hermione, Esme, Freya and Rowan for girls.

Love Kit. And Hero - very Shakespearian.

esmaralda?

tucker?

what about a french name?

I am pissed off with all this slaging off

again Oscar with a k is called 'silly'
thats my ds's name and his is spelt with a K mainly because that it is how it is spelt where DP is from.

Let's all laugh at some more racially sensitive names shall we and then see what happens.

rosser, angelita, minty, minta.

i think oskar is fine. it's the way scandinavians, germans and poles spell it.

shana, sian, siani, shaun, shauna - i sense a pattern here

shanna

You can't avoid a name becoming popular. When I was a child, in the late 70s/early 80s, mine was so unusual I was bullied over it. I never met anyone else called it until late teens, and I've never met another within a decade of my own age. I'm 34, and my name is... Olivia.

Oh, and Mae isn't a foolish spelling, any more than Oskar is. Mae West isn't exactly a contemporary figure.