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!!

we love martha for a girl and havd for years...but predict it will become popular
what about Jude ofr a boy

My middle name is Martha and I don't like it, I'm afraid.

Jude as in Law (swoons)
Famous person has obscure name, very quicky it is no longer unusual.

to avoid a common name you have to be prepered for peeople not to like it

i dont mind when people uen their noses up at my childrens names so long as i love them!

jude law gives me wet boak because i think he is a total bawbag oily slimy shagger.Yuk

Julia for a girl

Murray for a boy

Percy for a girl? PMSL

murray just makes me think mint

That's the first thing the HV said when I saw her

He was wearing a lime green babygro too

To me, Murray is Field as in Scottish Rugby

Like Oscar but spelt with a c .
I am 42 and have only ever met one other person with my name.
Nicolette
Hated it as a child but actually quite like it now. Can be shortened to Nicki, Lettie or Colette.

Oooh, Nicolette is my middle name, and now my DD's! The only other ones I have met are my aunt and my grandmother's best friend, after whom we were all named.

I love it.

i think you would almost certainly be safe with

norman
frank
ernest
phineas
prosper

Check out Wikipedia Baby Names to find out all the most common names in your area and try to avoid them. For Australia I can find out the top 100 names in New South Wales for the last 10+ years - and then choose one that isn't mentioned - in my case Heidi!

Whatever you do, don't call a boy Jack. Each of my three DDs has three or four Jacks in her class. Tom, Sam and Ben are also lamentably common. If you called out those four names, two-thirds of the boys in their school would come running.
Among girls, Chloe, Jessica, Ellie and Emily are all over represented.

OOOH lots more Nicolettes how exciting!

My grandmother's best friend (my mother's godmother) was named Nicolette because she was born just after the end of WW1 (Nike being the goddess of victory, obviously). I love that the name has most recently been given 90-odd years after that.

Ian, Raymond, Michael, Stuart, Alan, Paul, Darren, Derek, Keith, Gerald (Jerry), Robin -- when's the last time you met any little boys with those names? None of them 'weird'.

Axel is one of my newest (boy) cousins...

Ditto for Girls: Judith (Judy), Lynn, Leigh, Julie, Joanne, Mary, Cheryl, Sharon, Susan, Sally, Karen, Joan, Josephine, Fern, Rachel, Stephanie, Deborah, Lydia, Melissa, Melanie, Stacey, Nicole, Paula, Tracey, Miriam, Kelly, Carrie, Michelle.... Just think of names of people you know age 30+.

my ds is alan but spelt alun and my dd has an unusal name aswell that we dont know of anyone else having

For a boy, You could go very traditional, but not very fashionable like: Wilfred (Wilf or Fred for short), Herbert (Herbie, Herb), Albert or Arthur (bertie, artie)
For a girl: Beryl (the peril), Begonia, Dora, Hebe, Nella, I quite like Cornelia mainly because I like Nealy, and Nell as pet names, My great aunts were Gertrude (Gertie) and Florence (Flossie), oh and Dorothy has lots of cute pet forms such as Dolly and Dotty which are sweet for a little girl or Dorrie or something for an older girl.
There is a great site called think baby names here, where you can choose the start of end of the name and the site will give you suggestions.

lol at Helen: way exotic. I hankered after Mary and Margaret for similar reasons. Bet you'd be safe with both names for a few generations at least.

Love Julia. Beautiful name, and very thin on the ground.

Isn't it weird how there aren't millions of little Dianas running around?

at MyEye - you've got me and two of my 3 sisters there in the first three names you mentioned!!
Go on, guess another name I'm dying to see if you come up with my big sis

HI Dittany is going to think I'm stalking her BUT I'M NOT!

when I saw that mn name I thought

what a lovely name for a girl baby

no idea what it means

Flibberty: how funny. Um, Penelope (Penny)? Jenny?

oh or Elizabeth.