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Names you've only met one of.

468 replies

PritiPatelsMaker · 25/03/2023 15:57

There a a few names where I've only ever met one.

Gurus would be:

Patience
Hebe
Dulcie
Magenta
Ephiphany
Loveday

Boys would be:

Josiah
Maximus
River

I'm sure there are more though.

What names have you only ever met one person with?

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flashmcdoodle · 21/02/2024 22:53

Tresca

Alltheyearround · 21/02/2024 23:08

Echo
Plum

Alltheyearround · 21/02/2024 23:10

Sequoia

YourLocal · 23/02/2024 21:07

No offence but who calls their daughter Loveday?!

FrankandWalters · 23/02/2024 21:15

YourLocal · 23/02/2024 21:07

No offence but who calls their daughter Loveday?!

I’d call my daughter Loveday before I’d call her one of the top ten drearies.

greenfences · 23/02/2024 21:21

Justina
Clementina
Boris
Dorcas
Jeanne

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 23/02/2024 21:21

Atticus
Comfort

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 23/02/2024 21:24

Loveday is beautiful.

serin · 23/02/2024 23:44

Irving
Moya
Todd
Quentin
Pu

YourLocal · 24/02/2024 07:09

FrankandWalters · 23/02/2024 21:15

I’d call my daughter Loveday before I’d call her one of the top ten drearies.

Sorry just not my kind of name I would pick but of course anyone can just not my taste x

MotherofWhippets81 · 24/02/2024 07:29

Girls:

Zena
Genevieve
Astrid
Ellyse
River
Christa
Eden

Boys

Gatsby
Linden
Kerry
Carle
Magnus

Justhereforaibu1 · 24/02/2024 07:41

MrsRandom123 · 25/03/2023 16:23

Deacon
Denver
Darwin
(a theme lol?)
Lloyd
Orson
Oisin (but pronounced like Ocean)

& i once looked after a baby Jamyz

Oisin very common in Ireland

KirstenBlest · 24/02/2024 11:36

Eleri is common in Wales, and Lloyd isn't unusual. Both are common as middle names.

Meowandthen · 24/02/2024 20:55

Girls/women: Strawberry and Orange (sisters), Twinkle (I struggled to keep a straight face when I found out her surname was Shah), Persephone, Rosie-Anna, Ginnifer.

Boys/men: Bingo, Walker, Bong. I heard of a new baby called Kenny-Eric the other day.

Meowandthen · 24/02/2024 20:56

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 23/02/2024 21:24

Loveday is beautiful.

For what? It weird as a forename for a human.

DiscoBeat · 24/02/2024 21:02

Euphemia (Effie). I love that name, and would probably have used it if we'd had a girl.

orangetriangle · 24/02/2024 21:05

Tesni
Trisanne
Huba
mariellela
Giesla
Fabio
Xanthe
Xavier
Sorcha
Annalie
Annalisa
Rochelle
Margaurite

orangetriangle · 24/02/2024 21:09

Gideon
Bathsheba
Tate

Mallani · 25/02/2024 17:31

Meowandthen · 24/02/2024 20:56

For what? It weird as a forename for a human.

Loveday is an old Cornish name.
I've met:

Boys - Thorlac, Tycho

Girls: Oriel, Aphra

Hedjwitch · 25/02/2024 19:34

Dulcie
St John

MichaelAndEagle · 25/02/2024 19:39

I went to school with a Bryher (girl). I've never met another one. She was forever having to spell it.

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 25/02/2024 19:50

MichaelAndEagle · 25/02/2024 19:39

I went to school with a Bryher (girl). I've never met another one. She was forever having to spell it.

How do you pronounce it? My best guess would be similar to Briar?

MichaelAndEagle · 25/02/2024 19:53

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 25/02/2024 19:50

How do you pronounce it? My best guess would be similar to Briar?

Yes that's how she said it, exactly.
I've just googled it and it is one of the Scilly Isles apparently.
This was in the 80s before the trend of unique names so all the more unusual at the time when we were all called Sarah, Emma or Louise.

YourLocal · 25/02/2024 20:58

Hedjwitch · 25/02/2024 19:34

Dulcie
St John

St John… I’m hoping there called John and that’s just a joke…

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 25/02/2024 21:00

YourLocal · 25/02/2024 20:58

St John… I’m hoping there called John and that’s just a joke…

No, that’s a real name although it’s very old-fashioned and very rare these days. It is pronounced ‘sinjun’. See St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre for example.