Names you've only met one of.

[PritiPatelsMaker]

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?

Shem. I love it. It is biblical but extremely uncommon in my experience. And I'm someone who deals with hundreds of names weekly.

I've seen it twice.

Hepzibah
July (like the month)

Girls:
A-Heather
Jessamy
Begonia
Rekha
Zinnia
Sheikha
Verity
Rainbow
Carmen

Boys:
TR
Ivan
Darren
Lachlan
Sultan
Shadi

Only ever met one of the following:

Philomena
Renata
Ria
Stephanie
Kazie

Dawson (my dad)
Hampton
Gardner
Nimrod

Achilles
Crispian

I like that.

I’ve only met one Gandalf and one Friday.

Some of these are a bit odd, though — surely people will have come across more than one Brian, or Maura? My generation is full of Fidelmas, but clearly they haven’t travelled as widely.

@Santasoorplooms, your Gerardine isn’t a well-known scholar in Irish literature and cultural studies, is she?

Memphis
Aquila
Lando

Zephan
Harmony
Valentina
Annabella
Bear
Grae (for a girl)
Red (for a boy)
Darby - Girl
Joby - Boy
Laney - Boy

Ayo
Ari
Woody
Emil
Tylan

Bronwen
Miriam
Flaminia
Imogen
Mercedes

Hector
Holden
Fox
(Those 3 are siblings and I think fab names)
Bear
Iggy
Rufus

Lucille
Margot
Camille
Marielle
Selene
Henriette
Livia
Tabitha
Greta
Betsy

Toozdai
Herbie
Bauwen
Ada
Cheralyn
Anatolij
Tersharn

Hedy

Rulenska

I overheard a Beavis in a shop last week.

I felt a bit sorry for the kid tbh.

Ziggy
Olive
Elle
Ottie
Sire
Heidi
Etta
Jason
Jayden

Sceptre , boy. God know why, it ain't a name.
Page, boy

Girls:
Poet
Frenchie
Belinda
Ripley
Psalm
Dora
Rabbit

Boys:
Bam
Zedekiah

I have learned from this that my friends and family are more prone to giving girls weird names than boys, these are all kiddos from the last ten years or so.

Draco

Ophelia

Wilbur
orion
Cassiopeia
oakleigh female
oakley male
tiger
hector
Montgomery
swing
tizi Marie
mungo
fitzwilliam - known at fitz
benedicta - female
fredericka
Jack - nothing wrong with that but surname was Daniels - he’s 29 now - and he hates it and wonders what his parents were thinking

I have only known one:

Dallas (girl)
Nanette
Lois
Gordon (girl)
Noel

Oh and:
Donalda (well I know 2)
Sine (Scottish Sheena)
Benison (girl)
Shane (girl)

You can't be in Cornwall. Multiple Jagos here.

Pandora
Scheherazade
Regina

Absalom
Severus

Isn't Topher a nickname for Chris topher?
Surprised at Imogen and Jason being mentioned.

Henrietta (she was thoroughly unpleasant).