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What are the most out there/ unusual baby names that you love?

45 replies

DawdlingService · 17/05/2023 14:47

No judgement allowed.

I love so many including Murphy and Story for girls.

Also Tiger and Darwin for boys.

I have more but I'll post those when they come to mind.

What are your favourite unusual names?

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DemonicCaveMaggot · 21/05/2023 15:06

A boy in my DC's high school year was named 'Sincere' which I like a lot.

There was a teacher with the first name 'Jazzmin' so the 'out there' names that people complained about 20 - 30 years ago and were supposed to prevent their possessors from ever having a professional job are showing up in the mainstream now. There was also a politician local to me with the first name 'Twinkle'. I draw the line at that, it's an awful name unless you are a cat and even then it would be one of those cats that poo on the neighbours' flower beds.

SpringNotSprung · 21/05/2023 15:09

Loveness for a girl. It is the middle name of one of the nicest women I have ever met

Trez1510 · 21/05/2023 15:24

A million years ago when I briefly attempted to conceive, we'd jokingly settled on a boy's name - Amorous Arrow Macxxxxxx. It had a ring to it 😁

CentrifugalBumblePuppy · 21/05/2023 15:36

I have 2 with odd (natural world) names, they’re 26 & 30 now. Both well educated professionals, it has never held them back.

Thighdentitycrisis · 21/05/2023 15:44

@scrivette
i knew an Echo in the past. Grown up now

Longdarkcloud · 21/05/2023 20:19

Ptolemy, Horatio, Lysander, Justinian, Rupert

Gaia, Demetria, Alessandria, Solange, Sigrid

Housenoob · 21/05/2023 21:09

erikbloodaxe · 19/05/2023 06:03

Catheter and syphillis for a girl

Wrench and Flange for a boy.

😂😂😂

You might like Chlamydia for a girl as well.

MerryMarigold · 21/05/2023 21:15

user1492757084 · 19/05/2023 05:53

Larkspur and Birdie.

Birdie was my Gran's nickname, which was then shortened to Bir. Her actual name was Noreen 🤣.

MerryMarigold · 21/05/2023 21:17

I met a child called Melchizedek the other day. That was out there.

OnNaturesCourse · 21/05/2023 21:29

Marlena

NotAnAngelOrAHero · 21/05/2023 21:30

My out there names aren't that out there!

I love Merryn for a girl.

Minimalme · 22/05/2023 12:49

Kelly for a boy.

Gymmum82 · 22/05/2023 12:55

Adelaide and Aurelia for a girl

Atticus for a boy

mosiacmaker · 22/05/2023 13:30

I heard Tulip for the first time as a name the other day and absolutely love it!

lauraslops · 22/05/2023 14:28

BreviloquentBastard · 17/05/2023 16:55

I don't know whether it actually counts as unusual but I met a baby boy Rafferty the other day, combined with his very "blues musician" surname I absolutely love it. I'd never heard it as a first name before.

The only Rafferty I know of is actor Jude Law's son.

TempsPerdu · 22/05/2023 22:57

Aphra
Apolline
Briar/Bryher
Calypso
Cassia
Clementina
Ginevra
Indigo
Isolde
Linnet
Sorrel
Tansy

Ambrose
Auden
Caradoc
Casimir
Cassian
Darwin
Dashiell
Merlin
Soren
Stellan
Soren
Zephyr

Based on these I definitely have a thing for boys’ names ending in -n!

Vexxa · 24/05/2023 21:01

Boy:
Giles
Tertius (a character from Middlemarch)

Girl:
Azalea
Lavinia

JessRose23 · 24/05/2023 21:09

My guilty pleasure name is Poem for a girl but I would never dare haha

46mumof6 · 25/05/2023 13:42

Horatio and Caspian for a boy

Clementine and James for a girl

Maybe not really unusual but they are a bit different

Rowmack · 22/11/2023 01:22

when giving names you have to think about the child being in a school setting, so Jelly wouldn't be good for them.

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