Unusual but classy baby names?

[hattie32]

Please throw any suggestions at me - both male and female as we don't know the sex yet.

I would love something very classy / traditional but something you don't hear every day! I love 'Grace' for a girl but I know it's quite common.

I also like 'Ethan' for a boy but a close relative has a son called that so that's out too. Other than that my mind is stumped...

Not to my taste but some more unusual names I have heard of late which you may like-
Everley
Ottolie
Sage
Wren
Can't think of any boys names

Sadie as well is a classic but beautiful name.

Torin.
My son, now 17, is the only Torin I know. So happy with his name. Easy to say and spell. Classy, timeless, but also unusual. He likes it too. Highly recommend!

My baby is called Cormac and this fits the bill I think? Unusual but very known

It’s very subjective as Ethan sounds American to me rather than a traditional name!

Some examples of classic, traditional names for boys:
-Benedict
-Sebastian
-Henry
-Hugh
-Rupert
-Tobias
-George
-Ivo
-Giles
-Guy
-Maximus or Maximilian

For girls:
-Octavia
-Verity
-Margot
-Beatrice
-Henrietta
-Cressida
-Tabitha
-Penelope
-Felicity
-Ophelia
-Jemima

If you like Grace go for it. I do think there is a lot of unnecessary worry and exaggeration about names being "too popular". There are loads of babies born every year-you'd have to be pretty unlucky to have another of even the most popular name in the class!

Have you considered Pearl?

For a girl: Putta
For a boy Pericles

doesn't putta mean 'whore'?

that would be unusual for sure.

Valentina
Bella
Seraphina
Ophelia
Aurelia
Josephine
Tess
Nell
Ottilie
Tabitha
Rose

Ludo
Hugo
Ivo
Christopher
Henry
Theodore

Thank you all. Looks like we are looking at boy options only 💙💙!!

This is my favourite kind of name. Most were poo-pooed by DH but I did end up with two I liked ☺️

Here's some suggestions anyway

Girls
Dolores
Damaris
Beatrix
Beatrice
Elouise
Lois
Tess
Leonie
Judith
Harriett
Nancy

Traditionally unisex/male names that are now mostly female that I still think are really elegant for boys
Jocelyn
Meredith
Hilary
Lindsay

Male
Clemence
Eugene
Quentin
Inigo
Joshua
Lawrence
Mordecai
Ivan

Aah lovely OP.My vote is for Laurie/ Laurence
Rafferty
Kit
June.

Jude!

Jude, Hugo, Oscar, Henry are currently contenders!

Sadie
David

Nice but not in any way unusual

Benjamin
Leopold
Amyas
Christopher
Philip
Caleb
Hayden
Howard
Ruaraidh
Alphaeus
Bran
Ambrose
Peredur (I suspect only a name nerd would get the link with Arthur)
Edmund
Edward
Toby
Tobias

Willa
Rosa
Athena

Miles
Charlie
Casper

nunu & Dudu

Lorcan, Cameron, Ruari, Lachlan, Aisling, Niamh, Siobhan, Alanna, Bethany.