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Rare baby names

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Bohobetty0 · 29/09/2023 17:50

Struggling to find rare but not too out there baby names to add to my list. I myself have a unique name and want my kids to follow the same.

thanks in advance

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whatausername · 30/09/2023 10:11

balltraponthecote · 30/09/2023 09:15

Clytie? Really? You'd be setting a child up for a life of hell!

😂I thought it sounded like a posho trying to talk dirty

OnAFrolicOfMyOwn · 30/09/2023 10:13

Balonz

1stWorldProblems · 30/09/2023 10:35

For both ideas & actual Stars on popularity, look at ONS data. The 2022 list should be out in a few weeks - usually near the beginning of Oct. You can get the complete list on one of the tabs (except n as names used for less than 3 children). Here's last year's ONS Baby Names

Baby names in England and Wales Statistical bulletins - Office for National Statistics

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/previousReleases

DaftyLass · 30/09/2023 10:48

Julian
Evan
Hilda
Jerome
Cecily
Freda
Susanna
Jasper
Tanya

Bey · 30/09/2023 10:52

lemonraincoat · 29/09/2023 22:33

@cherryassam No much wonder those names are rare. Awful.

@lemonraincoat surely it's a matter of opinion, I think some of those names are really beautiful.

what names do you like?

embramum · 30/09/2023 11:29

😂

Coffeeandcakemum · 30/09/2023 11:41

I think there are some beautiful Cornish baby names that are unique 😊

Boys
Jago
Jory
Jowan
Lowen
Mawgan
Perran
Ruan

Girls
Elowen
Demelza
Lowenna
Kerensa
Merryn
Tamsyn
Tegen
Senara

SabrinaThwaite · 30/09/2023 12:05

whatausername · 30/09/2023 10:11

😂I thought it sounded like a posho trying to talk dirty

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Clarty might fit the bill for that one.

MirandaBlu · 01/10/2023 21:17

Ididivfama · 29/09/2023 22:36

If you want completely unique they then need to be made up words that no one knows!

Emerylina
Scourgette
Frampeline
Bouldersin

you get my drift

Not even this is a guarantee of uniqueness, sadly. You may genuinely have the first Emerylina-Scourgette in history when your child is named ... but at any moment someone else may see the birth announcement or hear you calling the name on the playground and decide that's the name for their baby, too!

karenR1662 · 01/03/2024 15:21

I have a Grandson Boris and its a real match suits him when hes got his food in his hair and Yes he is Blond and No not named after the Old PM ,I think the name should suit the child

Ididivfama · 01/03/2024 15:57

Coffeeandcakemum · 30/09/2023 11:41

I think there are some beautiful Cornish baby names that are unique 😊

Boys
Jago
Jory
Jowan
Lowen
Mawgan
Perran
Ruan

Girls
Elowen
Demelza
Lowenna
Kerensa
Merryn
Tamsyn
Tegen
Senara

I love love love Cornish names. They have such beautiful sounds.

Ididivfama · 01/03/2024 15:58

Morwenna is a other one that’s lovely

Samzzz · 01/03/2024 16:53

Apollo

Samzzz · 01/03/2024 16:53

I personally love Shiloh 🤍

menopausalmare · 01/03/2024 16:57

Look to the 70s.

rainydaysandwednesdays · 01/03/2024 17:38

Ididivfama · 29/09/2023 22:36

If you want completely unique they then need to be made up words that no one knows!

Emerylina
Scourgette
Frampeline
Bouldersin

you get my drift

🤣🤣

herbaceous · 01/03/2024 17:40

Gary
Wayne
Nigel

Janet
Joan
Tracy

Topseyt123 · 01/03/2024 17:55

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Sailor. Thumper. Bugsy. Hazel, Bigwig.

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 01/03/2024 18:09

Spencer
Winslow
Isambard
Ishmael
Jethro
Linus
Rex
Odin
Atticus
Ellis

Sybilla
Tabitha
Anaïs
Athena
Jessamine
Emery
Avery
Marlowe
Elodie
Melissa
Samantha

DSD9472 · 01/03/2024 18:18

Clytie WFT!!!
If its twins, the other is Labia! 😂

These are people I know, so not rare because at least 1 person really has the name:
Cren
Storm
Trader
Blaze
Dalton
Colt/Colton
Linc

Coralie
Nova
Jovi

glasshalffull0 · 01/03/2024 19:52

Nova

Cora

Astrid

Luna

Wren

Emerson

Brady

serin · 02/03/2024 00:05

Sparrow? Ah come on now 😅

Babla · 02/03/2024 00:46

Banana
Balonz

Babla · 02/03/2024 00:47

Waynetta

SingingSands · 02/03/2024 00:47

I'd go seventies.

Don't get many little babies nowadays called Martin or Derek or Julie or Pamela.