Unusual/uniqu names - why?

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i really don't understand why people are so keen to give their child a really unusual name. I could understand not choosing the "most popular name of the year", but I am always puzzled by threads that say "We were going to call ds X, but we discovered that someone else in the town has chosen it so we can't now"

My Ds goes to a primary school with 420 pupils
and the only names that duplicate often enough to be at all confusing (ie more than 2) are Emily, Callum, Connor and Jake. Apart from that, there is only one of even the most traditional names - Patrick, John, James, Charlotte - the list of tried and tested spellable, non eyebrow raising, non-pigeonholing, non potentially embarrassing, non dating, non "I hate my parents for doing this to me" names in endless. Why choose Sequoia when Rose, Lily, Daisy and Fleur are available?
Of course in 5 years time the Reception classes of the country will be full of little Sequoias - and it'll all be my fault!

or 'Goblin' or 'Potato'

actually Potato and Tomato would be good sibling names

My 2 DD's have unusual names as in noone else in their school is called the same. I like that as I have a common name and there were 3 of my name in the same class. So I always know if someone is talking about my children as there are no others of that name. However, I didn't choose their names for that reason, but because they are lovely names and in our family so carrying on tradition. DD1 doesn't like her name much though and wishes it was more common!!

I have a very unusual name, and have yet to meet another one of my name, and absolutely hated it while growing up. so much so, when I had my own children, one thing I always aimed for was that they could find their names on any of the 'name' tat that is on sale in card shops etc......and I did and they can and do!!!!.

I DO love my name now tho!

from my parents POV (when they were well enough for me to ask them and to recieve a straight answer), they wanted unusual as they wanted me to be unique and memorable.

now, unique I can handle, but memorable........sometime I dont WANT to be remembered !

psychomum! snap!

jamescagney-am very curious about your child's name now!

themildmanner........I read your earlier post.....you could have gone to school with me!!!

my Maths teacher also used to call me something entirely different each time I was in class, altho similar enough to my proper name so that everyone in the class knew it and would laugh.

and then of course, as usual, as a teenager all my peers would take the piss and make up different names as a play on my name!!! But then, anything different makes you a target for the teen bullies, so if not my name, then they chose something else to pick on, and the same to other kids in my school too!

yeah come, tell me your children's names.

I will if you will.

Go on then madamecholet.

I was on the thread where the lady wanted to name her baby Konor, or Konnor, as prefered by her dh.
That went mad:Konor
Does anyone rememeber that one ?
That child will always start each sentence with
" no its Connor with a K and no double N"
After how many times, does it not seem funny anymore ?

Well, I'm guessing your dd is Keeva??!

That's unusual without being loop the loop, so full marks to you. WEll, I'm Irish so it doesn't sound too strange to me. I know a grown up Caoimhe.

I was reading a thread on another board about children you know with bad names. There is a little boy out there somewhere in Australia called Rage.

Yes, Rage.

There is also a little girl called H'lena.

FFS. The line between "unusual" and "imbecilic" is a thin and blurry one.

The chap who wanted to call his future child Labia wouldnt be corrected either! He insisted it was Spanish for lips (which I think it is) and lovely. Typical male...

I hope the future mother of his children set his straight!

I remember the "Konor" thread.

She should have just named the kid "Mumcantspell" or "Wedontknowanybetter". Maybe even "Gottabeunique".

Unique names, all of them.

I share a christian name with Ms Outhwaite (Hotel Babylon) and my nickname at school was also the name of a well known sanitary product!
Urban myth....Mr and Mrs Pipe who wanted to call their DS Dwayne!

The guy was almost right about lips, but lips plural is Labios and one lip would be labio. So...... no. Labia is still Labia!!

I can't thing of a sanitary product that has anything to do with Tamsin. Always, Kotex, Brevia, no. I'm completely stumped there.

No, that's because I am MadameCh0let on babycenter too, and even in US where they don't have Wombles, and I thought I was being so like todally yoooneek, MadameCholet as a username was gone. I swear I am not kr8tiv. My children are Susie and Richie. Does that pass the I am not tryingtobedifferentat all costs test?

What's the worst name you've ever heard. As a teacher I've had Bailey and his sister Tia Maria, Keanu Neeves and Moby Dick.

Tianie-Finn. Ew so naff!!!

i think this grammatically challenged nametakes the biscuit.mind you looking at the dumb ass parents - no surprise

I have a really boring name that was common in the 1960s but can be spelled in a number of ways. Nobody ever spells it right, and people try to lengthen it.

So I gave my children unusual names- by that I mean names that weren't in common usage, rather than made-up zany names. I didn't want them to be the 3rd child with the same name in the class.

TBH I can't understand why anyone would want to give their child the same name as everyone else's.

Used to go to school with a Wayne, not very unique but his surname was Kerr. Always felt sorry for him.

LOL so he was wrong about that too, fab
I wonder what he eventually chose...