This is a Public Service Message...

[seeker]

..for people who want unusual names. I have one child at a school with 1400 children and another at one with 400. I have a very large family with lots and lots of children. The following names do not appear anywhere in my circle and are therefore officially unusual. Feel free to name your son one of the following - Robert, Ian, Timothy, Alan, David, Nicholas, Michael,Tobin, Charles,Felix,Richard, Lawrence, Gregory,Peter,Simon,Marcus,Martin,Piers, Sebastian or Adam.

Or your daughter Jane, Miriam,Perdita,Nicola, Andrea, Lindsay,Shiela, Evelyn Cora,Lois,Margot,Flavia,Charlotte,Erica, Felicity,Kim,Zoe,Cordelia, Jacqueline,Hazel or Christina.

All unusual - and will probably be unique in your lo's school, but will not raise eyebrows or make people judge. All easily spellable. And all suitable for a baby, a teenager and an old person. And for a high court judge or a taxi driver or a lawyer.

Ah see there are gists and jist biut I can follow neither LOL I wanted unusleal but not silly names, unfortunalty everyone thought the same and paicke the same as ,my DS's name so he is common as muck now. DD still failry unusal despite a soap charactor nincking her name and making it more popluar.

Oh Lord, is it jist or gist? Haven't the foggiest - my ds is so lucky he's not called Patrik!

LOL

We decided to call ds1 a very 'normal' name, but one with many spelling variations. When we went to register his birth, we realised we had never discussed how to spell it.

(I won)

Perhaps we should have temp names until we grown up and decide on jobs and careers and develop our charactors, perhaps 3 yerly reviews and thern get rebranded

Brilliant idea - and we could keep the name out batty parents gave us if we choose to be pole dancers!

timothy, felix, gregory and sebastian are the only male names i dont know
Perdita,,Shiela, Evelyn Cora,Lois,Margot,Flavia,Felicity,,Cordelia, Hazel are the only female names i dont know.
i also know an agnes and a mildred, and neither is an octogenarian

Re OP:

In the children I know, from your lists

Boys

Michael - age 6
Charles - age 5 months
Sebastian - age 6

Have taught Robert, David, Nichola, Muchael, Richard, Peter, Simon, and Adams - all will be aged 15-19 by now.

Girls

Erica - age 6

Have taught Jane, Miriam, Nicola, Andrea, Charlotte, Zoe, Hazel and Cristina - again all now age 15-19y approx

Sorry i fail to see how you could call a baby Sheila!!!!!!!!

At one point we had six Sam/Samuels at the school where i work!

i have a Felix! i bloody love his name!

and my sister is called Charlotte - her dd is Flavia !!!

what about Barry? Not many of them about

I have an Iain (hooray, unusual!) and a friend I met when he was 2 weeks old has an Ian. We didn't know each other's surnames for months, and it turned out 6 months later that we have the same surname!

Seeker, we have very similar taste in names. My son is Richie (Richard) and my DD is Margot Jane. Are these the kind of names you are considering? They're a great sample. They are unusual without being self-consciously different.

I also LOVE the names Lois and Peter and Gregory, Timothy, Robert. I know a 40 something Gregory and a two Timothys, but no babys. They would work well on a baby. So many people are trying to be a little different and all coming up with the same 'different names'.

I even {hmm] the other day thought Marty is quite cute. Not sure I'm ready for a baby Martin yet though. Baby Gregory would be gorgeous though. It needs to rest a little longer. But in ten years I will think, come on down Marty!

Sorry, was presuming that this is your taste. You are just offering up a list of unusual names. Right! I get it.

It's regional though, I think, I know a few small Erica's (we have a lot of E names here, Ellies, Elsie's etc) and a lot of Rebecca's).
Interestingly Seeker my ds's name is on your list (he's a teen though) and MY name is on their too. Definitely not unusual for my age though.

Oh and a few Charlottes too.

At ds's school (about 420 people) there are 2 Michaels, 2 Marcuses, a Timothy, a Sebastian, a Lois, a Charlotte, a Zoe and..... 4 Adams.

I do think it is a regional thing. We are in Northern Ireland but due to DH being welsh - our dd has a welsh name so quite unusual/uncommon here!

If they are all easily spellable, then how come you have spelt Sheila incorrectly yourself?

Our top contender for dd, should she be a girl, is on your list though, and I don't think that anyone else on here has said that they know one either! Excellent, that would put it in the same sort of category as dd's name, Philippa.

Allgonebellyup- yay- another Felix, my DS's name. It always gets a positive response from people we meet. And he is a very happy little chap.