friendly warning - don't choose an "unusual" name thinking you'll be the only one......

[OrangeKnickers]

Ds name is unusual, it's very old and I have never met one...however I have met TWO others in my local baby group, one older and one younger than him. I am fine as it's was our only agreed name and what we called the bump, but the mother of Ds'snamechild3 looked VERY put out when she found out he was the third that year!

So only choose an unusual name if you'd still like it if it become usual.

IYSWIM

Both my dd and ds have slightly unusual names. Not weird, but unusual.

I have never come accross another boy called ds's name, but have HEARD of 1 or 2 girls called dd's name.

Then my sister in canada called to say she knows of a family that has a girl dd's name, and a boy ds's name.

I think she nicked the names when my mom put a birth announcement in the paper at home