Need the most unusual/out there boys names you can think of

[namedilemma24]

Baby due Jan 2025. Already have a girl's name picked - don't want to say what as it's too outing if anyone knows me on here, it's an unusual rarely used name but lovely and everyone we've told really likes it and we are very happy with it.

We can't agree on a boy's name at all. I already have a DS (previous partner) with quite an unusual name but still in the top 100 but my DH definitely likes more "out there" names!
Give me your favourite unique boy names for inspiration please! We've looked at thousands of names on lists and just can't find one we like for a boy whatsoever. I know we have plenty of time (and might not even have a boy) but with my son I had his name picked before I was ever even pregnant so I'm struggling not knowing!

I love

Indigo
Ocean
Zephyr
Zion

Hercules
Pinnacle
Ice
Chamonix
Fielder

Caspian
Roland
Dimitri
Elyant
Orpheus
Lucius
Marco
Orion
Beowulf
Sylvan
Hamelin
Thaddeus
Yves
Igor
Valerian

Hmm all the ones that are coming up for me are just names from other cultures so they’ll be popular there even if not here 😄

My friend’s kid has a kid called Logix in their school.

It’s hard because in the hunt for a unique name you’re just going to have to end up putting letters together and making up your own. Unless you go down the Graham, Clive, Paul route, there are no babies called those these days!

Clive
Or
Nigel

I can guarantee you they will be the only Nigel or Clive in their class at school.

I've met

Wilder
Xenon
Xerxes (a real name but a bit 'out there')

Assuming you want recognised names rather than truly ‘out there’ suggestions like Velociraptor, Pineapple and Radiator…

Dorian
Gryffin
Rollo
Horatio
Justus
Phineas
Balthazar
Cadmus
Lysander
Byron
Uriah
Jeroboam
Inigo
Yannick

or, as others have said, choose something well known that’s fallen out of fashion, e.g. Roger, Kenneth, Barry, Derek, Keith, Desmond, Leslie.

Larry
Bernard

Loads of school age Pauls and Simons (though not Clives 🤣) in Germany, so the other cultures/ countries has dad names covered to an extent too!

You could find "Out there" names by going back 1000 + years and having a look at the names of monarchs and anyone else documented from then...

Ethelred? (The unready 😜 maybe not ...)

There was once a pope Lucifer, it wasn't always a taboo name (I guess because Lucifer was once an archangel in the story?)

Cosimo - love it but wasn’t brave enough to use it
Florentin
Marian

Roux

Brick. This is what my SIL was going to call her last if it was a boy, thankfully it was a girl

Sorry SIL if you're on here

Erasmus
Bear
Horse or Hoss
Wolf
Leaf or Leif
Blade
River
Thor
Oaken
Coolio
Steiner

Lando
Sorensen
Valentine
Galahad
Alfege (there's a St Alfege)

Girl at DD's school was called Brix. I think parents were going for cool but didn't think through how it sounds.

Spike
Carter
Cosmo
Valentine (like the food writer) / Val

I know one boy Bernard, goes by Bern.

Quade
Trey
Ayrton
Fox
Drazik
Gage
Koden
Torin
Kalman
Zion
Cosmo
Uriah
Beauden
Vance
Lincoln
Arlie
Arden

River
Zeus
Blaise/Blaze
Thor
Wolf
Bear

Zebedee
Arrow

Caradog
Benesek
Aldric
Osric

Danyon
Lorian
Tate

Ransom
Horatio
Griffith
Dacre
Elwood
Sheridan
Jarvicls
Cavan
Piers
Newton
Baxley

watch the Olympics for inspiration! Lots of unusual names there.

Tacitus
Agamemnon
Aristotle

Balonz

Do you have a super unusual 'out there" name? Just wondering if you have experience of how difficult it can be to live life with a weird name. The constant comments, misspellings, jokes. The awkward moment where you have to go into a room and introduce yourself as xx and see people's faces..