Unsual names of people you've met

[Abigail47]

That you liked?

I was just thinking of girls and women that I've met over the years, that had unusual names, that I liked.

I've met these people
Johanna
Dina
Persephone
Saffron
Sherryanne
Bronwyn
Gaia -
sweet little girl I used to babysit

Unusual names of people I’ve known, and which I like:

October
Trilby
Somerset
Thera
Aphra
Domini

Tulliver
Gulliver
Ludovic
Tancred

I used to work with a Diccon. It's not really a usable name these days (he would be retired by now), but I rather liked it.

Most unusual girls name I've come across is Petal. I'm less keen on that.

Tuesday (girl)
Zen (girl)
Raspberry (girl)
Blaze (boy)

Girls - Kennedy, Michigan, Raven
Boys - Trek, Jaire, Zitka, Gleb

Tudor is a pretty standard Welsh name

My best friends kids are named Pixie, Raven and Phoenix, and my niece is called Aeris!

Also know a Bebie

In the 70s there was a BBC childrens serial about a gypsy girl who lived with her grandmother. Kizzy - her nickname, Kesia her given name

Forgot to quote who mentioned this one earlier

Trilby
Pepper
Ocean
Blaze
Rebel
Star

All kids

Fabia - before that was a car

Ischia

Ooh I love Bronwyn and Brontë

It is indeed a lovely name. I met a little girl called Wren, and her brother was Lars, I think.

Brilliant.

He was a man but I'm sure it could be used for a girl.

I have a friend who's daughter is a Kezia. She dreamed the name and then went to the library to check it was a name (pre internet)

Dickon is an old Yorkshire name. It appears in the secret garden.

Epiphany
Sugar

2 beautiful brown girl babies, will be at big school by now

Wesley
Christmas
Wellington

will all be elderly gentlemen now

I meet a lot of people through work with virtue names. My favourites so far have been Innocent, Honest, and Lucky!

Joanna/Johanna and Bronwyn are pretty common names where I live so don't seem unusual to me.

Unusual, of less common to me that I've liked are

Marsali
Laoghaire
Merron
Margot
Lauryn with a y
Andrea

And I do like Joanna

Keziah was one of Job’s beautiful daughters, a Hebrew name,
on the shortlist for my second child, before we knew he was a William

I met a Butterfly the other day, she was lovely and the name suited her extremely well.

I went to school with a Pegasus, which sounds ridiculous and I'd never suggest it to anyone, but it suited him really well so I ended up liking it.

There was a young lad in another department at my old job called Tawse, I always liked that. Never heard it before or since.

In Scotland a son was traditionally given his mother's maiden name, or his grandmother's. Some names have become quite popular like Cameron, Findlay or Fraser. But I also know men called Drummond, Wilson, Osborne, Mackie, Lessels, Grainger, Buchanan and Muir. All great names to grow up with.

LOVE Pegasus!

Sanrhhyse (sunrise)
machiavelli
benz

I love some of these surname names in Scotland too. Completely derided on MN of course, despite it actually being very traditional.

I also know a Forbes, Muir and Gibb.

Girls:
Fallon
Fauna
Nettle
Tziporah

Girls:
Zippy(Zipporah)
Perdita
Panda (Penelope Amanda)
Candida
Seraphina
Plum (Mirabel)
Linnet (like the bird)

Rags-Blue. She’d probably be in her forties now.