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

My grandad’s name is Walmer.

Known a few boys called Blue, mind you, one must be in his 60s now.

Sherlock, feel he has a lot to up to there!

Love Mercedes, strangely the only ones I've know would also be in their 60s/70s.

Certainly used to be a thing to give children (at least as a middle name) the name of the ship or submarine their father served on, or was this a liverpool thing after WW1 and WW2??

Lilac
Kizzy
Ocean (boy)
Shani (girl)
Bunny & Butterfly (sisters)
Heath
Isolda
Cleopatra

Bleu - female child on holiday sounded awful in regional accent (family are not French)

Tabitha pronounced Tab-ee-tha

Teifi - elderly man named after Welsh river

Portia
Atlantis
Esmerelda

Caleb Blue
Gideon
Wolfie
Fox

Oh I'm friends with a Teifi! A Welsh woman in her early 20s though, I guess it's universal.

Bronia

It's the equivalent of Dorothy isn't it, and no there was no 'h' but it was pronounced as a 'ph'.

I know a Frisbee and a Crickett, both female.

Blue
Daffodil
Wolf
Moss
Thor
Ocean
Petra

I met a Taliessin. (sorry not sure how to spell it) I thought it was lovely and suited him. She changed it when he was about 3

Merlin
apollo
fox
bliss
elvis
loki
zenith
ember
rocky
titus
perseus
storm
c’anna
ludo

In recent years, I e met two men called Darlington.

Jesus I despair for the kids that get some of these names 🥴

Working in education in a very diverse area, I come across all sorts of amazing, unusual names. (I’ll only give names from many moons ago to avoid identifying myself or the children - now adults!)

Wisdom
Gift
Prosper
Gallileo
Lazarus
Pretty (luckily she was a beauty!)
Miracle
Nile (a girl, named after the river)
Oak
Truly (decades before the Kardashian’s True)
Lully
Cadence

Just thought of some more unusually named people I have known...

Merlin
Rainbow
Keziah
Mordecai
Tuesday
Paris
Rio
Xavier
Liberty
Unity
Melody
Marley
India
Aneurin (Nye)

I despair for your kids having to grow up with narrow mindedness.

Johanna and Pia are not uncommon names. My uncommon female name: Granny

😂😂
Thankfully, I don’t have any 🤷🏼‍♀️

@MadameMassiveSalad I LOVE the name Sholto. If I had male twins, I'd call them Sholto and Rollo.

Neleka

I would have assumed Neleka is a girl.

As you recently mentioned the three names you liked, what about Wyatt or Silas?

Zephyr would be cool - not come across one yet.
Zephaniah?
Poe
Corby
Chi
Tao
Zen
Calisto
Wilder
Girish / Gireesh
Adonis
Elio
Esai
Faustus
Blakeley / Blakeney
Wolfram
Peregrine
Oaken
Zane

Jonquil
Berenice
Rowena
Cressida
Evangeline

Roderick
Crispin
Bevis (although I don't like that one much)

@Ellmau Oh I knew a Jonquil too. Oh and a Rowena.

Zillah ; lovely lady in her 70s.