Mystical/Edgy Baby Names?

[beardedirislover]

Starting a random thread cos I am bored.

For boys and girls, what are some sort of mystical, fairylike names that aren't too "affected".

Im looking for cool baby names.

Don't want them to be "trad" and don't want them to be super "posh" rather a bit mystical but edgy.

Indigo shortened to Indie maybe.

Pixie

Gabriel

Me too. Never met anyone with my name, though there was a racehorse in the 1950s.
Once I got on Facebook I had a search and found about a dozen others around the world, though none so far in the UK.

No totally, what I find fascinating is how people suit or don't suit their name. Or how also you can "look at someone" and be like "they look like a Michael" is there a science (or pseudo science) behind this...

My name has been mentioned several times on this thread.

Never had a problem with my name feeling ‘out there’ and wasn’t bullied for it.

I like Willow. Not particularly uncommon, but it has an other worldly feel and I think it’s very pretty.

Yes, feels floaty, Willow sounds like someone who is a bit mystical

Elfie.

Lilith has very negative associations which I'd look into before committing.

I know there’s a character called Carrion in Quicksilver, but I would strongly recommend people look it up in a dictionary before using it for a child because it means dead and rotting animals.

Yes. It’s essentially ‘Emma gave birth today to Baby Carcass, weighing eight pounds two ounces. Mother and child are doing well.’

Azazel is a demon who has a goat sacrificed in his name and it's where we get scapegoat from.

I’ve always thought Misty is a lovely name

Yeah but no-one is ever going to name their darling baby boy Puck, are they?
That is just willful stupidity. And no, it’s not cool.
(Reminds me of the old country song , A Boy Named Sue. A cautionary tale.)

Shergar?
(Or is that from the 60s?)

Ye cos puck is ugly but some people do this and it is cool im just not a group think person.

My son has a friend called Elvie. I think that's lovely.

Merlin
Gawain
Isolde
Arwen
Ambrose
Olympia
Hector
Diana

It depends on the demograpgic I think. Prep and Eton fine, the local comp in a non leafy area, possibly more difficult.

Puck was a young man on MTV The Real World back in the 90s. So yes.

I actually like Huck a lot.
Orion
Raphael
I've known a Talon, Jago, Lucien, Rio, Blaise.
Ive always loved River because of River Phoenix.

Girls
Lyonesse
Sirena
Kismet
Tempest

Exactly. A lot of these names are not much used for a reason. See also Lilltih.

I know an Ambrose. You are right that he is independent school schooled. He is bookish, but gets away with it.

Minerva
Cydonia

There are lots of gorgeous names in the ancient Greek myths that nobody ever uses, at least not in the UK. Unfortunately if you read the myth it often turns out they were killed horribly or raped or something.

Minerva isn't bad actually - and Minnie is sweet as a nn.

Cydonia sounds a bit like a kidney disease. Maybe I'm thinking kidney stones. Or mountains in Wales.

I have an unusual name. Only met one other and that was my Nana. It’s a mumsnet favourite nowadays but bet the play it safe-ers would have turned their noses up at it 40 years ago.

And to add, would rather have almost any name mentioned on this thread than yet another Imogen Isabelle, Lily, Evie etc.

Cielo
Fawn
Willa
Sunny
Clover
Melody
Tigerlily
Gwendolyn
Arwen

Tanith for a girl Ares or Mars for a boy.