Unusual baby names you have heard once and genuinely liked

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What are baby names you've heard once that you don't think you'll hear again that you actually liked?

Kissinger
Nerys
Tigerlilly
Yellow
Aries
Elaris
Prospero
Everest
Mowgli
Cassiane
Lumi
Pirate (wouldn't' ever use it but it really suited the boy)
Alethea

Briscoe
Gulliver

I love Cordiana and Nilufahr. I know a Bronte but don't particularly like it. Knew a little boy called Zeno - very cool kid. I met a baby called Larkin and when I said "oh after the poet?" her mum said "who?"

I worked with someone whose sons were Maverick and Stetson.

Never met one but I love Kester.

I have a Lux, albeit it is one of her middle names. I fell in love in with it and she really suits it.

I knew an adult Merry. Her name was Myrianthe but she was known to everyone as Merry.

I once taught a girl called Romany- I have never met another one of those. I really liked it but wondered whether the Roma community could potentially be offended by its use (the child was not from the community). But then you could argue it was a female version of Roman which I doubt many people take exception to.

Its funny as the "out there names" i once thought were too different are now names loads of my children's peers have.
With now 7 year old we wanted sonny but we thought it was too out there and we weren't "cool" enough. Met a few sonny's and sunnys since.
I have a 3 kids the first 2 have very beautiful and traditional names. Our Third is a baby and we went with Romy ,

I've also met an Artemis and an Onyx

I’ve recently met a lovely Aspen!

A blogger I used to follow had a daughter named Ever Jane, which I always thought had a really pretty sound.

LUX used to be the brand name for soap flakes years ago!

Jarlath
Cornelius
Ignatius
Jeremiah
Aloysius
Enzo
Geno
Milo
Immaculata
Beulah
Precious

That’s what I thought of too! I had an old boyfriend with a little cousin called Sunsaree (who would be about 30 now!). Always thought it was a beautiful name!

Recently met a Quartz and Malachite!

Taught a Jet, Clementine and Blue some years ago.

Jewel

I did actually meet a man called Granite once!

We were all wearing name badges and I thought I'd misheard when he introduced himself, so I snuck a peek. Nope. That was his name.

Pretty much any flower name I have ever heard and some trees!

My dc have ‘weird’ names. They’re local dialect ones so weird nationally but not so much where we live.

Willa, Hester, Jocasta, Sea, Hera, Hero

Worked with an adult Aslan once which actually just came across as really cool

Girls:
Campbell
Althea
Ia
Bennett
Annarose
Edel
Precious
Attracta
Elfrieda
Soleil

Boys:
Aran
Aram
Bram
Adan

Wylda
Wish I'd used it 😭

girls:
cornelia
indie
Alotta
dorci
medeea

boys:
vincenzo
massimo
laurel
rhyno
harkner
huxley
yash

Love the name Lux too but couldn't use as it's the main character in virgin suicides.

i struggle to comprehend how you came round to rhyno 🤨 maybe just my taste!

Lemuel I love. Only 2 letters different to Samuel but not as popular. I wonder why?

I met a baby Wilbur about five years ago. I really liked his name - it's a bit different, but not in a wacky way. Slightly longer ago, I met a baby girl called Vienna and thought it was a lovely name. OK, I probably will meet another Vienna at some point, but haven't so far.

I knew a Tasey ( girl) could be Tazey I guess. And a Nuala . Loved both those names.