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Unusual names at your DCs school

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IheartNY · 01/05/2009 18:08

Ds has just started pre-school and there are some unusual names there, some I love and some not so keen on, but its interesting to see new names I hadnt heard of/considered before!
I live in a pretty conservative area.

Some are

Harmarnie (girl)
Indiana (girl)
Eden (boy)

What unusual ones have you got?

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browny · 01/05/2009 23:24

Anais (girl)
Missy (girl)
Annaleigh (girl)

SeamanStaines · 01/05/2009 23:29

Yuma (boy)

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 08:13

Jackie for a boy

BannedInternationalFlight · 02/05/2009 08:17

Anchan

T'habib

Yonatan (not sure about this - argued with ds for ages that it MUST be Jonathan, have yet to see it written down!

Ola

All quite interesting and unusual but not TTH (try-too-hard) or anything - just quite nice.

yama · 02/05/2009 08:19

Dizzy - there have been a few footballers (male) here in Scotland called Jackie.

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 08:21

yama I don't follow the footie (although am also in Scotland) and that didn't even occur to me I haven't a leg to stand on considering what my DD3 is called!!

yama · 02/05/2009 09:11

Actually, to me Jackie is a magazine from my childhood. I only know of the footballers as I have brothers.

dizzydixies · 02/05/2009 09:11

you and I must be of a similar age

lljkk · 02/05/2009 09:26

I thought about starting a thread about this! DS2's reception class is mostly composed of what I think of as unusual names. Very ethnicly English families, hardly any non-white faces in the entire school.

For instance, just from reception:

Ordinary names with unusual spellings:
Kristian, Jozef

Unusual but classic names:
Tristan, Trinity, Ava, Zara, Lola.

Unusual in all ways:
Kian, Kai, Keeley, Cole, Zaranne (pronounced "Suh-rahn"), Rio, Alisha (var. spellings).

I def. think there is a trend towards more unusual names.

surrofab · 02/05/2009 09:37

Santana
savannah
Montana
Igor

GossipMonger · 02/05/2009 10:05

Cherise

Logan

Malachi

Tegan

Caua

Ny-amm

LadyPinkofPinkerton · 02/05/2009 10:10

Our school is very small so not many children. Most unusual names are Paisley and Keelan

LadyPinkofPinkerton · 02/05/2009 10:11

BannedInternationalFLight. I'm pretty certain Yonatan will be Jonathan. My cousin s called Jonathan but was brought up in a country where J is pronounced as Y therefore he gets Yonatan

buzzybee · 02/05/2009 10:18

Jedi

Wigglesworth · 02/05/2009 10:19

A boy at my DS playgroup is called Blue (yuk). I heard a man calling his kids in a playground they were Benedict and Prayer (equally yuk). A girl at work has called her baby DS Xander.

MatthewBellamysMuse · 02/05/2009 10:38

DS2 had a girl in his class called Nevaeh (Heaven backwards). Terrible name.

MatthewBellamysMuse · 02/05/2009 10:41

I just thought of the best one!

Boogie. it's not short for anything AFAIK.

purepurple · 02/05/2009 10:59

Eden
Montana
Jaden
Tegan
Ava
Noah
Jonah
Harley
Seiena
Scarlett
Kai
Skye
Ailayah
Elaina
Teddy (boak)
Theo

EachPeachPearMum · 02/05/2009 11:15

Flight- Yonatan is Jewish- I know one!

Elsie Sparkle made me bet she won't be so fond of it when she's 40.

BannedInternationalFlight · 02/05/2009 12:02

Thanks Eachpeach and LadyPink

TabithaTwitchet · 02/05/2009 13:21

Hunter
Flynn (girl)
Nyah (girl)
Aneia
Manfred
Freya (assume it must be this) but pronounced Free-a

Mrsprepared · 02/05/2009 15:35

Valentine (boy)
Artimis girl but every one assumed she was a boy as many people see the name Artimis as boyish.

Known a few Blue's.

grouchyoscar · 02/05/2009 15:58

Keelan (boy)

grouchyoscar · 02/05/2009 16:03

Once heard a mum call out for 'Chantilly'

MiaWallace · 02/05/2009 16:10

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Weasel (girl)
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