Unusual and rare name advice needed.

[secretcove]

I'm not ashamed to admit that want an unusual name for this baby, I don't want her to have the same name as anybody in her class or school. I know that this can still happen with a rare name but it's less likely.

So I need your wise thoughts on my names and more suggestions of rare names which are not likely to become popular in the future.

what do you think of the following:

Euphemia
Delilah
Juniper
Perdita
Isolde
Drusilla
Magdalen
Pandora
Cressida
Vi ola
Ismene

more suggestions please.

what about Ismay?

Carmelita is pretty too

I think there's some lovely names on your list. I really like Cressida, Pandora, Deliliah and Viola.

I heard a little girl with the name Sorrel the other day which is very pretty and not in popular use.

I always had a soft spot for Araminta nn Minty but dh a tad more mainstream than me

every one pretentious but sounds like that's what you are after

more likely you are having a laugh...right?

They are all lovely names so go for it.

I really wanted for dd2

Scarlett - so I could shorten it to Ska
Indiana - we had just bought Indiana Jones lego game
Matilda - means strength
Isabella - shorten to Izzy

DP said no so she is Robyn as in Batman and Robin. He doesn't like girly names

Vronsky it can also mean Dove so you could cling to that instead

They are all lovely names so go for it.

I really wanted for dd2

Scarlett - so I could shorten it to Ska
Indiana - we had just bought Indiana Jones lego game
Matilda - means strength
Isabella - shorten to Izzy

DP said no so she is Robyn as in Batman and Robin. He doesn't like girly names

I nearly called dd2 Isolde,I think it is lovely,like Paloma too as I think of Paloma Picasso.Viola is another one I thought of too.I am too Welsh to do Delilah,"WHY WHY WHY etc" sings around my head.

Debs... I sooo wanted Matilda for dd but dh refused point blank.

One of our friends said he could imagine a little stout german girl when he heard Matilda which put DP off

"Scarlett - so I could shorten it to Ska"

Ska??? That's a horrendous nickname!

I think it was when i said i wanted to shorten it to Matty as my special name for her dh lost the plot!

Matilda not unusual. Zelda or Belinda both nicer and more unusual.

Each to their own soupdragon

Poppy-rose - i know its not that unusual, but such a pretty word, how many poppy-roses do u know.

Love Poppy, and i don't know any either, so not that common, at least round these parts.

Yes, each to their own. no idea why on earth anyone would want to nickname their DD Scar though.

Maybe she likes the music?

Matty is a great name, btw!

Op is definitely having a laugh! Why would anyone do this to a child? What is wrong woth proper names?

Cressida and Viola lovely

I have to admit I hate most of the names on this thread!
Except for Dorcas - which you would have to be very brave to take on - but you mark my words, one day its time will come.

Thank you for all your ideas and comments.

Poppy-Rose wasn't the sort of usual I was thinking of.

I'll print this off now!

Ismene is a meany?

Perdita means 'destroyed' as well as lost.

I know a lovely Viola, who's German, and it's fairly unusual over here I think.

You seem to like classical names.
Alcyone? (Al - sigh' -oh -nee)
Antigone?

well my dd is called alana and as of yet (she is now 4) i have not met anybody else with the same name as her