Underused Names

[HalcyonDaze]

What names would you expect to be more popular than they actually are? For example, I think Juliet is very pretty but was quite shocked when I saw it's rating in the official stats.

Flora and Alistair...I like both, do not know any and never hear of any!

Otter - Miranda was our first name choice for dd1 but it didn't sound right with the fact that dp's surname begins with a vowel, so it kind of slurred together. Lovely name though - you have v good taste!

Have never seen Yolande with an 'a' ending.

It's real, honest! I didn't make it up! I knew a rather posh and very beautiful Yolanda years ago. She must be mid-30s by now I reckon. Foxy - are you posh and extraordinarily pretty?

I wasn't accusing you of making it up! Tbh I have only ever seen Yolande with an 'e' once (except googling it to check it was real) and that was in a children's book when I was about 9. I wish I knew what the book was.

Rosalind
Teresa
Georgianna
Erica

and Victor and Peter for boys.

Some people may say that about me Otter.

Every so often I meet people and they say, 'Oh! you are only the 2nd Yolanda I've met' and tell me all about the 'first' Yolanda.

Now I have nearly outed myself will have to namechange or demand in an ever so posh way to get this thread deleted.

My name is very unusal (I've only met about 2 in my life), when looking last night at the names of 2009 stats I found it funny that there were about 30 babies of my name last year in the UK

but that there were less of my best friend from school called Jane, which was so common when we were little.

Whats your name then CloudDragon? Or is that your real name?

I have a Juliet, we only told one person it was on our shortlist and had a negative reaction, so just never mentioned it again until she and her sis were born. By her own invention it is sometimes shortened to Juju.
We are yet to meet another. Only annoying thing is that sometimes people misspell it.
TLC ignore your mum if you like it!

Helen, Antonia, Paul, Simon.

Agree re Rachel and Joy - we considered Joy for ds if he'd been a girl.

I also think Juliet, Julia and Louisa are gorgeous and massively underused..

Can't get DH to agree with me - perhaps its the men causing the problems

I knew a Spanish Yolanda once Foxytocin! let me tell you about her .... (only jokin')