less common name suggestions please

[candyflossbaby]

Anyone got any ideas on more unusual/rare names.

The names we had picked out turned out to be a lot more common than I thought.

xanthe?

Saucepan

Wardrobe

Bathmat

are you talking boys or girls?

By unusual I didn't mean abstract scurryfunge

I don't want my DS/DD to have the same name as 4 others in their nursery/class/on my road.

My name is very common, and I hated coming across girls with the same name as me all the time, whilst growing up.

Both

Ah,ok.

Do you have any ancestral names that you could resurrect? Any links to a different country?

What are your tastes?

We need a little more information here - can you give us the names you liked but are too common?

rare as in old fashioned?

For girls I liked Evie, Amelia, Ava, Alyssa and Scarlett, oblivious to the fact they have all been in the top ten!!

And boys I liked William, Aiden, Jacob, Ryan AND luke.

Jethro
Job
Jed

Actually - if you go for names like David, Brian, trevor.... they are probably not being used.

Similarly Sarah, Sharon, Tracey, Michelle.

I have a cousin called Zaila.

Rare in a way that the midwife isn't going to turn around and say thats the fourth suchandsuch this week!

Looking at the names you like, how about:

Girls -

Elodie
Eloise
Astrid
Cora
Eliza
Carys
Aurora
Mirella

Boys -

Evan
Bruno
Nico
Frederick
Rhys
Declan
Edwin

pavlovalover I really like Cora, Mirella, Nico, Rhys and Declan. Good suggestions I hadn't thought of.

John.

Might be common amongst the grandads but certainly not the babies.

Girls:

Romy
Bay
Biba
Marnie
Olya
Effie
Dulcie
Dora
Siana
Liliana
Imogen
Ines

Boys:

Willem
Jarrod
Otto
Kit
Remy
Gene
Hamish
Jago
Zack
Inidiana
Innis
Vigo
Sonny
Reuben

This is just from names of children I know.

Lots more good suggestions, will talk them all over with OH tonight. I like Effie alot, but do you think people would think its was weird?

Well I'm biased because it's my DD's name so I love it and she really suits it.

whats her middle name? And I am reading it right- pronounced as it looks?

Louisa
Anna
Juliet
Miranda
Cara
Josephine
Rowena
Jennifer

Aiden
Peter
Neil
Dylan
Grego ry
Evan
Miles
Frederick

Yes that's how it's pronounced. Her middle name is Marilyn after my mum who died in 1988.

Girls:
Mirabel, Philomene, Verity, Mabel, Cecily, Astrid, Adelaide, Zelie, Salomé, Juniper, Agatha, Vivien, Cora, Greta?

Dunstan, Rafferty, Rufus, Baltazar, Zephyr, Soren, Archibald, Ludovic, Mortimer, Leopold, Rudyard, Arthur, Rupert, Colm?

Is Cora short for anything or is it stand alone? I like Mirabel also, Thanks.

It could be short for Coraline

Coralena, Coralia, Coralie, Corabella, Coralyn, Coretta, Corinna, Corinne, Corita, Corella

if you like luke what about luca or lucas?