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less common name suggestions please

48 replies

candyflossbaby · 04/06/2010 09:56

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.

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rachxx · 04/06/2010 10:30

xanthe?

scurryfunge · 04/06/2010 10:31

Saucepan

Wardrobe

Bathmat

eatyourveg · 04/06/2010 10:35

are you talking boys or girls?

candyflossbaby · 04/06/2010 10:37

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.

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candyflossbaby · 04/06/2010 10:38

Both

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scurryfunge · 04/06/2010 10:40

Ah,ok.

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

What are your tastes?

pavlovalover · 04/06/2010 10:40

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

eatyourveg · 04/06/2010 10:44

rare as in old fashioned?

candyflossbaby · 04/06/2010 10:47

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.

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DuelingFanjo · 04/06/2010 10:47

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.

candyflossbaby · 04/06/2010 10:48

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

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pavlovalover · 04/06/2010 10:53

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

candyflossbaby · 04/06/2010 10:57

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

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TheBride · 04/06/2010 10:59

John.

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

DastardlyandSmugly · 04/06/2010 11:01

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.

candyflossbaby · 04/06/2010 11:08

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?

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DastardlyandSmugly · 04/06/2010 11:13

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

candyflossbaby · 04/06/2010 11:20

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

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lidofabiro · 04/06/2010 11:26

Louisa
Anna
Juliet
Miranda
Cara
Josephine
Rowena
Jennifer

Aiden
Peter
Neil
Dylan
Grego ry
Evan
Miles
Frederick

DastardlyandSmugly · 04/06/2010 11:34

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

Pasiphae · 04/06/2010 11:53

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?

candyflossbaby · 04/06/2010 12:20

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

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LuluF · 04/06/2010 12:30

It could be short for Coraline

lidofabiro · 04/06/2010 13:07

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

memphis83 · 04/06/2010 16:53

if you like luke what about luca or lucas?