Unusual names

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I'm thinking of some unusual names for baby and can't decide whether it would be a blessing (being individual) or a curse (forever having to repeat it/spell it)? Any advice/experience y ou gals can give me?

My name is Welsh so isn't all that common outside Wales, but there were 3 of us in my class at Secondary school and we were referred to as name B, nameT and nameL (or Brown, Thomas and Lloyd) which wasn't all that nice.

I desp wanted Millie for our dd when preg but Mille Dowlers body was 4 miles from our front door when I was 9 mths preggers and it just didn;t feel right, we called our dd Emilia, hoping to shorten in to Milly at a later date but she has since become very firmly Emmy!
Just as well no one can spell Emilia right...
her middle name is Niamh too...
Our next if a boy will be Thadius (Tady) Lawrence
or if a girl Norah Jacinta
I think.....

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Bzhmum - Malo is a nice name but unfortunately I think it is just as easy to miss-spell or mis-pronounce as any other name. I thought of some as examples before you make up your mind...

Mis-spellings - MArlow, Marlo, Mallo, Mahlo etc - loads of them

Mis-pronounciations - can only think of one of these - Malloh

I wouldn't let this put you off though as it's a great name and most names can be miss-spelt except for a few like Ben!

Beelzebub?

It probably doesnt make any difference but malo means bad in spanish although it would be pronounced differentlty, pronounced as read. My sister is called Esther which was pretty unusual in the uk, although we are now in spain and there are quite a few. I had friend called Xuela (swayler) and it was a name that she really had to live up to considering we lived in a town where names like claire, alison etc were more usual. My daughter is called poppy which I think is becoming more popular in the uk but is causing all sorts of probs in spain because the spanish always think its a short form so im constantly explaining that it isnt. I also have a german friend who constantly calls her popeye not knowing about the sailor man!

We thought we'd chosen an unusual name for our ds but it seems to be becomming more and more popular lately. We called him Ellis. I adore the name.

Love Esther actually but DH really seems to like Amelia and i think i would have a job changing his mind now anyway plus i like it so maybe i have at last decided??!! Do love Malo also - in fact the names on this thread threw me into turmoil as there are truly some scrummy names out there but i guess both of us have to be happy with it and considering I suggested Amelia in the first place after watching some tv programme about a family moving to France and his daughters were called Amelia, Martha, Eve etc I have loved the name so maybe I am just being an indecisive cow!

Can't wait for my second child now as i have a whole head full of names!!

Lolabelle - go with what you like, don't worry about the family (though obviously your DH will have a bit of a say ).

My mum hated the name I chose for my soon-to-be DD but I stuck with it and I think she quite likes it now

What about Thea??

Thea is pretty, do you know it's origin?

DH has agreed Coco is lovely, but as a nickname, so what names can be shortened to Coco?

I overheard these names from a very loud american woman in a designer kids shop today:

Arcadio - the son
Adora - the daughter

These are new ones on me!

Names are such a generational thing. To my mind, the Mabel, Millie, Elsie, Matilda names are old-ladies names. When I was little I had a huge number of very doddery elderly relatives with these sorts of names, & at school we'd have been amazed if there'd been any kids around with these names. Suddenly they are fashionable. I can only assume that you lot are so young that your old relatives were from the Brenda, Shirley, Doris era?

Everyone I went to school with was called Julie, Jackie, Karen, Linda, Kim, Sharon or Tracey. Everyone DD (18) went to school with was called Hannah, Lucy, Katy, Vicky or Kayleigh & my cousins's generation right in the middle of mine & DDs were all Emma, Claire, & Amy.

I hope my grandchildren won't be the generation that rediscovers Doris & Brenda!!

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Oooooh a name thread, lovely.

I sometimes wish i'd picked more unusual names but i always chickened out.

I have a Lauren (lolly), Chloe (Chlo) and Harry (no one dare shorten it)

If Ds had been a girl i wanted either Evie Grace or Ella Grace.
We did consider Cavern for a boy (dp wanted it cos of the beetles or something).

Do regret having the name Chloe as it's everywhere, dp's fault though as i wanted Olivia, although thats pretty common too.

I love Milly, Maddy, Imogen, Bethan and Carys for girls and Max, Zak, Charlie and Kane for a boy.
Actually my list is endless for both.

tallulah you are right

I feel, given the cyclical nature of name fashion, that savvy parents this summer will be givine Derek, Barbara, Roge, Pat and Val an airing,

LOL suzy

Aaaargh! Left names book on patio yesterday and now rain has washed it away - well, has turned it into soggy pulp, so will have to re-open this can of worms!

Why can me and DH agree on anything? Would it be acceptable for baby to have a daddy name and a mummy name?

our dd has got a name chosen by me and one by dh

Titania, which one is the first name though, as we're battling for that too!

the one that sounded right!!! we agreed on that!!

Abigail Rebecca sounded loads better than Rebecca Abigail!!

my christian name is unusual (only ever heard of one other person with same name and certainly never met anyone with the same).
People find it hard to pronounce and almost impossible to spell and it's driven me made my whole life. I will only give my children names that are totally obvious in their spelling and pronounciation. I'd like them to be unusual names also but they must fill these criteria before I will even consider them.

mine too mckenzie!!