Unusual names

[Bibiboo]

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.

Love unusual names, DD is apparently the only child born in the UK during the past 5 years with that particular name (not so rare in italy or Scandanavia though). She has a very traditional name with the Welsh spelling as a middle name though. i desperately wanted Angharad but too much of a mouthful with our multi-syllable surname and as it happens there were 4 of them at her nursery in cardiff. my friend has a Teifi which I really love.

DH has an unusual name, but it's one that carrys lots of baggage (remember a waitress raeding his name off the card and saying "ooh, straight out of a Barbara Cartland novel) and he hates it. he was all for plain boys' names (we'd just about compromised on Ioan). He actually told one pregnant mum at school who said she was considering using that name for the DS she was expecting that in his opinion it was tantamount to child abuse....Wonder if she started a MN thread about people's thoughtless comments about kids' names?

Ooohh was that me - I was thinking about it last night and cursing myself for saying it was a weird name!! Mind you saying that he will be the only one at school called that!! Goes nicely with your surname too!!

SORRY

One of dd's little friends is called Calypso (which cracked everyone up at the post natal group at first but it so suits her!) Had a very amusing conversation on a picnic once with her mum - we were discussing how unusual Calypso's name was, someone said that if she didn't like it she could always use her middle name. And what is that? Leaf!! Again suits her down to the ground.

I do feel that whatever you call a child the name will suit them as they develop their personalities.

Personally I went for a traditional name but a slightly unusual version of it which I love. I know load of kids with unusual names and as someone said, they are becoming the norm!

go on dino what is it?

Hope it's not Cold

Yeah and her second names Sore!!

There are no abnormal names in DDs nursery other than Demi and she is the only *** in the whole nursery group!!

It is true that unusual names are the new in thing - I think I've been doctrinated out of the 'oh, right' by some of the wacky names my friends have come up with - so much so that when my cousin had a Thomas, I thought 'Oh, right, that's unusual' and then realised what I was thinking! Fwiw I love the name Thomas. Just had a rather large dose of names I didn't realise existed!

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Back again! Unusual is fine. However what are you views on names like:
Chardonay
Porsha
Tinkerbell
Apple
etc

Is that Porsha after the car or after the Shakesperian character?

We serously considered Mercedes as a middle name-roots thing though not after a car.

Thomcat - I find all of those names a bit common - not in the sense that there are lots of kids called them but they can't have very educated or classy parents - god sounds awful doesn't it!!

Saying that DD would love to be called Tinkerbell.

Dino - all I think about is Dynasty or Blake 7 when I hear it - although I suppose his peers won't have had the 80s TV experience that we have and so it won't bring that to mind!!

DD is still going to call her brother Blue Flower so whatever you call yours can't be that weird!!

I think those names are a bit silly sounding (except Tinkerbell, I would have loved that too as a child!).
That's what i'm worried about if we don't go with a Welsh name, it sounding ridiculous to everyone except me! My main worry? My gran. Sounds silly, but she's been so important in my life I wouldn't want her to hate my choice of name.
Maybe I'll wait and see what baby looks like and hope he/she doesn't look like a Beryl or a Cyril.

dino i like Blake alot, very strong - only reason i wouldn't have it is i like to be able to shorten names. what else are you thinking for a boy?

I love Mabel and if I have a dd2 would love to use it! Hubby not so keen though

What about GUY, nice strong manly uncomplicated name - .

Bibiboo I would think rather about what you like and what you think it will be easy for your DD/DS to live with names are personal and I think although you should take other peoples ideas into account to some degree we are a completely different generation and cyril and beryl are horendous names !!

I met a little Mabel in the playground last week.

Dino Cold = Cold Saur (coldsore)

I quite like Blake but does remind me of Dynasty too.

Guy makes me shudder as dh has a vile aussie cousin called Guy!

BTW I have a friend called Portia who is pretty posh as it goes.

Bibiboo, a nice name (IMHO) with welsh links but not really welsh IYKWIM is Snowdon - I have a friend called that (female) and it really suits her.

I fancied Nell for dd but dh said she would be called Nellie the Elephant Put me off.

CD - DPs x girlfriends father said 'I hope your going to give it a strong, masculine, uncomplicated name like Guy' (whilst pumping his arm to show us just how masculine a name it was!!) - when DP told him we were having a DS!!

Twinkie yes this Guy is all of those things though I would say he was more lumbering than strong, overloaded with testosterone rather than masculine and thick rather than uncomplicated

Silly, that was being very polite Bibiboo. Can you imagine calling your child Chardonay!!!!! FFS!!!!

I did consider Daisy Maisy once.
Actually I love Maisy, it was my nana's name (she was Welsh btw).

D's cousin is called Zigona, don't know how you spell it actually, you say it
zig-goin-a but we all call her ziggy. I like that a lot actuall but when i consisered ziggy everyone turned their nose enough and not one person saud oh nice so it really put me off.

ALL the names I had planeed when out the window when she was born to us though. Maybe becasue she wasn't the child I was kind of expecting iykwim, a, she wan't a boy which everyone had convinced me we were having a nd b) she had Down's syndrome so all the names I had planned just didn't seem right and we started again.
Funny, someone suggested Charlotte and I said no and then someone said you could call her Lottie for short and I just thought, yes, that's i, Lottie, I love it. I refer to her as Lottie but always call her Cg=harlotte! Strange really.

Anyway, sorry I ramble!!!!!

Ooooh, I LOVE Lottie! More names to throw into the pot...DH will be pleased! We're pretty much spoiled ofr choice if we have a girl, but boys names are harder, don't know why. Anyone else find this?

I also love Mabel, think it's sooooo pretty

what about:
Elsie
Esme
Ruth
Noah
Gruff
Frankie