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Unusual names

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Bibiboo · 28/06/2004 19:27

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.

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prettycandles · 30/06/2004 17:41

Mind you, I still like unusual names, but I would think twice before giving one to a child of mine.

CountessDracula · 30/06/2004 18:09

I love Orla too, my neighbour's little girl is called orla

However someone said on mn not long ago that it means something awful in another language. Can't remember what, or which language. Not v helpful sorry

donnie · 30/06/2004 18:19

Personally I love the name Cordelia for a girl( there is a Cordelia in King Lear but I only ever met one person with the name).And the Irish names too, esp Roisin( Rosheen) and Emer. More difficult on boys' names but I do like Dominic and Paul. An Irish friend of mine recenly named her new son Killian which I think is lovely.

sis · 30/06/2004 19:32

I have a very unusual name both in the UK and in the country that the name comes from so I am used to pronouncing and spelling it for people automatically and the fact that I love my name far outweighs the disadvantages of having to spell it everytime (I am one of the very few people I know who loves their own name). A couple of times when I have to give my husband's name (Ian) for car insurance etc, I've spelt it out automatically and then had to apologise for insulting the person at the other end of the line by spelling such an easy name!

At secondary school all new teachers would come to a grinding halt when my name came up in the register but after the first couple of weeks, I never had to tell them as my classmates always did the job for me.

fisil · 01/07/2004 12:26

aloha - I'm not sure that I wanted to know that Stanley is fashionable! I think we'd hoped to steer clear of anything trendy (seeing as we're not!). We chose it because ... well let's just say it made a wonderful old man cry when we announced ds' name!

collision · 01/07/2004 13:00

My friend's baby girl is Livia Agnes which is lovely though I do prefer the French pronunciation of Agnais (sp)

I had a friend Keren who had to constantly spell her name to everyone and drove her mad! She had a daughter called Bronte......whaddya think? I think it is a great name and it really suits her.

zebra · 01/07/2004 14:08

My grandmother is a Merwyn. Beat that for unusual & 1-of-a-kind. Sounds Welsh but I think it may be a Scots corruption.
My dad name & I both have weird spellings of v. common names.

eddm · 01/07/2004 14:17

Pagan, I used to share a house with an Oisin and it's pronounced more like Oh-sheen with the stress on the second syllable. It's also got a circumflex over one of the 'i's, think the first one, IIRC. He was lovely, by the way but boy, did he live up to the stereotype that Irish men can outdrink anyone!

eddm · 01/07/2004 14:24

Louee, yes, it's Irish for John. The Welsh name Owain (or Owen), which sounds the same, actually means well-born. Ifan (Evan) is Welsh for John.

Poppy1978 · 01/07/2004 14:59

My daughter is named Rheannon, which never gets spelt correctly. We chose that spelling cos we thought it might get shorted to Rhea, but the only other thing she has ever been called is Rhe-Rhe which really annoys me cos I just think wee-wee!

Bronze · 01/07/2004 16:34

Bron thanks for that rant... its one i have myself pretty often.
Will have to sign myself Bronze on threads we're both poting on so as not to confuse things
Bronze

Bronze · 01/07/2004 16:35

Bron thanks for that rant... its one i have myself pretty often.
Will have to sign myself Bronze on threads we're both poting on so as not to confuse things
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Bronze · 01/07/2004 16:36

whoops sorry

Linnet · 02/07/2004 03:29

Both my dd's have unusual names. DD1 who is at school now is the only on her whole school with the name, but there are 2 girls in her class with a popular name and 3 boys with a popular boys name. She likes the fact that nobody else has her name.

DD2 is just 5 weeks old but so far everyone who's met her has commented on what a lovely unusual name she has and again once she goes to school there probably won't be any others with the same name.

I have a popular name for my age group and there were 3 of us in my year at secondary school and at one point we were all in the same class, confusing or what.

neetsmassi · 02/07/2004 05:58

haven't read all of this thread but I still love the name Persephone - DH won't have it though. So0rry v. drunk and tired

clary · 03/07/2004 04:07

Am I the only one DYING to know what all these unusual names are?? BTW Collision Agnes was our name for DS2 if he had been DD2!

Lupe · 03/07/2004 20:31

Countess Dracula, 'orla' in Spanish and Portuguese is border or hem - not awful but a bit odd! Bit like the Ford Cortina, which is a Tanus in Latin America, 'cos 'cortina' means curtain!

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Bibiboo · 04/07/2004 19:06

Anyone else like Coco for a girl? Courtney Cox has just called her baby that and I think it's lovely. DH thinks it doesn't sit well as an adult name, but I love it. It really doesn't go with our surname (which isn't Clown before anyone ofyou ask!) but it's heading up my list of girls names anyway.

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CountessDracula · 04/07/2004 19:08

My nanny used to look after a little boy called Coco. I felt sorry for him because of Coco the Clown. Better for a girl I guess as was ok for Coco Chanel

You do realise that this would make your dh Coco's Pops!

Tinker · 04/07/2004 19:15

Think Coco is sweet as a nickname but wouldn't give it as the official name. Chanel was really Gabrielle wasn't she?

Lupe · 05/07/2004 12:44

Wasn't Coco a character from Fame?

Lolabelle · 05/07/2004 12:54

Bibiboo - LOVE Coco and it has been joint first choice for me for AGES and so i was quite shocked to hear Courtney Cox name her child that last week and to make matters worse i told a few people and one of the pregnant people i told gave birth yesterday and called her little girl Coco which is nice...

Anyway think its lovely although now i can't have it but i guess it helps with our process of elimination!

NomDePlume · 05/07/2004 13:23

I couldn't think of any unusual names for boys on my other post, apart from Luca, but DH reminded me of one I love - Felix. Also like Oscar but that's DS2's nickname (Oscar Orange from letterland because of his red hair), so it's kinda been used up already.

spacemonkey · 05/07/2004 13:25

i like Luigi

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Bibiboo · 05/07/2004 13:33

Grrr, isn't it terrible when someone steals your name?! I've tried to be cautious telling people the names I like, but Frankie (for a boy) has been snatched from under my nose already. My aunt is due in August (8 weeks before me) and she stated that if hers is a boy it's Frankie and has gone as far as having her 4yr old dd call the baby that already.
I told her that was my fave boys name before I told her I was pg anyway, but I'm still annoyed. Her fave was Max until then, and even though I know I can't "claim" a name, she knew if I had a boy he was going to be Frankie.
Anyway, rant over.
I'm not too worries about Coco not being considered a grown-up name, I'm sure in about 20 years time there will be plenty of profession types called Daisy and Molly and maybe even Kylie, so Coco won't be out of place

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