HELP unusual boy and girls names needed fast!!

[angie0201]

I've got 2 weeks to go and i have no idea on names could be boy or girl, i want a name that isn't really common any ideas??

you are so gonna have seen these already:

Boy
Edward
Arthur
Ewan
Rohan (Rowan)
Ethan
Archie (not as common as Alfie)
Finley
Jacob

Girl
Rose
Grace
Niamh (neeve)
Naomi
Chloe
Amber
Arabella
Harriet
Lily
Megan
Reagan (reegan)

Oh i got way more, but you'll be bored now

I met a woman at playgroup with boy and girl twins - boy was an African name - something like Annokye but not that and girl was Bouddicca. Very unusual.

Reagan was a vile character in King Lear.

Cordelia better!

oh and Eve for a girl, Amelie....

If you are looking for unusual names I would say old fashioned ones are less common these days (although making a comeback I believe)

Esther is nice for a girl (Tess for short maybe?)
Heather
Mary
Martha

For boys
Arthur is lovely and quite unusual still
Edmund
Oscar (seems to be getting more popular recently)

Possibly worth looking at Welsh/Irish/Scottish versions of names too as they mean the same but are pronounced/spelt differently and can be really nice.

Plato
Quatermass
Ignatius

" old fashioned ones are less common these days "

err
so not true
they have been in for years!

Playgrounds full of Mabels, Enids, Alfies, Freddies etc

But Wulfstan, Cynric, Aethelred, Hengist, Horsa, Bathilda, Frideswide, etc. have yet to catch on and are distinctly old-fashioned .

[Thinks: actually, could this be the next big trend? Although someone I know who researches names professionally reckons that Scandinavian names are going to be the Next Big Thing, at least in the US]

ds2 is Jasper. i have only met one other. realy cute name i think and def suits him, check out pics on my profile- he is a dude!!!!! ds1 is ollie. i am sure its obvious what dd is called!!!!

they have friends called Milo, Olive, Ivo (boy ), felix, oscar, bea (beatrix), merrily

i also like lola, coco, bibi for girls.

none of the above are common in either sinse of the word i dont think, well def not where we live!
the names i hate personally more than the mad jordanesque tpye made up names are the 'suburban' names like grace, george, jack and all that. not for me. apologies to anyone who has those names but they arent my thing at all. but each to their own eh? tis just an opinion.

These ones will be unusual as long as you stay outside NZ

www.lowchensaustralia.com/names/maorinames.htm

Quite like Marama, myself

Indiasmum - although I do really like your choice of names for your two boys, the list you have of their friends made me wince and think of SW London yummy mummy's (as opposed to the suburban names you don't like!). Just goes to show that children's names, like so many other things, can be a good indicator of where you are from, the sort of people you mix with etc.
It's such a minefield! It shouldn't matter, if you like a name that's all that is important. But no-one wants a name for their child which means they are going to be laughed at in the playground (like Coco, Bibi or Merrily would be around here!).

Coco, Bibi and Merrily may be cute for a toddler, but I would be really embarrased if I had one of those names as an adult.

I remember meeting an overweight teenage girl called 'Candy' - I felt so sorry for her.

Elvis???? Kip???? Were their parents on drugs??? Or am I just out of touch??

I have a Tabetha which an unusual spelling of a non-common name.

have a cousin (female) called miffy.

I am out of touch. I knew it.

Kip means chicken in dutch. I think it helps to be aware of what a name means in another language, especially as people move around so much now.

DS2 is Stirling that's pretty rare!

Girls- um, Dixie? Pixie? Blossom?

Heulwyn (f)
Meurig (m)
Ieuan (m)
Nerys (f)

If you are concerned about not picking a common name you need to know what the top 100 boys' and girls' names are, so you can avoid them!

Hatrick - ah yes, I remember you mentioning Mimi on another thread - it is a name we actually quite like (for some reason my dd has started calling her doll Mimi), but wasn't sure if it was a proper name or a name that everyone would laugh at. Like Bibi or Coco....