unusual names

[HannahBoo]

Anyone's children called unusual names? I know there most be lots out there!

Lou

And one by only 26 places.............Snap, that is the one we have in common.

Have never posted his name on here before.

Maretta, that site is excellent my dd Ava is in 276th postion, her name is on the up [anger]

My name is in 718th position and again its on the up! (Tamara) But then I couldnt give a hoot, I know about a zillion Tamara's / Tammy's Tamra's blah blah blah

My daughter has a Scots Gaelic name that's not that uncommon in Scotland but which some may find hard to pronounce down South. As she's a dual citizen, I don't worry about how the name will come across in America, as unique names are quite common there.

My work colleague's cousin, however, just named her son Neo. As in 'The Matrix'. Yep.

ooh, we have matching boys!

Well.......... I don't know about that, mine is a holy terror at the moment and has an answer for everything.

Hoping school will calm him down a bit.

how old is he?

mine is the easiest to deal with, and the best natured, dd1 and ds1 are my handfuls

4

He will be lucky to see 5

Actually make that 4 and half.

bonnie/donbeam, Eden is a boy's name, of the public school variety!

jensen

There is a book called Up a Road Slowly, one of my all-time favourites, set in rural America (NE I suspect although it never specifies) and there is a girl in that called Eden.

Also I have a feeling that the Jalna books, which I loved when I was about 12 (my mum used to read them, Mazo de la Roche?) had a female character called Eden too.

Aha - according to my Bible, Behind the Name, it's feminine , tallulah.

My daughter Eva-Rose...
"..is in position number 8819 in our 2004 list. Last year it was in position number 4503. Your name has dropped 4316 places since last year "

Hmm..is that good or bad?

I know a Syke-Blu, Blade, Clay(e?) Manford (gets "Manny") a Che and a Kai.

im afraid ds has a boring name - Jack! it suits him though our next one will be Phoebe for a girl - Alfie for a boy.

There is a book called Eden Close by Anita Shreve too, and a book by Ruth Rendell (but writing under another pseudonym, Barbara Vine I think) where one of the main characters is known as Eden, although her real name is Edith. Can't remember the name of the book now - really good one too.

My daughter's name is somewhere in the four thousands, but shooting up the charts, which I feel a bit cross about. excellent site though.

My childs name is getting popular, it wasn't, but now i know three other babies with it, grrrr

my little ones are called eleanor and Eoin I believe Eoin is irish for john ??? any irish folk about???people still cant spell Eoin even when you spell it out to them they get confused (he's not even at school yet)

I also knew a little girl called Jessamy.
I work in a school & have come across loads of unusual names in my time!
We have a little girl in our class at the moment called Eilish.
I also know of an Eleri, Coralie, Ynais (prounounced Anay), Kya & a boy called Marley.
One school I worked in had a poor boy called Ronnie Mc Donald!!!

My kids have gone to playgroup/school with Alfie, Oscar, Peaches, Gage, Rogan, Connie, Elsie and Connell. I think they are quite unusual.

I have an Alfie & think it is pretty common now, especially since the one in Eastenders!
I am quite pleased that it has dropped 10 places from last year though!

Just checked the popularity of my own name.... not very popular at all as it happens, it doesn't appear on the database.... Joycelyn !!!!!

Joycelyn or Jocelyn, jangus? I've never come across Joycelyn; Jocelyn is very old-fashioned but pretty. You could call yourself Joss!

Hey, we've swapped places, sort of - this is mine:

When looking round a prospective Nursery for dd we saw a little girl there called Loveday. I thought that was her surname and asked why they called her by that and they said "Oh no, thats her first name"!!

My dd is Madison which we thought was quite unusual at the time but now there are alot of them.

My favourite has to be Coco though.

Oooh, tamula, Blu's mum's name wasn't Wendy was it? (If it was, then I know her!)

I know a Trinity, a Blu (her sister is Blaise), I know an English boy called Yves, I know two children called Bo (a boy and a girl). I know two children called Bede, too.

Oh, and DS2 was almost Hector. But he's not. His second name is Xavier, though.