I personally love names that aren't extremely common but I guess still kind of "traditional" (eg. Oscar) but unique names are great too! My friend named her twin girls Piper and Phoenix and her sons Sage and Boston
^ Oooh i like your friend's taste in naming babies lol. Phoenix for a girl is actually really nice now i think about it. Boston and Sage for boys are cute too but i agree with you in a way missus cos I like the name Oscar too. And jake I'm actually quite fond of! Felix and Zeke are new ones I like. (Since yesterday lol)
If your baby name has more than 5 apostrophes, that's when you should start worrying. Personally I like slightly unique names, or ones that are common in other cultures, and I also like russian names a lot, like Ekaterina or Yasha. For girls specifically I like the names Rosa Marie, Rosalyn, Keira, and Alexandra. I also like the somewhat more normal names Lauren and Katie. For Boys I like Eric Joisel(like the artist), Athanansius, Francis, and Theodore.
I kinda like Jay for a boy or girl. like short for Jaydon. It sounds unique, but its not overly unique, and it had a touch of normal.
I like uncommon names, but I tend to draw a line if: the name is obviously made up , is a word is a negative meaning (Bandit, Traylor, Apocalypse, etc.), the name has weird made up spellings, Ghetto Names (No offense), etc. I am especially fond of astronomy and botanical related names like: Andromeda, Helios, Sol, Olive, Lyra, Orion, Sakura, Rose, Kaitos, etc.
I have a friend called jay who's a girl! I love the name but again the dilemma when you know someone with same name !
Well, Zebulon is the best name ever, but in case that's TOO unique, I've always loved the names Dena and Orion.
Some (okay, most of) all of your unique names will sound extremely dated, unfashionable, and borderline pathetic several decades on. It was fashionable to call children Wendy and Agatha once upon a time, but names like that sound almost ridiculous now and are definitely archaic. Make sure a name has remained common throughout a long period before choosing it. Your children will risk sounding early 2000s-out-of-date if you go with a silly fashion. My name is rather uncommon, but it has existed for over a thousand years and has been a family name for some seven centuries; choose something that won't die out in a hurry.
Funny you should mention Wendy, as I think it was made up by J.M. Barrie for Peter Pan. It's basically on par with "Renesmee" in terms of conventionality. But I think Wendy is cute if not for the association with the American fast-food chain. X.X **Wikipedia research: Apparently it was around in some form, but was very uncommon until he popularized it. Agatha sounds like a mouth full of dentures though.
I personally love names that are unique and uncommon. I used to know a girl named Lyric, and I thought her name was absolutely beautiful. Naming your kid Apple, like Gwyneth Paltrow did is a bit too far though.
I've always had a love for uncommon names. I could never picture naming my kids a name they're likely to share with a classmate. Currently my favorites are Piper and Gracyn for a girl and Brennen and Ezra for a boy.
I'm not a big fan of "unique" names like that, since they may be cute for a toddler, but you have to consider these people grown and applying for jobs with these names. I prefer names that are a bit more unique than the standard fare, but not off-the-wall. I could see using names like Channing, Piper, Neylan, Addison, or Anika.
I like names that arent unusual but arent used often anymore. My oldest is James and that is common but not trendy. Then I have Natalie, Peter and Virginia (we call her Ginny) I really wanted to name my oldest daughter Dylan but her Dad said no. lol I also thought it would be fun to name out youngest something really unusual jus since the others arent . I also would have loved to name her Imogene. I love that name and you rarely hear it here. ---------- Post added 24th Aug 2014 at 09:58 PM ---------- I lover the name Piper and wanted to use that name too.
As long as you remain with the Latin alphabet I'm cool with it. I don't want to meet someone with a name like N!xau ǂToma. (That's a real name. The exclamation point is not a typo.)
I'd say I'd give the kid a relatively common name. I hate how people are always challenging my ability to type names when I'm indexing birth certificates... ---------- Post added 24th Aug 2014 at 10:11 PM ---------- At least that wouldn't be a legal name where I work. Names are restricted to the English alphabet, an accent mark, and either Roman or Arabic numerals
