The weirdest names you've got for BOY [Archive] - Bub Hub Pregnancy & Parenting Forum

mimsie

16-12-2010, 10:31

Ok so when I say I want an unusual name, I mean ridiculously unusual - so weird you might have heard or seen it maybe once in your whole life. Not the usual lists of 'uncommon' names but something even less common.

I have books full of 'unusual and uncommon' names but they are either very common in other countries, so cultural they sound weird on an anglo-saxon baby or are actually around more often than the book might suggest.

So I want the names you might have heard once that stuck with you or you can remember, something you read in a book, saw on TV, met once - that kind of unusual.

We're struggling! I have two children now with unusual names - Aquila and Xanthe (boy and girl). Xanthe is more common than Aquila but the extent of it is that most people have heard of or met one Xanthe once before (including us - DD went to preschool with another one who was a baby - we've just heard of our second ever and DD is now 9 1/2, a friend from DHs school's baby girl (not in touch with us only on facebook).

Because I'm fussy there are these

Rules:

Cannot start with A, or X and preferably not T.
Cannot start with a ZZZZZ sound (the X in DDs name has this sound)
Cannot start with C/K due to surname.
Cannot end with 'N' due to surname.

Ok, fire away :D

tinkerbell22

16-12-2010, 10:36

erm, i thought i had a couple, but cant get my head around the requirements :S

tinkerbell22

16-12-2010, 10:37

sorry, 'rules'

mimsie

16-12-2010, 10:43

It's not that bad!

Our surname is C****N and I don't like alliteration so I don't want it to be CC or KC. DH is T***N and the 'n' on the end with the n on the end of his surname stops the flow of the name. The kids don't want to share their 'letter' which includes the sound of DDs which is different to the actual letter hence x and z being out, mine is out as it's a K anyway, and DH is T hence the preferably no T so we all have a different one.

summastarlet

16-12-2010, 10:46

Ok...here's a few that I have come across. Hope they help!

-Denim
-Webb
-Gaeton

Will keep thinking...

summastarlet

16-12-2010, 10:47

Oh sorry just realised Gaeton is out for you due to ending with N!

MummyLip

16-12-2010, 11:00

Rhodes, Milo, Derham, Jetta, Porter, Phinneaus, Ryuu, Jaret, Wyatt, Perry, Otto, Yuri, Noam, Isadore, Ira, Cable, Isiah, Arlo, Dexter, Forrest, Marrlo, Harris,

A lot of names end with an N we have the same problem as we can't have a name ending in an N with our surname

tinkerbell22

16-12-2010, 11:05

Rykeir
Sovanrethy

Tangarine Mummy Machine

16-12-2010, 11:06

orpheus
permethius
socrotes
saint-sans (san sarns)
fox
ultine
neptune
titus
thor
wolfgang (common but i love the nickname wolf)
knut (c'nut)

a name i love but ends in n is pan.

summastarlet

16-12-2010, 11:18

Pepys (pronounced peeps) is cute

sandramm1

16-12-2010, 11:27

Bodre
Bade
Blade
Birch
Brock
Dacey
Dante
Dashiell
Duante
Edric
Efrews
Eryx
Forrest
Fayne
Gadriel
Garvais
Gazali
Grover
Haine
Hollace
Hume
Jael
Jafari
Jamarcus
Jesiah
Junius
Jaxcell
Lennox
Maui
Malarchy
Malise
Marius
Oakes
Otieno
Roarke
Ryland
Reeve
Storm
Saviero
Saul
Saber
Seamus
Steede
Venn
Vitale
Williard
Yasor
Yael

MummyLip

16-12-2010, 11:29

What about Holland? I love it personally

mimsie

16-12-2010, 12:21

A lot of these are being ruled out because we know people with them :eek: (bloody hippies :laughing: DH grew up amongst them, parents were and also has three brothers so three got ruled out that way too)

I used to like Dali as a boy or girl name but it has connotations of girl to us because of someone we knew - we'd also have to clear it with her parent (she was killed as a teen). What do you think of it as a boy's name?

I also like Ezra - but same again even though it says boy name everywhere, I knew it as a girls name.

We had our gaelic names picked out but I liked the girl one a bit better, and now we know it's a boy I have issues with the spelling of the boy name we chose - and would rather it altered - but all of our names are 'real' without spelling changes, so I feel like on principle I can't (the principle being using real names with spelling as intended).

Ugh it's so hard!

missymoo9

16-12-2010, 14:14

Giordano

MRJB

16-12-2010, 14:30

If I were game I would use...

~Boy~
Columbus
Rivers ( love it with the s- can be for a girl too)

~Girl~
Soleil
Cedar (I would use this but it was a family pets name)

Sorry I forgot the rules and I can't look back so I might of broken a few :(

Umm that's all I can think of... But I always hear of names I would love to use but just can't bring myself to add them to the list :( ... Chicken

CrashBangMummy

16-12-2010, 14:32

I love the name Diesel!!

CookiesRYum

16-12-2010, 14:39

my nephew middle name is leighroy... i think that is wierd

and i know someone called ingracious or something - not like un-grateful.. but something along those lines.. sorry havign a blonde moment

MRJB

16-12-2010, 14:43

Oh and I added girls names.... Sorry. Just ignore my post haha

danni3

16-12-2010, 14:43

I once met a little one named Enigma...

Out To Pasture

16-12-2010, 16:43

Pullo
Lucius
Maddox
Salamander
Grendel
Odanoden
Hennessy

Pregnor

16-12-2010, 17:23

buttoneza - Do you mean ignatius?

I love it. It means 'the firey one' or something... If i was ever expecting to have a ginger boy, it'd be up there!

MRJB

16-12-2010, 17:26

buttoneza - Do you mean ignatius?

I love it. It means 'the firey one' or something... If i was ever expecting to have a ginger boy, it'd be up there!

Yeah I LOVE ignatius but it would be ridiculous with surname :(

hunnybunny

16-12-2010, 17:31

jellybean86

16-12-2010, 17:31

WOW I'm loving these names! I wish I was creative...keep em' coming ladies! I am making notes :thumbsup:

aLittleLoopy

16-12-2010, 17:49

Rune

zombiekitty

16-12-2010, 17:56

I love Hendry...oh, and Bodhi and Ignatius.

MagicalLeopluradon

16-12-2010, 18:31

That's such a cool name, I love it!

I love the name Diesel!!

babybumblebee

16-12-2010, 19:01

I like Denim or Ezra for a little boy.

strangest name for me was at a day care I worked at his name was Mississippi but his mum always called him River.

Cicho

16-12-2010, 19:22

Firstling.

Saw that once in a That's Life! type mag

deany

17-12-2010, 00:44

phineas riorden
Lourden heidilyn
nakita shaniqua
Dashiel taniqua
Tennily entendre

1CrazyMoose

17-12-2010, 01:29

Urich (pronounced urick) it's my sons name and so many people comment on it. I love it and it's meaning. I have nt met or heard anyone else with it. I know that in America 1 in 1.5million or something similar is named Urich do pretty uncommon lol

trishalishous

17-12-2010, 02:35

I knew a boy called 'parusha'

mimsie

17-12-2010, 10:59

There was an Ezra below me at school who would be around 30 now.

I am a Xanthe, you have great taste in names ;)

There were some very unusual names at the school i went to, just trying to recall some of them.

Cedar
Bodhi
Leif
Giriish
Paddy
Nara
Jarrah
Niall
Shilo

Your parents do too :p I love it, Xanthe loves it, and she went and turned out blonde :laughing:

I like Denim or Ezra for a little boy.

strangest name for me was at a day care I worked at his name was Mississippi but his mum always called him River.

:laughing:

How many people really love lord of the rings? DH likes Bilbo :heywhat: I don't know what I think. It is totally cute and if he hated it he could be Bill or Billy. But is it too um, I don't know, something?

We were also liking Jago last night (jay-go) - and it would fit our other names in origin too, they are Greek and Italian and Jago is Portugese/Spanish so it keeps the European thing :laughing:

We've decided middle names will be Brian Robert - no idea on the order though - although I'm tempted to do an in joke name from my dad and make it Roberto - Dad looks like a Mafia Don and my friends have always called him Don Roberto, he also does this face slap thing to DH when they see each other as a 'man hug' and he used to add 'o' to all of his names to make him sound foreign when I was learning what his real names were. So it might become Roberto as a :yes: to him :)

Super Trooper

17-12-2010, 12:09

Clover for a girl

haha yeah i cant put my finger on what is wrong with bilbo, but it does remind me of dildo? maybe that is it? hehe

Super Trooper

17-12-2010, 12:10

oops sorry, forgot this post was for boys names with all the talk of girls names in there :P

mimsie

17-12-2010, 12:10

:laughing: I need a little rolling around smiley! I just had flashes to when they are little and trying to learn to write, and do b's backwards :D hahahaha

Blairysmum

17-12-2010, 12:26

Ordio

Dezi

Yossi (this is what dh wanted to call our dd)

Elarno (another of dh names!!)

misskittyfantastico

18-12-2010, 21:18

I'm quite fond of Tertius. I know "T" names are semi against your rules, but I thought I'd throw it out there. I like that it means "third". I also love Bruno.

Hollywood

18-12-2010, 21:30

Leif

Very, very common in Norway, just so you know. My host father over there was called Leif and I know of many others.

Rune
Leif's granddaughter in Norway was Rune, also pretty common over there.

There was a boy in DS' kinder class this year called "Sixte", pronounced "six", I think it may have been French, as the mum spoke to him in French.

I also like the name River (like as in River Phoenix :bee:)

mimsie

18-12-2010, 21:36

SPC

18-12-2010, 21:45

I'm currently mulling over:

Merlin
Ambrose
Ptolemy [the P is silent]
Kester
Tobermory
Orinoco
Jacamo

mimsie

18-12-2010, 21:49

I always thought Merlin was so cute but our surname ends in ---rlin as well

hunnybunny

18-12-2010, 22:33

funny about the rules thing, looks like we've managed to settle on a name that breaks them all :eek: We're liking Cohen!!

You really do have awesome taste in names! One of my boys is Cohen!

A couple more I thought of that I have heard of

Manessah
Oden
Obie
Esaac (pronounced Eezack)

misskittyfantastico

18-12-2010, 22:42

I'm currently mulling over:

Merlin
Ambrose
Ptolemy [the P is silent]
Kester
Tobermory
Orinoco
Jacamo

Womble names! Love it!

Grinnyswife

18-12-2010, 22:46

Seraphim

Wolfgang

SorenLorensen

18-12-2010, 22:58

Leif

One of DD2s Godfathers names is Leif, it is very uncommon around here, her gets called leaf a LOT.

im hopeless at thinking of names that are odd, i know i know plenty but cant just think of any right now.

mimsie

19-12-2010, 00:16

OMG hunnybunny that is a bizarre little coincidence there! Must be meant to be :D

SPC

19-12-2010, 06:40

Womble names! Love it!

Child of the 70s.;)

MRJB

19-12-2010, 07:24

:laughing: Milo :laughing: for all those not in the March group, we're having a group craving for the stuff at the moment

funny about the rules thing, looks like we've managed to settle on a name that breaks them all :eek: We're liking Cohen!!

Love the name Cohen!! :)
My best friends brother growing up was called Cohen and I have only met two others so not very common!

There are some great names in here ladies !! :)

1st for Jess

21-12-2010, 08:30

My partner is really liking Astrix.

I'm not sure if it's common or not. I'm not really into it... But we don't have any boys names we like yet so maybe!

Great thread!

1st for Jess

21-12-2010, 08:39

My (incredibly boring job) is database entry for magazine subscribers. This is some of an Italian list I'm working on today, so may be common there. But not ones I've seen before!

Milco
Piseia
Mauro
Egisto
Timberio

Sorry not sure if I've broken the rules...

Skibunny

21-12-2010, 09:06

My DH came home last night telling me we should call a boy 'Quest'.

:bookworm:

albear

21-12-2010, 09:18

I know this breaks your rules, but if we ever have a boy we want to call him Tirion :fami01:

mimsie

21-12-2010, 10:28

You can break my rules - we did :D

I really like my doctor's name but it's too weird to use it :eek: He's italian, and his name is Tullio (too-lee-oh)

AmberMama

21-12-2010, 11:12

I know this breaks your rules, but if we ever have a boy we want to call him Tirion :fami01:

DP and I discussed DD's middle name being Jaina before we decided it didn't sound right with her first name!

witheverythingiam

21-12-2010, 11:37

I haven't read the thread yet so sorry if I double up, but here's one from every letter of the alphabet-

Apollo
Bracken (I also like Benedict)
Che
Dante
Eugene
Ferdinand
Gallagher
Hermes
Ichabod (I also like Indigo nn Indi)
Jaxith (I also like Jarrah)
Khalil
Lysander
Malik
Norbert
Oleander (I also like Otto & Otis)
Paco
Quain
Riordan nn Rio (I like Rafferty too)
Soloman (or Stavros?)
Tully (Or Teague)
Uziel
Vaughan
Wyatt
Xerxes
Yaeger
Zulu (or Zali)

lizzyplus4

21-12-2010, 11:49

i can't remember all the rules either...
but the names i love are-
Qincey- means 5/5th..i wanted to name this bubba quincey as it will be the 5th son but DH doesn't like it :no:
Elwood
Bowie- means white/blode haired which suits our kids :)
Jagger
i knew a xanthe- she named her little boy jackson
good luck!!

albear

21-12-2010, 12:09

DP and I discussed DD's middle name being Jaina before we decided it didn't sound right with her first name!

That's how DH and I met, and I threw Tirion out there the other day and he agreed :cheerleader2: After all the trouble we had with a girls name I couldn't believe it.

Also Jaina didn't sound right with my DDs name either :frustrated:

zombiekitty

21-12-2010, 12:23

You can break my rules - we did :D

I really like my doctor's name but it's too weird to use it :eek: He's italian, and his name is Tullio (too-lee-oh)

I go to Dr Savio too! I luff him :cloud9:

witheverythingiam

21-12-2010, 12:45

My Dr's name is Robey - pronounced Row-bee. He's South African. I can't say I've ever heard the name before.

One of THOSE mums!

21-12-2010, 12:46

There are some GREAT names so far!!! I'm getting so many ideas.
I'm a big fan of the name Levi as in the jeans. And I love Rogue.

mimsie

21-12-2010, 12:59

hahaha Jadorevous I adore my (our?) doctor he's so awesome, best GP ever :D I swear I rave about the guy to everyone! He's been awesome this pregnancy too, a lovely realist who doesn't hassle or panic or stress me out. He's how we discovered if we changed our DDs name by one letter she had a place name like DS does - he googled while we waited for referrals to print :laughing:

But yeah I think it's taking the love too far if I call our baby Tullio :p imagine that first visit :eek:

Out To Pasture

22-12-2010, 16:00

But yeah I think it's taking the love too far if I call our baby Tullio :p imagine that first visit :eek:

I don't know, Tullio is a pretty cool name. I like it!
Besides it could be worse, seriously. My Ultrasound doctor has a porno name. Max Hardy :D

zombiekitty

22-12-2010, 16:06

mimsie isn't he devine? I just love him! I have been going to him on and off for 15 years and I travel an hour to see him. so worth it though. And you are right, so laid back which is one of the things I love about him. He's just gorgeous all round!

mimsie

22-12-2010, 16:54

He is unreal. We've been seeing him for about 6 years now and he's one of the only doctors I've had who treats me like an intelligent human being. And now he's lost all that weight he doesn't act like a reformed smoker about mine, no drama about it at all.

He also looks a bit like my dad :o

I do like the name but it's too weird for me. Same as I'm glad I don't have the OB at the hospy who has our surname!!

MummaFug

22-12-2010, 17:00

Mimsie .... I really like Tullio too. It's a really cool name :)

Surely he would think it pretty cool to have you use his name

Ruby_Slippers

22-12-2010, 22:18

here are some I had on my list but a bit "way out" for DP :banghead2:

Lotus
Maddox
Reef
Kite
Jakaiah
Elvis
Neptune
Ziggy
Cedar

zombiekitty

24-12-2010, 07:56

Aquillah

24-12-2010, 09:17

I heard an unusual one today (well one I have not heard off)

Savanth.

:)

FearlessLeader

24-12-2010, 09:40

Lazlo.

If i were into unusual names i would use that one. Or Banjo, i have never met one but i think it might be getting popular. Also once looked after a Storm, i didn't dig it at first but it grew on me. He was half japenese. And i knew a Lehi at high school, i think it's an Islander name? Or maybe hawiiaan.

MrsDaisyP

24-12-2010, 12:36

I came up with the name Jazz for a boy. His father is very musical and it seemed right.
:goodluck:

mimsie

24-12-2010, 17:52

hahahahahaha a dude. I can't do the he's a looker thing with the whole resembles my dad part :p

I like Lehi and I love Banjo but agree I think it's becoming more popular, and with an in-law connection to hippie circles I'm sure we'd run into it repeatedly!

Arbre de la vie

03-01-2011, 22:41

i know some of these break your original rules (especially the cant end in 'n' rule).. but im not sure if your still following them so i threw them in anyway.

Knut
Odin
Ihsahn
Samoth
Jaryn
Maclure
Sayer

Moglet

04-01-2011, 01:01

Balthazar - I really love this but it's just a bit too unusual for me.

Titus - I think this goes really well with your other kids names

Ignatius - It's a bit more "usual" than the other 2, but certainly not common. I've never met one.

mandashopeful

07-01-2011, 21:58

We just had the same problem trying to find a name that isn't used very often and my partner ended up naming our son "Ryker". Everyone we introduce him to says they have never heard that name before and they all seem to like it (or are just being nice) Either way we like it and thats all that matters

JabberJaw

07-01-2011, 22:05

Kadison
Dax
Taige
Memphis
Blue
Jah Marl
Jakarih
Sergis

My nephew is Cohen, there is a couple of Cohens at his school.

Chubear

08-01-2011, 08:45

Cyan
Lucivar

mimsie

08-01-2011, 11:14

My son would love Cyan. It's his new favourite colour :D He can't just like blue.

Tangarine Mummy Machine

08-01-2011, 20:26

Nebacanezza. He was a babalonian king and it is also the ship on the matrix. :D

mimsie

10-01-2011, 21:12

What do we think of Ludo?

zombiekitty

10-01-2011, 21:14

oh mimsie i don't likey. Sorry.

mimsie

10-01-2011, 21:15

can you explain why or is just a gut thing? Its the gentle monster from Labyrinth :D

zombiekitty

10-01-2011, 21:21

It sounds like a board game.
In saying that, having had time to roll it around my head, I don't mind it.
What about Laird?

lealea79

10-01-2011, 21:22

Maclenoard

MRJB

10-01-2011, 23:08

It sounds like a board game.
In saying that, having had time to roll it around my head, I don't mind it.
What about Laird?

Thats the first thing I thought of when I read it!

Not a bad name by any means but I thought of a board game straight away.

Certainly less common than Cohen, I have never heard of a Ludo before!

I kinda like it :)

ElastiGirl

11-01-2011, 00:47

Jean-Luc

Jennaisme

11-01-2011, 00:54

Bahaha. I totally detect Trekkies in this thread.

One i've only heard of once and it's my store managers twin is Genesis.

Moglet

11-01-2011, 08:28

I think Ludo is a nickname for Ludovico (aka Ludwig) - it means famous fighter. It's very uncommon, but also well know ie Beethoven.

mimsie

11-01-2011, 11:17

Yeah it IS a boardgame :D hahahaha but it is a 'real' name too.

Yep it is a nickname/derivative of Ludwig :) It's also got an Italian meaning, and also a derivative of a Scottish name :) It means Light in Italian.

You girls who think board games need to go watch Labyrinth :D

Yeah the less common than Cohen is appealing to me a lot, actually. So is the lack of it running with our surname (which has two syllables, starts with hard C, ends with N) too closely. I've slowly been developing more of an issue with the sameness I think.