The weirdest names you've got for BOY

[mimsie]

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

[tinkerbell22]

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

[tinkerbell22]

sorry, 'rules'

[mimsie]

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]

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

-Denim
-Webb
-Gaeton


Will keep thinking...

[summastarlet]

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

[MummyLip]

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

[sandramm1]

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]

What about Holland? I love it personally

[mimsie]

A lot of these are being ruled out because we know people with them (bloody hippies 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!