Unusual first names

Grandson name is Xander
Granddaughters - Aryella and Princess
My middle name is Patrick, not a real common name for a guy and my brothers middle name was Marion
 
cubby01 said:
Huh :headscrat, Patrick is a very common name for a guy. Must be a deficit of Patrick's there around Lake Eufaula. :dunno:
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That's what I thought. There was even a Saint named Patrick. I'm pretty sure there's never been a Saint named Ross and I sure as hell don't qualify.

cubdog
 
OK, I'll do it:

If you go to youtube and type in "names", there is one video (the second, I think) that has in excess of 26 million views. The boys who posted it have even been guests on the talk show circuits (Tyra Banks, for one). If you are easily offended, don't look. If you have a sense of humor, take a peek.

Then, there's always George Carlin's take on boys' names:

Sorry, "Todds" out there............:thmbsp:
 
Interesting thread!

I guess I'm somewhat lucky in that I have a relatively uncommon name, and I've always liked it: Clayton. Only my parents and grandparents called me by the full name, I've always gone by Clay everywhere else.

I've only come across a handful of other Claytons in my life, including, of course, Clayton Moore, who originally played "The Lone Ranger". :D
 
My name's Benjamin, which IMO is neither a common nor a particularly uncommon name. I've probably only met 15 or 20 in my life.

There's definitely an abundance of so-called "odd" names here in SoCal.

I was quite surprised when I met a person named George, that's not a common name at all here. But he's from England so that explains it! I understand it's much more common there.

I personally am a fan of odd names. The times have to change after all!

You don't meet any Mildreds, Dorises, or Alices in this era, nor any Earls, Lloyds or Jacks (the only one out of the six that I've ever met).

Names have to change with the times too!

I'm a fan of River for a male and, believe it or not, Bellatrix for female (see: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Bellatrix_Lestrange).

Yup, a weird Aspie indeed!
 
My name, David, is pretty uncommon. Only met a few...hundred..during my life.

When I was in grade school, in my class of 19, we had 4 Davids. Missed having 5 out of 16 the following year because one of them was held back. I was perpetually David N, while I went to school with David O, David Y, and David V and another I'm forgetting.

In light of that, we were going to go for something uncommon for our child. We named our daughter Liberty. If she had been a boy, she would have been named Kane. Since the time we picked Kane/Liberty, I had become very good friends with a co-worker with twin boys named Kane and Wolf and Wolf is not short for wolfgang.

When Liberty arrived to school the first day this year, I couldn't believe it, but there was another girl in her classroom named Liberty.
 
Christopherus
Christof
Kryztof (for example Penderecki)
Christopher
Christoph
Christophe
Christophoros
Christofoor
Hristofor
Cristobal
Cristoforo...

One of them is mine. Names are an interesting issue.
 
first name is Rodney,i go by Rod...but apparently i will answer to anything with one syllable that starts in "R".my actual name is usually the last tried...

my surname i started spelling out in grade school whenever i was asked,and i still say and then immediately spell it for anyone that needs to find it or write it down...tho it did make doing some geneology research oddly a fair bit easier.

i don't have or plan to have kids and so will never get to use them,but i did find some names worthy of recycling in that family research.

my great grandfather's name was Armour,which might be tough to have as a kid,but i think it's all kinds of cool as an adult and particularly for the strong kind of man that he was..

my favourite tho was a female cousin from the late 1800's with the first name of "Hunter",she had an older sister named Sarah.Thier father was a schooner captain...and oddly or not,that schooner was named "the Sarah Hunter" LOL.times were certainly different but i still can't imagine HOW he got naming his girls after his ship past his wife.but i can imagine that Hunter must have lead an interesting life in that time,i think it's a very cool name for a girl,even now,over a century later..and yet it actually has history in my family
 
cubdog said:
Do you have a uncommon or unusual first name? Mine is Ross and while not that unusual I have only met maybe six guys named Ross. Oddly enough one of my best friends and a co-worker in Denver was a Ross. Actually my middle name Clark is not all that common either. Got an interesting moniker?

cubdog
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Judging from my 5 year old's daycare, unusual names are now status quo. My kid's name is Steven and I have begun to think that is actually an unusual name.

Kind of like how German restaurants, once in abundance, are now in such low numbers that they qualify as exotic.
 
When I was in my first year a junior school there were 6 'Stephens' in my class - I was the only 'John'

And to answer a previous poster who mentioned George in a UK context, the name 'George' is out of fashion in the UK, and has been for some time - thus it is quite rare nowadays.

There seems to be quite a lot of 'made-up' names now (in UK at least) or names deliberately spelt in an unusual way, which makes them unusual automatically.
 
Jack Lord said:
My kid's name is Steven and I have begun to think that is actually an unusual name.
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It is when you spell it like that. This coming from another Stephen. :D

I still continually correct people who call me Stefan when they read my name. To most people, I'm Steve. Thanks to the Internet, I've discovered that there are quite a few people with the combination of my first and last names, including the guy who caused the breakup of the marriage of the Duchess of York. There is even a Facebook group for those select few with my name.
 
Eric is pretty common in the younger set but I have only met one older Eric than me (51),
My younger sisters name is Valancy,from a book mom was reading while pregent.
Also I worked with a Nimrod from the Phillapinnes and a Har dip from India.
Sorry about the spelling.
Eric
 
My old across the street neighbor's name was Carroll. I have another friend who's middle name is Leslie. Those wouldn't be so unusal except for the fact both are males.

My grandmother is a Mildred, one of her brothers was Ausby. Maybe those weren't so unusual circa 1920 though. Grandmom was born in 1922, Ausby I think was 1917 or 1918.
 
My mom's name is Leora and her father's first and middle names were Arthur Emil August.

My dad is a Stanley Orville. My father in laws middle name is Lathrup.
 
Our parents were friends with a husband and wife who's first names were both Beverly.

I had a customer who's first name was Sherrill, and his wife was Sheryl.
 
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