Offbeat Baby Names

**nuisance26** · 07-18-2008, 11:05 AM

~I certainly wasn't surprised to read the strange names that Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman recently picked for their kids but it did strike me as pretty funny. Even after all the name bashing the celebs get, they still choose such unique names. Reminded me of the unique name I almost named dd. I thought it sounded like a character out of a period American romance but I couldn't get DH on board with it. So dd was named Evelyn and not Fairfax. What offbeat names were in the running when you were naming your kids?~

**angelbumpkin** · 07-18-2008, 11:20 AM

I didn't have any offbeat names but I remember a girl named Rainbow Dawn.

**missyali** · 07-18-2008, 11:32 AM

I thought Tuesday Tulane was the most beautiful name when I was pregnant with dd. Never told people until she was a year old or so. Wow, putting it in writing makes me really glad she's Emma Grace; the name I thought of years before and still absolutely LOVE!

**Sonnenwende** · 07-18-2008, 11:52 AM

I thought about Ansgar, Asbjoern, or Torvald for a boy. I had a girl, but she was given an uncommon-in-the-US Scandinavian name.

**Neeley** · 07-18-2008, 11:53 AM

I did not have any odd names floating around in my head for my kids.

But my good friend wanted to name her first daughter Velvet Rose. All I heard for years was Velvet Rose, Velvet Rose, Velvet Rose. When she did finally have a daughter she named her Skyler. She chose to spell it with an "E" instead of an "A" because her hubby said if it were spelled with an "A" and you added a "K" to it then it would be Skylark. Her hubby owns his own car business, all he ever thinks of is cars.

The names Angelina and Brad chose for their twins are both family names. I cannot remember who the article said they were both named after though. I do remember that the name Knox follows the tradition set with their other boys with the last letter of their name ending with an "X". After reading about how they chose the names, I actually like them.

I am not as fond of the name chosen by Kidman and Urban. But to each his own.

**blitzen** · 07-18-2008, 11:57 AM

My kids names are very traditional, though not very common in these days--and my mom thinks they are very weird names. I don't think you can win!

I don't think Angelina's and Brad's new baby's names are all that strange. And Nicole Kidman's baby's name is really pretty to me.

**Amanda W** · 07-18-2008, 12:05 PM

I really like the name Fairfax.

I don't have kids but we've had our names picked out for a good 10 years already. If we have a son, his name will be Ryne Walden after Ryne Sandberg and the book. We also have a unique girl name picked out, but once I went on our local hospital's website to check out pictures of my friend's new baby, and there was a little girl who had our name! It made be cry, so I made a vow to stop telling people the name until I actually have a girl!

**Telephus44** · 07-18-2008, 12:10 PM

DH and I fought over this when I was pregnant because I wanted a traditional name and DH wanted something "unique" I think that when every tries to name their kid something "different" it just ends up getting weirder and weirder.

We had settled on Logan (which I dislike, but was willing to compromise with) until the day before I went in the hospital DH came up with "Owen" out of nowhere. So that's what we went with.

I also like Oliver.

**santoria** · 07-18-2008, 12:15 PM

I love Angelina&Brad's twins names. Vivienne is so pretty...and feminine. Knox, is neat.

did you hear the reasons why Nicole named her baby girl Sunday...? its not for the day of the week. lol I'll find the story again.

we had very traditional names for our girls. Susanne (was originally susan), victoria (was originally Virginia - I always wanted to have a Ginny), and Elizabeth (I heard the name Elizabeth when Victoria was born and absolutely LOVED it. and it fit with the traditional theme.

our boy name is William christopher (a family tradition for dh's family to name the boy after mom and dad - his mom is josephine so dh is William Joseph)

**halloweenfreak** · 07-18-2008, 12:43 PM

cooper was going to be kagen, but we decided to put 3 names in a hat and draw them out. good thing too, he looks more like a coop then a kagen anyway.

**cab54** · 07-18-2008, 12:46 PM

My boys have very traditional names, but some names that were going around back then (kids' names in their classes) that were very different seeming THEN, are pretty mainstream now.

When I was working as a nursing student in OB, a girl that was 15 named her newborn daughter Menstruation. I kid you not.

**TheRootedNomad** · 07-18-2008, 12:54 PM

I was really fighting for the name Maka Mia if we had a girl. DH thought I'd lost my mind. I didn't have a girl so I used the name for our house.

**itsahumanzoo** · 07-18-2008, 01:19 PM

When I was pregnant we wanted to name the baby Anson. We were looking through a baby names book, and we found it, and it means "Son of Andrew." I thought that was kind of cool, but NO ONE liked it! Except the one guy at DH's office that was named Anson...So we settled for Mason.

I have no idea what I'm going to name the next one...

**McD** · 07-18-2008, 02:12 PM

I didnt think the names of Angelina's babies were that odd.

We always knew if we had a boy he would be named Wesley John. We didn't waver at all.

**Momto2Boyz** · 07-18-2008, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by missyali

I thought Tuesday Tulane was the most beautiful name when I was pregnant with dd. Never told people until she was a year old or so. Wow, putting it in writing makes me really glad she's Emma Grace; the name I thought of years before and still absolutely LOVE!

That is so funny! If our oldest had been a girl, I wanted to name her Tuesday!

Something about it that I loved! The other girls name we had picked out was Ambrose, it was DH's granfathers name. I didn't like it for a boy, but loved it for a girl!

All my boys names were pretty basic. Jake, Josh...and names that didn't make the cut were Henry, Kyle, Benjamin, etc.