Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm from SoCal and my friends and family back home have some pretty "unique" baby names.

Waverly
Dehvyn & Dyrryk
Jennica
Rainbow

My fave are Ayden, Logen, Hayden and Jayden and their last name ends in en as well.

Dear God.

Yea and they are a professional couple in their mid thirties who named their girl/boy twins that. Hipster yes but still you'd think only a 17 year old girl would name her children that.

This is reminding me of the picture at my IL's of my nephew's baseball team in TX. Here were my favorite names - Aeron, Zerek and Kohltyn.

No idea of the background of the parents, but since my BIL is a total loser living at home with his parents in his 40s with his 2 kids he had with someone barely out of her teens at the time who has since basically walked out of their lives, I don't have a lot of hope that these are children of UMC parents who just went a little wacky with naming.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm from SoCal and my friends and family back home have some pretty "unique" baby names.

Waverly
Dehvyn & Dyrryk
Jennica
Rainbow

My fave are Ayden, Logen, Hayden and Jayden and their last name ends in en as well.

Dear God.

Yea and they are a professional couple in their mid thirties who named their girl/boy twins that. Hipster yes but still you'd think only a 17 year old girl would name her children that.

Veronica
Mathis
Lyda

Anonymous wrote:I'm from SoCal and my friends and family back home have some pretty "unique" baby names.

Waverly
Dehvyn & Dyrryk
Jennica
Rainbow

My fave are Ayden, Logen, Hayden and Jayden and their last name ends in en as well.

Dear God.

I'm from SoCal and my friends and family back home have some pretty "unique" baby names.

Waverly
Dehvyn & Dyrryk
Jennica
Rainbow

My fave are Ayden, Logen, Hayden and Jayden and their last name ends in en as well.

Unique names I've heard recently----

Xavi (Zah-vee)
Tiago (Tee-ah-go)

both boys and both names I like! I'm not a fan of common names. I love when parents pick a unique names that just nails. Well done mom and dad *applause*

Hamden

Anonymous wrote:In addition to Henry, Sam is now very very popular. Both as a girl for Samantha (Sam, Sammi, Sammy)

And a boy named Samuel, Sampson, or simply Sam - he'll always be called Sam or Sammy.

We have FOUR Sam's (3 boys and 1 girl) between 3 classrooms in our child's school.

Also ditto to Max: either Maxwell, Maximilian or simply Max, they'll all be called Max.

We flip flop from Maxwell to Max all the time, but it's mostly Maxwell.
As for unusual names, my nephews are Henson and Hawksley. I joke with my sister that if they were hipsters in their 20's they would open a bar in Brooklyn called the Hen and Hawk and serve grass fed beef burgers with farm-to-table salads and small batch bourbon mixed drinks. Of course, I love them dearly, and their names suit them perfectly in reality.

Alvaro
Alonzo
Gonzalo
Leonzo

Strong nice names for boys, imo.

I've heard/seen several 80s throwback girl names lately:

Ashley
Valarie
Christina
Kimberly

Falcon

Bishop

Irielle

Under 5 y.o crowd:

More than 1 in my circle:
Henry
Sam
Max
Nate / Nathan / Nathaniel
Logan
Jack

Grace
Caroline
Penelope
Reilly
Abigail
Charlotte
Kate

Only 1 and sounds unique / less common (these days):
Beau
Bennett

Tallulah
Cara
Bevin
Geneva

Crisp

Lanen (lay-nen)

Shayla

Eryn