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in reply to a message by New_Chloe
I like Pie's suggestions of obscure gods/goddesses and plants and things like that.
Is this person truly seeking something "unique" or is that just using the word incorrectly? (I had a friend who wanted something "unique" and I gave her a buttload of suggestions and she replied "I like Cheyenne Grace!" uggh. She ended up going with Adriel, which is pretty unusual for a girl but she might end up meeting a boy with her name someday).
I'd also go through the SSA lists, looking at names that were used less than 30 times or so. That's not truly "unique" but it's highly uncommon. For my friend, I also hit up ancestry.com because she also asked for something "victorian" (you can do what I did even without an account-- just do a search for a random surname and go through the results).
"than you will go to jail for kidnap."
top: Miriam & Micah
bottom: Katrienne & Kyrian
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/59411
Is this person truly seeking something "unique" or is that just using the word incorrectly? (I had a friend who wanted something "unique" and I gave her a buttload of suggestions and she replied "I like Cheyenne Grace!" uggh. She ended up going with Adriel, which is pretty unusual for a girl but she might end up meeting a boy with her name someday).
I'd also go through the SSA lists, looking at names that were used less than 30 times or so. That's not truly "unique" but it's highly uncommon. For my friend, I also hit up ancestry.com because she also asked for something "victorian" (you can do what I did even without an account-- just do a search for a random surname and go through the results).
top: Miriam & Micah
bottom: Katrienne & Kyrian
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/59411
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No, they definitely want something obscure. Something that their kid won't have to share with any other classmates (this is a big concern for them - they don't want there to be more than one on a class list) and without strong associations. Like for example I suggested Ebenezer and Wednesday (they are kind of gothy people) and those were too familiar for them. I think they might go for mythological names, but I doubt they'd be into the more familiar "big names" (like Artemis, Thor, etc).
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I have a character named Libitina. Perfect for gothy people too.
Using the SSA lists– very unlikely their kid would share a name with anyone in their class. Maybe not even their state.
Sapphira
September
Gloriana
Ursula
Amity
Christabel
Viridiana
Kirby
Candelaria
Charm
Dorothea
Marigold
Seraphine
Oceana
Dorcas
Temple
Melrose
Cecile
Jezebel (probably too much of a "big name", right)
Tuesday (Actually, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday are the only ones that appear at all. What about Monday?)
Eira
Lively
Sigrid
Windsor
Nyx (again, too "big"?)
Apollonia
Arcadia
Epiphany
Ambrosia
Gertrude
Phyllis
Arbor
Cayenne
Celestina
Infinity
Truth
Gemini
Ginevra
Poet
Poetry
Providence
Veronique
Lucette
Memory
Hypatia
Riddick
Odysseus
Archibald
Leviathan
Nero
Helios
Tavish
Clancy
Quest
Haze
Firas
Indigo
Sixto
Rune
Using the SSA lists– very unlikely their kid would share a name with anyone in their class. Maybe not even their state.
Sapphira
September
Gloriana
Ursula
Amity
Christabel
Viridiana
Kirby
Candelaria
Charm
Dorothea
Marigold
Seraphine
Oceana
Dorcas
Temple
Melrose
Cecile
Jezebel (probably too much of a "big name", right)
Tuesday (Actually, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday are the only ones that appear at all. What about Monday?)
Eira
Lively
Sigrid
Windsor
Nyx (again, too "big"?)
Apollonia
Arcadia
Epiphany
Ambrosia
Gertrude
Phyllis
Arbor
Cayenne
Celestina
Infinity
Truth
Gemini
Ginevra
Poet
Poetry
Providence
Veronique
Lucette
Memory
Hypatia
Riddick
Odysseus
Archibald
Leviathan
Nero
Helios
Tavish
Clancy
Quest
Haze
Firas
Indigo
Sixto
Rune
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