Cool Name Sightings?

I had a waitress named Bettina the other day.

I met a middle-aged woman named Oya.

I love Bettina! I just re-discovered Shakira, I never realized how pretty it was! Although the “Hips Don’t Lie” thing does make it less amazing.

Loriën… I can’t help but love this name. I’m not so sure if I would use it though…

@Ami
I’m confused about what Bettina has to do with Hips Don’t Lie…

Morag & Althea (sisters)

Octavia, Adelaide & Eugenie (sisters)

Lucy Evangeline (spotted this one on a class roll at school)

Cailin: I think she means Hips Don’t Lie puts her off using Shakira.

For me, I was watching Hairy Biker’s Cook Off, and they had a family on, Cassia, Max and Ximene.

Havana for a girls name…

– Siblings called Banner, Nation, and Anthem (two boys and a girl)

– A toddler boy named Silver

– Infants in the church nursery called Cecily, Pandora, Mercy, Everleigh (all girls), and Creighton (boy)

– A preschool-aged Elsa

– A baby girl named Arete (AR-uh-tay); means “excellence” in Greek

– A baby boy at the park named Maverick

– Sisters called Annecy (after a village in France) and Sierra

An infant in my neighborhood named Optimus.

I’m in Haiti, which is chock full of beautiful names.

-Sabine
-Sophninia
-Esther
-Emmanuelle

-Kesner

It’s only fitting that “Berries” would like the names Acacia and Juniper.

The sisters Octavia, Adelaide and Eugenie made my heart skip a beat! Stunning.

My sister’s name is Jerica and growing up she was the only Jerica I ever heard of. Now I see baby Jericas everywhere.

I saw a pretty little girl named Ramsey.

A friend has a baby boy Cohen.

A very prominent family in my little town has daughters, Asia and Persia and a son named Windsor.

A friend named her baby girl Lulabelle! Call her Lula for short. I love it!

A baby boy named Creed, a little Clarah

This month’s Southern Living Magazine features a family of nine and their functional kitchen. Of course, what I noticed most about the article was the names.
Parents are Mark and Bee.
Kids are Reed(boy), Wells(boy), Posie Grey(girl), Prentice(girl), Finn(boy), Oscar(boy), and Meme(girl).

None of these are recent, but I grew up with a girl named Panorea, which I discovered is a greek name meaning most beautiful. I also knew two sisters named Kyriel and Katiri and a boy named Lorimer. More recently, I met a woman named Yonaida (spanish name, most closely pr jah-nide-ah).

We plan on naming our future daughter Rilo.

I recently met a little girl named Tulsi, which apparently the most sacred herb in India, where her parents met while traveling. I thought the name and the story were both cool.

My managers at work recently hired a girl named Xiomara (pronounced SEE-uh-MAR-uh).

One of the stories we just read in my American Lit class had the name Tayo. I love it so much for some reason!! There are also two little boys who live near me with the names Dagger and Lux. I can’t remember the name of the third boy, but it’s something else cool that goes with those two.

Just met toddlers Greta and Paisley the other day!

My co-worker just had a granddaughter named Matti June. Super cute imo.

I heard the name Oralie when watching a youtube video the other day. I thought it was really pretty, but when I looked it up on nameberry, it looked like it might have come about by a mispronunciation of the French version of Aurelia. And my cousin is named Aurelia. So I’m not sure how I feel about that.

I also got a notice that an author I like released a new book called Cowboy and Wills, and Wills is her son’s name.

I love Xiomara! Spunky!

Today at the library I saw two little girls named Raquel and Camila. And at the dentist’s I saw a boy of maybe seven named Phoenix George. How cool is that?

Little girls down the street – Gaelle and Elsa, from a French-African family
Brothers in my school with Greek mom – Spyridon (luv!!!) and Demosthenes
Sisters Piper, Della, and Eleanor (w/ bros Samuel and Maxwell, less exciting)
Twins Mama-U and Papa-K (seriously.)
Girls: Cynda, Tryphena, Edel (pronounced like Adele), Arria, Salem (really a girl), Zinnia, Philippa, Aolani (uh-lawn-ee), Elora (darling!)
Boys: Adolphus (and twin Damonte), Ryland, Torger, and Lysander (adorable)

A good friend of mine named her baby Galileo. (Love!)
I met the mother of a Xerxes at a baby shower this year.
And a mom on one of my discussion boards has a boy named Kannon. I’m not sure if his namesake is the weapon or the camera, but either way, no thanks!

My mom is friends with a women who had a granddaughter named Araiah pron Uh-rye-uh Its kinda cute but not one I would use.

Of the names above I like
Silver
Cecily
Creighton
Elsa
Ramsey
Lulabelle
Wells
Katiri – LOVE

Well how is Katiri pron.?

There is a Romilly in my daughter’s ballet class. I love it.

We had a waiter the other day named Shay. I really wished they had spelled it Shea, but I found myself really liking it.

I love Harker, Layton, (for a boy), Andon, and recently I saw a cashier named Pepsi!! Very cool names, huh?

I saw a boy named Stone. Lots of people, including me, thought this was his last name. It’s super strong, though.

Bettina is a common name in Sweden, I think it has germanic roots.

In my neighbourhood there are two baby Melwin (boys) and one Moa (girl). Lou is also very popular right now in Europe.

My babygirl is named Pamela (her middle name) which I think is very retro.

A woman I work with is named Maroulla (pronounced Ma-RU-la), which I’m pretty sure is Greek. Anyway, I had never heard it before!

I met a toddler named Agatha on the playground recently!

I also had a waitress Meiko!

I spotted a September today!

Avila–after an Italian city (I think, or maybe Spanish)…made me think of a whole sib-set of “Saint-based city names”.

My daughter had a boy in her class named Oakley – they called him Oak.

My other daughter was friends with a girls named Thomas.

I went to school with a girl who dated a boy whose first name was Mister.

I just moved from an apt where my neighbors were sisters named Teal and Salem. My sis went to school with a girl named October but they called her Toby, I think its kinda cute!

I have a 25 year old male cousin named Blaine, which seems odd for our generation. His older brother (Matt, kidna boring) married an Avelea (A-vuh-lee), and I haven’t found her name on any name site yet!

I met a 5 year old Ophelia on the playground last year, so awesome.

I teach high school music, and have a 16 year old boy named North in one of my classes. Before I met him I thought it’d be a cool name, alas, he’s a giant pain.

Someone above mentioned Elora, I actually grew up with one too! She was the little sister of a c.1985 Ashley. We live about an hour or two from a small town in Ontario called Elora though.

I’m biased but I want to mention my two and a half year old son’s name ESPEN. It has absolutely nothing to do with the American sports network ESPN (I’m Canadian) as some may believe. It’s meaning is ‘God bear’ with origins in Scandinavian countries. I don’t know of any other Espen’s but have received lots of positive comments. The name suits him perfectly. NAMEBERRY, please add this name to your site!!!!

I am a teacher: Ripley (f), Romulus (m), Titan (m), Evey(f), Jade Emerald (f), Azlynn (f) . . . to name a few.

GIRLS:
Silvana as a middle name
Trillium
Kirpa Kaur (East Indian parents)
ZahaBella
Nayah

BOYS:
Trapper
Karm Singh (East Indian parents – not related to the girl)
sibset: Romeo, Titus and Bing

@ Becca
Katiri is pronounced KAH-teer-ee (not sure if this is the right way to write it, but the a is like the a in soda)

I know a family with five children – Jaxson (b), Bayden (b), Sharlae (g), Priella (g) and Kyaten (b). Why? The mum’s name is Vanessa and she hated having a popular name.

My friend recently had twins:

Posie Araminta & Fergus Rupert

I also came across a 14 year old Plum! And a Rory and a Hermione!

Girls:

Brettany
Europa
Sree
Eilis (eye-lish)
Kaori
Giulia
Annapurna (nn Andrea)
Lizette
Talia

Boys:

Niles
Jedidiah
Ariel
Artem (from Russia)
Elazar
Sterling

Oh, duh. I forgot. Recently, I met a girl named Happiness. She launched into an explanation of her name as soon as she said it, which I thought was kind of sad. We’ve talked about never using a name that would always immediately be followed by an explanation, or a “You know, like the…”
One exception: Lyra… you know, like the constellation.

i lived in denmark for a while and encountered a lot of awesome names.

a little norwegian girl name sian. (pronounced shawn)

a spunky danish professor name siri (sear-ri)

a designer named phillipia and her boyfriend johnas

french sisters: aja and alethea (a-lee-the-a)

french born twins: lisette and audette

a boy named abraham, whom everyone called abie

a woman from czech republic named lenka

an american student named duncan, whom everyone called dune

also…i spent a few summers working as a camp counselor at a very diverse and unique summer program and encountered some very uniquely named sibsets…

sibset: scarlett (f), darby (f), shane (f), cricket (f), and drue (m)

sisters: althea (called thea), fiorela (called fio), and kiara (called kiki)

brothers: angus and devlin

sibset: kelby (m), koralie (f) and campbell (f)

sibet (of 7!! in chronological order): patterson (m), mclain (m), padget (f) crawford (m), ingrid(f) and twins astor (f) and alma (f)
- these children have a very very common last name (think along the lines of jones or smith) and a my co-workers and i had a theory that the parents wanted to add some uniqueness to each of their children’s otherwise common surnames

twins: sianna (pronounced with a hard a, si-AH-na) and marianna. (nicknamed sisi and mimi)

I work in a hospital and so hear quite a few unusual names in a days work, most recently though I have met a 6 year old Cosmo and an adult Aeneas (pn IN-ee-us) both of which I thought were excellent

I second Shannon’s request to add Espen to the site. It’s a beautiful gender neutral name.

Espen has been added to the database.

The other day outside a bakery I heard a mom call for her around 4 year old blond blue-eyed son, Campbell. My initial thought was definitely the soup company but now I think of it as a nice Surname-as-first-name choice, though for my preferences it works more so for a boy.

my brother and his wife just had a baby boy and named him Xavier! So cool.

I recently met a woman in her early 20s named Fairlight. Her family has a bakery that is named after her as well.

My friend’s name is Božo (the ž is pronounced like a french j [like in toujours]) and while people whose mothertongue is English might find this name (=> the spelling) to be amusing, I like the sound of it. He’s of Croatian descent and I think his name is a variant of Božídar which means “gift of god”.

Had a waitress Jetson.
Met a 2 yr old Evangeline NN Evie in the dentist’s office.

Apparently, Bettina is a name of Italian origin, with originates from Benedict or Elisabeth. In the Netherlands, usually seen on women over 40.

Note: (brackets used for privacy!).

Girls
Elisavetta 1yr old
Ishk(a) 12yr old
Perpetu(a) 3yr old
Augustin(a) 2yr old
Agnes 6yr old
Stone(y) 7yr old

Boys
Camillu(s) 5yrs
Taje(n) 9yrs
Valentine 12yr old
Venansiu(s) 6 months
Ignatius x 2 17yrs and 6yrs

We just named our son born on11/23/2010 Creed Edward

A baby girl Mietta, and another girl Ridley. Also, boys Ewan, Kaelin and Boston, this week. I love Ewan, and Mietta is pretty, but in my opinion Kaelin is way too feminine and trendy for a baby boy.

a girl named sol [sun in spanish] i thought it was really cute

a girl named sage [not too uncommon but pretty]

i met a girl named ariel who went by ‘rel’ which i looove

my name is Vanda, heard of a few ova yrs but neva known any1 personally, my 1yr olds name is Rhioni, middle name Cynthia after my nan who i loved dearly, & up to now we are calling our new little princess Khalia but no middle name yet, could change our minds in the nx 19wk tho

My friend has a little brother named Stone. The first time I heard her mention him I thought she was kidding, but his name really is Stone..

There’s a girl in my ballet class named Jaci. She has 2 sisters, Harley and Rayma.

My teacher just had his 1st grandkid who’s name is December Frost (boy). I think it’s kinda cute, but he was born in October.

My daughter’s friend is named Ammerie.

Myla and Sisters: Arielle, Gabrielle and Mikaelle

Trying to think of cool names for my son. Currently undecided on
J’adel
Rell
Liel (lee-ell)
Jace
Asher
Beau

Please help

Two children I babysit have great names:

Graylin (Proper name Caroline Gray)
Daxter – We call him Dax for short

Thurl

Bindi

Minka

i read the blog of a mom of three girls: True, Brave, and Soul.

I know a couple that named that their baby Harlee Quinn <3. I also know a Miana and I know someone with a son named Adolph.

i recently heard of the name Lotus-Marie and i thought that was really pretty. i used to know someone named Trillion (girl) and a boy named Saxon. And then i love the names Fallon and Magnolia for a girl

I have a friend named Natalie who has a brother named Noble which I LOVE. Also my name is Marina which is kind of uncommon but I really love it!

The Family on “Nine By Design”

Wolfgang “Wolfy”
Bellamy
Tallullah
Breaker
Five
Holleder “Holly” (Boy)
Major

Worked with a Sahela (sa-HAIL-uh) and a Chenoa (sha-NOH-uh) a few years ago. Sahela I can’t find any info on, but Chenoa means “white dove” in Cherokee according to some sites.

Had a professor named Purba who was Indian, can’t find much info on the name though.

Met an Artem (male) in a class a few years ago. It’s a Russian name that ultimately comes from the Greek goddess Artemis.

Had a friend named Mondana in elemantary school.

Some funny ones: I went to high school with a Morgan Freeman (a white female) and a Danny Glover (an Irish male).

@visitor: i really like your diverse choices, my faves are jace, asher, and beau. my thoughts on Rell, relish? Liel, if you had to put the pn think what the kid will go thru everyday…and J’adel, not fond of the ‘. Also Jace, Asher and Beau all have names that kindof relate to or branch of them so you have other options as well for example Bay or Hart for Beau…Ashton, Dash/Dashiell for Asher…Ace for Jace? LOVE jace asher and beau tho, cool choices

Cecilie Claire (g) nn CC or Cecils. Our old dr’s office had a computerized reminder that was phoenetic and referred to her as “Che-Chili.” haha.
Asher (b)
Ellis (g)
Belen (g)
Paloma (g)
Adrian Daniel (b) nn “Adie” ["AD"]

I heard a little boy named Arlo at the park the other day. I think it sounds very cool and vintage.

Names we’ve been contemplating include-

Girls:

Odessa
Mielle
Georgia

Neutral:
Mischa
Billie
Grey

Boys:
Milo
Nico
Thibeau (Tibo)
Beck
Bohdi
Oliver Bear (we will call him Obie)

My daughters name is Teryn Paige and my sons name is Trevon(pron. Trev in) Patrick

My oldest daughter is starting kindergarden this year and in our private school there are kids with these names:

-Babette
-Octavia
-Zanthe (yes spelled with a Z)
-Apollonia
-Cosmo
-Franco
-Hugo

There are lots of O names in her class. Of all the boys, only 3 don’t have O in their names.

Here are some names I’ve encountered in our preschool, gym class, daycare, friends’ kids, etc. We live in a pretty progressive area so I’m not surprised by any of them but these stood out to me as names I don’t hear often.

-Slade (girl)
-Ramses
-Fountain (boy)
-Gaia
-Wilder
-Sinead
-Bianca
-Gabo (boy, nickname for Gabriel)
-Hallam (boy)
-Lochlan
-Adelaide Aurora
-Sibyl
-Kailer
-Kobe
-Margot
-Davian (boy)
-Meia (pronounced May like the month+uh)
-Aliya
-Calen (boy)
-Tula

I love my friend’s name- Anabay, pronounced Ann-ah-bay.

I know a boy named Seiler. Pronounced like Sailor.

I went to school with a girl named Chainey, she had siblings Creed and Cami.

I’ve met a little girl named Hayveri.

I grew up with a guy named Caz.

I love the name Eero(Arrow)
and the name Jukka(Youka)
and Heiki(Haykey)

Kateri= Ka-teer-ee

I was working the Pre-K VBS group at church and we had a little girl named Lyric.
we also had:
Laura
Linnea
Sarah
Joey x2
Ellie x2
Marta
Amelie

And then there was the guy at the courthouse named Dusty Rice. no joke.

Nature (b)
Abezier (b) prn ah-BEH-zahr
Anakin (b)
Capri (g)
Irasia (g)

A senior in high school I have seen around school is named Rhea, which I love. My friend told me that she was almost named Zara a couple weeks ago!

Names I have heard at my children’s school:

-siblings Brigham and Brielle (love!)

-sisters Niharika and Sriharika, (prn. Nee-ha-REE-ka & Shri-ha-REE-ka) nicknames Niha and Sriha

-brothers Coby and Cooper

-siblings Ingrid and Paul

-brothers Brockston and Brodyn

-Meadow (g)

-Rayna (g)

-sisters Chesney and Georgia

-Tuff (b)

-Deja (g)

Baby #3 on the way, considering Ambrielle or Aveda for a girl (oldest girl is Alexia), can’t decide on a boys name, so we’re probably having a boy
Possibilities: Tatum, Sawyer, or Beckhem. Have yet to find a boys name I love (my son’s name is Tanner, thinking Tanner and Tatum go well together). Husband likes Jax, but way too many Jax/Jaxon’s around here and everywhere else! He also likes Augustin (he loves the nn Auggie), but I’m not sold on it. Hoping to find the “one” in the next 10 weeks!