Unusual Names: Hidden gems on your own Facebook page

Le sigh. Being born in a certain time, it seems like every boy was named Michael and all girls were Jennifer.

From my friends:

Male:
Arrien
Daulton
Djiln
Jeroen
Jonas
Marko
Oturan
Ryne
Tobias
Wilder
Wilmot

Female:
Estefany
Avalon
Chandler
Corrine
Desi
Janne
Jenielle
Kimber
Laken
Lindosa
Melita
Midge
Monet
Nour
Payel

I have to say that Gardner is rather intriguing…possible alternative to Cooper, Carter, Porter etc.?

Most of my Facebook friends hover around the Gen X/Y line of being in their mid 20s to their mid 30s. There were a lot of x2 like Molly and Anthony, but for the sake of time I just included popular names that had 3 or more. Friends names that I found notable:

Men: Alvaro, Barker, Cameron, Dominic Eyal, Emanuel, Francesco, Garen (not an invented name, but a variant of an Armenian one), Iain, Marco, Omar, Punit, Rory, Shakir

My male friends names were much more repetitive than my female friends( which obviously comes as no surprise). For example, names repeated at least 3 times: Ben (x3), Daniel (5) David (x5), Matt (x4) Will (x3)

Women: Arwen, Olabunmi, Chandra, Deborah, Dora, Diana, Kyle, Laurel, Lena, Marcelle, Marguerite, Maritza, Maurin, Nadia, Natasha, Paige, Rose, Samia, Sela, Sharde, Tali.

The girls list was of course a bit more varied, here are names w/ 3 or more friends: Jennifer (x3 of course) Christine/Christina (x4) Rachael (x3) Sarah (x4) Michelle (x3)

Great blog idea! I always look at my friend’s friends lists, for the names of course!

Girls-
Elke, Vita, Ivy, Shennan, Philomena, Adria

Some unique and cool names!

Female:
Parrish
Anne-Flore
Avni
Blakely (actually a fairly popular name in this specific area)
Breane
Dori
Oxane
Siobhan

Male:
Conrad
Ike
Leif

Afton and Jessamine are my only uniquely named friends.

Keep in mind that some of these may be gaming accounts. Both my little sister and I have 2 accounts — one for our real selves and one for our games. She calls herself Kitten for her first name and I call myself Titania. That doesn’t mean that they aren’t cool name suggestions though. Also, when gaming on Facebook, it’s easy to make international friends since the games are free for everyone everywhere and easy to get to. Perhaps this explains why there are so many countries represented?

pdxlibrarian: No, I’m pretty sure these don’t have anything to do with gaming, but are either actual friends or friends of friends.

My friend Malerie uses her nick name Malaria on her face book page.
Side note, my husband really wanted to use Leeloo as a fifth element reference, and Inigo reminds me of “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you kill my father, prepare to die”. My cousin’s three sons are Talon Jayche, Xander Jay and Shade Brently (after her brother Brent)

Male: Abner Adrien Alexander Amaury Anton Arnauld Ashley Axel Brennen Buddy Clarence Claudio Colbey Dane Darius Deal Eli Elohim Emmanuel Eviatar Fenris Fran Francesco Gaetano Gamble Geoffrey Giovani Harel Isamu Issel Jeremiah Jesse Jesu Jorge Juan Julian Junaid Kale Kaleb Karthik Kirk Krish Lance Leon Marc Micah Myles Nathanael Nduka Nevin Nikolay Noah Odoi Omar Orlando Pablo Quinton Raylan Reginald Robb Ross Rudy Seth Shaughn Sherman Spenser Theo Thorin Tuan Vinny Wesley Ye Yuanhao Yuriy Zhe

Only missing U

Hmm, I’ve never thought to look there! Interesting. There are some names on your friend suggestions that I absolutely love- spelled differently- such as Gardener and Lilou. Here are some of my friend suggestions that stuck out to me…
Girls:
Sylvia
Helena
Bruna
Brenna
Antoinette
Lieren
Yuki
Allegra
Ellery
Kimber
Marilyn
Noelle
Micah
Harriet

Boys:
Chase
Miguel
Mario
Eugene
Garin
Brooks
Remy

I don’t think my eyes could handle weeding through much more. Sorry it wasn’t much.

I’ve never looked at my friends list for that reason – interesting! My list (Amys and Kristens, etc) is far different than my father’s (Judys and Shirleys).

A few standouts on mine:
Christelle
Darcy
Ginger
Gretchen
Darlene
Kay
Kimmon
Kyla
Mary Jane
Mayela
Meleah
Micahx3 (all girls)
Moya
Patrizia
Piper
Renada
Sally
Marcie
Shelby
Virgie
Marigny (pron. mare-ih-nee)

Boys –
Rufus (goes by RG)
Saenen
Seth
Ivan
Tobin
Willoughby (goes by Wilby)

Female: Ada Afrakomah Aima Aiyeesha Aj Alexa Alexandra Alina Alissa Allegra Allerlei Alveda Aniela AnneMarie Annemarie (2) Antoinette Arianne Arielle Ashtyn Astrid Aubrie Audi Audrea Austri Avital Betsy Bonnie Brianca Cara (2) Carissa Carlene Carlie Carmen (2) Celeste Charleen Charmaine Chawnee Chelsea/Chelsey Cheryle Chychy Clara Clarene Coral Corrine Cortnie Daena Dani Day Deana Deanna (2) Dolores Dorinda Dot Emanuela EmilyBeth Emmylou Eresi Eva (2) Faith Farrah Faye (2) Gargi Georgette GeorgiaAna Georgianna Gianna Glenda Hadley Hangyul Haz Hippolyta Hope Ilaisa Irene Iris Irma Issandra Jade Jaime/Jaimee/Jaimi Janna Jantje Jiatian Jie Juda June-Ellen Jyothi Kara Karla Karolin Karissa Kat Katianna Kelleigh Kelsey Kendyl Kerilynn Kerrianne Kerrie Kiley Koren Kourtney Krissy Kyleen Lacie LaKisha Lana Latasha Leigh-Anne Lene Lesley/Leslie Lessie Letha Leticia Lexi Lila Lina Lincy Lindy Lonna Lorene Lorraine Loyda Luana Lucia Lucy Lydia Lyss Mae Marcella Marcia Maria (2) Marion Marisha Marlo Marlyn Martha Meisha Melly Merritt Mikaila Misty Monike Moreen Muriel Myah Nanette Natalya Natasha Neera Nina-Marie Ning Nuance Obi Olga Pallavi Patience Penny Polly Rae Rebekah (2) Rinda Rivkah Rohit Rona Roshni Roxane Ruchi Rylee
Sana, Sanouri, Seren, Shan, Shana, Sharone, Shirah, Simone, Stacia, Summer Breeze, Sunny, Suyun, Suzette, Swapna, T’Leah, Tabitha, Tamra, Tara, Tess, Thomasina, Tiana, Tianna, Tingting, Tonia, Torri, Traci, Tulasi, Tulika, Valentine, Vera, Vik, Virginia, Wynette, Yea-Wen, Yelimar, Yvonne, Yuyu

Stupid nameberry! You distracted me while my children smeared themselves with peanut butter.

Some more I couldn’t figure out the gender on (no/ambiguous pictures):
Chun Jansen Jeeyun Ji Jin Megumi Ojonimi Pier Remy Ros Ruchi Sasa Solines Su Ying YunJa

I quite like Lorca!

Love love love some of these names!

Girls:
Ada
Amalia
Anne-Marie
Anouk/Anoek (x3)
Danielle
Denise
Eliza
Giulia
Giada
Ida-Marie
Ingrid
Ilse (x2)
Iris (x4)
Janine
Lydia
Mathilde/Mathilda (x3)
Margo
Natalie
Stella
Suzanne
Tessa
Yora

Boys:
Adam
Arthur
Bart
Bob
Casper (x2)
Cornelis
Erik
Ezra
Jasper
Matthias
Maurits
Niels/Nils (x4)
Ralph
Raymond
Remy
Sebastian/Sebastiaan (x3)
Stefan/Stephan (x5)
Tim (x3)
Willem
Xander
Yorin

Linda I think you were too dismissive of pdxlibrarians suggestion that some of the names could be sockpuppets. It’s a pretty common thing on facebook. About half of my friends have a sockpuppet account, and they pop up in my “friends of friends” list. Names like Nora, or Simon – people have various avatars. I don’t think it lessens the coolness of the names people are finding to suggest that a few might be sockpuppets or gamer names, if that’s what bugged you about it. I guess I just don’t get why that suggestion, very plausible and likely sometimes true, seemed to offend you.

Estelluxx: Sorry, didn’t mean to be dismissive–it’s just that I know that the names on my own friends’ list are real, then also spent a lot of time checking out the profiles of the FOFS, so I’m pretty sure the names in the blog aren’t avatars.

Male:

Kaige
Kenley
Rory
Taylor x2
Dominique
Sage
Dakota
Bailey
Riley x2
Kim
Misha
Salem
Denver
Pacey
Jensen
Jordan x2
Kayden
Zion
Kerry
Alejandro
Edson
Hugo
Yvan
Kye
Juan
Luis
Nacho
Skyler
Sydney
Theo
Wiko
Aleci
Shea
Cassidy
Kendall

Female:

Patti
Robin
Vera
Daniela
Andreia
Coral
Tamia
Marine
Dalyna
Celi
Giulianna
Eden
Calliope
Una
Magda
Leonor
Lexi
Dora
Elaine x2
Farrah
Angelique
Parker
Gemma
Hallee
Blubell
Willa
Helena
Moxie
Dahlia
Tess
Ashten
Morgan
Brenda x2
Ginnie
Daisy
Aspen
Jordan
Michaela
Rylie
June

I have a lot of international friends and thus a lot of interesting names on my Facebook friends list! Here are some that sound more wearable to American ears.

Boys:
Dante
Farley (an American)
Fletcher (an American)
Kenan
Ori
Thierry
Von

Girls:
Antonella
Esra
Melina
Merve
Naz
Ola
Olan
Philippine
Reinou
Rinske
Samrina
Selen/Selin
Tesalia (my favorite of these!)

A few unusual names from my contacts
Girls:
Thayse (pronounced Ty-easy)
Layni
Dasha
Adyjah
Cassady
Domenique
Karson (yes this is a girl)
Kiri
Leandra
Marjorie

Boys :
Omar
Welles
Tadhg

I have a hard time believing Dood is real. I have a lot of students on my FL, and many of them go by nicknames on FB, and are called by those nns by everyone on their page…for example, one boy is called “Meat” by everyone on his page. His name is Demetrius. I have no idea why they call him that, but it’s not his real name.

…..I *almost* wish I used facebook now. *Almost*.

Iris1973: I have a friend named Demetrius and we all called him Meach growing up, so Meat (de-MEAT-ree-uhs), kind of makes sense to me.

I just made a list and it got erased. There were some really great ones! I’ll just tell you the winner (by far) of most yooneek spelling:

Auxaiviair.

Wowza, right? Sisters Shannell, Jonee, Cashmere, Sylvia and Yolanda. And brother George. Yes.

My friend’s dad’s name is Dood. I’m 95% certain that it’s his real name. He’s around 60. He’s from Oregon. Unusual names seem to be the standard in that area.

I think some of the misspellings we see are because people (especially kids) are trying to keep them from being searched or keep it private. I know some go by nicknames or misspellings.

Wednesday? Was her surname ‘Addams’? lol

This is fun! Here’s what I’ve got…I’ve worked at a university for ~8 years, so I have a lot of friends with international flair. I tried to limit names to ones that might sing nicely to English-speaking ears.

Girls:
Aba
Adrienne
Amelia
Ami (pronounced ah-mee)
Anjali (pronounced ahn-jah-lee)
Annalise
April
Ariel
Bashak
Bethany
Betty
Blair
Bora
Brynne
Efe (pronounced “eff-ay”)
Elon
Elsie
Erina
Eugenia (nn Genie)
Feyza (pronounced Fay-zah)
Georgia
Jaylene
Joona (pronounced joe-on-ah)
Lei (pronounced lay-i)
Lajeana
Lena
Louisa
Magdalene
Maisie
Pallavi (pronounced paul-ah-vee)
Philippa
Regina
Rena
Ruthie
Silke (pronounced shill-keh)
Sunita (pronounced sue-nita)
Wendy

Boys:
Ajay
Akhil
Aric
Arthur
Bern
Burr
Cosma
Erwin
Jonah
Kavi
Lian
Marvin
Miles
Omar
Omid
Randall
Wilson

From my FB:
Girls
Afeshia, Ambrosia, Ariammy, Azealia, Cielle, Fabienne, Genneice, Hila, Irana, Isaira, Jasstina, Jisette, Linese, Loida, Micole, Osyris, Rodianna, Sonithia, Soreen, Zann, Zhenya
Boys
Adwin, Anselmo, Antoniel, Armany, Artyom, Avram, Bogdan, Caolan, Evrotas, Gian, Kern, Kip, Leron, Lucius, Ludwig, Mert, Naveh, Sha, Taurus, Tekanand, Zev

I don’t have Facebook but my friends do, so I browsed three of their friends lists and found some unique names!

GIRLS:
Farrell, Crosby, Carlin, Chappell, Gates, Lansdell, Christian, Snow, Berry, Duncan, Arrington, Bardin, Garland, Barker, Lindley, Miller (x2), Stewart, Zarina, Ansley (x9!), Berkley, Callan (x3), Charmaine, Fraser, Rett, Kimberlin, Tallon

BOYS:
Wingate, Brooks, Keefer, Maxson, Kelley, Taber, Garrick, Zeb, Hampton, Colter, Parrish, Conley, Kanyon, Kohler, Tripp (x5)

My name is Jahara (har as in har-ley) my name means “rare jewel” in arabic..

My name means “clear” in french…

Girls: Adisa, Adorna, Adrea, Aejin, Alethea, Anais, Arri, Bisi, Dasol, Dawna, Devika, Elidia, Ellis, Fabriana, Gissel, Harling, Ifeoma, Inna, Iriane, Jacobi, Kaya, Kejal, Kekenus, Liani, Maha, Manning, Megumi, Nelia, Pooja, Quyama, Saakshi, Saringi, Shriya, Sorcha, Tamar, Temi, Tomi, Xi, Yooni, Ysaura, Zabreen

Boys: Akinyele, Angus, Ayodele, Beno, Chutapatr, Ebenezer, Freeman, Garland, Giorgio, Kafele, Kirill, Kohiin, Leighton, Theophilus, Onyedi, Punit, Seungki, Sergio, Vijay, Vikas, Wonyong

I don’t have a Facebook. But I do agree that you can find unique names there. The thing is though, I have a problem with names that don’t match someone’s culture and it would just be like so… what names work and what names don’t?

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Girls:
Simone
Bradejah
Monique 
Markeya
Masha
Soleil
Maylis 
Priyancka
Simmren
Anisha
Oge 
Joelisa
Ondi
Samena
Sahara
Aneri
Aesha
Suhani
Anjali
Chrystel
Shivangi
Oriya

Boys: 
Tefrem
Yoshihiri (Yoshi)
Javier
Karim
Angelo
Lennart 
Cordell
Nikola
Nnamdi
Shivank
Nikko
Gianmarco
Rafael
Naman
Abhay
Curry
Geovany
Jerrius
Kalupe
Seanquavious
Faite
Tapan
Aarti
Amir
Aiah (short form of Isaiah)

This is my shortened list from my Facebook.

Yoshihiri is supposed to be Yoshihiro.