Unconventional Name Ideas?

I like rather unconventional names that have a nature/literary/relaxed feel to them. I'm expecting my first child and my husband and I can't seem to find a name we both adore. It needs to be usable for a child, but still unique... a happy medium. I really prefer to stay away from older names... but I'm remaining pretty open to ideas. Names with nicknames would be a bonus as well.

Any suggestions?

Unconventional names aren't my style, but I thought I'd repeat suggestions given to someone who asked about the name Poet (a name that, in my opinion, will surely be a source of teasing). This site has many wonderful names lists (click on "hot lists" to browse, including literary and nature names.

Some ideas:

Ever
Aria
Lyric
Sonnet
Skye
Meadow
True
Monet
Emerson
Auden
Arden
Allegra
Aurora
Arabella
Coco
Harlow
Cambria
Astoria
Esme
Honor
Scarlett
Winter
Autumn
Summer
Eliot
Sage
Rose
Lily
Lila
Daisy
Poppy
Delphine
Azalea
Iris
Violet
Lake
Avalon
Luna
Haven
Catalina
Lark
Wren

River
Archer
Axel
Bodhi
Dashiell (nn Dash)
Gulliver
Langston
Lennox
Romeo
Tennyson
Story
Cullen
Sawyer

Best wishes!

How about:
Girls:
Sawyer
Esme (Salinger name)
Iris (nature)
Freyda
Sailor (nature)
Willow (nature)
Pippa
Eudora (Welty)
Sada
Matilda (Tilda)
Dasha
Ramona (California legend)
Zelda (Fitzgerald)
Colette nn Coco

Boys:
Zane (Grey)
Wyeth (artist)
Truman (Capote)
Lorenzo
Auden (W.H.)
Gabriel (Garcia Marquez)
Dashiell (Hammett)
Fitzwilliam nn Fitz (Mr. Darcy)
Elliott (T.S.)
Jasper (nature name)
Denali (National Park)
Bryce (National Park), popular name

I think that the suggestion of Ramona is very cool.

I love the name Atliegh for a girl and I have never heard it anywhere. (I am not using it for this baby-we are having a boy :)

I have found uncommon that I really like from movies (Imogen from Down to You/Tenley from Summer Catch/Esme from Twilight- there are a bunch more I cant think of...) and books (Olympia from Anita Shreve's Fortunes Rocks and Araline, Anethe, and Maren from Weight of Water) but books and movies can be good places to get ideas... and also try looking up supermodel names (and the nameberry supermodel list!)- they usually have beautiful and foreign names....

I love nature/ literary names, too!!

What about:

Girls:

Bryony (love this, my hubby won't let me use it though)
Lux (The Virgin Suicides)
Reeve
Violet
Marlow
Emerson
Rome
Hollyn
Abbott
Novalee
Brantley
Banks
Oakley
Lyra
Leona
Kaia (I've read different meanings for this one: of the earth, the sea, pure)
Brett (The Sun Also Rises)
Rosalind
Astrid (White Oleander)
Emerald
Luna
Estrella
Elodie
Calla (it beleived that this comes from the greek word for beautiful)
Leilani (beautiful flower)
Clover
Dahlia
Scarlett
Fiona


Boys:

Holden
Chaucer
Aquinos
Bay
Baylen
Parks
Asher
Rhys
Lief
Judah
Bastian
Rainer
Kipling
Ripley
Poe
Rudyard
Kirkland
Hemingway
Phoenix

Girls
Raine
Lark
Georgia
Ivy
Briony/Bryony (from the book and movie atonement, and means to sprout, and you could use the nickname Bri, pron. Bry-oh-nee)
Fleur (was in the harry potter books and movie, means flower in french)
Scarlett (nickname could be Scarley, from gone with the wind)
Emer
Bianca
Paige
Olive
Violet
Ottilie
Gemma
Desdemona (from William Shakespears Othello)
Elizabeth (as in Bennett, from Pride and Prejuduce)
Darcy/Darcie (see above)
Cosette (from Les Miserables)
Guinevere (the doomed queen of camelot)
Lavender
Hermione ( from harry potter books and movies)

Boys
Atticus (as in Finch from to kill a mocking bird, book and movie)
Heathcliff (from Wuthering heights)
Corin (from William Shakespears As you like it)
Holden (catcher in the rye)
Jasper (from twilight books and movies and the pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper, it also means spotted stone, a little naturey)
Fitzwilliam (from pride and prejuduce)
Boone
Santiago ( as in the old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway)
Romeo (I think you know)
Tybalt( from Romeo and Juliet)
Tristan (from the book Tristan by Gottfried Von Strassburg and the movie Tristan and Isolde)
Wolf (the sea wolf by Jack london)

hope I helped some!

~Bree

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