Unique Unisex Names

A surname style name that may appeal to those who like Langston and Oakley but also L- heavy choices like Lila, Delilah, and Linley, Langley is a rare option with a nature-connected meaning. It first appeared in the US stats for girls in the 1990s, after actress Mariel Hemingway used it for one of her daughters and was given to nearly 40 girls in 2015 after Langley Fox (Hemingway) began to make her own mark on the fashion and modelling world.




Langley

Ash is a gender-neutral choice that calls to mind the '80s favorite: Ashley. But view it as a nature name -- as in the tree, not the charred bit of soot in the fireplace -- and it makes a cool choice that fits with today's trends. 

Inventive name for the child of a writer. 

Fable

This name projects a sense of well-being, as in "hale and hearty", while also having a nature-adjacent meaning, referring to someone who lives near a hollow, a nook, or a remote area of land. Rhyming word hail adds a hint of storminess to the name too.
 
Unusual but accessible, with a clear simple sound, it may appeal to those who enjoy Hayden, Hayes, or Hal. Namesakes include Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale, along with Margaret Hale and Mr Hale of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South.

Hale

Highly unusual but stylish-sounding occupational name, with a pleasant association with gardens. 

Carden

When playwright Thomas Lanier Williams adopted the pen name of Tennessee, he created a new possibility among American place-names, although it's admittedly a bit bulky in size. 

Reese Witherspoon brought it back into the spotlight when she chose it for her son. While Tennessee's two most famous bearers are male, the name can work equally well for a child of any gender.

Tennessee

Naz is occasionally used as-is on the birth certificate, but you're more likely to encounter it as a nickname for Nazir or Nazareth.

Sean and Robin Wright Penn chose this name for their son to honor their friend Dennis Hopper; others might associate it with the painter Edward. Couldn't be more spirited.

Hopper

A top name in Turkey, where it ranks in the Top 30 for baby girls.

Derin

Gio is a cute, more androgynous variation of Gia that could work well as a nickname for names such as Giovanna, Giordana, or Giorgia. It was chosen by Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo for their daughter in 2018. 

Giovanna is of course the Italian feminine form of John, so Gio could be a very dashing way to honor a familial John.

Now deeply associated with the gemstone Lapis Lazuli, Lazuli is derived from one of the places where the stone was first mined. The word Lazuli is the root for words like azure. Lapis Lazuli is a deep and rich blue color and was used for pigments and jewellery.

Lazuli can be used for a boy or a girl.

Lazuli

In geography, a meridian is a line drawn around the curve of the Earth between the North and South Poles. The term comes from Latin meridianus, meaning "pertaining to midday", and the association with midday has led to the word gaining an added figurative meaning of "pinnacle; culmination". As a name, Meridian is rare, but it has potential as a modern unisex nature/virtue choice. Author Alice Walker gave the name to the eponymous character in her novel Meridian.

Meridian

A rare unisex word/virtue name that is currently given to around 10 babies of each gender per year in the US. It could make for an unexpected route to bright, easygoing nickname Sol (or trendy nickname Ace). 
There is a male literary namesake in Solace Layfield, a character in Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel Wise Blood. Alanis Morrissette and Souleye used it as a middle name for their daughter, Onyx Solace, born in 2016.

Solace

Guthrie, one of the most attractive <a href="https://nameberry.com/list/428/scottish-baby-names">Scottish names</a> that's also a surname, has a particularly romantic, windswept aura, with a touch of the buckaroo thrown in.
 Guthrie's folkie quality is tied to the father and son pair of singers Woody (born Woodrow Wilson) and Arlo. Other Guthries: Guthrie McClintic, a major figure in the Broadway theatre world of the early twentieth century, and Guthrie Govan, a guitarist with Asia and other bands.

Guthrie

One of those ultimate cool-girl names, played by Keira Knightley in a movie about a supermodel-turned-bounty hunter, but kids might associate it with the game. High profile British designer India Hicks used it for her daughter. As a <a href="https://nameberry.com/girls-names">girls' name</a>it's still very rare, used in 2015 in the US for only seven baby girls.

Domino

Predominantly used for boys but occasionally given to girls too, Kayra is a Turkish name that relates to either mythology or to a similar Arabic name. A Top 100 name in its native country, it may be considered a variation of Khayr, relating it to kindness and giving.
 
Alternatively, in Turkish mythology, Kayra is the deity of creation. The ancient Turks did not assign a gender to Kayra, who took the form of a goose. According to legend, Kayra planted the tree of life after creating the universe, from which emerged the nine clans. In this case, it could mean "ruler of the land" or "ruler of the land".

Kayra

This artistic surname name derives from a diminutive of Laurence/Lawrence, and was famously borne by the English painter LS Lowry.
 
Country singer Sam Hunt and his wife Hannah have a son named Lowry Lee, a combination of their middle names.

Lowry

Cool, serene name of the Egyptian river can make a fresh choice for a girl.  The origin of river name Nile relates to the Arabic and ancient Hebrew word for dark blue or indigo; in ancient Egyptian, its literal meaning is river.

Nile

A truly gender-neutral surname name used equally between the sexes.

Reynolds

A surprisingly modern word name, only recorded since the 20th century, Solaris is also the title of a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish author Stanisław Lem, which has been adapted for the big screen several times. An unexpected route to Sol or Solly as nicknames.


Solaris

 are on many parents' wish lists these days, and you might be here looking for one for yourself. As more people find appeal in both 

ideal solution may be to combine the two categories.

 those free of any intrinsic gender identity and used roughly equally for girls and boys - are unique by any definition. But there are plenty of unique unisex names worth considering that tilt a bit more male or female, in terms of usage.

We usually define unisex names as those given to at least 10 percent of the minority gender. And unique names might be 

rare or uncommon names below the Top 1000

 or names that are not traditionally names: 

This list of unique unisex names includes only those names that fit the definitions give above, but it is worth remembering that people's perception of which names are unusual and which are gender neutral may vary, depending on their associations and experiences.

to choose from, and these are among the best.

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