"oh that's interesting"

jesus4life2

the name thread is entertaining but does anyone have a real live child with an "oh that's interesting" name? our sons name is Oakley and we get "that's cool" most of the time but a lot of "oh.... interesting"s too. we don't care though. we think he is an Oakley and he is so cool. HIs middle name is Knox which I also love

PinkKEL9

Hubby loves the name Oakley for a boy If we have a girl, I really want to name her Hadley, which does not get a lot of love on the name board. But I don't care. 

jesus4life2

PinkKEL9 said:

Hubby loves the name Oakley for a boy If we have a girl, I really want to name her Hadley, which does not get a lot of love on the name board. But I don't care. 

we were going to name our girl "oakleigh" but I am kinda glad we had a boy because everyone knows how to spell "Oakley" . I like Hadley! ill support cha girl.

rmjones15

I haven't gotten "oh that's interesting" but people ask me if we are Jewish a lot. My sons name is Judah. whatevs.

jesus4life2

we were in love with the name Judah and I mentioned to a friend---
guess what? a few months later her baby boy was born: Judah. haha. fun.

liberty mielo

Unique names are the BEST! My first name is Liberty and I love it! My husband and I will be picking out a very unique name for our little baby. ❤️ I love Oakley by the way!

jewels1199

Our guys name is Kainen (Kay-nen )and we get a lot of " oh .... Ive never heard that name before" LOL but we knew when we named him that that we would get a lot of that. My Nana actually said " why would you name him something so weird??" right to my face...THAT was unexpected LOL After that I feel like I can handle any comment.

I couldnt imagine him in any other name now

chaysefaith

Nope. But my sister named her daughter Oakley. It suits her so well.

mrsgyaray

My sd's name is Clover and it fits her so well :-)

owlcup

I like "weird" names too but DH strongly, does not. Both our kids have traditional names so this next one probably will too.

I get to live through my sisters. Their kids have cool "weird" names!

ETA: I also wanted to add that most of our friends have "uniquely" named kids and they all thought the name Henry was weird. :P

JNerd

I have to admit, I'm not a fan. Am totally one of those people that would respond with 'oh, thats an interesting name' mostly because I just don't understand it. 

I like strong, traditional names. I think of what life I would want the  40year old to have, and what kind of name suits that. All babies names are cute, but how will the work professionally? 

We tend towards classical names, or names with a classic feel to them, but shy away from the super popular names.

ElTrain5

PinkKEL9 said:

Hubby loves the name Oakley for a boy If we have a girl, I really want to name her Hadley, which does not get a lot of love on the name board. But I don't care. 

I love Hadley!

dmizak

My sons name is Kash. My husband picked it out and it grew on me:-) I love it now. Most people say that it's a cool name when we tell them.

EmbracingChange

My best friend named her son Wiley. I would not have picked it, but it suits him. 

MrsCase1

My son's name is not weird, but until recently, was fairly uncommon. He is lincoln. Now, one of the girls from Teen Mom just named her son Lincoln. My worst dream come true, LOL. Feels worse to me than when Kristen Bell named her DAUGHTER Lincoln. Popular and classic names are totally NMS so the popularity increasing does not make me happy. Oh well. We tried. When I was pregnant nobody had anything nice to say about the name on the boards but oh well, lol. My parents even called me after he was born and after we had signed his birth cert to try to get me to change it.

sarahlynnc317

Narwhalicorns said:

I like "weird" names too but DH strongly, does not. Both our kids have traditional names so this next one probably will too.

I get to live through my sisters. Their kids have cool "weird" names!

ETA: I also wanted to add that most of our friends have "uniquely" named kids and they all thought the name Henry was weird. :P

My son is Henry.... we always get asked if he was named after someone. Nope I just love old fashioned names.

jesus4life2

JNerd said:

I have to admit, I'm not a fan. Am totally one of those people that would respond with 'oh, thats an interesting name' mostly because I just don't understand it. 

I like strong, traditional names. I think of what life I would want the  40year old to have, and what kind of name suits that. All babies names are cute, but how will the work professionally? 

We tend towards classical names, or names with a classic feel to them, but shy away from the super popular names.

totally see what you mean but I am the 384729384849th katie in the world and the thought of naming my son something I know a ton of other people are named just bothers me. no- I am not a freaky mom that insists my child should stand out and be unique. I just think a name is incredibly important and most traditional/classic/common names fall flat to me. I do think about what the name will sound like professionally and I actually think it's a professional advantage to have a stand out name. all of this obviously IMO. I totally respect my friends that give traditional names-- it's just not for us. pretty much, the rule is that anything in the top 1000 is not for us. haha.

jesus4life2

Mrs Case said:

My son's name is not weird, but until recently, was fairly uncommon. He is lincoln. Now, one of the girls from Teen Mom just named her son Lincoln. My worst dream come true, LOL. Feels worse to me than when Kristen Bell named her DAUGHTER Lincoln. Popular and classic names are totally NMS so the popularity increasing does not make me happy. Oh well. We tried. When I was pregnant nobody had anything nice to say about the name on the boards but oh well, lol. My parents even called me after he was born and after we had signed his birth cert to try to get me to change it.

I love it!

jesus4life2

JNerd said:

I have to admit, I'm not a fan. Am totally one of those people that would respond with 'oh, thats an interesting name' mostly because I just don't understand it. 

I like strong, traditional names. I think of what life I would want the  40year old to have, and what kind of name suits that. All babies names are cute, but how will the work professionally? 

We tend towards classical names, or names with a classic feel to them, but shy away from the super popular names.

Sidenote: if you really are curious to know why his name is oakley, we named him after the bible verse Isaiah 61:3. ("they will be called oaks I righteousness, a planting for the display of the lords splendor.")

mom2be614

I like unique names but not unique spellings. I work with older adults, so most of the names we like were popular with babies in the 1920s and 1930s. You can get a lot of unique but still "traditional" names that way - Hilda, Mabel, Hazel, Ruth, Cecil, Mildred, Kermit, Frank, Ida, Zelda. DH has rejected most of these, but it's definitely a different pool of contenders than the top 100 list!

@jesus4life2 -  I like the meaning behind your son's name!

mrs.since06

I'm sort of on both sides. My son's name is Ethan & daughter's name is Lily. Both "normal" & popular names. My name is Lindsey which when I was younger wasn't very common and the spelling is almost always questioned but my husbands name is Sohel & he wanted to name our kids a plain & normal name as his is very uncommon in the United States (while not uncommon in India where he was born). This baby will most likely have a regular name, even though I wouldn't mind a little something different. Just don't want it to be shortened into a nickname, that is what bugs me most about naming kids.

turner215

my DD is Eden and I get a lot of "Oh thats cute"  but when we told people thats what we were going to name her we got a lot of "thats interesting, you sure?"  If this one is a boy we are naming him Asher.  We get the, "Oh, thats different". 

LindsayDesigner

Our daughter is named Wilhelmina, my great-great-great grandmother's name. We call her Mina for the most part. We're trying to figure out what names "go" with our daughter's name.

puttyeast

My name is Alecia (uh leesh uh) and people have always commented on the different spelling. It isn't that strange, it's just the Spanish version! When I was growing up, I was annoyed by the different spelling but now I love that it makes my name more unique. I don't always like unique spellings to names, but I do think it adds some character.

CreEspree

My son's name is Simeon (Sim-ee-on).. And my daughter's name is Amaria (A-ma-ree-uh).. We get a lot of "ohh that's so pretty and different" w/ their names. My name is Acrena (A-cree-nuh) and DH's is Keyaan (pronounced Keon). So we're planning on giving this baby a different name as well. We keep middle names simple though (mine and DD's is Elizabeth).
**Edited for spelling.

colllydon

We love the name Killian for a boy. It's a traditional Galiec name, we are Irish by heritage. When friends ask names we list off 3 or 4 and we always get "Killian? Really? I like the other names better." Well it's not your f-ing kid so I don't care what you like! Lol. We will see though we have not made any final decisions.'

jacksoha

@puttyeast
That's my sisters name too with the exact same spelling! We've never met anyone else with the same spelling :-) when she was born my mom was put to sleep and my dad wrote her name, thus the spelling!

verydisgruntledpelican0091

I love all the names everyone's named their kids!! I am head over heels in love with the name Kinsley for a girl but my bf hates it. Has no reason, just hates it lol. He keeps questioning why we can't just name it junior, no matter the gender. Its almost an everyday argument lol. I'm all for the name junior for a darn reason but not because he thinks it "sounds" cool lol. Such a wacko.
I loved the name Arabella until I seen it used on teen mom. Same with Bentley lol. And the name Maci has always been a top contender but because of teen mom I just can't let myself do it

puttyeast

@jacksoha That's cool! I've never actually met anyone with the same spelling, just heard of others. You know the singer Pink? Real name is Alecia. The spelling also came from my dad , although it was more planned because he had a patient with the name and loved the unique spelling.

Kamiegrace1

My name is Kamaria, it is Swahili, my mom picked it out of a baby name book and though it was pretty. I'm a blonde haired, blue eyed, pale skin Irish girl with an African name, so normally I get "huh, that's different. But it's pretty..." Kamie doesn't get such a weird response.

MamaTree17

@colllydon Cillian is on our list too (we'd use the C spelling) and for that reason we haven't told a soul!

turner215

I had a friend who named her son Kyler.  I loved the name. 

zg49

joules235 said:

My husband is currently trying to make a case for naming our next baby "Kadgedward"..... idk

I know I'm a little late to the party but I have to ask - how is that pronounced? I can't figure it out.

justme04

My oldest son is named Ryker and we get a lot of questions about the backstory. A few people think we are star trek super fans (I didn't even know there was a character by the same name). Really I found it when we couldn't come up with a boy name that we could agree on and I didn't want to just name him Richard Jr. so I found Ryker as a German surname version of the name Richard. We new what we were using for middle names before we knew he was a boy. There was a lot of WTF reaction when DH wanted to name him Loki....it was quickly nixed. Naming our second son was much easier!

babygabe614

turner215 said:

my DD is Eden and I get a lot of "Oh thats cute"  but when we told people thats what we were going to name her we got a lot of "thats interesting, you sure?"  If this one is a boy we are naming him Asher.  We get the, "Oh, thats different". 

I love the name Asher!

christinemurray91

 If its a boy, we're naming this one Lincoln. I've gotten a few of those type responses here on the boards, but I love It so much and don't care a bit, lol.

christinemurray91

turner215 said:

my DD is Eden and I get a lot of "Oh thats cute"  but when we told people thats what we were going to name her we got a lot of "thats interesting, you sure?"  If this one is a boy we are naming him Asher.  We get the, "Oh, thats different". 

 Asher and Eden fit so well, though!  I like it 

ashezp

My DD is Sakura Nykole. No one liked her name at first except DH and I. Now no one can imagine it as anything else it's unique and so is she. It has caused one huge problem we can't figure out a name for this lil one!!

nunzchucks

@colllydon Kieran could be a good option, too. FWIW I like Killian esp if you have a strong Irish heritage. I know a little Mairead (girl). Love her name!

scrouch7

My Godson's name is Ragnar. No joke. I have a pic of him in my office and the look i get when i say his name is priceless.

kellnstell

My dd's name is Stella and we get "oh that's and old fashioned name isn't it?" a lot! She is named for her great grandmother who died before she was born. If we have another girl it will be Cassidy and a boy will be Talon.