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Baby namers desperate for an original choice have always begged us for our top-secret list of names that nobody but nobody else has. You know, the truly wonderful baby names with deep history and wide appeal that somehow remain completely undiscovered.
The only problem was we didn’t have such a list… until now. Then we decided to run the new 2016 extended list of baby names from the Social Security Administration — all the baby names recorded in the US last year — against the complete list of names in our own database. What’s left is an accounting of names that were used for NO children in 2016, a collection of truly unique baby names.
But the list still contained nearly 5,000 names, so we had to narrow it further. What are the best, most usable choices among the names that were given to zero babies?
Here are 50 picks from our unique list of unique names. You may well find as many names here that you consider ridiculous as you feel are wonderful. But there are enough true gems in a range of styles — from deeply historic to futuristic, traditional to invented — that most adventurous baby namers will find one to suit their taste.
GIRLS
1. Araminta
2. Artemesia
3. Branwen
4. Capucine
5. Circe
6. Dancer
7. Endellion
8. Eulalie
9. Frostine
10. Ianthe
11. Kerensa
12. Leocadia
13. Mazarine
14. Minette
15. Nephele
16. Ottoline
17. Petronilla
18. Remember
19. Rhonwen
20. Sheherazade
21. Signy
22. Thaddea
23. Undine
24. Whimsy
25. Zephyrine
BOYS
1. Auberon
2. Averill
3. Bas
4. Beach
5. Cassio
6. Corentin
7. Drummer
8. Falconer
9. Gulliver
10. Humphrey
11. Kermit
12. Land
13. Merce
14. Mingus
15. Night
16. Osgood
17. Pim
18. Piran
19. Romilly
20. Roone
21. Septimus
22. Thibault
23. Traveler
24. Umberto
25. Whistler
Click here to see the full list of 100 unique names.
What’s your favorite unique baby name? Let us know @BritandCo!
This post was previously published on Nameberry by Pamela Redmond.
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