Baby names: Hidden gems on your own Facebook page

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by Lorain County Moms

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As a certified UNN (ultimate name nerd), I of course seek out lists of interesting names wherever I go. But it didn’t occur to me until recently that I was being served up a whole new menu of unusual names almost every other day right on my own computer screen that I’d never really noticed.

Like most of us, I get regular notices on my Facebook page alerting me to People You May Know, followed by an invitation to “see all” — not to mention all the frequent “X is now friends with” updates. Well, one day I did attempt to see all, scrolling through the names of the friends of my friends. I didn’t make it all the way through (curses on those with 4,000-plus friends!), but I did get far enough to come up with some amazing options.

One thing I hadn’t realized is how international my friends and their friends are — representating places as far flung as Switzerland, Hungary, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Greece and China, which further broadened the spectrum of unusual names.

Here are some that I came up with before my eyes got too bleary to go on — and as far as I could ascertain, these are all real names of real people.

Girls

• Aja
• Alta
• Analia
• Analu
• Anjanette
• Arja
• Arzu
• Aura
• Ayelet
• Bethan
• Brideen
• Cantara
• Capathia
• Cedar
• Cielo
• Crescent
• Cricket
• Dwyer
• Edel
• Emer
• EurydiceEvandra
• Fiamma
• Fifi
• Florencia
• Gamine
• Ianthe
• JenJoy
• Juna
• Klee
• Leeloo
• Linsley
• Lorca
• Luigia
• Mandana
• Marilla
• Minniemarie (love it!)
• Muriella
• Ninon
• Ollitia
• Orly
• Oxana
• Panama
• Patrina
• Pavia
• Peternelle
• Piri
• Ravenna
• Romana
• Sidonie
• Sixtine
• Snow
• Sono
• Tavia
• Thais
• Tulsa
• Undine
• Ventura
• Wednesday
• Wren
• Xany
• Zamira
• Zandy
• Zia
• Ziza

Boys

• Aziz
• Bear
• Benno
• Boaz
• Brigham
• Chelbi
• Conleth
• Court
• Coyne
• Dood (can this be real?)
• Doyle
• Eames
• Elizio
• Eoin
• Fergal
• Finbar
• Fintan
• Fitch
• Florin
• Gago
• Gardner
• Gazelle
• German
• Gesso
• Glyn
• Hamish
• Hovey
• Hutton
• Indigo
• Inigo
• Ivar
• Joop
• Joost
• Kester
• Kiel
• Licau
• Matticus
• Newell
• Nuno
• Oberon
• Octave
• Pericles
• Phyo
• Rayno
• Rome
• Rony
• Shade
• Slate
• Tamerlane
• Tarot
• Tiago
• Timonius
• Timory
• Tullio
• Woods
• Yane
• Ziv

This is one you definitely can try at home — just go through your social network contacts’ contacts and you might find some wonderful surprises.

Nameberry (http://nameberry.com) is a baby-naming site produced by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz, co-authors of 10 bestselling baby name guides, including the newest, “Beyond Ave and Aiden: The Enlightened Guide to Naming Your Baby.”