As fans of Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief will no doubt be aware, “names have power”. They can let us know if there’s Viking blood coursing through our veins, indicate whether or not we have a successful career ahead of us, and (apparently) even determine our future happiness.

Above all else, though, our names help us to forge our own identity: they are a bright little flag for us to wave over our heads as we step out into the world – and, for many parents, it’s far preferable if that little flag is very different to everybody else’s.

Or, to put it more plainly, they would much rather that their child boast a unique name than share one with at least five other children on the classroom register. We’re looking at you guys, Amelia and Oliver.

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With that in mind, baby naming website Nameberry has analysed each and every single one of the names bestowed upon babies in 2016 and compared them with their extensive database of ideas.

They’ve found 5000 names that didn’t make the cut for a single child last year and narrowed it down to the top 100 – which means that these are legitimately the most unique and unusual monikers around.

Then again, there may be a very good reason for that…

The most unusual baby girl names

1. Acantha
2. Araminta
3. Artemesia
4. Bee
5. Bluebell
6. Branwen
7. Calico
8. Capucine
9. Ceil
10. Chandra
11. Christmas
12. Cia
13. Circe
14. Coralia
15. Daffodil
16. Dancer
17. Diablo
18. Eluned
19. Endellion
20. Eulalie
21. Fifer
22. Finola
23. Franny
24. Freesia
25. Frostine
26. Grania
27. HesterIanthe
28. Jericho
29. Jessamy
30. Jocasta
31. Kalindi
32. Kerensa
33. Leocadia
34. Letitia
35. Louisiana
36. Lucasta
37. Ludovica
38. Madrigal
39. Malou
40. Marcellina
41. Mazarine
42. Melisande
43. Minette
44. Morwenna
45. Nephele
46. North
47. Oberon
48. Ottoline
49. Perdita
50. Petronilla
51. Puck
52. Remember
53. Rhonwen
54. Romola
55. Samoa
56. Sanne
57. Season
58. Sheherazade
59. Signy
60. Tally
61. Thaddea
62. Undine
63. Venetia
64. West
65. Whimsy
66. Winsome
67. Zephyrine

The most unusual baby boy names

1. Auberon
2. Averill
3. Bard
4. Bas
5. Basie
6. Beach
7. Cassio
8. Cathal
9. Corentin
10. Drummer
11. Eleazer
12. Falconer
13. Fenno
14. Florent
15. Gower
16. Gulliver
17. Hiawatha
18. Humphrey
19. Kassian
20. Kermit
21. Land
22. Ludovic
23. Merce
24. Mingus
25. Moe
26. Nat
27. Nicholson
28. Night
29. Osgood
30. Pagan
31. Per
32. Pim
33. Piran
34. Placido
35. Puck
36. Rancher
37. Raoul
38. Roald
39. Romilly
40. Roone
41. Rudyard
42. Runyon
43. Salmon
44. Scorpio
45. Septimus
46. Sim
47. Spike
48. Story
49. Taddeo
50. Thibault
51. Thoreau
52. Tibor
53. Traveler
54. Trout
55. Umberto
56. Whistler

We’re seeing a running nature theme throughout this list: think flower names, like Bluebell, Freesia and Daffodil, subtle nods in the likes of Auberon and Oberon (names which mean, quite literally, ‘bear-like), and real-life critters, such as Salmon, Trout, and Bee.

While naming your offspring after a fish might seem strange, there’s no denying that animal names are becoming more and more trendy.

Zooey Deschanel’s children are called Elsie Otter and Charlie Wolf, Busy Phillips’ daughter is called Birdie, Nicole Richie is the proud mum of a little Sparrow, and Alicia Silverstone, Kate Winslet, and Cheryl Cole have all chosen the name Bear for their respective sons. Proving that, even when you go rogue and pick out an unusual animal name, it can still belong to five other kids on the playground.

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As well as all the nature-inspired names, there are a few others on the list that caught our eye – not least of all Roald, as in the brilliant children’s author, Roald Dahl.

A Scandinavian name, Roald means ‘powerful’ – and is actually pronounced “Roo-all”, with the ‘d’ at the end remaining as silent as the grave.

Or, in other words, when you say “Roald Dahl” correctly, it rhymes.

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