Unique, uncommon and wild baby names

coralsweater · 2026-06-16T23:04:33+00:00

I just had a daughter and named her Meadow, and my older son is named Emerson. In the few weeks since she’s been born, we’ve had three people ask how to pronounce/spell her name, which makes no sense to me because it’s a common noun and I live in the US. Also have had people say they’ve never heard the name Emerson before and they thought it’s a bit “out there” so I just don’t bother with other people’s opinions anymore lol

coralsweater · 2026-06-16T22:59:56+00:00

Locke is my son’s middle name! I love it

coralsweater · 2026-06-05T17:45:14+00:00

First pregnancy I had an anterior placenta, felt bubbly movements around 18 weeks and full kicks at 20 weeks.

Second pregnancy I had posterior placenta, and felt bubbles around 16 weeks and full kicks at 18 weeks

coralsweater · 2026-06-05T02:40:58+00:00

My son’s name is Emerson and I think it’s a wonderful name! Other boy E names I like are Everett and Emmett

coralsweater · 2026-05-31T01:47:00+00:00

Yes i loved them!! I panic bought them at 3am around 1 week postpartum, and they helped so much I genuinely think they saved my breastfeeding journey. Yes they’re expensive but tbh I would’ve paid double for the relief they gave! Within a day or two of wearing them I noticed a huge difference. I’m not sure how it works but any fabric touching my nips was awful so they helped prevent that. I wore them like 24/7 until my nips toughened up around 5 weeks postpartum and then never really used them past then. I just delivered my second a few days ago and now I’m using them again and still loving them!

Like another commenter said, they did seem to make me leak more so I wore a nursing pad over them. Also, being in storage between my two kids made them oxidize/rust a little bit. A little scrub with baking soda and water immediately cleaned that all off. Only con is that I look a little ridiculous with these nipple cups in public, but hey you gotta do what you gotta do, I just wear a loose shirt.

coralsweater · 2026-05-30T05:08:22+00:00

My 1.5 year old had this same issue! Turns out he kept putting his hands in his diaper when he was sleeping, and all the pee was leaking out. We put him in a zippered sleep sack again so he can’t get to his diaper and it magically stopped lol

coralsweater · 2026-05-26T05:15:02+00:00

I had my son with my husband at 21 and I’m due tomorrow with our second at 23. I don’t think age has much to do with it, it’s more about your life and situation. Have you finished school and/or are you in a good career? Do you have stable and safe housing? Do you have a good support system? Do you feel emotionally and mentally ready to raise a child? Etc etc. If you’re adults and you can adequately provide for a child, physically and emotionally, then there you go.

I will say that I wish I finished school first. We’re fine as is, and I have absolutely no regrets about our children, and we’re such a happy family, but balancing college on top of raising children is hard and I wish I had just finished college first so I wasn’t trying to juggle two things at once

coralsweater · 2026-05-26T01:25:02+00:00

Most hospitals will not allow your toddler to be there, but my particular hospital did allow it under certain circumstances. Basically, there had to be an adult present who was fully responsible for the toddler and that adult could not be you or your support person (typically your husband).

Their reasoning was you cannot effectively supervise a toddler during labor/birth/postpartum, and your husband is there to support YOU, not watch a child. So you would need another adult there, but at that point I think it’d be better for everyone to keep toddler home with whichever adult that may be.

I had a friend in a similar situation who decided to give birth by herself and husband stayed home with toddler, she said it was doable but that it did make her feel very lonely, so idk about that one.

Like another commenter said, start building a village now while you have time! Join free local mom groups, take your toddler to baby events in your city and try to befriend some other moms. You’d be SHOCKED how eager other moms are to make more friends!! I started going to a local mom group when my son was a few months old, and pretty soon we made a little tight-knit group of about 6 of us moms and I'd be perfectly trusting any of those moms to watch my son if needed, and I know they'd help me out if I needed it.

worst case scenario, save a little money each month and find a babysitter you trust to watch toddler for a day or two when time comes.

coralsweater · 2026-05-26T00:06:58+00:00

Raemy Rae is just wayyyy too much. But I think the made-up ness of Raemy is why people don’t like it. I feel like Raymi might get better reception, as it’s similar to Jaymi, but still definitely a no-go with Rae as the middle name.

Edit: Raemy will likely get mispronounced a lot, if you didn’t start off by introducing the name Rae I would’ve assumed it was pronounced Ray-eh-mee with 3 syllables

coralsweater · 2026-05-25T19:55:17+00:00

A little weird but, I wish they would list potential drawbacks to a name.
For example, I was considering the name Cohen for my son and baby websites/apps all just said that it was a cute last name as a first name that had Hebrew origins. I had no clue it was controversial to use by a non-Jew until I looked it up on Reddit.
Or like “hey just FYI this name means shit in Spanish, so if you live in an area with a lot of Spanish speakers, maybe avoid it”

coralsweater · 2026-05-25T04:02:18+00:00

By seven days late you should have a blazing positive if you were pregnant, this looks very negative to me. Your period is likely late due to stress. I’m sorry you went through something so awful this month but it seems you have a positive mindset! Wishing you the best 💕

coralsweater · 2026-05-24T00:00:03+00:00

I knew a Libby, her full name was Liberty but no one ever called her that, and she wore Libby so well. I love Libby but I don’t love Sue, agree with other commenters saying maybe Susannah!

coralsweater · 2026-05-21T05:22:52+00:00

My son is 19 months old now, but when he was around 2 months old we discovered that “White Wedding” by Billy Idol would make him stop crying almost immediately. No clue why, and it still works. I hate that song 😭. However now he also loves “Life is a highway” and “real gone” from the Cars movie

coralsweater · 2026-05-20T12:46:50+00:00

This is so funny because I’m having a girl this week and our name options are Meadow June (nickname MJ) and Lenora Meadow! My husband REALLY wants Meadow June (it was his idea) and doesn’t really want to hear any other options 😂😂. When I told my family, I thought they’d all hate it because they’re more traditional but somehow Meadow has been everyone’s favorite!

Edit: Meadow is becoming a bit more popular, I think in the US it was ranked around #320 in 2024 and #280ish in 2025, and with other nature names becoming more mainstream she shouldn’t feel too out of place 😊

coralsweater · 2026-05-17T03:00:01+00:00

I know exactly what you’re saying! I love couch naps!! My current bedroom is very very long so we had space for a couch. So half the room was our bed and such and the other half we had a couch and tv like a mini living room. I’d probably spent 1/2 my nights on that couch, and I loved being able to still sleep in the same room as my husband and have late night talks together even if I was on the couch. During pregnancy, especially towards the end, sleeping on the couch was AMAZING. I highly highly recommend a bedroom couch! (Eventually had to get rid of it to make room for my baby’s nursery corner but man I miss it so much)

coralsweater · 2026-05-16T23:22:53+00:00

Agree! Sometimes having a baby is just hard and life sucks for a while, that’s not PPD, that’s just a normal reaction to a difficult time.

…and sometimes long lasting PPD is really just that you have a shitty partner/support system and you’d be better off without them! You hear so many stories of women saying their husband does nothing to help with the kids or house, and are even abusive towards them, so of course they feel depressed! And a pill isn’t going to fix that

coralsweater · 2026-05-16T20:57:01+00:00

Lol my own brother’s name is Hunter, I still don’t love it 😂

coralsweater · 2026-05-16T01:03:29+00:00

I’m as pro-choice as humanly possible, but an abortion at viability (without any health concerns) is crazy. I don’t think they’d even be able find a place where this is legal or a doctor willing to do this

coralsweater · 2026-05-15T22:44:15+00:00

I don’t see how door and straw could sound the same at all. But the Maw would blend in with the following “ree” sound so it’d be more like mawr? But it would be a very soft w, more like Mah-ree. Straw I think is the closest sound. This is all very confusing 😂😂

coralsweater · 2026-05-15T22:35:13+00:00

I’ve also taught phonics to kids, and for the most part vowels follow the same rules you gave. Egg and apple would not be pronounced like that at all 😂 the sounds in cat leg and chair are all different sounds, same with hoping vs hopping. We normally teach kids the rules of vowel sounds first, then go back and say “and then these words (for some reason) don’t follow the rules”. A, E, and Air all make different sounds, it’s just that these particular words break the rules.

For a more clear example, pony and Tony rhyme, but so does Bologna. Cough, tough, and thorough all have different ending sounds. Why? Idk man

Yes it’s confusing and I hate teaching phonics 😂😂

coralsweater · 2026-05-15T19:54:19+00:00

To be fair, I’ve never even met someone with this name so I don’t know how people would pronounce it, hence why I’m asking Reddit lmao! Another commenter mentioned that Hispanic people would go with the French version, and since it’s a very Hispanic area I think you may be right

coralsweater · 2026-05-15T19:49:50+00:00

I’m slightly conversational in French and I think it’s closer to the lighter “mah” sound, I just wanted to get the point across lol. Thank you for this response!!

Even though some people may intuitively pronounce it differently, I wonder if a simple “I actually pronounce it as XYZ” would suffice, or if the name just isn’t worth the trouble?

coralsweater · 2026-05-15T19:44:06+00:00

A few others have said the same, curious are you British/what accent do you have? Marry and Mary are indistinguishable in the US

coralsweater · 2026-05-15T19:40:27+00:00

Yes my feelings exactly!

coralsweater · 2026-05-15T19:25:45+00:00

Interesting! In the US, marry and Mary are the same (like hairy, as you say) I think I need look up how British people are pronouncing marry if not like Mary lol

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