Lol@ Rayon!!!

His sister is perhaps Terylene? And his brother Nylon?

Wow, some of these are really great! I could see some of them taking off in the U.S. too, although our brand of cutsey-cute is different. 

Does the U.K. actually record hyphened first names? I know that the issue of punctuation in first names comes up with the SSA. 

Becasue Kitty is a traditional nickname it's use as a full name isn't nearly as bad as Bunny.    

PJ, yes, the UK does track hyphenated names with the hyphen intact. Handy, since it's such a hot style there right now. E.g. 65 different names ending in -Louise were recorded at the 3 or more level.

I used to work with a woman named Pandora.  I also know a little girl named Calliope. I'm surprised that doesn't rank higher, since it can have the nn Callie.

The Exalted names are the strangest to me. Winner? And Great is such a normal part of everyday speech, it seems like a great source of confusion.

While I enjoyed the lists, I think that my favourite part of this post was the category titles!

I really like: Isolde, Antigone, Zeus, Echo and Iggy but most of the others aren't my style.  Fun to read though!

It does read very British, especially the cutesy-cute names!

The "exalted" ones definitely sound like they come from the central African immigrant community in the UK- I know a lovely little girl called Victorious whose parents were born in Nigeria. In Canada, I know or know of kids with similar names whose parents are originally from Ghana, Cameroon, and Burundi. Lots of them have a more 'boring' middle name that they use in school/community library programmes, but the grandparents use their real names when they come to pick them up :)

Kitto is a traditional Cornish form of Christopher (Jory is George; Jago is Jacob/James).

Motty is a Yiddish name, a nickname for Modechai.  London has a significant population of ultra-Orthodox Jews in neighborhoods like Golders Green and Stamford Hill.  They are Yiddish-speaking, and often give their children Yiddish names. If you look in the NYC vital statistic under non-Hispanic white, you will see Yiddisih names listed as well as Hebrew.  Some Yiddish names I found are Mendy, Shmiel, Hershel, Yossi, Hersh, Shloimy, Zalmen, Cheskel, Nuchem, Mayer.  NYC Yiddish names for girls include Gitty, Malky,  Faigy, Rivky, Raizy, Shaindy, Chany, Hindy Blima, Gittel, Goldy, Pessy, Fraidy, Chavy, Zissy, Liba, Esty, Perl, Zlata.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/public/press11/pr034-11-babynames.pdf

I have no doubt that the London ultra-Orthodox have similar naming patterns.

On names like Kitto and Motty -- like Kitty, Iggy and others on the list they're perfectly traditional. The distinctive part is using them as full names rather than nicknames. FWIW England recorded 15 Mordechais and 3 Mottys last year, while New York recorded 81 Mordechais and no (or unmeasurably few) Mottys.

Huckleberry is an interesting one to me. Surely it can't be used without thinking of Huckleberry Finn -- who's sort of the ultimate old-style American child!

Laura, actually it is not unusual for Ultra-Orthodox Jews to use nicknames on civil legal documents.  If you look at the NY data you will see Mendy as well as Mendel, Nuchem as well as Menachem, Yossi as well as Yosef, Malky as well as Malka, and so on.  When my own family immigrated, their names were recorded as Schlaimie, Civie, Yankel, and Srul instead of Schlomo, Tzivya, Yaakov, and Yisroel.  To ultra-Orthodox Jews the only thing that matters is the name as bestowed at the circumcision ceremony.  For girls it doesn't matter what the name is--it can be anything.  In fact ultra-Orthodox Jews are not really concerned about civil law at all.  Many of them do not even bother with marriage licenses.  Their only concern is that the kesubah (marriage contract) be valid according to halacha (Jewish law).

A girl named Hasty (rhyming with "nasty," for lack of a better rhyme) went to my high school and I always assumed it was an ethnic name because she had exotic looks and surname, but I never knew her heritage.  A Google search of her surname shows others with it from Iran.  A few name sites list "Hasti" and "Hastee" as Farsi/Persion names meaning "existence" or "life."

Much prettier potential rationale than "Hmm that word does sound nice" but who knows.

Re: Bunny as a name
 

I had a great aunt called Bunny, but I think it was a pet form of Bernice. I have no idea if this is a relatively common or a relatively unique nickname for that name, as I've never personally met any Bunnys (Bunnies?) or Bernices.

Kitty? You think that's unusual and strange?  Not strange at all in the UK -  but it's much more common here to use shortened forms as full names.

My grandmother was called Kitty and my husband's uncle is Bunny -  short for Bernard. 

Antigone and Pandora wouldn't be considered that unusual -  pretentious maybe.

I'm an American in the UK and I know a Daisy-Bea and a Sonny (siblings) and some full-name Hughies and Ellies, and tons of Poppys. So yes, I can confirm that cutesie is alive and well. But the little Isolde I know is the child of Americans!

My Grandmother was Kitty (although Katherine on her birth certificate), and my DD is called Bunny (she was born on Easter and it has nothing to do with her name).

Last Thursday, I encountered both a Sequoia and a Sequoya (in an urban area in the US.) Struck me as funny after reading this post. 

My niece told me that trekking excursions are fun [spam link removed] and I decided to make a trip in London to find out more about trekking. I met a couple of families from England and their babies names are adorable, I love it when I hear a parent calling his child Poppy-Sue.

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