Names That Literally Only One Person Likes

Is it you?!

This week, we revealed the most hearted names on Nameberry — those that readers have added to their personal favorites list the most.

The gold medals go to Charlotte and Theodore, which are both liked by just over 1000 people each. 🥇🥇

We published the Top 100 most hearted names, but guess what? They came from a giant list with the full data. Right down to the names in our database that only one person has clicked the heart on.

Can you guess where this is going?

There are just under 5000 girl names, and just under 4000 boy names, that only one Nameberry reader has on their favorites list! It’s hard to narrow down, but here are a few highlights.

Beware, though: if you go and heart them too, they’ll no longer be part of this unique category!

Unique Hearted Girl Names

Auriol — much less common than Aurora, but just as golden

Bevan — rare unisex last name as a first name

Celyn — pronounced “Kellin”, this is Welsh for holly

Danube — European river name

Elisheba — early Old Testament form of Elizabeth

Franklin — offbeat way to get to Frankie

Gwenno — diminutive of names beginning with Gwen, well-known in its native Wales

Hind — a popular, and elegantly simple, Arabic name meaning “group of camels”

Idabelle — Ida meets Isabelle

Jilly — retro nickname that will be ready for a comeback soon

Kilmer — German surname used by Bethany C. Meyers

Lexa — short, sweet member of the Alex family of names… and indeed, an anagram od Alex

Minttu — the word for mint is popular as a name in Finland

Neferet — ancient Egyptian name meaning “beautiful”

Oakland — cool Californian place name

Priyanka — Indian name meaning “amiable”

Quinty — jolly Dutch name, from the Latin word for “fifth”

Rhosyn — Welsh for “rose”

Swati — Indian star name, used by Mindy Kaling

Tinkara — a popular name in Slovenia, ultimately from Martina

Umay — Turkish mother goddess name

Vianney — honoring a Catholic saint

Westerly — calming weather/directional name

Xenodice — daughter of King Minos in Greek myth

Ysolde — whimsical medieval spelling of Isolde

Zuzi — Swiss diminutive of Zuzanna

Unique Hearted Boy Names

Athelstan — Anglo-Saxon royal name

Bohannon — as in disco music legend Hamilton Bohannon

Christie — Scottish diminutive of Christopher

Diversity — a modern virtue to embrace

Ewen — rarer, gentler member of the Evan / Ewan family of names

Fender — cool rock’n’roll option

Grizzly — rugged nature name given to 11 boys last year

Hobie — charmingly clunky nickname

Iman — unisex Arabic name meaning “faith”

Josko — jaunty Croatian equivalent to Joe (properly spelled Joško, which is also only hearted once)

Kells — on-trend Irish place name

Lazare — French form of Lazarus

Meriasek — Cornish name better known in its alternative version Meriadoc

Nicander — if you like names like Evander and Lysander, here’s another for your list!

Ovie — a kingly name from Nigeria that’s gaining ground in Britain

Priestly — surprisingly rare last name with the same origin as Presley

Quantum — super-sciencey name that has appeared in the US charts once

Romario — Italian name meaning “pilgrim to Rome”, and a legendary Brazilian soccer player

Shadrach — an Old Testament name that’s still pretty niche

Tristram — Tristan is in the Top 200 most hearted names, but this literary variation is right at the bottom

Utah — one of the rarer state names

Vespasian — Roman names are in, but not this one (yet?)

Webber — astonishingly rare occupational name

Xane — Zane, but make it X-rated

Yvon — the masculine equivalent of Yvonne

Zlatan — Slavic name meaning “gold”

The rarest on my own list is Non, currently liked by me and two other people 👀

Want to know how many other people have hearted your obscure favorite name? Comment below, and I’ll look it up!

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