Peculiar, Marvellous and Awesome - not just adjectives, but the real names of babies born in Scotland last year.
The National Records of Scotland office has released its list of baby names registered over the course of 2018.
Olivia and Jack remain the most popular names for girls and boys, respectively - but it is the opposite end of the list where the real interest lies.
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The names making a single appearance on the record include some truly creative inventions, from Montanna-Disney to Corbyn - presumably in honour of the Labour leader - as well as the straight-to-the-point parents who named their little girl “Baby”.
Here are the ten most unusual names for girls and boys registered in Scotland last year:
Girls
- Adora-Belle
- Baby
- Boudicca
- Chardonnay-Zoe
- Figgy
- Jezebel
- Khaleesi
- Montanna-Disney
- Peculiar
- Royalty
Boys
- Awesome
- Baroque-Valentyne
- Corbyn
- Frankie-Blu
- Jezioranachukwudinma
- Marvellous
- Messiah
- Nero
- Tiberius
- Zeus
Last year saw a generous sprinkling of unusual double barrelled names, including girls called River-Elizabeth, Luna-Wolf and Ocean-Rae, and a boy going by the unlikely combination Stuart-Romeo.
Elsewhere, some parents appeared to have tossed aside baby name books in favour of the annals of ancient Rome, with baby boys christened Flavius, Maximus, Nero, Octavian and Tiberius.
Many newspapers noticed that just six babies were given the name Donald last year, compared to 21 in 2014, the year before the current US president announced his candidacy.
“Could Donald Trump be killing off a name once closely associated with his mother’s homeland?” asks The Scotsman.
The election of a self-professed Scotophile, whose mother was born in the Outer Hebrides, “would have been a significant boost to this country – if only he had been a very different human being”, the newspaper muses.
