Unique baby names not just for the Beckhams

The Beckhams made international headlines with the name of their new daughter Harper Seven but it's not just celebrities embracing unique baby names - Western Bay parents are also choosing quirky names for their children.
Football star David Beckham and wife Victoria are thought to have chosen Seven as a reference to the shirt Beckham wore when he played for Manchester United, while Harper was a favourite of their three sons, after a character on the TV show Wizards of Waverley Place.
Other celebrities to give their children quirky names include Kate Hudson (Bingham Hawn), Jermaine Jackson (Jermajesty), and Jason Lee (Pilot Inspektor).
In the Western Bay, staff at Bay Midwifery Centre have come across babies named after popular cars Chevy, Falcon and Ford, as well as Caution, Navarah, Chaedon, Raiden, Alizaye and Ashton Justus.
Independent midwife Leigh O'Neill said parents were influenced by the world around them, especially the media, when choosing names for their babies. One of the most unusual baby names she has come across this year was Ska, named after a genre of music.
"It's a punk/reggae kind of music and yeah, they're young parents.
"I guess they chose that after the type of music they like, but that's certainly one of the more interesting ones," Mrs O'Neill said.
Pronunciation issues did not stop Maungatapu couple Trudy Yule and Paul Manning from naming their daughter Maebh Ava Manning. Her name was initially spelt Maeve but in a nod to Mr Manning's Irish heritage, the couple officially changed it to Maebh.
"It's an Irish name and my husband and I decided that it should be spelt the proper way, so on the birth registry we've done it like that," Ms Yule said.
Maebh joins sister Niamh, 4, (pronounced Neave) and brother Ciaran, 2, (pronounced Kie-ron).
While these names might seem extremely unusual in the Kiwi culture, the traditional Irish names are common in Ireland, Ms Yule said.
Her husband is from Dublin, and the couple wanted to embrace and celebrate the fact their children were half Irish.
"There has been a bit of trouble with people mispronouncing Niamh but it's important to us because when they go to Ireland, they will have the correct spelling," Ms Yule said. "We have had people that have laughed at the spelling because they're so different but in the Irish language they don't have certain letters and v is one of them."
Having unique names for their children was "really important" for the Maungatapu couple and they said it was nice to have something "a little bit different".
"I love the names and they're beautiful names with lovely meanings," Ms Yule said.
Other unique names include Welcome Bay parents Keith and Hannah Jones' now 7-week-old daughter Prayz Hosanna Jones - a sister for Kanye, 6, Elijah, 3, and Shekinah Jones, 1. Katikati parents Missy Tukaki Johnson and Simon Turner named their daughter Azyrah Cynthia May Tukaki-Johnson - a sister for 5-year-old Nirai Tukaki Johnson.
Unique names seem to be embraced by younger parents, while older parents generally kept with more traditional names, an independent midwife said. The majority of her clients were older women who preferred to stick with traditional names.
The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), which registers and records names, can reject a name if it does not meet criteria.
New Zealand's top five baby girls' names for 2010 were Sophie, Olivia, Ruby, Charlotte and Isabella. The top five baby boy's names for 2010 were Liam, James, Oliver, Jack and William.
Unusual names in Bay:
Coley, Daytona, Akira, Rico, Alizaye, Jorja, Karter, Qais, Caution, Kaliyah.