Unique/Interesting Names

This French name has the elegance of other '-ette' names such as Colette and is a botanical name without being too obvious about it.

Zinnia is an unusual floral choice with a bit more edge and energy than most and beginning to find its way onto namers' wish lists of botanical possibilities. Named after an eighteenth German botanist called Johann Gottfried Zinn, it appears in Roald Dahl's Matilda as the young protagonist's mother.