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the wierdest name i ever heard was pronounced goo ee. His mum told me she had been reading a mills and boon novel whilst pregnant and had seen the name guy and loved it!!!!!
Cappucino - don't spoil the story! Seriously though, she told me it was true and was a patient on her ward but maybe she was trying to be amusing - she is a bit weird!
Talking of patients on a ward, my mother once x-rayed a woman with green pubic hair. Tattooed above her dyed muff was the warning "keep off the grass."
I do suspect my mother has embellished the story over the years but it is a good one I think.
I was at university with a lovely chap called Zabey. He told us his parents wanted to call him Zebedee and his grandmother wanted Abraham so Zabey was the compromise. It suited him well.
I have a neighbour with a Nicole and when she shouts her, out of windows, down stairs across playgrounds...whatever....it is always "COooooooooooooooole" the ni seems to disapear before the bellow begins.
She never calls her cole when speaking normally....she just loses the Ni pre shout!
There was girl at my daughter's playgrp called Sizzle - apparently her brothers and sisters (they had a shedload of kids) couldn't manage the name 'Cecily' - guess that's kind of cute and understandable really BUT there was also another girl there at the same time called SPARKLY - for which I don't think there was any reasonable excuse explanation...LOL!
Gosh, I wonder what you lot would think if you ever came across me with a name badge. Would you judge my parents to be Chavvy? Ignorant? Unable to spell? Trying to be unusal? Or.... erm, foreign?
but thank god, one post behind me, handlemecarefully. Thank fuck for that!
Sorry to bring everyone down, but I do think these threads tread dodgy ground, especially when they're not a baby name thread, where someone's asking advice about a potential name.
These are people - children and adults - whose names we are mocking (mainly becasue we think they reveal that the owners/givers are undereducated, I think?) Can't help feeling that this is something that becomes less funny the more people one shares it with, iyswim.
Surely we all think the ignorant ones are those mocking names (without knowing their origins), rather than the parents who name their child a perfectly normal name in their own culture/country?
Oh get over it - since when did we all have to get so damned politically correct...?? Surely the beauty of MN is that you can let your hair down a bit and say 'Hey you lot, you'll never guess what...?' without having to worry about overly hurting anyone's feelings...? Or am I just being too flippant? Up until now, no-one mentioned chav-ness, stupid, ignorant parents (not exactly/specifically anyway) - it was just a little tee-hee, giggle-behind-your-hand-while-shopping moment....
Yeah, as in tiihii, giggle giggle, look, she has funny glasses, only one leg, green hair, a crooked noce, silly name... I get you. Sure you can! But it is a public forum, not everybody thinks it is fun! Especially not if such juvenile teasing was a part of life, when a child, you dont expect to see it so much when you grow up!
Well, the OP does mention "wankeriest". But, sure, let's have a tee-hee, giggle-behind-your-hand, oh-look-it's-a-foreign-person-isn't-it-funny moment. I'm not sure that the beauty of MN is that you can let your hair down a bit and say 'Hey you lot, you'll never guess what, I saw someone from Eastern Europe in the supermarket'.
<seeker runs to add Abraham to her list of unusual-but-not-bonkers names to satisfy those who think that their children will somehow surrender their essential uniqueness if someone within a 200 mile radius has the same name>
So what? Maybe her parents were Polish, and gave her a Polish name?
My son speaks English like a Londoner. But he is also trilingual as I am from Norway and my dh from Poland. Thank goodness his name is pretty common in the UK, as otherwise he would easily be the target for this sort of ignorant xenophobic jibes.
My other son, is a different matter entirely, as his name is an old scandinavian name. Thank goodness we have left the UK so he wouldnt be taunted about his name by the likes of the OP and other posters on this thread who gets their cheap thrills from laughing and pointing about a strangers name.
But I guess, you dont get this sort of provincial small minded attitudes much in London (so we should be safe).
I think certain people are missing the point here. The OP didn't say "ha, ha someone has a funny foreign name". They genuinely didn't realise it was foreign and thought it was a funny English misspelling of a name. It's a bit harsh and holier than thou to accuse them as if they are racist and xenophobic, when they were just being ignorant of the real meaning of the name !!
I don't think hearing/seeing a name and finding it funny makes someone xenophobic, small-minded and provincial. Most people have had a laugh over an Ikea product name.
You'd make people frightened to raise a smile over anything with some of the comments on here.
OK girls, back on track - this one is from Readers Digest:
Someone was in the queue at the bank, behind a little old lady. She heard her say to the cashier "What a lovely name you have, is it French?" She ddn't hear the reply, but when she got to the front of the queue she saw that the cashier's name badge read 'Trainee'
Thank goodness someone injected some sensibility and calm into this thread!! Thanx Pointydog et al! Was almost too scared to join back in since the humour police moved in...! Would have been a shame as I remembered yesterday that I went to secondary school with a girl called February! And her birthday was in November!! Lol - she was a nice girl though (just incase she's a MNer)!
Surely the beauty of MN is that you can let your hair down a bit and say 'Hey you lot, you'll never guess what...?' without having to worry about overly hurting anyone's feelings...? Or am I just being too flippant? Up until now, no-one mentioned chav-ness, stupid, ignorant parents (not exactly/specifically anyway) - it was just a little tee-hee, giggle-behind-your-hand-while-shopping moment.... 
