Recent nutty names I have heard

[CockneySparra]

Sigh-Anne.

I thought the woman was mispronouncing Sian, then saw the name written down. Sigh-Anne. I mean, what on earth...?

the other was a little boy called Ragen. As in Ronald Regan, but Ragen. Ragen? I am not a name snob, but I do draw the line at deliberately misspelling surnames and then using them as a first name!

[TooManyButtons]

Sigh-Anne. Words fail me.

Although I did recently meet two sisters called Lee-Arna and Ell-Arna.

[Asteria]

I just don't understand hyphenated first names - WHY WHY WHY? I went to school with lots of Mary-Annes, Emma-Janes and Mary-Roses - silly if you ask me!

[twirlymum]

Bronte.

Poor kid was called brontosaurus by all the others.

[onimolap]

I thought Regan was a Shakesperian girls' name.

I met a Karmani (boy) on the bus.

[twirlymum]

Regan was one of King Lear's daughters onimolap

[twirlymum]

You sure it wasn't The Sweeney?

[onimolap]

Ah yes! I've never met a Cordelia in RL, though it's a nice name. Pity anyone who's saddled with Goneril.

[SoupDragon]

Sigh-Anne is a shocker.

[talkingnonsense]

Was it a misspelling of Cyan??

[Helzapoppin]

I met a Yorick at a party last week. He wasn't a baby though, he was twenty and American, perhaps it's more normal there (??).

[Spidermama]

I know a Mopsa.

She says her name is from a Shakespearean play but I can't remember which one.

When I first met her I was a bit but it really grew on me. In fact she was one of the people I consulted about having an unusual name when deciding whether to name my children.

[Spidermama]

I wonder how many people will say, 'Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well,'

[onimolap]

Spidermama: I thought I knew my Shakespeare pretty well, but I had to look that one up.

Mopsa is a character in Winter'sTale

[Spidermama]

Yes that's it. Well done!

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

Bronte is a Scandinavian name. Not so daft there!

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

Actually I'm talking bollocks. It's an Irish name, just happen to know a couple of Danish ones!

[ShowOfHands]

Regan in KL was a bloody nasty piece of work.

[spidookly]

Bronte is not an Irish name.

"when deciding whether to name my children."

What did you decide?

I hope you decided not to name them. Now that would be unsual.

[crystalglasses]

I find Hebe strange. Am I wrong?

[KnitterInTheNW]

Someone told me the other day that there was a birthday card on cbeebies for a child called...#





Tequilio.

[MissBeehiving]

Regan was awful. What about her Dsis Goneril?

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

Baby name website said Bronte was derived from the Irish surname Prunty then came to be a first name. Sounds a bit odd but it's there.