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Recent nutty names I have heard

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CockneySparra · 21/01/2011 14:23

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! Grin

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anonymosity · 25/01/2011 23:31

Clamidia does it for me. Awful.

bulby · 25/01/2011 22:55

Bronte is quite a common name for girls in Yorkshire. Common as in popular those ones I've come across have been very nice.

SecretSquirrel193 · 25/01/2011 22:39

And this is why people need childhood pets.. Time to get all the crappy names out of your system before you lumber poor humans with them!

lololizzy · 25/01/2011 22:38

really the drivers come on MN?!

Pippaandpolly · 25/01/2011 22:37

I went to school with a Domino. I actually kind of love it. I hope she grew up to be a bond girl/villain.

MegBusset · 25/01/2011 22:36

One of the models (10yo boy) in the new Mini Boden catalogue is called, um, Boden

PommePoire · 25/01/2011 22:34

lololizzy re:the 'unique tastes' hence, the 'hairy handed truckers' who occasionally invade these boards looking for thrills on a Friday night!

I once taught a girl named Harley Davidson. I love the Afro-Carribean adjectival names such as Precious. I also taught a beautiful girl named 'Giveness' Oh, and her not quite so beautiful cousin, Tyson-King Surname. He was very exacting that you didn't miss off the 'King' when calling the register. My all time favourite, from 10 years of secondary teaching, is Misty Tufts.

lololizzy · 25/01/2011 22:15

i lived on a main road frequented by long distance lorries..there was a layby by my house which was often filled with ND lorries at night (ie drivers slept there) . but it was next to a 24 hr garage which also catered for them..no normal magazines, only hardcore porn Hmm so i could never get Heat or Company (as i read back then!) but i could get Bondage Granny (if i so desired..i didn't). They were very unusual porn titles, i have to say...ND drivers must have very unique tastes.

NorbertDentressangle · 25/01/2011 22:09

lololizzy -I've never met another NorbertDentressangle before -such a great name isn't it?

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lololizzy · 25/01/2011 22:04

Norbert!! i love your name!! i used to be NorbertDentressangle on another forum. gotta love those big red lorries Wink

Psammead · 25/01/2011 22:01

My (non-English) friend confided in me that were she to have a boy next time around, she would call him Zhin (I presumed). Sort of like 'seen' but a bit more Zedy.

I figured it was a foreign name and said how nice, I haven't heard it before and she seemed suprised. I asked how it was spelt and she said 'S-E-A-N like Zhin Connery, you know?'

I told her that it was normally pronounced like 'Shaun' but she was having none of it.

NorbertDentressangle · 25/01/2011 21:58

I'm not 100% sure on this but I think I heard a little boy being called Morrissey today Confused Shock

bambiandthumper · 25/01/2011 21:58

My BF lives in Connecticut and in her DD's yearbook there was, among others (all girls here): Carter, Ciel, Seal, Ann Abbott, Chase, Talbot, Ryan, Payton.

I also know of an Aqua and a Storm (brother and sister.

lololizzy · 25/01/2011 21:55

Cameo

BellaMagnificat · 25/01/2011 21:54

Flux? As in the bloody Shock

BellaMagnificat · 25/01/2011 21:53

Last word on Bronte. From the Irish Prunty or O'Prunty. Patrick Prunty emigrated from Ireland to study at Cambridge ( not Oxford, from memory) before taking holy orders and moving to HAworth. Rest is history.

Bronte is a made up name. He added the umlaut for special effect. Social climbing/aspiration is nothing new!

Linton or Heathcliff, anyone? Only waiting on the Hollywood blockbuster I suspect.

QueenLaQueefer · 25/01/2011 21:52
SqueezyDiva · 25/01/2011 21:50

My daughter's friend is called Silhouette. I quite like it Blush

Sidge · 25/01/2011 21:35

Thankful's parents were from the Caribbean I think it was, they seem to use very different 'categories' of names there.

She was a cute baby, I'm in no doubt they were thankful to have her!

lololizzy · 25/01/2011 21:30

Thankful!!! maybe the parents waited a long time to conceive?!

Sidge · 25/01/2011 21:28

I went to 6th form college with Kestrel, who I believe had brothers Peregrine and Falcon. They were so cool, especially given the rest of us were called Louise, Emma, Steve, Jonathan, Kerry, Jane, Sarah, Mark and suchlike.

I know of Armarni (sic), J-D, Trinity, Reon, Flux and Thankful.

scrumblemum · 25/01/2011 21:12

when I was pregnant with twins my DH met someone called Rhapsody and thought that would be a great name for one of our girls! I initially thought he was joking but sadly no.... My brother suggested calling the other one Melody.

MoldyWarp · 25/01/2011 21:00

ds5 has a shakespearean name
people usually say 'isn't it a girls name' followed by 'hmm' when i say it is shakespearean

stickylittlefingers · 25/01/2011 21:00

I came across a little boy called Meadow a couple of months ago. Fun when he goes for a hair cut I'd imagine - went to mow a Meadow... tho he had quite a long bob, so perhaps he doesn't like that particular "joke" too much.

BlessedAssurance · 25/01/2011 20:58

i work with superporn,i still can't call her that,i just call her super,,