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Most recent name to make you "huh?!"

381 replies

zingally · 09/05/2013 20:33

What names have you heard recently to make you stop in your tracks and wonder if the parents are a bit mad?

My most recent favourite is... Flossy, for a girl.
Made worse because my dads pet name for me is Flossy, or Floss. So to hear it as an ACTUAL name just makes me gawp.

Worst boys name - Banjo.

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ThatVikRinA22 · 10/05/2013 04:48

i recently encountered Beyonce. not the one married to JZ. This one was 6.

TheOneWithTheHair · 10/05/2013 04:47

Dd's second middle name is Elvis. Because she's only 9 people tend to look to me to see if she's telling the truth.

We aren't massive fans by the way. There is a story behind it.

GreenLeafTea · 10/05/2013 04:39

Colin. Weirdly his parents are very hip, musician-types.

I'm not sure if they were being ironic or if it is a family name or what.

sleepingbeautiful · 10/05/2013 04:34

When I had our twins a few months ago, the other set of twins in the neo-natal care unit were called Jase and J-lynn. Our nurse said 'but I hope you will pick proper names' for our then unnamed pair, lol.
Also know a baby Corbin, and met a little girl called Sunny who appeared to be quite sulky.

Kiwiinkits · 10/05/2013 04:22

PMSL at Ian and Alan

Iteotwawki · 10/05/2013 04:21

PTDG - I love Rumer Godden! She wrote Miss Happiness and Miss Flower and the Diddakoi. Now I have to go and hunt them out to read to the boys :)

Breezy1985 · 10/05/2013 04:07

I know a baby boy called Random surname Chance - Random Chance!

Also know a baby girl called Jellybean Hmm

BookieMonster · 10/05/2013 03:31

Banjo might be understandable if there's an Australian connection. One of Australia's foremost poets (Waltzing Matilda, The Man from Snowy River etc.) was A.B. "Banjo" Paterson.
I know a baby Electra.

mathanxiety · 10/05/2013 03:28

First name Raelynn, middle name Yovonne. I kid you not.

Chottie · 10/05/2013 03:20

My great great aunt was called Florence and her nn was either Floss or Flossie, and she was born at the end of the 1890s, so nothing new under the sun Smile

PictureMeInThese · 10/05/2013 03:05

Lyrik
Lacey-Bella

FairPhyllis · 10/05/2013 02:45

Orpheus

KittenofDoom · 10/05/2013 02:28

Cash should meet up with Lolly Grin

iheartmycat · 09/05/2013 23:41

Disney (girl)

WhiteHairReally · 09/05/2013 22:16

Three brothers called Chance, Cash and Cruz.

Andcake · 09/05/2013 21:47

Rocket - obviously they were thinking of the space type but all I could think of was salad!

MeDented · 09/05/2013 21:44

Ha ha I wanted to call DS Spike, he is very glad DH wouldn't agree :)

BabylonReturns · 09/05/2013 21:43

Precious, Comfort and LunarLizzie Hmm are 3 I have heard this week.

LunarLizzie was born last week and shall be known by her full name of LunarLizzie apparently Hmm

NeverBeenToMe · 09/05/2013 21:43

Cosmo!

Startail · 09/05/2013 21:39

We used to have an Echo at school, lovely and very clever and a Pebble also lovely.

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SirChenjin · 09/05/2013 21:35

Spike - and not as a nickname

SweetTeaVodka · 09/05/2013 21:35

Flossie and Dotty I have encountered a few times round these parts - comeback, maybe?

I met a Pixie, and a newborn Kenny the other day.

lollypopsicle · 09/05/2013 21:33

Lolly. Not short for anything. Named so because the mother craved lollipops during pregnancy. And no, it wasn't me, despite my username Grin

Star (6 yr old girl). Luckily for her she can pull it off.

PartTimeDomesticGoddess · 09/05/2013 21:32

Rumer (girl). Turns out to be the first name of a "Virago modern classic" author. Who'd have thought it?