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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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PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 09/05/2013 21:16

I wonder if Enoch has 'knockers' as a nn.

Ham69 · 09/05/2013 21:15

Boniface. I like Flossy!

MooseBeTimeForSpring · 09/05/2013 21:14

Cashton

mewkins · 09/05/2013 21:13

Enoch.

Hmm, sure it's a case of a good name being ruined by a bad person but.. would you really want everyone saying "oh, like the realky racist guy?" EVERY single time you introduced your child?

AnneEyhtMeyer · 09/05/2013 21:10

I heard a mum calling an approximately 10 year old child Xenon in the supermarket last weekend. He had siblings, but I didn't hear their names. I would imagine they were Argon & Radon.

I know a baby Alan too. That shocked me.

Thurlow · 09/05/2013 21:09

Is Rawdon from Vanity Fair?

I also know a little one with the middle name Danger...

LegArmpits · 09/05/2013 21:08

Zaiden.

Machli · 09/05/2013 21:07

Banjo! Grin

R J Paul. The initials don't stand for anything Hmm.

SingingSands · 09/05/2013 21:07

I live near a village called Rawson and as kids my brother and I called our hamster Flossy. These are not real names!

boardingschoolbaby · 09/05/2013 21:06

Rawdon for a boy

nancerama · 09/05/2013 21:05

And I know a kid who genuinely has "danger" as his middle name.

cyanarasamba · 09/05/2013 21:05

Boudicca

nancerama · 09/05/2013 21:03

Merlin.

LifeIsBetterInFlipFlops · 09/05/2013 21:03

Hurricane

MortifiedAdams · 09/05/2013 20:57

Hully wins Thanks

MortifiedAdams · 09/05/2013 20:56

Bram (boy)

Payton (girl)

Hmm
Hullygully · 09/05/2013 20:55

Hartleton-ThistleFlop (boy) Hartie for short

ExitPursuedByABear · 09/05/2013 20:53

Ebon.

Thurlow · 09/05/2013 20:52

I did meet a baby Ian recently. I think it only made me "huh?" because you don't hear it often, not because there is anything wrong with it. Around my way you are generally ready for Harry-Josh-Charlie-George-Fred, there's a small pool of names here. Ian's surely due a comeback.

3MonthMaid · 09/05/2013 20:48

Dotty is a local baby. Baby Alan made me Shock

GwendolineMaryLacey · 09/05/2013 20:47

A friend of a friend on FB has a child called Dempsie. I ask you.

Cwtchbach · 09/05/2013 20:46

I met a sibset on beach the other day called Petal and Presley nn Pets and Pres.

Ezza1 · 09/05/2013 20:45

Destinee... Sad

popsnsqeeze · 09/05/2013 20:44

Sinai. For a boy. Like mount Sinai. Weird

ForeverTheLastOne · 09/05/2013 20:44

I met a girl recently called Blazie, pronounced blaze-ee.

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