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Most recent name to make you "huh?!"

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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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Wafflenose · 10/05/2013 14:44

Beck (boy).

mejon · 10/05/2013 14:44

I was going to mention JaJa from Breakfast this morning too SirChanjin as it made me Grin. Saw a card for a baby girl called Unique on Cbeebies (or possibly the Milkshake one) recently. There's a bizarre hyphenated or apostrophied one on our local FB Swap-shop but can't remember it at the moment. I'll have to have a look and come back!

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ladymontdore · 10/05/2013 14:27

oh, and Ferdi.

ladymontdore · 10/05/2013 14:26

Wilfred, Pixie, Tyler...

MoonlightandRoses · 10/05/2013 14:22

Hully - oh dear...

Wallace · 10/05/2013 14:12

Shogun

CinnabarRed · 10/05/2013 14:09

Not a baby, but I have a work contact called Vivid.

Branleuse · 10/05/2013 14:07

maverick. shouted angrily in an essex accent

meddie · 10/05/2013 14:04

Lucifer... that one really made me go Huh! Why? why do that.
Twins Gangsta and Beretta

Tickledyellow · 10/05/2013 14:03

Gravel

I know! Whatever you are thinking is what I thought too! Poor kid!

AmandaPayneNeedsANap · 10/05/2013 14:00

Oh, I also discovered that an adult Christian I know has a sister called Kristen. I mean, fine alone, but really?

SirChenjin · 10/05/2013 13:58

IdaClair - did you fight the urge to growl "Mmmmmeeerrrrrrllllliiiinnnnnnnnn"? Grin

GreyWhites · 10/05/2013 13:55

I met a Trixie today. It wasn't til I was on my way home that I realised that's how it must be spelled. In my head it was Tricksy. Fucking stupid.

twitchypalm · 10/05/2013 13:49

I was in go outdoors last weekend and a mother was calling her really pretty dd sterling.

All i could think of was cigarettes.

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 10/05/2013 13:46

Forbes.

It's actually grown on me, I visualise a serious Harry Potter type.

horseradish · 10/05/2013 13:46

Zoom. Hmm I wanted to call dd Parsley, but was vetoed!

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Hullygully · 10/05/2013 13:43

No, I did ask, but I got a blank look in reply and their mother said, "Our surname's Dodson"!

IdaClair · 10/05/2013 13:43

Shaznay was the name of someone in All Saints, wasn't it? The band?

I have also met a Merlin. Have to admit I thought it pretty cool. He's not English though.

MoonlightandRoses · 10/05/2013 13:41

Surname Selassie Hully? Wink

Hullygully · 10/05/2013 13:33

This morning I came across twins, beautifully dressed in pink and blue, the girl with a lovely sparkly headband, and their names were Aetheopia and Haile

Iris1 · 10/05/2013 13:32

Shaznay. Essex girl on 16 kids. I literally cant get out of my head how bleeding awful it is.

sparkle12mar08 · 10/05/2013 13:24

Mortimer-Moon. Surname is double barrelled with the same initials too. I also know of an Ocean, Honey-Mae, Willoughby, Flinty, and a Merlin too.

IdaClair · 10/05/2013 13:16

I know loads of these. I know a Spike, a Phoenix, a Django, an Otis, a Jax, and a Pixie, a Flower and a Dude. And a baby Dave and a baby Brian.

But the one that made me Shock recently was Khaleesi.

Really.