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Names that made you think wtf?

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 18:21

My friends Mum recently had a baby and couldn't think of a middle name for her newborn girl. The Mum has a teenage sister, so whilst walking to the birth registration place, she let her pick the middle name just so her daughter had one. Turned out to be a normal name but what a way to pick a name.

There was a boy in my year who's middle name(s) were Ryan Giggs.

Anyone else come across strange reasons/funny names that made you wonder why the parents would want to put there child through it? Grin

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sauceyorange · 21/04/2017 06:37

The groundsman at Lords is called Mike Hint. Always causes a ripple of sniggers when announced over the tannoy.

I met a Dick Swett once. I believe he was a diplomat

cliffdiver · 21/04/2017 06:24

Catherine Hole.

Sounds fine, except she went by 'Cat'.

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 21/04/2017 05:44

I had a teacher called Horace Prickett. I can only assume that his parents didn't like him much!

lizzieoak · 21/04/2017 05:30

Marilyn, there's a Danish name Tofi - maybe it was Tofi (I say hopefully)? Even so, picking a name that has another meaning in your host country ...

Dixiestamp · 21/04/2017 01:30

My mum knows a lady called Eileen Forward.

BikeRunSki · 20/04/2017 20:42

There was a traffic and travel reporter on BBC Radio Sheffield who retired very recently. He was called Everad Daley. This always used to make me snigger Carry-On style when Sheffield travel news cut in on my car journey to work.

whosafraidofabigduckfart · 20/04/2017 19:26

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Glitterspy · 20/04/2017 19:20

I knew a Wayne Carr. Genuinely his parents were not the sharpest of pencils.

Glitterspy · 20/04/2017 19:19

I knew a Wayne Kerr. Genuinely his parents were not the sharpest of pencils.

MarilynWhirlwindRocks · 20/04/2017 19:19

I'm pretty open-minded about interesting/ more unusual names, but my jaw did hit the ground on hearing a journalist mention her 6yr old son, Toffee.

It. was. not. his. nickname Shock

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flapjackfairy · 20/04/2017 19:08

When i worked in telesales i had a customer called Miles Stones!
And my ndn was in a quiz team with a Phillip Brain and Alan Dick ! The organisers thought he was taking the mick when he submitted the entry form with p brain and a dick on it .

ShuttyTown · 20/04/2017 18:47

I worked at a hospital and there was a patient there called Venella Topping

BitOutOfPractice · 20/04/2017 18:44

I got chatted up by met a bloke in a pub who was a massive Crystal Palace fan and he'd named his daughter Crystal Alice. He even had a clipping about it from some local paper to prove it when I said I didn't believe him Hmm

flapjackfairy · 20/04/2017 18:43

I have put this before but worth repeating.
My friend knew a lady called Rhoda. She got engaged to a Mr Dick!
They wisely both took her name !!

MrsMeeseeks · 20/04/2017 18:40

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Foncy87 · 20/04/2017 18:38

Le-ah, which is pronounced Le Dash Ah Hmm!!

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 20/04/2017 18:19

@countingpigs haha that's like the boy I know with Ryan Giggs as the middle names 😂

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countingpigs · 20/04/2017 18:17

I had a classmate who had a normal first middle name then "Aston Villa" as his second and third Grin

Dixiestamp · 20/04/2017 18:15

I remember chatting to someone after she had just had a baby boy. She said his name was Bear, and it was't until later on that i remembered that his older brother was called Teddy! Also, my DM says that when I was born there was a baby girl born at the same time whose name was Tanya Haas!

AtlantaGinandTonic · 20/04/2017 18:11

After I got over the shock of what he did, I did Hmm at the name Steve Stephens. Assuming that's the name is parents gave him, just... what?

PandoraMole · 20/04/2017 18:08

When I went to college was on a course with a girl whose family name was Titt, but her parents had decided to change it when the had kids.

Ironically I had also changed my surname at 16...it was originally Cock Grin!

The most Shock naming story I've cone across was when I was working at a nursery. One of the kids was named after her Dad's ex girlfriend. Would have been ok if it was a regular name but it was very distinctive (ie sounded like it was made up).

beargrass · 20/04/2017 17:42

Arcadia makes me think of Topshop

teaandakitkat · 20/04/2017 17:25

thighbrows no, I went to a school in the north east of Scotland with a perfectly boring name. But surely there can't be two Kylie Wylies in the world? That would be weird.

lizzieoak · 20/04/2017 15:23

I'm not saying I quite like the name Arcadia, but it is a Greek baby name which means pastoral simplicity. It makes me think of 18th century ladies wandering Capability Brown landscapes.

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