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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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CPtart · 18/04/2017 21:27

DH worked with a Pearl Nicholas Grin

BadToTheBone · 18/04/2017 21:23

I forgot about an old friend who changed her name on marriage from Cox to Dick.

beargrass · 18/04/2017 21:07

Worked with someone called Amber Bush. She should've divorced her parents

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 18/04/2017 21:05

Can't believe I forgot. One of my nans is buried near to a man named
. Bing Ho

Isitjustmeorisiteveryoneelse · 18/04/2017 20:47

Also worked with Pony, Horse, Wolf and Bubbles, amongst others, in China where they seem to choose a word they like the sound of without checking it's meaning first.

Isitjustmeorisiteveryoneelse · 18/04/2017 20:44

Bent Winkle - colleague of DH - is Dutch so maybe they didn't realise it's so hilarious there they do now
Wayne Kearn - went to secondary with him in the eighties so no excuse surely

silkpyjamasallday · 18/04/2017 20:39

I knew a lady who on taking her husbands name after marriage was called Joy Rider. Surely you would keep your maiden name?!

ToughItOut · 18/04/2017 20:11

There's a Star and a Pebbles at my dd school!

MamaLazarou · 18/04/2017 20:08

I once saw a butcher's delivery van with the name Diaper Meats on the side. Presumably, Diaper is the surname of the company owner. But, really, they didn't think that one through, did they?

rachyconks · 18/04/2017 19:54

@ni58 I would say so judging by your username! Smile small world!

MrsMeeseeks · 18/04/2017 18:57

And a woman in a group I'm in on Facebook is thinking of calling her daughter Stryder.

MrsMeeseeks · 18/04/2017 18:56

I met a Kwyntyn on Sunday.

Talcott2007 · 18/04/2017 18:42

I did two weeks work experience at a recruitment agency, one of the things I had to do was take details from new clients for the database - my very 1st one was a lady called Dickshitter. I'm trying so hard to be professional but I'm only 14 and i remeber thinking i must have misheard her so there is this awkard silence and all I could think to say was "and how is that spelt?" Her response (totally straight faced) "as it sounds" I still have think i still have scars on the insides of my cheeks from biting down to keep from laughing!

lizzieoak · 18/04/2017 18:41

It does sound funny now, but (at least in North America) Dick used to be a perfectly normal shortening of Richard. And Randy (which faintly amuses me as I've lived in the U.K.) is just a name here and not a descriptive (though not much used in the past 30 years).

In a job I used to have I had an elderly couple where the woman's maiden name was Allbody and the husband's surname was Butt.

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 18/04/2017 18:27

I've been waiting to come back to this post 😂

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NameyMcNamerson83 · 18/04/2017 17:45

I worked with an American guy called Randy Beard 😊

GastonsWife · 18/04/2017 15:14

I used to work with a Robin Hood (his parents must have known)
Deezel
Shakira ( a few of these)
Nothing rude. Just odd!

GaladrielsRing · 18/04/2017 11:12

Legov Lam GrinGrinGrin

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 18/04/2017 09:33

DH used to be a postie and delivered to a Pooja Pants.

Farfromtheusual · 18/04/2017 09:24

I know of a Tia Maria Pie. And I know a David Davies and David Davies Junior and a Robert Robertson. Not sure if their parents think it's funny or clever but it's just stupid really isn't it? Hmm

uncoolnn · 18/04/2017 09:23

Phillipa Hole Grin

SuperBeagle · 18/04/2017 09:11

A dad shouting loudly for Zebidee at Legoland caught my attention

This name always reminds me of Charles Manson's nutty "family member" who named her son Zezozose.

Comealongpond89 · 18/04/2017 09:04

I knew of a family with surname Lear and they named their two daughters Gonda and Chanda.

I also see a lot of names at my work (In a doctor's) including a man called Yoda and twin girls called Precious and Princess

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