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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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YolandiFuckinVisser · 17/04/2017 22:57

I used to work with somebody called Helen Heaven. Heaven was her married name but she kept it after divorce because she liked the effect.

Helenluvsrob · 17/04/2017 22:57

Shirley temple is the local Chinese here - again I have a little snigger. It is , of course , in Shirley 😂

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 22:57

There was a girl in my school called Pretti Petal

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Helenluvsrob · 17/04/2017 22:56

Joe king edits gardners question time. I always snigger a little at the credits 😂

Holly wood and jack Daniels at school made me got WTF , though eldest had a girl in her year with the amazing name Opus Dei which seems like something to live up to !

Marley45 · 17/04/2017 22:55

I've met a Robin Banks

Fitzsimmons · 17/04/2017 22:55

Ina Kitchen

Isadora2007 · 17/04/2017 22:52

I knew a Shirley Temple.

There is a Dior in my DSs nursery and a Chayse as well 😳

Ni58 · 17/04/2017 22:52

rachyconks - could it be the same one?!

ThoraGruntwhistle · 17/04/2017 22:50

Duane Pipe
Emma Royde
Annette Curtin
Justin Case

Ni58 · 17/04/2017 22:49

My Science teacher was Mr Hardon!!!

rattieofcarcassone · 17/04/2017 22:48

Oh my teachers! We had a few good ones. My form tutor was Mr Pratt, always giggled at that. Two Richard Heads (one PE teacher and I don't know what the other taught but he taught me general studies in college and went by Dick).
I've heard of a Mrs French who taught French too.

Greenfingeredfun · 17/04/2017 22:47

I have met a Wayne King and a Mary Christmas

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 22:47

I haven't stopped laughing for about half an hour, my belly hurts!

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 22:46

@informedchoice that's so funny!

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informedchoice · 17/04/2017 22:46

I know someone called Francis England. He doesn't seem to have noticed.

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CuppaTeaTeddy · 17/04/2017 22:45

@FamilySpartan I had to re-read your post a couple of times. I thought it said Backholder (which is weird anyway) but then I realised it said Backholer... that's jokes 😂

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LittleCandle · 17/04/2017 22:44

My DM taught a Crystal Glass and Heather Bell.

rattieofcarcassone · 17/04/2017 22:43

I know of a woman who became Teresa Green upon marriage (I was friends with her daughter).

A friend of mine became Holly Day upon her marriage, I asked if she considered double barrelling but she was really against the idea!

I don't know anybody who has been given an odd/funny name though.

FamilySpartan · 17/04/2017 22:42

Years ago I met a man named John Backholer. I'd never heard the surname Backholer before and it was all I could do to suppress a childish and rude giggle.

rachyconks · 17/04/2017 22:39

My chemistry teacher was Mr. Hardon. My DF always thought it was hilarious, but I didn't get the joke until about year 10 Blush

twinmamma2b · 17/04/2017 22:39

Have just remembered that I also know a Nesta Twigg and a Dickie Bird.

PinkGlitter17 · 17/04/2017 22:38

I was a teacher in Thailand for a few years, and as well as their Buddhist Thai names, which are v v long, they all have nicknames - many of them western words. Over the three years, I encountered:

Oven
Sunday
Mixer
Ham
Benz
Bank
Bing Bing
Yoohoo
Best
Pukky
Nut

....and also names that translated as Watermelon, various vegetables, 'First' or 'One' (as they had been the first born in their family), Egg, Shrimp, Small, Big, Crab. The list goes on. It used to be a nightmare when you got the list of the kids you were about to teach that year, and find out all the names you were going to have to deal with! Fun, though.

PotOfYoghurt · 17/04/2017 22:34

Beagle Alice Cooper was in the original Archie comics which the show is based off, decades before the musician was around.

FreeNiki · 17/04/2017 22:34

Isla White

NapQueen · 17/04/2017 22:33

Used to work in a hotel and a guest came to stay with his company (so presumably they know its his actual name) called Kevin Slevin.

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