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Truly awesome names

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lucysnowe · 24/04/2017 11:39

I have just come across someone who proudly bears the name of Buckmaster de Wolf. It is the awesomest name I have ever heard! Does anyone have any similar awesome names?

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LeftyLucy · 26/04/2017 16:27

I met Shauna Shoop a couple of weeks ago. I had the theme music in my head all the time I was talking to her.

FlyingSquid · 26/04/2017 16:25

There are quite a few Turville-Petries in the palaeontology field, LaMere - - wonder if it's a family connection?

Howyoualldoworkme · 26/04/2017 16:21

Correction, it's Wren Spangler!

Howyoualldoworkme · 26/04/2017 16:20

When Spangler, an American librarian we're working with at the moment.

LePimpernelScarlette · 26/04/2017 14:58

LaMere I was also at uni with Titus Boggin or Boggan!

My science teacher was Mrs Shockbolt. We had family friends whose surname was Dick, and yes they called their son Richard!

I knew a little girl who was called Aurora Roarson, but sadly she had problems pronouncing her 'r's.....

floraeasy · 26/04/2017 14:42

Daffodil Marriage

At least it wasn't Lavender Marriage!!

WashingMatilda · 26/04/2017 14:16

I'm a copper and there is a bloke in firearms called PC Studd and he totally is Blush

QuimReaper · 26/04/2017 13:45

Daffodil Marriage has come up twice, surely there can't be two?!

Dillybean · 26/04/2017 13:16

I follow a blogger in the US whose children are called Archer Sage, Fable Luella, and twins Boheme Shalom and Reverie Lux. Just the most gorgeous names!

I used to go to school with a Serendipity, known as Dippy, and at college there was a girl called Scheherazade.

ZebraOwl · 26/04/2017 12:39

The Puritans had some SPLENDID names, like good old Praise-God Barebone (from whom the Barebones Parliament gets its name). One of his sons got the catchy "If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned" but for some reason chose to go by Nicolas instead... Am forced to wonder if Damned Barebone was designated the black sheep at birth...

Some other quite... special... ones:

  • Fear-not Helly
  • Continent Walker
  • Humiliation Hynde
  • No-merit Vynall
  • Sorry-for-sin Coupard
  • Kill-sin Pimple

In fairness to the Puritans & their bonkers naming tastes, they did also make names like Verity & Hope popular. It wasn't all Ashes, Silence, Anger & Abstinence...

I was at school with sisters who were both N.E. Hough; and we somehow, despite being a big comprehensive, had two Persephones & an Estacia.

At university my admissions tutor rejoiced in the name of Lisa Bodfish & I encountered a Dr Foster (never asked if he's visited Gloucester); Mr Mandelbrote; Dr Richard Rex, whose email address starts rawr; then-Dr-now-Prof Ulinka Rublack; and Prof Hans van de Ven. The Faculty has since gained a Dr Andrew Marks Spencer, sadly Professor Badger has retired. Oh & for any rowers, having a Dr Goldie was always quite amusing...

I've met more than one nurse Nightingale & had an orthopaedic surgeon called Miss Back (but she specialised in knees). One of my friends had an anaesthetist called Dr Payne, which she said didn't fill her with confidence Wink... There's an incredibly named Elfy Chevretton in the ENT department: I was sorting through some paperwork the other day & found a letter from her. Can't for the life of me remember her though. Assume that she used Elvin Powers to wipe my memory... My granny's cataract surgery was done by a Mr Zuberbuhler - a name that is both musical but could also be used, perhaps, as a pseudoswear in company of children etc?

Am sure I've come across some other remarkable appellations... Brownies (not in my Unit) called Bummer (not pronounced as English people would) & Cinderella spring to mind...

ProzacAndWinePlease · 26/04/2017 11:54

I shortly knew a guy whose first name was Dangerfield/Daingerfield (not sure about the spelling). He was called by the full name, too - no nicknames.

LaMereDuChat · 26/04/2017 11:48

IncidentalAnarchist - I also went to school with Tarrian Garlick! Devon, it was...

Also, university with Titus Boggan.

Other fantastic ones - dp's medieval history lecturer - Thorlac Turville-Petrie. Fabulous!

thegreylady · 26/04/2017 11:47

Brother and sister Hereward and Elfrida (won't put surname)

user1483699375 · 26/04/2017 11:30

And a work colleague had a boss called Ashley Jordan Diaper. Yes really.

user1483699375 · 26/04/2017 11:26

I once communicated by email with a contact in the USA with the name of Jasper Bumcrot!!! Unbelievable!

nannybeach · 26/04/2017 10:38

Oh, I have worked with Dr De'ath, and a Nurse NURSE

nannybeach · 26/04/2017 10:36

I was in Hospital having my first baby Mrs Thomas, YES she called her son JOHN!!!!!

CaoNiMartacus · 26/04/2017 10:32

fnar

Truly awesome names
ExConstance · 26/04/2017 10:21

I had my horse schooled by a man called Hartley Larishe, despite his exotic name he was a very down to earth Gloucestershire type of person. In relation to the behaviour of the bolshy Highland he would say "I've got a vote, You've got a vote but he hasn't got a vote"

cakesonatrain · 26/04/2017 10:11

I knew a Dianna Roxanne Kanannowitz (?sp)
I told her I loved her name.

My mum met a Mr Wildgoose.

PussCatTheGoldfish · 26/04/2017 09:44

There's a Dr Love in the local town who does vasectomies. Grin

MotherofPearl · 26/04/2017 09:40

Totally Givenup. I'm also a big fan of

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Victorians knew how to do names eh?

tarheelbaby · 26/04/2017 09:35

oooh and I've just remembered that after the late unpleasantness, one of my ancestors married (gasp) the overseer, Mr. Garlick.

TheSeaPriestess · 26/04/2017 09:35

My daughter went to school with Sky Wilding.

SecretNortherner · 26/04/2017 09:12

My brother was friends with a lad called Joseph King. Joe for short.