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Most unusual names you’ve heard at baby group!

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Nameenthusiast · 25/01/2019 21:33

Thought this might be fun and may give some people some new ideas! What are the most unusual baby names you have heard recently? Mine are:
Moses
Claude
Nula
Herbie
Huckleberry

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QuimReaper · 28/01/2019 21:12

I know a young Zebedee, and a Myrtle (although she is probably a teenager by now). I've never met anyone else with those names!

Laquila · 28/01/2019 20:21

Chaim is a very normal Hebrew boys’ name.

CarolDanvers · 28/01/2019 14:46

I properly snorted at that Ducky Grin. Surely a nick name?

Duckyneedsaclean · 28/01/2019 14:29

There's a boy in my sons school called Daddycool. Shit you not.

Duckyneedsaclean · 28/01/2019 14:28

Moss

MikeUniformMike · 28/01/2019 14:27

Brân not Bran.

MikeUniformMike · 28/01/2019 14:26

Bran is welsh for crow not raven. A raven is cigfran (pron. kig-vran)

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 28/01/2019 13:30

I met a baby Geoff a couple of years ago. My brother is Geoff so it's a name that I notice, and I don't think I know any younger than 40-ish.

Scandaloso · 28/01/2019 12:46

Did she spell it Nula though?

hihellohihey · 28/01/2019 12:45

LOVE Nula, it was my Nans name and I plan on using it for sure.

NancyFrank · 28/01/2019 12:44

@MyBreadIsEggy I also know a Khaleesi! Also an Ace and a Blue

cricketmum84 · 28/01/2019 12:40

I don't have a baby I'm afraid but my son does go to school with a boy called Bravo.

Not a nickname. Bravo is his actual name!

cricketmum84 · 28/01/2019 12:39

Huckleberry 😂😂 that can't be real surely??

Scandaloso · 28/01/2019 12:34

Pete Doherty's son is called Astile, think he's a teenager now

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I'd have guessed he was about seven!

daisypond · 28/01/2019 12:31

Nothing odd about Gal - it's a Hebrew girl's name. I know a ten-year-old one.

BikeRunSki · 28/01/2019 12:26

I only know 1

Ambrose
Shanti
Eliezer
Song

VoyageInTheDark · 28/01/2019 11:49

@scandaloso Pete Doherty's son is called Astile, think he's a teenager now

Giraffetower · 28/01/2019 11:16

I am racking my brains as to who I only know one of! ( lots of "unusual" names on this list, but I know lots of them!)

Boys:

Rex
Ragnor
Stirling
Casper
and Ralph ( pronounced ralf)

Girls:
Cassandra
Carys
Violet
Marjorie
Portia

nocluenoidea · 28/01/2019 10:10

A few names mentioned on this thread, like Piper and Hunter are massively popular here in Australia so it's funny seeing you list them as 'unusual' 😂. My dd's friend is called Piper and I think Hunter was number 15 last year in popularity, though to me it does just sound like a Gladiator.

Here's some of my local 'weird' ones;
Soren
Taj
Sorrel
Alaska
Sydney (for an Australian girl 🙈)
Cherry (only a middle name but still...)

TitilatedOcelot · 28/01/2019 09:28

@BellMcEnd SmileShe does have v red hair, so I assume that's the reason for the name, rather than being the naughtiest girl in the world!

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 28/01/2019 08:14

Thor.His dad is Scandinavian so apparently not that unusual

Cariadxx · 28/01/2019 07:59

Bruce
Ray
Agamemmnon

singingismypassion · 27/01/2019 22:45

Godsgift

Laquila · 27/01/2019 22:14

Calamity are you in Suffolk, by any chance?

CalamityJane10 · 27/01/2019 19:30

Milan
Bramwell
Twins called Fogerty (boy) and Tryphena (girl)