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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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Carpetburns · 22/07/2019 19:55

Grey (boy)
Jersey (girl)

DartmoorDoughnut · 22/07/2019 19:54

There is a Khaleesi at our pre school, never met her but she shares a peg with my DS

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 22/07/2019 19:53

Oh and I know an elodie, shakira and a nevaeh

Theweasleytwins · 22/07/2019 19:52

I was in a and e, the dad had a Kalessi tattoo and the little girl answered to it

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 22/07/2019 19:50

Brothers fox and fawn
Sisters destiny and stormi
Brothers chase and gage
None of them are babies though, all teens now

Fruityb · 22/07/2019 19:50

Barnes

Carpetburns · 22/07/2019 19:50

Innocent (boy)
Riley-Kraft (boy)
Luna (girl)

Theweasleytwins · 22/07/2019 19:49

Edmund
Castle (yes that is his legal name)

wheresmymojo · 22/07/2019 19:47

@Mesosleepy

To be fair...Zebedee sounds like a made up 'modern' name but I found someone in my family tree from the early 1800's with that name.

Also Zebulon (and in a totally different part of the family!)

MrBobLobLaw · 22/07/2019 19:44

Another Elvis here.
Jason. Obviously a normal name but .. a baby called Jason?!

Chaoticnewtral · 22/07/2019 19:35

I met a Dlaniger (boy) and thought it must be a traditional European name I'd never come across.

Nope. They just couldn't think of what to call him, so he got his father's name... backwards.

flippedoff · 22/07/2019 19:31

When I worked with children back in the early 90s sisters, not twins, Tango and Tivoli. Also a small Aladdin who's middle name was the suburb in which he lived.

Maybelle15 · 22/07/2019 19:31

Moss,
I always wondered if they saw moss growing somewhere and decided that it would be a good name for their child. It was the grandmother who attended baby class and i did at first think she had trouble pronouncing Ross.

SallyWD · 22/07/2019 19:25

Merlin and Jaygan. Oh and I know a little girl called Tiger!

Ineedaweeinpeace · 22/07/2019 19:23

Official - they called her shell for short

BunnyJumps · 22/07/2019 19:20

Rudi

PeterRabbitsBlueCoat · 22/07/2019 19:08

Siblings called Java and Django.

Boy and girl but I always forget which is which.

firstimemamma · 22/07/2019 18:54

Fox
River

Frith2013 · 22/07/2019 18:43

Two nasty teenage thug brothers at my son’s high school

Roman and Boden

MyNewBearTotoro · 22/07/2019 18:40

Girls:
Precious
Harlow
January
Ecko
Kushla

Boys:
Loki
Boaz
Bramwell
Osso
Kuba

Idratherhaveacupoftea · 22/07/2019 18:39

I knew a Phaedra born in the 70s when I had mine.

WashingMyHair247 · 22/07/2019 18:34

Orastelle sounds like an oral contraceptive
Carmella reminds me of candida thrush treatment
My OH is Mark and I met a newborn Mark once and it did seem strange on a newborn, but I've never understood the name, at least Marcus sounds a bit more meaty
Goldie? Drummond? Cloyde?????
Makes my eldest's name sound relatively normal. And she's only ever met one other person with her name and there's only one famous actress with her name.

Skyejuly · 22/07/2019 18:23

Mars
Royston
Malcolm

BikeRunSki · 22/07/2019 18:19

Polaris.

I was rather disappointed that his sister wasn’t called Trident.

cheesenpickles · 22/07/2019 18:14

Ooh and I went to school with two girls called Tarzana and Valhalla (everybody called them Tazzy and Hally). Their mum was a pop star of the time though. Grin

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