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Most unusual name you’ve ever heard?

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ikeakia · 23/12/2019 23:14

Just wondering what unusual ‘only met one’ names people had come across in their lives?

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Carolemia · 04/01/2020 04:07

I knew a lady called Lyzarilliah! (Pronounced Lits are ill ee ah)...her Mum made it up!

OwlBeThere · 04/01/2020 04:05

Berry. I taught her and wasn’t keen on it to start but it grew on me!

SpeckledyHen · 03/01/2020 22:22

Jaro - boy .

Littlefoxy · 03/01/2020 22:18

I know a Shanti, an Aurora and I have an Adeline.

Ahhhmythirddecade · 03/01/2020 20:12

Barbie. Not Barbara but Barbie...

Gulsink · 01/01/2020 00:40

Looc.
Pronounced as Luke, but is cool spelt backwards. Same thought process as people who use 'Nevaeh' I suppose.

IdaBWells · 31/12/2019 22:20

I also know a Misty! Very approachable intelligent woman.

Rainbow - accountant from Taiwan
Cameo - as in brooch. Her mum named her after the brooch as she thought it was pretty.
Richenda - very nice, glamorous neighbour in PR.
Vinka - neighbour from former Yugoslavia in the 1970s.

StegosaurusRex · 31/12/2019 08:53

Just remembered I also know a woman called Misty. She's really lovely and it really suits her, but she the only on I've heard of, in the UK anyway

ims0rrydarlin · 31/12/2019 00:12

I work in a healthcare profession so come across some interesting names.

Rocky was a man.
Harlem was a little boy.
Chardonnay

Ellecrawford · 31/12/2019 00:00

Itty .. someone I know was going to call there baby it if he was a girl ..

ZombieVoicedAdam · 30/12/2019 23:59

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff nice story about Djhonny. I lived in Colombia for some time and Jhon was as you say a very aspirational choice for a boy's name. Many little girls at that time were named Ledidi - Lady Di Smile

BecauseReasons · 30/12/2019 23:11

Ooh, I've just remembered one. I saw a young Fenton at a fencing competition a few years back at the height of the dog at Richmond Park debacle. Not so bad in itself, but his teacher did spend an awful lot of time forcefully barking, 'Fenton!' Fenton!' Rather more frequently than strictly necessary in my opinion.

Just goes to show you can't always predict the names people will make fun of.

Bol87 · 30/12/2019 22:25

Oh Garfield cracked me up.. what are his parents thinking?! 😂

HermioneMakepeace · 30/12/2019 21:19

Love the FrillyFrocks story, really sweet Smile.

ims0rrydarlin · 30/12/2019 21:13

A little boy in my nephews nursery is called Garfield.

BikeRunSki · 29/12/2019 11:20

Drystan, he tells me that it’s the medieval form of Tristan

Whatsyourflava · 29/12/2019 08:45

I like the name Blanket (although it was never his official name, only ever a nickname)

GrannyBags · 29/12/2019 08:35

@scrivette that name is my favourite word. I know a boy whose mum wanted that but dad didn’t so he is just the first part.

MrsMillerbecameababy · 29/12/2019 08:22

I saw the forename Fredbert on an attendee sheet once and sure enough the guy introduced himself as Fredbert - that's two names/ nicknames merged isn't it? Alfred? Albert? Alfred Bertrum? Albert Frederick? Bert? Fred? Al? Nope - Fredbert.

Lou98453 · 29/12/2019 08:05

Not that unusual, but I went to school with a girl called Hermione. And, I work with two women called Hermione.

I also work with a Bartholomew, nn Bart.

AJPTaylor · 29/12/2019 06:02

There has to be a minimum number of a name 3? 6?to appear on the released ONS data to prevent individuals being identified

scrivette · 28/12/2019 22:19

Spidey I spelt it incorrectly, it's Jessamy.

bxua if you search '2001 film with Kate Beckinsale' it's the name of the film (not Pearl Harbour!)

bxua · 28/12/2019 21:55

@scrivette I'm intrigued now?? Do you mind sharing?

JLo1979 · 28/12/2019 21:46

A lovely male shop assistant in bath and body works called Precious!

PineappleDanish · 28/12/2019 21:37

Conanrio (boy) at a baby group

Girl in my Brownies called Aeronwy, probably like Jane or Susan in Wales but I've never come across another

Megan-Mitzi - another girl applying to join Brownies, asked the mum to clarify whether it was hyphenated or whether Mitzi was the middle name, mum said that no it was most definitely hyphenated and the Mitzi was after the dog who had died two days before Megan-Mitzi was born... She'd be about 13 now, wonder if she's quietly dropped the Mitzi and is just Megan.

DS had a girl in his class called Swastika - Indian heritage but both parents born and raised in Scotland. Yes it's a Hindu religious symbol but it also has some other connotations in Europe.