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Most unusual name you’ve ever heard?

513 replies

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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OnGoldenPond · 24/12/2019 17:16

DSIS went to school with Flash Gordon.

DS went to school with a rather small and delicate boy called Gruff Justice. Sounds like some kind of superhero and must have been difficult for the poor wee lad to live up to! Grin

CalleighDoodle · 24/12/2019 17:13

What’s odd about William Smith?

I guess it is the story all about how his life got flipped, turned upside down...

pallisers · 24/12/2019 16:39

What's odd about William Smith?

isabellerossignol · 24/12/2019 16:29

I read a death notice in a newspaper a few years back for an elderly lady who was called Nirvana. I remember thinking that if anyone these days called a child Nirvana people would automatically assume them to be Kurt Cobain fans.

Seaandsand83 · 24/12/2019 16:13

Danny-boy...child at my son's school
Rainbow... She's 38
Angel... Who was no angel!!

ButterflyBitch · 24/12/2019 16:04

I know a child who has bleu in their name. Pronounced blue. Why not just spell it blue?
I also met a baby Ace a long time ago.
I know of a Kalel named after superman

BikeRunSki · 24/12/2019 16:01

There is a lady who works in the Tesco Express near my work called Sainabou. She says it’s a pretty unusual name even in her home country (Ghana).

1Micem0use · 24/12/2019 15:45

Not unusual in themselves, but with the surnames... well the parents should've known better

1Micem0use · 24/12/2019 15:44

I knew a Jack Daniel, and a William Smith who insisted on being called William

Verily1 · 24/12/2019 15:41

Jackery
Lillybelle
Murrin
Rayne

TinklyLittleLaugh · 24/12/2019 15:41

Somerset it’s the name of a famous writer so not that unheard of.
Tudor and Gruff are pretty mainstream in Wales.

My mum has an old English name (and it’s my middle name) that I’ve never heard anyone else with. It’s in Pillars of the Earth though. Two people come up when you google it. My gran heard it when she was in service as a very young girl and before the internet though perhaps she’d made it up.

Astrabees · 24/12/2019 15:39

Phileriken.

Sewingbea · 24/12/2019 15:36

@WTF0ver it surely must be the same one!!!!

Sewingbea · 24/12/2019 15:34

Beefy. His brother was named Ice. I kid you not.
And a little girl called Diesel.

Omashu · 24/12/2019 15:30

I also know a Huckleberry...
Also know of a boy named ‘Praise the Lord George’ - no joke!
And I knew brothers named Axel and Wheeler!

ncftp · 24/12/2019 15:23

Dolcie
Manhattan

fartingsparkles · 24/12/2019 15:12

There was a girl in my school called Tangye. Not a name I've ever heard again

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pallisers · 24/12/2019 14:54

Names I've only met one of

Genesis
Cordiana (my favourite)
Chaney
Nilufar(love that one too)
Zeno (coolest boy I ever met)
Ishbel (they were scottish - presume this is well known in scotland - I thought it was lovely)
Bronte
Attracta (saint's name in Ireland)

One of my own dds has an unusual Irish name and we have never met another one.

weebarra · 24/12/2019 14:45

Reef
Fox

MonsterKidz · 24/12/2019 14:39

I know a Selah (little girl) which I had never heard of but now know to be a biblical name.

It’s pronounced Sail-Ah

I then met another Mum with a little girl with the same name but it turns out she is Sailor. As in Sail-or. 😳

bxua · 24/12/2019 14:37

Perseus

IHaveBrilloHair · 24/12/2019 14:34

I know an adult who changed his name to Lusifer by deed poll, yes really!

dontmentionbookclub · 24/12/2019 14:17

My dd was at school with Lucipher.

mummagirl · 24/12/2019 14:07

Again
Aideen is a very USUAL Irish name