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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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PatsyStone39 · 24/12/2019 10:39

A little boy called Croix - pronounced Croy and not like the frech Kwaa.

And I worked with a girl called Bling Bling.

Sadbadglad · 24/12/2019 10:38

Champayne

MrsJoshNavidi · 24/12/2019 10:37

Oh yes, I know a Jesus too, Filipino, he works in QEUH in Glasgow, great guy.

Jesus was quite a common name in Wales in times gone by. There was a Jesus Thomas and a Jesus Evans in the village where I grew up - both old boys back in the 70s, so must be dead now.
No different from Noah really, which is very common now.

Ijustwanttoretire · 24/12/2019 10:32

There was a family I heard of who's surname was Counsell and I think two of their kids were called Style and Somerset. An elderly neighbour was called Comayne, I love that and had I had a girl I would have called her that!! Never come across another one...

EdithWeston · 24/12/2019 10:25

"Thing about the L-a myth is that it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that people have heard the myth, believed it, thought it was a good name and actually used it... self perpetuating"

That's spot on what happened. There are girls called La-a, but they a all younger than the Internet myth. No-one has ever found an older one who could really have begun it (and heaven in Snopes tried hard enough). So it is now a real name, inspected by Internet myth.

pontiouspilates · 24/12/2019 10:24

I recently met a little boy named Fox.

TeachesOfPeaches · 24/12/2019 10:23

Marijuana Pepsi. She is an American education professional with a phD. She did her dissertation on unusual black names in the classroom.

PaddingtonBrown · 24/12/2019 10:21

Don't really think anyone is being racist Hmm the thread says most unusual name you've only heard once, not the worst/most horrible name.

Mine are Jago, Barron and Harley-Quinn,

FiveFarthings · 24/12/2019 10:18

I met a Twinkle once. There’s also a British actress called Tuppence Middleton which I’ve not heard anyone called before.

UtuNorantiPralatongsThirdEye · 24/12/2019 10:17

Luminous- lovely name and really suited the woman's personality.
(Yes, I'm aware that it's a normal name in some other cultures but it's an unusual name here, in the uk. As long as people don't take the piss out of the names then what's the problem really?)

Liriope · 24/12/2019 10:13

Hector Ion and Vector Pion (twins)

Soubriquet · 24/12/2019 10:12

Spike
Atlantis

IdleBet · 24/12/2019 10:12

Ladybird from when I was at school in the 80s.

TreesRUs · 24/12/2019 10:10

Went to school with a Marlon.

TreesRUs · 24/12/2019 10:09

When I say know, it’s a family member Confused

sashh · 24/12/2019 10:08

I used to teach quite a few African students so Blessing, Queen, Princess, Goodluck - I think because I knew them over a period of time I don't think of them as unusual, but I suppose they are.

TreesRUs · 24/12/2019 10:08

Thing about the L-a myth is that it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that people have heard the myth, believed it, thought it was a good name and actually used it... self perpetuating.

I know a Chuff.

AnguaResurgam · 24/12/2019 10:04

Polina is a pretty ordinary Russian name (it's their transliteration of Paulina, so unusual to the extent that it's out of fashion and has been for some time)

Greenandcabbagelooking · 24/12/2019 10:04

Soda Pop.

Nothing beats that!

floffel · 24/12/2019 10:04

Etney (boy)

therealshakira · 24/12/2019 10:02

Kynantae and Tia-Maria

Popsdob · 24/12/2019 10:01

Lettuce -

JosephineDeBeauharnais · 24/12/2019 09:56

In my personal acquaintance are Geronimo and Mars, Honeysuckle and Ruby Tiger.

Halsall · 24/12/2019 09:56

Mention of Django makes me think of the jazz musician Django Bates (and the guitarist Django Reinhardt, which I suspect is where Django B got his name).

I did once hear a woman calling to her small child in a playground - 'Elvis! Get over here!' Grin

DH's most unusual is the train guard he used to see on a certain line. Her name-badge read 'Alfredtina'.

putastrawunderbaby · 24/12/2019 09:53

Blade
Rain
Morna
Janna
Veryan
Javotte
Dove