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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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IHaveBrilloHair · 24/12/2019 09:53

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

IHaveBrilloHair · 24/12/2019 09:52

Kick

He/his parents were Dutch, but it was the English word, actually really lovely family and child, quite alternative and they were travelling the world when I met them in Bali.

Bouledeneige · 24/12/2019 09:47

Merisna
Jesus (spanish pronounced he-Zeus)
Isambard
Blue
Perri

Musmerian · 24/12/2019 09:45

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz Hester isn’t that unusual! (It’s my daughter’s name) It’s the Latinate form of Esther and was popular in the Victorian era and also amongst Quakers/Puritans. Really not in the same category as Ember. Unusual isn’t the same as less popular.

ThighThighOfthigh · 24/12/2019 09:41

Some of these are terrific, i go mainstream though.

RiftGibbon · 24/12/2019 09:40

And I went to school with a boy called Dagney.

ThighThighOfthigh · 24/12/2019 09:39

I met someone called Merillee, she married Mr Mount.

Mamabear88 · 24/12/2019 09:38

Latido. As in - Do re me fa so la ti do. Yep.

RiftGibbon · 24/12/2019 09:38

I've met a Storm, a Merrilin and a Polina.

Saisong · 24/12/2019 09:37

There's a McQuintan in DCs school - a lovely little girl.

TrexDrip · 24/12/2019 09:35

Overheard in a rough bar a few years ago a woman say she had called her son Snapdragon and spelt it Sna9dragon so that it couldn’t be registered properly as computers don’t like numbers being in names. I just sat there in disbelieve !

SometimesItRains · 24/12/2019 09:32

Paignton for a girl - i just can’t get over that it starts with ‘pain’ - I mean what do you shorten it to? Xmas Confused

PottersonDayz · 24/12/2019 09:31

@isabellerossignol She grew up in Glasgow.

Eminybob · 24/12/2019 09:30

I know a little boy called Starsson which I’ve never seen or heard before.

LizzyBennett · 24/12/2019 09:23

The most unusual is a chap who does fencing somewhere in Wales called
Ram Jam Delilah Funky Boogaloo Smythe

When I worked in an area where I was dealing with the public, a lot of people of Nigerian origin had names for their children that denoted how happy they were when the children were born. Names like Goodnews, Blessing, Godsjoy etc. I always thought they were lovely names and not too dissimilar from the Victorian trend of naming children after virtues, like Grace or Faith.

DS would have been a Django if XH had his way.

I work in the NHS now, alongside people from all over the world, so unusual (to me) names don't make me blink. Although a chap called Lillian did give me pause

hardyloveit · 24/12/2019 09:11

@hohopo what's wrong or unusual about Skylar/Skyler? My daughters name is that

FeigningHorror · 24/12/2019 09:11

I agree @SimonJT. A lot of people on these threads don’t appear to grasp the difference between Emmerleigh-Galadriel-Blu, and entirely ordinary names froM other cultures, so there’s often an edge of Little Englander sneering.

Names like Precious and Lovely are very ordinary in their culture, and throw a stone and you’ll hit a Cillian in Ireland.

Legoeverywhere92 · 24/12/2019 09:01

Met a Beowulf (boy) at a baby massage group in posh part of town.

MsMiaWallace · 24/12/2019 08:57

Diego
Chase

Hero is a Shakespearean name.

jeremypaxo · 24/12/2019 08:56

Silence.

hohopo · 24/12/2019 08:56

Fox
Ajax
Cillian
Crillan
Blaze
Skylar
Chardonnay
Blue
Rex which we all know is a dogs name.

Legoeverywhere92 · 24/12/2019 08:56

Jeneba- beautiful name!

SilverOtter · 24/12/2019 08:53

My little boy is called CorinSmile

I know there are more of them out there, but I've not met one in real life yet!

BadgeronaMoped · 24/12/2019 08:52

Leeland, Cy, Mabelynda Smile I remember being so taken with the name Mabelynda that I wrote a note about it in my diary - I'm massively vanilla with my own name choices though.

scarecrowhead · 24/12/2019 08:49

Reliks