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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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GluhweinsSousedSnogages · 26/12/2019 23:50

A childhood friends DM was Theresa Green. (Maiden name)

GluhweinsSousedSnogages · 26/12/2019 23:49

I know quite a few people with some of the names mentioned so far.

Ziggy
Rayon
Pixie
Vesper
Ocean

I noticed somebody mentioned knowing an Annette Curtain. An elderly family member of mine was Annette Ball.

My youngest DC's name isn't listed on the ONS data for the year they were born. 3 for last year though.

CPParenttoDD1234 · 26/12/2019 21:59

Boy

That was his actual name on birth certificate

Verily1 · 26/12/2019 21:57

Elle pr Ellie it really annoys me!

andannabegins · 26/12/2019 21:56

I met a Godlove. He was adorable and his name was shortened to Goddy

missmouse101 · 26/12/2019 20:32

@bowerbird5, are you sure they weren't calling Osian? It's a Welsh boy's name pronounced 'osh-uhn'.

kennyjenny · 26/12/2019 19:51

Fox

Bowerbird5 · 26/12/2019 19:46

I’ve met an adult Aurora.
And an Aurelia.

I heard a dad calling for Ocean in the supermarket. I know a few unusual but they might identify me if theirs friends read it. Don’t like some I have heard.

HildaRumpole · 26/12/2019 19:39

I stand corrected FeigningHorror - I’d missed the part where it was “names beginning”. It seems you’re right about the ONS data - as for the origins of the myth,
I have absolutely no knowledge of it. My only interaction with it was searching on darkgreener!

nearlythere12 · 26/12/2019 19:34

did wonder what they would think about it when the child reached prime Disney Princess outfit at nursery age.

Why would they care though?

CatalogueUniverse · 26/12/2019 19:12

I’m not saying that Aurora isn’t a perfectly good name. I did wonder what they would think about it when the child reached prime Disney Princess outfit at nursery age. Hopefully they didn’t care.

I do know that every other name on my list I met as adults and they were all fed up with explaining their name and 3 of them had abbreviated to more known names.

Uninvited01 · 26/12/2019 18:22

Tindergal.

I shit you not.

elfbuddy · 26/12/2019 17:14

There’s a Labia in school here too
Also Bobo
Lemon
Dieffer
Any
Mohammed-Ali

autumnkate · 26/12/2019 17:14

Also Amadeus, Pixie, Vesper and Buzz at various baby groups

autumnkate · 26/12/2019 17:04

I love Hero!

I’ve taught a Shanti, Princess, Angelove, Cam’Ron, Blade...

LifeofClimb · 26/12/2019 16:59

Enego (there was a famous architect, though, so not totally out there)
Honey (I like it though)
Red Hummingbird (Renamed himself this)
Gay (not short for anything - full name). Won’t tell you the surname as you’d be able to find them so easily... unusual surname too.
Wayne Kerr (well - now you probably know what town I live in!)
Dick Bellringer (totally outing our location)
Kahleesi (I think it suits the kid, so if you’re out there, reading this, hi 😊)

FeigningHorror · 26/12/2019 16:41

Too THICK.

FeigningHorror · 26/12/2019 16:41

@HildaRumpole, no it doesn’t. It shows that a few people used the name ‘Le-ann’ in the early 2000s — which I assume is a variant of ‘Leeann’ or ‘Lee-Anne’.

Le-a or La-a is, with Female, from the realms of racist urban myth — all the first usages are American and make it clear that the imaginary mother who’s named her child this is African-American and is ‘too think to breed’ etc etc. Snopes finds no evidence it’s true:

www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/

BikeRunSki · 26/12/2019 16:20

Aurora -oblivious to Disney connection

Why would anyone naming a child necessarily be aware of the Disney connection? Aurora is a perfectly good name, and was long before Disney popularised it.

CatalogueUniverse · 26/12/2019 15:22

Laiba means roughly pretty woman in Urdu.

CatalogueUniverse · 26/12/2019 15:20

Zoenaid not sure of spelling
Marza-Jedda
Graham Graeme (first name surname spelling might have been the other way round)
Wisp
Guinevere.

Odette
Gideon
Mauve pronounced maeve I presumed weird spelling.
Aurora -oblivious to Disney connection

missmouse101 · 26/12/2019 15:07

Apple-Blossom.

changeorendure · 26/12/2019 14:58

Labia! Is that from someone of a non-English speaking nationality? Do they know what it means in English???

changeorendure · 26/12/2019 14:57

K9

Seriously. For a girl. It should be illegal.

MrsJoshNavidi · 26/12/2019 14:57

And Clitorine? Blush

Surely not!?

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