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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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MrsJoshNavidi · 26/12/2019 14:56

Labia?? ShockShock

weebarra · 26/12/2019 10:53

I know a lovely Samanda who is constantly correcting people about her name.
Also a Persephone, nn Sephy.

HildaRumpole · 26/12/2019 09:13

Darkgreener is a handy site - it uses all the ONS data since 1996 to give a graph for how use of names had changed. I suspect that any names used fewer than three times in a year won’t register because the ONS data tends not to publish those due to privacy issues.

Searching darkgreener shows no hits for La-a or L-a (but see above caveat) but DOES show a spike in the early 2000s for Le-a. So at least 3 kids were called it that year. i.e. not just an urban myth

ploughingthrough · 25/12/2019 23:10

Valley (boy)
Tuesday (girl)

Inarightpickleandpreserve · 25/12/2019 23:08

Bessie Bramble

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BikeRunSki · 25/12/2019 21:55

Lettice (that spelling) is an old, but genuine, name.

LadyAllegraImelda · 25/12/2019 21:02

My DD is called Zanna

and I've come across;

Lettuce
Blue
Labia
Chance

EdithWeston · 25/12/2019 20:46

Ram Jam is an old coaching inn on the Great North Road (A1)

I wonder if it was a 'place of conception' name?

SlothRunner · 25/12/2019 20:41

Ram jam funky boogaloo smythe was a customer where i used to work

Also knew of a Meadow-Lark Summer cloud, who was a boy and also had a double barrelled surname

OneKeyAtATime · 25/12/2019 20:37

Manchester
Tequila
Clitorine

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ThighThighOfthigh · 25/12/2019 20:17

My hairdresser is called Tuesday

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Savannahmarie · 25/12/2019 18:22

There was a Kellasuss in my daughter’s class and I used to know a girl who called her daughter Liver as in the organ

Flowerpower321 · 25/12/2019 17:49

Can anyone who reckons they know a Ladasha or a Pocahontas provide any actual evidence or are these perpetuations of the urban myths?

Ones I’ve met- Iona Hill, Elvis, Blu, Griffin and a couple of unique names made up by their parents which I won’t name as outing. All white British.

InvisibleWomenMustBeRead · 25/12/2019 17:48

Astrid is really common these days - I've met one in real life and every other tv show seems to have an Astrid in it!

ThighThighOfthigh · 25/12/2019 17:23

I love Astrid.

I went to school with a boy called Miles Rhodes. And a Frank Yu.

corlan · 25/12/2019 16:58

Uranus.

MoonlightMistletoe · 25/12/2019 16:28

Astrid

yips · 25/12/2019 16:15

Mantis.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 25/12/2019 16:13

We had a 'Neon' at school very briefly. There's a boy at the DSs school called 'Kyzah'.

confusedyoungthing · 25/12/2019 16:10

Dainty.
Chakayler (shuck-ay-luh)

sqirrelfriends · 25/12/2019 15:59

Someone else on this thread reminded me that I went to school with a Kellie-middle name Kelly.

I asked her why her parents called her the same name, they liked it apparently.

scarecrowhead · 25/12/2019 09:19

An old lady years back called Arras. She was born during WW1 and her father had served in the battle of the same name