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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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ThighThighOfthigh · 25/12/2019 08:47

I know someone named Andrewina everyone calls her Rena.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 25/12/2019 08:47

Sweetpea.

ThighThighOfthigh · 25/12/2019 08:40

Jacinta - she said it was popular in Ireland.

Goatinthegarden · 25/12/2019 08:11

@MarthasGinYard I once came across a boy named Zed on a teaching placement - there can’t be many of them!

I also once met a very lovely little boy called Bacchus.

PurpleFrames · 25/12/2019 08:00

Ché
Laurel
Odin - particularly unfortunates she has behaviour issues

Twisique · 25/12/2019 07:57

Verin

Mulledwineinajug · 25/12/2019 07:54

Baahiyyah

Mulledwineinajug · 25/12/2019 07:52

Sasmira

JesusMaryAndJosepheen · 25/12/2019 05:58

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TheCWord · 25/12/2019 05:41

@JesusMaryAndJosepheen. I've looked for the Lee brothers on my ancestry site but nothing registered to a Serious Lee

transformandriseup · 25/12/2019 04:28

October (girl)

Also Gordon Bennett

Beckie222 · 25/12/2019 01:25

Alex Sandra

PsychosonicCindy · 25/12/2019 00:52

I mentioned this on another thread earlier but when I did my family tree I discovered an ancestor born on Christmas day named...Christmas!
2 of my 3 dds have been named on here for their beautiful unusual names too!

MrsFox4 · 25/12/2019 00:38

My husband works with a orpheus & his daughters called Oberi pronounced O-Berry

MrsFox4 · 25/12/2019 00:36

Isn’t La-a just a myth?

I know of a Anduin, Jarrah, Zugi.

RainMinusBow · 25/12/2019 00:18

Onion (pronounced same as the vegetable).

dw23 · 25/12/2019 00:12

Tiami named after Princess Tiiamii Andre 😬
Hepzibah
Liliwen
Ido

TheJesusAndMaryChain · 25/12/2019 00:05

Tia Maria
Star
Blue
Grey
Cistine

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 24/12/2019 23:52

Oh, I knew a Djhonny. His mum was not English speaking and gave him an English name - Johnny - as she found it aspirational. She was a single mum, not very literate, very hard up, and wanted the best for her boy. She didn't know how to spell it.

When I knew him, he was a very successful self made businessman and had bought his mum a house.

It obviously worked!

I always loved that story.

creamcheeseandlox · 24/12/2019 23:46

Malibu. 🙄

soupforbrains · 24/12/2019 23:43

My son used to go to the childminder with a little girl called Ember.

Which is slightly unusual, but it was much later when I later discovered she had 3 brothers called Blaze, Inferno and Flame and a little sister called Spark that I was rather ShockHmm

LittleReindeer · 24/12/2019 23:41

I once knew a Lee Lee - he was abandoned as a baby and was only given a first name, was never adopted and given a surname, so he used Lee as both first name and surname. Quite sad really.

LittleReindeer · 24/12/2019 23:36

Veryan
Riah (like Mariah without the Ma)
Annona
Richenda

A teacher friend insisted she once taught a Jkmn pronounced Noelle (no L) Hmm

Morgan12 · 24/12/2019 23:32

Theres also an Ursala, Pocahontos and a Britney Spears round my way.

gypsywater · 24/12/2019 23:29

Xanthe and Ianthe and Kendra arent that uncommon!