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Splendid names you've come across

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whatausername · 10/01/2022 22:18

I recently heard of an Elphinstone Dalgleish. Have also met a couple of kids called Star.

What fun/marvellous/slightly wacky names have you come across?

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PeeAche · 11/01/2022 00:31

@Chunkymenrock

I interviewed a lady called Coriander.
But in America, they call her cilantro.
OhLordyWhatNow · 11/01/2022 00:30

I've worked with someone called Crispin Golden.

Subulter · 11/01/2022 00:23

I taught a Tuesday Biddle, and know a toddler called Ezekiel Pollock. I was at university with a woman called Faux (pronounced Fox) Hylands.

Teenagehorrorbag · 11/01/2022 00:21

I used to work in a bank, and did feel for people called Diaper, De'ath, O'nions etc....! (There was a boy at college called Timothy Onions and he just pronounced it like the vegetable, but our customers were definitely 'Oh-Nyons'....Smile). Strangely - I remember all those but don't recall coming across anything that would count as 'splendid', although there must have been.....

The best name I ever heard was the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan.

Thunderpunt · 11/01/2022 00:19

@DoucheCanoe

Liberty Bell is probably the funkiest name I've come across.

I actually quite like the names Tuesday and Wednesday for a girl but would never be brave enough to use them myself!

I know a Tuesday who is lovely and she may have a famous father
eagerlywaitingfor · 11/01/2022 00:19

My relative went to school with a Mary Christmas.

Lena18 · 11/01/2022 00:16

Treasure Taylor

Gardenwoe · 11/01/2022 00:16

Customer called Skylar. He was tall and brooding and gorgeous, and incredibly cool ..... and about 30 years my junior Blush

Pearlyqueen21 · 11/01/2022 00:13

I love reading the annual list of all babies born in Scotland, and have seen many amazing names, favourites being Baroque—Valentine and Sassy-Boo Grin

Lena18 · 11/01/2022 00:13

I used to be in the travel industry a lifetime ago and once booked a holiday for a family the kids names were:

Phoenix
Diesel
Shakira
Beyoncé
Hannah-Montana

SkiingIsHeaven · 11/01/2022 00:08

My mum has a friend called Joy Jolly. I really wanted her to be a grumpy old git but I don't believe that she is.

MrsReeves · 11/01/2022 00:08

I saw a contestant on a TV show called Alan Keys Grin

RosesAndHellebores · 11/01/2022 00:06

Victor D Clapp
I once heard a lady in the park call: Ruby, Amber and Jade - I assume they were sisters.
Loveness
Candida (I thought it was cool until I scratched under the surface

irisheyesaresmiling7 · 11/01/2022 00:05

He's dead now but an older gent called Valentine Valentine... Val Valentine for short!

thatonesmine · 11/01/2022 00:01

I don't know him but my all time favourite name is Tokyo Sexwale.

PearlSlaghoople · 11/01/2022 00:00

I knew a little girl called Tinkerbell (nn Tink)
Also an African lady called Sunshine Love who was so lovely that she suited her name very well!

13yearslater · 10/01/2022 23:58

@KingofQueens

My very first midwife was called Comfort. What a marvellous name for a midwife.

I knew a boy called Stanley Snowball.

I love names - I've taught a boy called Glory which I thought was a wonderful name. Lots of Blessings, a girl called Petergaye and she really owned it and took absolutely no shit from the silly boys who teased her about it.

www.legacy.com/obituaries/manchestereveningnews/obituary.aspx?n=stan-snowball&pid=95582218
LalalalalalaLand123 · 10/01/2022 23:57

A friend named their daughter Nemesis 😳

lupinlass · 10/01/2022 23:55

Twins where I work recently - Gerald and Geraldine 😂

Receptionist I know of - Happiness

Isabel Swallow. (With initial I Swallow😃)

Rachellow · 10/01/2022 23:55

Know sisters called Wealthy and Whale. Met a gp Dr Death (Dee eth) apparently it’s Czech. I used to teach a Pixie-Belle. Such a bright girl with such a silly name

MobyDicksTinyCanoe · 10/01/2022 23:54

A lovely young girl called Blessing...... People she worked with kept trying to saddle her with nicknames (( Lessy, Liz, etc)) but she very firmly insisted her proper name was used.

Goofbawl · 10/01/2022 23:53

Brother & sister Apache & D’Jhango

Goofbawl · 10/01/2022 23:51

Trinity Blyth. Brilliant name!

CockSpadget · 10/01/2022 23:51

Valentino valentine

Underthestairsbears · 10/01/2022 23:51

I once taught a Trinity Tinkerbell, her mother was a Matrix fan and they also had a son called Neo.

Taught an Oak, Zeffie, Carenza, Caneeza (who had a brother called Kaniell)

Friend at uni taught in one class - Kayla, Shayla and Layla.

Taught a Daniel Cleaver (😁who must have been born after the film came out)

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