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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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Goofbawl · 10/01/2022 23:50

Blue Sky July Jenkins
Fairy-Lynn Love
Brothers called Troy & Noble

lozengeoflove · 10/01/2022 23:48

Came across Bonnie Lovely.
This is the most splendid name IMHO.

UrbanSpaceboy · 10/01/2022 23:47

Rumpelstiltskin

Yika · 10/01/2022 23:45

These are fab.

I’ve worked with both a Norbert and an Egbert.

I knew a GP called Dr Pain (spelt that way too).

BrutusMcDogface · 10/01/2022 23:42

Oops, spelled it wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️ Eustacia.

Buytoomuchonebay · 10/01/2022 23:42

My dad knew a lady called happy
She changed it to her middle name-Beth-and fucked off to Australia

I know sisters-princess and angel

I’ve met a laria and an oria

ImInStealthMode · 10/01/2022 23:40

Ooh I know of a Mr & Mrs Willie too. Not so much splendid as childishly wonderful. They're lovely Smile

TheHuntingOfTheSarky · 10/01/2022 23:40

There's a YouTuber whose surname is Wadsworth and has called her son Wentworth.

Wentworth Wadsworth. The poor sod.

BrutusMcDogface · 10/01/2022 23:39

Splendid names: Eustachia Vye (Thomas Hardy of course; not real!) is my all time favourite name and I wish I could have used it for my kids!

KingofQueens · 10/01/2022 23:38

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.

BrutusMcDogface · 10/01/2022 23:38

@frazzledfragglefromfragglerock

Blessing. He was no such thing (I taught him)
🤣🤣🤣
TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 10/01/2022 23:38

I used to know a man (late teens/early twenties) called Justice.

He really suited it.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 10/01/2022 23:36

I went to university with a Wright, who married a Pratt and their children are.., well actually they are Pratt-Wrights.

I used to have to contact someone by the wonderful name of Comfort Golightly occasionally for work.

BrutusMcDogface · 10/01/2022 23:34

@FleetwoodRaincoat

Lollipop-Mae. In A and E in front of me.
🤣🤣🤣
DoucheCanoe · 10/01/2022 23:34

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!

ImInStealthMode · 10/01/2022 23:34

I worked with someone once whose surname was Phoenix. Their son was called Ash. I liked that a lot.

I work with the public so get to hear a lot of fun names. We used to have a regular client called Dr D'eath and I often wondered which came first, the Doctorate or the apostrophe?

Tulips21 · 10/01/2022 23:32

Rainbow 'Is the only out there name I really know

CythereaGraye · 10/01/2022 23:31

I used to have a patient called Bliss Bernard- fab name

FeelingdownXmas · 10/01/2022 23:26

Names I've heard during 15 years of childcare:

-Rayne-beau

  • Cherish
  • Madge
  • Elianna
  • Archibald

-Scooter

  • Betty-Grace

-Chip

-Mai-Lyn

-Skarlett

-Coco

-Vixy

  • Pixie

-Dolly

-Sailor

-And most unusual of all, Gary-Frank Grin

ArtichokeAardvark · 10/01/2022 23:19

I met a baby Balthazar this week.

AntsMarching · 10/01/2022 23:17

I know an Elizabeth who has married a man with the surname Queen. So in the days of phone directories she would have been Queen, Elizabeth 😁

Velvian · 10/01/2022 23:11

Obvious made me LOL. 😁. I know of a Crimea (girl) , but spelt incorrectly.

loveablequalities · 10/01/2022 23:11

Oban Montgomery

Diamond Mcginty

Isabella Strange

Skeumorph · 10/01/2022 23:08

@FleetwoodRaincoat

Lollipop-Mae. In A and E in front of me.
I actually like that. Not the -Mae, but Lollipop is pretty good. Lolla/Lolly for short... then you get to surprise them with your full moniker.
RussianSpy101 · 10/01/2022 22:56

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