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Splendid names you've come across

379 replies

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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crayonsandfelttips · 13/01/2022 09:09

My colleague always tells me about the boy she was in school with called James Virgin. Quite an unfortunate surname in the first place but he had a sister called Mary! So on a register she'd be Virgin, Mary Grin

The head of department at my uni is called Gaylor Boobyer.

KERALA1 · 12/01/2022 22:48

Willie Gubbins. Lovely chap.

MagicKit · 12/01/2022 20:44

A health professional I once saw was called Carmel Cracknell.

textbook · 12/01/2022 20:33

My mum used to work for the NHS, best names she shared with me were fraternal twins called Falcon and Falconess. Superb!

Vampirethriller · 12/01/2022 20:14

There are some great names in the Victorian cemetery beside my flat:
Sunshine Cornthwaite
Willoughby Ibbotson
Worthington Bridge
Azelia Sharp
Septimus Frost
Batty Castle
Easter Fairy

Are some of my favourites!

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 12/01/2022 20:06

I like the name of the news broadcaster Damian Gramaticus.

I went to school with a Ronnie Rennie. Why? What were Mr&Mrs Rennie thinking?

mistermagpie · 12/01/2022 19:54

My son goes to school with Tavish McDougall (we live in Scotland), I love that!

Also when I was at school there was a boy called Marc Aqualina (said Aqua-leena) and, although he was utterly unremarkable, we all wanted to marry him so we could be Mrs Aqualina.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 12/01/2022 19:51

@Dreamingof3

My cousin is Hebe
Love that name!
LifeOfBriony · 12/01/2022 19:49

Saffron Swinger (I would have changed that)
Pebbles
Brieze
Ocean

Dreamingof3 · 12/01/2022 19:30

My cousin is Hebe

BurntToastAgain · 12/01/2022 19:21

@steppemum

I know I am being thick, but that is the third time the name Tim Mallet has come up and I can't for the life of me understand why it is unusual.

What am I missing?

I assume it’s because the posters grew up watching Timmy Mallett on kids tv.
BiscuitLover3678 · 12/01/2022 19:20

@steppemum

I know I am being thick, but that is the third time the name Tim Mallet has come up and I can't for the life of me understand why it is unusual.

What am I missing?

I would also like to know this
steppemum · 12/01/2022 19:17

I know I am being thick, but that is the third time the name Tim Mallet has come up and I can't for the life of me understand why it is unusual.

What am I missing?

Moonshine9 · 12/01/2022 19:13

@thesparkthatbled

Best name I've ever come across is a lady in a social history book about the Scottish Isles: Euphemia McCrimmon. She looked stern as hell in the pictures as well!

I know siblings called Ellis and Eloise, both lovely names, but an odd choice for siblings I always thought.

I've met a Ron McDonald.

DH used to work with a Tim Mallet

I wonder if that's the same one as the Tim E. Mallet I came across? That's how he signed off, with the initial in too
whattodo2019 · 12/01/2022 19:12

@whattodo2019

Jonny Sucksmoth Claudia Charlambois Katinka Lavender Rupert Merton David St Clair Croisdale Appleby Godsgift Calypso
Sucksmith
whattodo2019 · 12/01/2022 19:12

Jonny Sucksmoth
Claudia Charlambois
Katinka
Lavender
Rupert Merton David St Clair Croisdale Appleby
Godsgift
Calypso

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 12/01/2022 10:12

@Katieandthekids, we had a teacher called Richard William Fallas! He owned that name!

Katieandthekids · 12/01/2022 10:05

@ashitghost

At school years ago our teacher was called Dick Willy Cox.
So brave to become a teacher 🤣
toddybell · 12/01/2022 10:01

Former primary school teacher in London:

First name: Buya
Surname: Kasha

True story.

Beapoppy · 12/01/2022 09:58

Hebron. Such a lovely name

MrsReeves · 12/01/2022 06:43

I've just remembered 2 from school. A girl called Kizmit, and also a Fladia Phoenix

FridaRose · 12/01/2022 00:37

@caringcarer

In the past I have taught students called Vincent, Jeramiah and another called Milicent.
Millicent is a classic British name? I wanted to call my DD that but had a son instead.

How is Vincent a wild/unusual name?

Velvian · 11/01/2022 22:54

I know a toddler named Banjo.

KineticSand · 11/01/2022 22:38

My cousin in Australia taught 4 siblings called Lynx, Lock, and twins Chain and Charm. Parents were motorbike enthusiasts.

MerylSqueak · 11/01/2022 22:26

My DD was delivered by a doctor called Mohammed Ali, which tickled me Smile