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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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DeedIDo · 11/01/2022 13:45

@CthulhuInDisguise

I know twins named Sky Curtis [surname] and Blue Sillett [surname], born on the day their parents football team won the FA Cup.

I have family members who are siblings called Sunny, Skye, Starr and Summer.

And rightly so! Wink
Goofbawl · 11/01/2022 13:15

@Hoppinggreen this just made me think - they’d be called the Pratt family or the Twatt family. I choked on my coffee Grin

Bouledeneige · 11/01/2022 13:01

I knew someone called Perri 6. Yes his surname was a number.

Also boys called:
Ebenezer
Isembard
Beau
Badge

And girls called:
Rogue
Boadiccea

ghislaine · 11/01/2022 12:31

I knew a Fletcher. Not so unusual, but his brother was called Christian.

I have taught a student called Supaporn (Thai).

LeftieLucy · 11/01/2022 12:23

I knew a Peter Pinches at school.

Coolest name ever was a lady that came into my work called Raven Shakespeare.

WilliamofBaskerville · 11/01/2022 12:15

When I was temping I came across a lawyer called Alcides Hellmeister. Think he was South American. Sounds like a Bond villain!

MmeD · 11/01/2022 12:15

Grin @HunkyPunk

I didn’t realise how much time I’ve obviously wasted on that particular daydream until I’d pressed post!

Dresslover1950s · 11/01/2022 11:55

My nephew is an Apollo my son has an unusual name hasn’t popped up on here yet

MotherOfAllZipFiles · 11/01/2022 11:49

I know of a little boy called Apollo, wonderful name IMO

sashh · 11/01/2022 11:46

I've met a Brilliant.

I've taught a Blessing.

I go to a dentist called 'Nice'. She is really nice.

And although not totally out there my mum was called Jonquil

I used to do a Ju-Jitsu class with a Jonquil - fab name, but she normally used 'Jon'.

One of my dad's neighbours has a Boniface.

Benmac · 11/01/2022 11:44

Frank Sinatra Hollywood

steppemum · 11/01/2022 11:36

Mumofgirls2017

bit confused by your list, since when was Octavia or Thalia an unusual name? - and many others on that list.

I once met a young woman with a name in similar lines to Blessing, Precious, except it was a 3 or 4 word phrase, and she used all the phrase as her name.
I cannot for the life of me remember it, but it was something like:

God is always good
God loves you
or God answers your prayers

You get the idea. It was quite startling to hear, and I was amazed that she had never shortened it.

Harriet Tubman's original name was Araminta, which I think is just lovely, shortened to Minty.

GloriaSilver · 11/01/2022 11:22

[quote merrymelodies]@GloriaSilver That's a beautiful name. I wish I'd thought of it while pg with DD. [/quote]
I love it too

MintyGreenDream · 11/01/2022 11:18

Sweetpea

Sd352 · 11/01/2022 11:14

@ThedaBara

Met a lady who had twins named Natasha and Natalia... which is literally the same name
I know of sisters called Renita and Renata.
margegunderson · 11/01/2022 11:14

There's a teacher at a local secondary who has the name plate on his door R. Sandercock. You need to say it out loud before you wonder what his parents were thinking.

Sd352 · 11/01/2022 11:12

Ace Factor. His brother was called Max Factor.

TheAbbotOfUnreason · 11/01/2022 11:03

There were some cracking names given to babies in Scotland in 2020 - including:

Pebbles
Demi-Dyce (wonder if they were from Aberdeen?)
Bijou-Amore
Jersey-Grey
Bear-Blu
Jettison
Fitz-Kiing
Navy-Blaze
Tommy-Tucker

Ameanstreakamilewide · 11/01/2022 11:02

@RussianSpy101

Without the context, it seems normal but my fathers orthopaedic surgeon is Mr Jellinek.

Jelly neck 😂

My mum works with a gynaecologist called Dr Fanny Cocker.

Bless her!

Recycledblonde · 11/01/2022 10:59

Everleigh-Raine- sounded like a glamorous Gone with the Wind character.

TheAbbotOfUnreason · 11/01/2022 10:58

Subulter Io was pronounced Eye-oh, but I think it can also be Ee-oh?

Hoppinggreen you can see why William Henry Pratt chose the stage name Boris Karloff.

Chelsea26 · 11/01/2022 10:56

I have cousins called Brogan (F) and Garrett (M) dont know if theure traditional names or not but they are both very cool in my opinion.

I also know a lady called Bee Devine and she is!!

thesparkthatbled · 11/01/2022 10:48

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

WinterWitch · 11/01/2022 10:44

A little girl named Pebbles!! - At first I always thought about the Flintstones whenever I heard her name at the nursery I worked at but it actually really suited her, and she was a very confident little girl.

CthulhuInDisguise · 11/01/2022 10:43

I know twins named Sky Curtis [surname] and Blue Sillett [surname], born on the day their parents football team won the FA Cup.

I have family members who are siblings called Sunny, Skye, Starr and Summer.

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