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whatausername · 2022-01-10T22:18:54+00:00

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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Crunchymum · 11/01/2022 10:43

Pumpkin was called in to see the GP (via the digital screen thing so it definitely wasn't me mishearing)

Also Havana was in the waiting room with us for a recent hospital appointment, I got speaking to her mum so again I know it was correct.

HunkyPunk · 11/01/2022 10:41

@MmeD

Saffron Gardenchild.

I’m so jealous of this name - I think I’d seriously consider taking it by deed poll, if I had the opportunity to do so without repercussions of laughter and inconvenience (e.g. my family and friends all died and I won a huge amount on the lottery enabling me to start life afresh as a tragic figure in a big house in the middle of 10,000 acres somewhere - the Tenant of the Hall, the mysterious Miss Saffron Gardenchild).

You need to write that novel!

frazzledfragglefromfragglerock · 11/01/2022 10:40

I used to work with a Grenville Heathcote. He's a teacher. Luckily the kids thought he was cool otherwise who knows what they would have said/done!

MmeD · 11/01/2022 10:37

Saffron Gardenchild.

I’m so jealous of this name - I think I’d seriously consider taking it by deed poll, if I had the opportunity to do so without repercussions of laughter and inconvenience (e.g. my family and friends all died and I won a huge amount on the lottery enabling me to start life afresh as a tragic figure in a big house in the middle of 10,000 acres somewhere - the Tenant of the Hall, the mysterious Miss Saffron Gardenchild).

gingergiraffe · 11/01/2022 10:37

Growing up I knew twins called Dawn and Eve Knight.

HunkyPunk · 11/01/2022 10:36

Re: pp Eustacia Vye. Thomas Hardy would have been all over this thread - Diggory Venn, Bathsheba Everdene, Fancy Day, Angel Clare…

I always thought former DG of MI5, Stella Rimington, had a name well suited to a James Bond novel!

A chlid in one of my dc’s year at primary school in late nineties was Lenny O’Keefe - always sounded like a name from another era!

There’s a lady on the checkouts at a local store who’s name badge says she is called Jez’ebel. She’s my age (late middle age!), so quite unusual for our generation.

Spidey66 · 11/01/2022 10:30

Some of these names e.g. Comfort, Blessing, Loveday seem to be common in some African countries. I've worked with some called Admire, Freedom and my favourite Sweet. Without giving too much away Sweet would have gone fantastically with my surname.

HPLikecraft · 11/01/2022 10:23

My DCs had friends called: Rocky, Rainbow and Bramble and Indigo.

I knew an Alister Finnister and a Donald MacDonald

Ohmybod · 11/01/2022 10:21

I grew up in quite a slow/sleepy part of the UK and my sister had a friend called Lasagna. Her parents had never travelled outside of the UK and had gone to Italy on their honeymoon and fell in love with the word lasagna. No joke. Should add, this was in the days before ready meals had arrived at supermarkets and there was no local restaurant serving up anything as flash as fancy Italian fare.

Subulter · 11/01/2022 10:20

@2389Champ

In the early eighties, there were two singers whose names I always remember:

Randy VanWarmer - he was born Randell, so definitely real name.
Lou Rawls - bet he was in demand at the beginning of the pandemic!

Talking of Irish names/pronunciation like Siobhan; I went to school with a Grianne - which if you said it phonetically would be lovely, but it’s actually pronounced Gron-ya.

I think you're thinking of Gráinne -- which is phonetically pronounced (in Irish) and pronounced 'GRAWN-yuh'.

BlowDryRat · 11/01/2022 10:16

DP's friend has a baby nephew called Tiberias. I think that's excellent.

Ralphiemia · 11/01/2022 10:14

I used to work at a bank with a Gordon Bennet

2389Champ · 11/01/2022 10:09

In the early eighties, there were two singers whose names I always remember:

Randy VanWarmer - he was born Randell, so definitely real name.
Lou Rawls - bet he was in demand at the beginning of the pandemic!

Talking of Irish names/pronunciation like Siobhan; I went to school with a Grianne - which if you said it phonetically would be lovely, but it’s actually pronounced Gron-ya.

Hoppinggreen · 11/01/2022 10:08

@TheAbbotOfUnreason

I went to college with a girl called Io, which I always though was a cool name.

Also knew a couple of girls with the surname Twatt, which seemed a tad unfortunate.

I knew a family of Pratts

merryhouse · 11/01/2022 10:07

In a long-ago job I typed a letter to Mrs Rachel Memory.

Hoppinggreen · 11/01/2022 10:07

The strangest one I think I met was Lisma, just Lisa but with an M in it.
Apparently her mum liked Lisa but “wanted to make it a bit more unusual “

Subulter · 11/01/2022 10:05

I've just remembered I knew a child called Gandalf Thwaite -- his family were living on a narrowboat in Oxford when I was a student.

OhLordyWhatNow · 11/01/2022 10:03

Oberon Christmas is a contributor on an FB page for a town not far from me.

If you've got an unusual/ interesting surname why not own it and go the whole hog.

Subulter · 11/01/2022 10:03

@TheAbbotOfUnreason

I went to college with a girl called Io, which I always though was a cool name.

Also knew a couple of girls with the surname Twatt, which seemed a tad unfortunate.

Is it pronounced 'Eye-Oh', @TheAbbotOfUnreason? I've never actually met one, though it makes me think of Zeus shagging someone who'd been transformed into a cow and saying 'Ew'.

EmpressaurusWitchDoesntBurn · 11/01/2022 09:56

I heard of someone with a baby Ezmai & wondered where the name was from. It turned out to be an alternative spelling for Esme.

Mumofgirls2017 · 11/01/2022 09:55

Zenith
Grey
Ariadne
Apollo
Ludo
Torin
Loki
Leopold
Runa
Elvis
Primrose
Thalia
Tulip
Bliss
Octave
Octavia
Magnus
Isolde
Seraphina
Athena
Casper
Sterling
Ernest

TheAbbotOfUnreason · 11/01/2022 09:54

I went to college with a girl called Io, which I always though was a cool name.

Also knew a couple of girls with the surname Twatt, which seemed a tad unfortunate.

BashStreetKid · 11/01/2022 09:51

I once came across a Persephone and her brother Florian.

CrackerGal · 11/01/2022 09:46

I know a girl called Bluebell, a boy called Bonnie, another girl called Echo & a girl called Lance!

stingofthebutterfly · 11/01/2022 09:39

I know of a Summer Day.