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Weirdest name you've encountered in real life?

334 replies

Socksforxmas · 21/11/2023 18:58

Slightly piggy backing off another thread in this topic but just really curious about this.

Obviously we've all heard of some very unusual suggestions on this site and we can all think of a celeb that's opted for something very unique but in your day to day life what would you say is most unusual you've come across?

For me it'd probably be Maverick for a boy and Lavender-Lily for a girl.

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Delpf · 21/11/2023 22:08

Tycho

Amadeus

Cosmo

Tirzah

I think they're all great names.

grisen · 21/11/2023 22:07

Disney
Dulce Candy
Dragon
Cactus
Nugget
brothers Woody, Buzz and Rex

My husband banned me from using two of them as my son’s middle name.
I also find it weird when people give their kids 3+ middle names and never use them but that’s just me.

PerspiringElizabeth · 21/11/2023 22:07

Logix

FitAt50 · 21/11/2023 22:05

Myunique

GardenGuardian · 21/11/2023 22:00

From the boys, Horatio. From the girls, Zillah.

Pollyparkin · 21/11/2023 21:59

CaramelMac · 21/11/2023 20:54

I once saw a woman chasing a small child around a park shouting “Zebedee”

I had a hamster called that !

Dogsitterwoes · 21/11/2023 21:58

I hope the twins Foxy and Wolfie were born in Tooting 😁 and the surname Smith

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 21/11/2023 21:57

Not in person but visiting the memorial to the first pilgrim immigrants to Plymouth MA, one of the children was called Wrestling. Have puzzled ever since why and how this was viewed as a name and what it meant.

user6776 · 21/11/2023 21:56

@timeforacoffeebreak I'm really intrigued now 😂

idratherbedrawing · 21/11/2023 21:56

I know siblings called beaches (boy) and bloom (girl)

Stopsmotheringmeeeeeee · 21/11/2023 21:55

ladygindiva · 21/11/2023 21:09

I know a Paisley and a Zephaniah....both toddlers... Are you in Cornwall?

@ladygindiva you don't have a daughter called Honeybee do you? 😁

SleepingStandingUp · 21/11/2023 21:55

IDoughnutKnow · 21/11/2023 21:28

They're not that unusual, though.

Depends how you define unusual. I don't know any. That would make it unusual. They're just also perfectly acceptable names.

LakeTiticaca · 21/11/2023 21:55

Solstice is a really cool name 😎

timeforacoffeebreak · 21/11/2023 21:54

user6776 · 21/11/2023 21:52

@timeforacoffeebreak No way!!

We might be neighbours! 😆

Mamato29192 · 21/11/2023 21:53

My mam knew someone called Wendy house

wishuponastar1988 · 21/11/2023 21:53

Bunnie-Boo or Sambucah probably the weirdest I've heard

user6776 · 21/11/2023 21:52

@timeforacoffeebreak No way!!

gingercatnip · 21/11/2023 21:52

Tuppence.

Nineteendays · 21/11/2023 21:52

Candida
Epiphany
Hercules (he was tiny bless him)
twins summer and winter.
Angel

StoatofDisarray · 21/11/2023 21:51

Balthazar Fabricious.

KnickerlessParsons · 21/11/2023 21:51

I know a Zoltan! He's Hungarian, and apparently it's quite a common name there. He's a fabulous guy and really carries it off.

So do I. Not sure where he's from but he's Eastern European.

Delpf · 21/11/2023 21:50

Groovybooby · 21/11/2023 21:27

Candida. She thankfully shortened it to Candi...makes me itchy just thinking about it!

I know a Candida too. I think it's a nice name!

timeforacoffeebreak · 21/11/2023 21:49

user6776 · 21/11/2023 21:13

@timeforacoffeebreak Ha, maybe we're from the same town! Beginning with B?

Oooo it seems like we might be !

Catlover1705 · 21/11/2023 21:48

Layby, a boy

Blinky21 · 21/11/2023 21:47

Chlorina

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