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saturny · 2024-01-22T13:15:48+00:00

I thought I'd make another, follow-on, thread as the first filled up quickly and was so interesting So, what’s the most unusual name you have ever come across in daily life?

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crockofshite · 26/07/2024 10:44

sashh · 26/07/2024 06:29

La-a

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Still baffled. Are you allowed to be more specific?

sashh · 26/07/2024 06:29

crockofshite · 26/07/2024 06:10

What is the LaDasha myth all about?

La-a

GoingMadder · 26/07/2024 06:28

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 22/01/2024 14:51

Tycho is Danish, cf Tycho Brahe the Danish astronomer. Very famous. Lovely name, I think.

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Was he the one with the false nose?

crockofshite · 26/07/2024 06:10

What is the LaDasha myth all about?

crockofshite · 26/07/2024 06:08

Doughnuting · 07/04/2024 19:23

Hawkeye

No clue to the origin of this name

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Catrionajane · 26/07/2024 05:39

User6761 · 14/07/2024 10:58

Names I have only ever met one of include:

Vita
Venexia
Carmel
Wednesday

Nairn
Taj

An ex-boss had a very unusual name but feel too outing to post here as when you Google it's just them and we work in a small area. No one else seems to have that name at all. I think there's very few names that are as rare as that.

Carmel is quite common in middle-aged Irish women. It was popular there 50 or 60 years ago but is rarely used now. It's a Catholic name, a reference to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

DeadlyKnightshade · 25/07/2024 23:43

Mumofgirls2017 · 22/01/2024 14:27

Florentina. Never met another

That's my MIL's name.

Cressie2 · 25/07/2024 22:40

Jago is really cool.

Minty, Merlin, Morven, Bear

NancyPickford · 25/07/2024 11:52

Click. An American woman i got talking to mentioned her son Click. I asked if it was a nickname and she said no, it was his full name.

RedOnyx · 25/07/2024 11:44

Ulysses - heard at a park recently. The boy was about 3. I'm not in the UK but also not a country where that would be a particularly usual name.

Elmo - probably a perfectly normal name somewhere but all I can think of is the Sesame Street character.

RedOnyx · 25/07/2024 11:26

Rockmehardplace · 16/07/2024 12:35

Lovely
Pretty
Lesia
Dimples

Lesia or Lesya is Ukrainian, from Olesya which in turn comes from Oleksandra.

Lucienandjean · 21/07/2024 22:52

Oenone.

Abouttimeforanamechange · 16/07/2024 15:51

Halcyon. Son of a very crunchy family in my son’s nursery. Everyone called him Hal which annoyed them, but Halcyon doesn’t trip off the tongue.

I bet he'll stick with Hal as soon as he's old enough to decide for himself. Parents can't dictate what his friends call him. (And let people think he's a Henry or Harry)

Shielehdie · 16/07/2024 15:35

Halcyon. Son of a very crunchy family in my son’s nursery. Everyone called him Hal which annoyed them, but Halcyon doesn’t trip off the tongue.

Rockmehardplace · 16/07/2024 12:35

Lovely
Pretty
Lesia
Dimples

Rockmehardplace · 16/07/2024 12:32

Alkelda
Buster

sashh · 16/07/2024 02:37

Abouttimeforanamechange · 15/07/2024 20:25

It's strange isn't it that some names just stick around, others come and go cyclically and some just fade forever.

Anglo Saxon names generally fell out of favour after the Norman Conquest, and names such as John, William, Joan etc took over. Anglo Saxon names didn't really make a comeback until the Victorian era - Alfred, Cedric, Edith etc.

I suppose religion makes a difference too, and politics.

Abouttimeforanamechange · 15/07/2024 20:25

It's strange isn't it that some names just stick around, others come and go cyclically and some just fade forever.

Anglo Saxon names generally fell out of favour after the Norman Conquest, and names such as John, William, Joan etc took over. Anglo Saxon names didn't really make a comeback until the Victorian era - Alfred, Cedric, Edith etc.

sashh · 15/07/2024 03:54

Abouttimeforanamechange · 14/07/2024 22:28

Boneface

Did they mean Boniface? An Anglo Saxon monk, missionary and saint.

I've just remembered another one, Jubilee. I think they were born in 2012.

There were quite a lot of Jubilees in 1887 and 1897, and a few in 1935. (from FreeBMD.)

I probably do. I know it is a real name, not something made up but it is unusual. I'd consider a baby Aethelred or Ethelwulf unusual too.

It's strange isn't it that some names just stick around, others come and go cyclically and some just fade forever.

Abouttimeforanamechange · 14/07/2024 22:28

Boneface

Did they mean Boniface? An Anglo Saxon monk, missionary and saint.

I've just remembered another one, Jubilee. I think they were born in 2012.

There were quite a lot of Jubilees in 1887 and 1897, and a few in 1935. (from FreeBMD.)

Malbecmerlot · 14/07/2024 11:44

Ok Ive looked through the whole thread and these two girl names have not come up yet:

Sparrow
Sorrow

GwenogJones · 14/07/2024 11:34

I think Momma-Princess is the most unusual/ unique I've ever met but I've also met a Banjo (boy) and a Catkin (girl) both of which I secretly quite like.

I've known a Harley Davidson (named after the bike - a boy) and a Carling Frost (named after the beer - a girl) where Davidson and Frost were their natural last names and their parents thought it would be funny. Oh and I met a Ned Kelly once; again their parents thought they were hilarious.

ladygindiva · 14/07/2024 11:21

LadyKenya · 22/01/2024 13:41

Jago, which I thought was really cool.

This name is very common in Cornwall.

User6761 · 14/07/2024 10:58

Names I have only ever met one of include:

Vita
Venexia
Carmel
Wednesday

Nairn
Taj

An ex-boss had a very unusual name but feel too outing to post here as when you Google it's just them and we work in a small area. No one else seems to have that name at all. I think there's very few names that are as rare as that.

Cocteautriplet · 14/07/2024 09:22

I’ve always loved the name Melchior … it’s like the phonetic equivalent of melted chocolate: so lovely to say!