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Unsual names of people you've met

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Abigail47 · 08/08/2024 23:21

That you liked?

I was just thinking of girls and women that I've met over the years, that had unusual names, that I liked.

I've met these people
Johanna
Dina
Persephone
Saffron
Sherryanne
Bronwyn
Gaia -
sweet little girl I used to babysit

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MadameMassiveSalad · 10/08/2024 07:54

Just thought of some more unusually named people I have known...

Merlin
Rainbow
Keziah
Mordecai
Tuesday
Paris
Rio
Xavier
Liberty
Unity
Melody
Marley
India
Aneurin (Nye)

DameBroad · 10/08/2024 07:52

Working in education in a very diverse area, I come across all sorts of amazing, unusual names. (I’ll only give names from many moons ago to avoid identifying myself or the children - now adults!)

Wisdom
Gift
Prosper
Gallileo
Lazarus
Pretty (luckily she was a beauty!)
Miracle
Nile (a girl, named after the river)
Oak
Truly (decades before the Kardashian’s True)
Lully
Cadence

FFSWherearemyglasses · 10/08/2024 07:41

Jesus I despair for the kids that get some of these names 🥴

PointyHairyLegHairs · 10/08/2024 07:40

In recent years, I e met two men called Darlington.

Mumofgirls2017 · 10/08/2024 07:31

Merlin
apollo
fox
bliss
elvis
loki
zenith
ember
rocky
titus
perseus
storm
c’anna
ludo

Izzabellasasperella · 10/08/2024 05:13

I met a Taliessin. (sorry not sure how to spell it) I thought it was lovely and suited him. She changed it when he was about 3

TheCryingTheBitchAndTheFloordrobe · 10/08/2024 03:26

Blue
Daffodil
Wolf
Moss
Thor
Ocean
Petra

Ruthietuthie · 10/08/2024 02:56

I know a Frisbee and a Crickett, both female.

sashh · 10/08/2024 02:53

CasaRosas1 · 09/08/2024 13:57

Was Dympner not Dymphna. Its an Irish name.

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It's the equivalent of Dorothy isn't it, and no there was no 'h' but it was pronounced as a 'ph'.

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Abigail47 · 10/08/2024 00:26

Bronia

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WayDownThere · 09/08/2024 23:17

Bleu - female child on holiday sounded awful in regional accent (family are not French)

Tabitha pronounced Tab-ee-tha

Teifi - elderly man named after Welsh river

Oh I'm friends with a Teifi! A Welsh woman in her early 20s though, I guess it's universal.

Snugglemonkey · 09/08/2024 23:19

Portia
Atlantis
Esmerelda

Caleb Blue
Gideon
Wolfie
Fox

WayDownThere · 09/08/2024 23:17

Bleu - female child on holiday sounded awful in regional accent (family are not French)

Tabitha pronounced Tab-ee-tha

Teifi - elderly man named after Welsh river

staybyyou · 09/08/2024 23:15

Lilac
Kizzy
Ocean (boy)
Shani (girl)
Bunny & Butterfly (sisters)
Heath
Isolda
Cleopatra

Aussiegold · 09/08/2024 23:14

Known a few boys called Blue, mind you, one must be in his 60s now.

Sherlock, feel he has a lot to up to there!

Love Mercedes, strangely the only ones I've know would also be in their 60s/70s.

Certainly used to be a thing to give children (at least as a middle name) the name of the ship or submarine their father served on, or was this a liverpool thing after WW1 and WW2??

Kiztittumne · 09/08/2024 23:00

My grandad’s name is Walmer.

Guavafish1 · 09/08/2024 22:55

Precious

PerkyMintDeer · 09/08/2024 22:52

Apphia (Greek)
Aeris (American)
Troy (English)

KnittingKnewbie · 09/08/2024 22:49

Thurza f
Zephaniah (surprised to see this mentioned twice!) m
Anaïk f
Blue m

needhelpwiththisplease · 09/08/2024 22:38

Girls
Candy star
Blue
Raven
Blossom
Precious
Spencer
Rushney

Boys
Cornelius
Danny Boy
Joffrey
Salem

I worked in an school

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Abigail47 · 09/08/2024 21:45

Antonine

Concepta

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Stowickthevast · 09/08/2024 21:31

I was at school with a Candida, I don't think it was considered bad in the 80s. Pretty sure there was a 70s pop song called Candida.

Also had people at school called Inigo, Orlando, Cinnamon and Portia.

Some other names on here are quite normal - Polly, India, Amber, Jocelyn (male & female).

Monkeysatonthewall · 09/08/2024 21:11

Marcipex · 09/08/2024 09:25

Satasha- I thought it was a typo
Autumn- beautiful girl
Sorrel- also lovely
Brontë

I imagine Satasha has to correct people all the time... Why, just why 😔

muffledvoice · 09/08/2024 21:10

India
Shanie
Clarisse
Tuesday
Polly
Timi

Barleysugar86 · 09/08/2024 21:09

KreedKafer · 09/08/2024 12:31

My mum had a school friend called Winsome 😍

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I've met a Placid. It seemed a bit of an odd thing to wish for your child, like you wanted them to be quiet and unremarkable.

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