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Most unusual names you’ve heard?

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LittleSparklyStar · 16/08/2024 08:43

This is light hearted and not intended to make fun. Just wondering what the most unusual or out there names you’ve heard lately?

I know a Hunnie, a Bleubell (spelled like this) and a Honey Blossom, what about you?

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KimKardashiansLostEarring · 18/08/2024 08:40

I know a couple of Plums, weirdly. Both Victorias. Apparently a Victoria is a type of plum. Such as Braeburn is to apple. Everso droll eh? 😄

LoyalCrab · 17/08/2024 16:48

Blayzen, Fancy, Honey

HamBagelNoCheese · 17/08/2024 16:44

TorroFerney · 17/08/2024 06:35

I like Candida, it's Latin and a saints name.

Not a child - although he will have been at one point, my favourite is a chap I worked with at a clients office, he was Zoltan. Epic name.

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Its also thrush

MrsB2019x · 17/08/2024 13:06

Ribbon.
She has another 4 siblings with equally ridiculous names but that would be too outing.

Also Tinkx.

JimberlyMcJimbleFace · 17/08/2024 07:45

GoodVibesHere · 16/08/2024 09:02

Jimberley

That's not funny.

sel2223 · 17/08/2024 07:41

delilabell · 17/08/2024 07:07

"Pocahontas - white and on a council eastate"
What's the council estate got to do with it?
I know it says light hearted in the title but these threads generally end up being really judgemental.

Why is that judgemental? I'm white and grew up on a council estate and just read it as it being the opposite environment to where you'd picture a 'pocahontas' (which it is!)
Everyone is always getting offended these days, you can't say anything.

delilabell · 17/08/2024 07:07

"Pocahontas - white and on a council eastate"
What's the council estate got to do with it?
I know it says light hearted in the title but these threads generally end up being really judgemental.

Althenameshavegone · 17/08/2024 06:36

Ransom

TorroFerney · 17/08/2024 06:35

HamBagelNoCheese · 16/08/2024 22:53

Candida 😬

Happy (Not British, although thankfully a very happy individual!)

Also know a pair of siblings (both under 10yrs) who are Chinese, one has a very traditional Chinese name, the other a dated western name. Think along the lines of Xiang-Chen and Nigel. Nigels name is his legal name on his birth certificate, not an adopted western name.

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I like Candida, it's Latin and a saints name.

Not a child - although he will have been at one point, my favourite is a chap I worked with at a clients office, he was Zoltan. Epic name.

MoveToParis · 17/08/2024 06:33

Waitingfordoggo · 16/08/2024 13:25

I met a baby Plum once (girl) which surprised me. This was in Brighton though, so 🤷

Also in Brighton, a girl named Princessing. That really was her name She went by ‘Prinny’. Her siblings had some quite unusual names too. Django and Geronimo if I remember correctly (and others, they were a big family).

I had an ethnically Chinese work colleague who had a western name, but her Chinese name meant Jade Plum.

I think Plum works as a name.

toastofthetown · 17/08/2024 06:24

@WaitingForMojo @CurlewKate @Tryingtohelp12 it’s definitely Cubby. I’ve seen it written down. Maybe it’s an anglicisation of the Welsh name, but (based on their other kids names which are more popular but match Cubby vibes-wise) I’m not sure. I also wasn’t laughing at it or posting in bad faith. Cubby with that spelling has never registered in the charts, so it was one of the most unusual names I’ve heard. No judgement or mocking from me. I love unusual names and while I wouldn’t use Cubby myself, it really suits him. Maybe naive, but I took at face value the OP’s post that this thread was light hearted and not judgmental, so joined it. Hope over experience based on how MN names section can react to unusual names, but I hoped it would be a thread where people could share unusual names for people to delight in without the mocking, snobbery and close mindedness that often comes here.

Helplessandheartbroke · 17/08/2024 06:16

GoodVibesHere · 16/08/2024 09:02

Jimberley

😂 I saw that thread. Hilarious

Tryingtohelp12 · 17/08/2024 06:08

toastofthetown · 16/08/2024 08:47

A friend of a friend has a baby Cubby, which I’ve never heard before.

Cybi is Welsh I know a little boy with this name!

CheeseWisely · 17/08/2024 06:05

CurlewKate · 16/08/2024 23:27

The problem with these threads is that people are so ignorant about other cultures. People laughing at Cubby, for example, when it's probably the Welsh name Cybi (I think that's the way it's spelled). Incidentally, H from Steps has a son called Cybi...

Who's laughing at it? The poster just said she hadn't heard it before, which could equally be true if it is Cybi.

I heard Cybi for the first time a few weeks ago when I listened to an interview with H from Steps. I've managed 40 years without ever hearing it before.

pinkgown · 17/08/2024 01:21

Frank Zappa's daughter is called Moon Unit.

MrTumblesSpottyBum · 17/08/2024 01:12

Mixxy (not sure if it’s short for something?)

DinnaeFashYersel · 17/08/2024 00:39

Sparkle

PoopedAndScooped · 17/08/2024 00:29

Firsttimebabymummy · 16/08/2024 09:10

Storie
Fox
Ziggy

All real babies

Fox isnt that unusual

Seashor · 17/08/2024 00:26

Red Robin,
Gracie Blu,
Oasis,
Tig,
Oceania and I went to school with a girl called Trilby.

CurlewKate · 16/08/2024 23:27

The problem with these threads is that people are so ignorant about other cultures. People laughing at Cubby, for example, when it's probably the Welsh name Cybi (I think that's the way it's spelled). Incidentally, H from Steps has a son called Cybi...

Clma · 16/08/2024 23:19

For*

Clma · 16/08/2024 23:18

On an American baby app I saw a woman wanted to name her daughter Remington. One thing for a boy, but got a girl... Poor child!

shakeitoffsis · 16/08/2024 23:04

@scrivette this is a boy named Senna!

46mumof6 · 16/08/2024 22:57

Brother
Lucky Boy
Creamy Caesar
Senorita (called Rita)
Pocahontas

FoleyHuck · 16/08/2024 22:55

Leroux
Roux
Loveness
Carrington
Sailor (child of two sailors)