Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

The most unusual name

316 replies

Loriycs · 02/08/2008 22:27

What is the most unusual name you've come across recently?

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
KnitterInTheNW · 03/08/2008 20:59

When I was on the post labour ward after having DS, a baby boy arrived, called Hendrix.

nancy75 · 03/08/2008 20:55

dps aussie relatives
boston
montanna
riley
and our very favorite
blaze oceans eye (pmsl when we got the birth announcement card for that one) - its a boy btw.
and dp wont admit that australians have funny names!

hw2004 · 03/08/2008 20:54

L'oreal for a girl (I work on neonatal unit so see a fair few horrors!!)

Roboshua · 03/08/2008 20:53

I've heard of Acon (apparently that's after a rapper I just thought someone had missed an 'r' out!!)

Heard someone shouting in Big W today 'Keno' which I thought was some sort of card game.

However I do call my DS2 Bobbin as a pet name and I've got some funny looks when people obviously assume it's his real name.

Shoshe · 03/08/2008 20:48

DD was Chynna Skye! We did debate Chynna Blue

gingerninja · 03/08/2008 20:29

My friend teaches a child who has a child called TuPac after the rapper.

Roboshua · 03/08/2008 20:28

China-Blue which made me automatically think of a porn star due to Kathleen Turner in some film I can't remember where she plays a protstitute called China-Blue.

katiepotatie · 03/08/2008 20:27

heard a woman shout "come here Jubilee!" Was hoping a dog was going to come bounding round the corner, but no it was a little girl!

StealthPolarBear · 03/08/2008 20:23

I think I went to school with a little girl called Oo

mrz · 03/08/2008 20:21

PuppyMonkey I'm a teacher the one with short hair is the boy.

MrsFluffleHasAWuffle · 03/08/2008 20:15

Xenobia

PuppyMonkey · 03/08/2008 20:14

You have a boy AND girl both called Devon?? Doesn't that get a bit confusing??

mrz · 03/08/2008 20:12

We have a boy and girl both called Devon. One of our current children has a little sister who's middle name is Bunny (because of her ears according to dad)

naturalblonde · 03/08/2008 19:58

I know a Devon.
On the credits for Judge Judy there's a Babygirl

no1putsbabyinthecorner · 03/08/2008 19:56

I know a Patty Moon
but not that unusual now Ive read some of the others.

MarkStretch · 03/08/2008 19:54

And I also went to school with someone called Mankee.

Original poster
Loriycs · 03/08/2008 19:51

What are the other island names ??

OP posts:
stellabgh · 03/08/2008 19:51

These are great!
I knew a guy who called himself Viking but I believe his real name was Roger.
I went to school with someone whose name was pronounced 'Shaker Boober'.

OurHamsterisevil · 03/08/2008 19:49

I know a Jura (the Scottish Island) ALl his siblings have Island names too. I really like that.

I also heard a Griffin and a Jensen today

MarkStretch · 03/08/2008 19:49

I know an Ikea.

Katisha · 03/08/2008 19:47

I'm just reading Ben Elton's 1984-type satire Blind Faith set in a world where it's frowned upon to give your child a "normal" name. So they are called Happymeal, Princess Lovebud and Barbieheart etc.

Not so far from real life quite often...

PuppyMonkey · 03/08/2008 19:46

A friend of mine worked with a girl called Shine..

And, honest, she had a brother called............. Darren.

ruddynorah · 03/08/2008 19:43

mercedes storm (a girl at uni..always thought porn star name if ever there was one)

efficient (an african guy at work, everyone calls him fish)

we also have a young lad at work called sukhchit (tricky one to shout across the shopfloor)

ten10 · 03/08/2008 19:27

My mum recently taught a boy called
Tybru

apparently his dad was boxing fan and it was a mix of Tyson and Bruno,
what lovely roll models to name a child after!!!

TwoBigNorks · 03/08/2008 18:22

Tudor
Bryher
Delphi