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For fun - what's the oddest name you've heard?

233 replies

YesSirICanBoogie · 26/03/2009 21:03

An old friend in the US has named her baby daughter McCaa. The only reason I know it's a girl is because her middle name is Laura!

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MANATEEequineOHARA · 27/03/2009 20:26

The word 'aitch' (is it even a word for a letter!?) ...I think...but I suppose that has an 'h' on the end!?

notsoteenagemum · 27/03/2009 20:24

What do you mean tattifer are you talking about H from Steps?

Lilolily · 27/03/2009 20:18

I was at parents evening once and a little girl was called up, her name appeared to be Dimway which I thought was unusual.

My DD2 has a more unusual name than her sister and I always get the same response, "thats nice, thats.... unusual" but they like them so thats all that matters.

They also go to school with an Innocence.

tattifer · 27/03/2009 20:15

Why is it Helen is spelt with an aitch and H is not?

notsoteenagemum · 27/03/2009 20:12

No he's a Welsh C-J FAQ.

Where we used to live in Hull a neighbour Julie had a baby, when I asked her name she said "Ellen" "oh I like Ellen I said, "no" replied Julie it's Elen with a Haitch but we don't say Haitch in 'ull"

tattifer · 27/03/2009 20:08

If you want daft names watch America's Next Top Bimbo/Model. One entry was called Spontaneous. Pronounced Spon-Tain-Ee-Owse.

Maury is another daft show with daft names - ny DH and I reckon you could go round the house turning everyday items into names and they'd appear on the show at some point. Table = Tablitia. Curtain = Cur-Tayne (boys name obviously) Sofa = So-Fah and so on.

MANATEEequineOHARA · 27/03/2009 20:08

I have a book by someone called Candida Crewe...it is kind of an autobiography...she talks of her embarrasment about her name...and then gets an eating disorder...

bringonthetrumpets · 27/03/2009 20:07

i went to school with a jenica. her parents couldn't decide between jenny and jessica.

FAQinglovely · 27/03/2009 20:01

Tweetie - I went to school with twin sisters Claire and Candida - oddly enough she was known as Candy

FAQinglovely · 27/03/2009 20:00

notso - it wasn't in Greater London/Berkshire area was it the C-J?

I know a "C-J" (which isn't short for anything) where CJ isn't actually his name - it's something else entirely but completely unprounable/spellable in the UK (he was born and named in South Africa) so they always use C-J

TweetleBeetle · 27/03/2009 20:00

Wiggy - not a nickname as I thought, it was on her drivers licence and passport

Candida - just makes me lauh

MANATEEequineOHARA · 27/03/2009 19:59

Tattifer is now being silly,

I once knew a family of children named Sunny, Sky, and Blue. I think the parents were on drugs...

nickytwotimes · 27/03/2009 19:58

I know twins called Dolce and Gabana.

I alos know a boy called Guy...pronounced gooey!

notsoteenagemum · 27/03/2009 19:55

Torn

Diesel

Twins Neville and Granville

A family who have been through our nursery include, Ocean, Atlanta, Indigo, Willow, Skye-Blue, Storm and Cherry-Blossom can't wait for the next addition surely they'll run out of inspiration and just go for Josh or Chloe

Gorgeous and Precious

C-J not short for anything that was the name.

tattifer · 27/03/2009 19:54

FAQ The Manatee the farrier knows is much prettier and legs long enough to be jealous of...

MANATEEequineOHARA · 27/03/2009 19:53

Actually I said I would like to be reincarnated as a manatee, hence the name, correct spelling FAQ!!!

FAQinglovely · 27/03/2009 19:52

it's Manatee and it looks like this

MANATEEequineOHARA · 27/03/2009 19:51

Very amusing... I think you wll find it is spelt Manatee...

tattifer · 27/03/2009 19:44

Our farrier knows someone actually called manatee but it may be spelt Mannyteah

MANATEEequineOHARA · 27/03/2009 19:43

In real life - Morph.

But in work life I have found lots of interesting name combinations (I have a wierd family history job so spend a lot of time at work looking at the names of dead people!)-

Valentine Flower

Pleasant Harbour

Job Hunt

Francis Morocco Leather

There are loads more, it seems especially in Cornwall in Victorian times they seemed to often give their children amusing name combinations.

Celery · 27/03/2009 19:41

Boy/girl twins born to a mum at school a couple of years ago - Pele and Cartier.

BeehiveBaby · 27/03/2009 19:35

Seven

tattifer · 27/03/2009 19:34

I know of a boy called Shogun.

I lived abroad when I was younger and was quietly amazed when I found myself with friends called Immaculada and Concepcion - both quite common spanish names apparently.

FAQinglovely · 27/03/2009 19:20

thecat - ahh - I coulld write pages of the fabulously nanemd children I taught in Zim

thecatbrighton · 27/03/2009 19:19

A friend just told me she met Truly Scrumptious recently whgich just made me wet myself. I also worked in Zimbabwe a while ago and taught Manoeuvre and his brother Mentor amongst other oddly monikered children.