Unusual names and reasons for them

[Frazzledandfedup]

Deeday born on D-Day. Significant and has a nice ring to it. I wonder what his mother's reaction was to her husband's unilateral choice of name.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-48528531

I'm curious to hear of other unusual/unique names and the stories behind them. Do you have any for me?

@Elderflower14 Wilfred?

@Lobsterquadrille2 Yes... Ds2 understands and tells everyone... 💙

@Elderflower14 fantastic name and dulce et decorum est is such a moving poem.

DS2 is Jonah, which isn’t necessarily completely unusual. But my maiden name is Jones, and my dad always used to call me Jonah, so I thought I’d give him a name that meant something to me.

I don’t get the Aneira - Nye Bevan connection

@Lobsterquadrille2 Last year on Remembrance Sunday I read WO's last letter home to his mother at our Remembrance service... 💙

@Vet
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My dad knew a lady called happy
She hated it and was bullied for years
She then changed it to her middle name and fucked off down under!

My cousin's dp is called Gail. No prizes for guessing what the weather was like the day she was born... (October 1987).

@Fedoratheexploreer that's lovely. It's personal to you rather than taking your maiden name directly.

@Rainbowknickers tempting fate that was.

I find these so interesting.

Miley Cyrus
Her birth name, Destiny Hope, expressed her parents' belief that she would accomplish great things. Her parents nicknamed her "Smiley", which they later shortened to "Miley", because she often smiled as an infant.[9] In 2008, she changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus; her middle name honors her grandfather, Democratic politician Ronald Ray Cyrus from Kentucky.

@Frazzledandfedup Thank you, DS1’s middle name is after my favourite teddy as a child that I lost. And DS2’s middle name is the name that DH was going to be called. The only name that doesn’t have meaning is DS1’s first name

Frazzled I once taught in a class with two boys called Blue. One was white, one was black. Neither had blue eyes.

@pigeonscooing I checked the ONS top 100 archives. Pre 1996 it was for the decade not year.
1954 Gail #76
1964 Gail #70
1984 Abigail #80
1994 Abigail #23

Maybe the spike in 1994 is due to the storm.

@Fedoratheexploreer I love that. How old were you when you lost your bear and did you take him everywhere? My sister was distraught when she lost her favourite bear at a stopover on holiday. She was 14.

@Verinerari
I don’t get the Aneira - Nye Bevan connection
Nye is the nickname for Aneurin Bevan, so presumably that's the female equivalent.

I know a boy called Adden. Someone told me that his parents called him that after Addenbrookes Hospital which is where he was born. Not sure if that's true though, especially as the maternity unit is actually called The Rosie Hospital.

I named my dd after a character of a film I saw as a child. Dh wanted to name her after an actress he fancied. Same name, different spelling. I won because my version had a better meaning.

My parents had to choose another girls name at short notice so my name is the name of the midwife, my parents don't like my name

I have an extremely old-fashioned name, after a several times great grandmother... she was an English lady who married a black man, my several times great grandfather, in the West Indies in 18-- (as they would render the date in Victorian novels :) ).

I taught a Cinderella Beauty who had been conceived on a trip to Disneyland.

@00100001 I know a 'Taome' - 'The Apple of my Eye'

My DGM was born the day WWI ended and named Minerva. Her parents thought she was the goddess of peace.