What is the name of my DS nursery friend?

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DS is 2 nearly 3. His speach is (usually) very articulate. He has never really had "baby talk"

He has been talking about his new friend at nursery. He loves playing with her. He wants her to come for tea. That's great. Except he says her name is Pancake. Which obviously cannot be the case. So what is her name??

@Soola - this one is Eastern European but I do know it's a real name. Still catches you out when you first hear it. I wasn't sure if it was short for something longer at first as well. We have a lot of Eastern European families in our area so DD has a lot of friends with interesting names (and I always have to check spellings with her as one Polish girl for example is Oliwia rather than Olivia.) She knows a Vlad and an Igor too.

My daughter is convinced her friend Olly is called Holly. She also has a friend called Polly. Conversations can get very confusing after nursery!

Also, as a pp has said my daughter confuses Alana with “llama”

I don't like this trend of giving kids unusual names of characters. I'm a fan of the TV show Supernatural, but there are people who have named their son Castiel, which is just weird

I also know a Muffin (real name) and a Miracle

There’s an author called Santa Montefiore. She’s the sister of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (now deceased) and her husband is the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. She’s quite a popular author and reasonably well known I think.

Hardly on the same level as some of these, but my DC came home from her first day at school saying there was a boy called Ian in her class. I was a little surprised as it would have been the first Ian I’d met under the age of 40, although it’s not exactly unheard of I suppose. Turns out it was Cian, which made a lot more sense to me.

We do, however, have a child called Keith in the school.

I heard a mum shouting her toddler the other day. Atlas, darling! Come here Atlas

When I was a kid I heard a mum on a eurocamp site in France calling for her son Mungo. Still puzzle over how that's a name for a child not a spaniel. Quite a popular one in some circles...

Mungo is a Scottish name.It has fallen out of favour in recent years but there was a time when it wasn’t considered outlandish at all.

I have a cat called Mungo

Isn't Mungo the name of the giant gingerbread man in Shrek 2?

My daughter insisted that there was a boy called Nacho in her class, we laughed. Thought of all the things if could be. Then Nacho left and went back to live in Spain
I'm calling my next one Kettle Chip.

Nacho is the nickname for Ignacio.

My DD2 spent her first 3 days at preschool playing with Lasagna.

We discovered this was Tania...

My son swore blind there was a kid in his class called Levi Bullseye. I’ve no idea what his real name was but I thought it sounded quite cool.

I used to look after a little girl called Angelina. My son was three and insisted she was called Trampolina

My sister taught an Alora. Always said with a sigh ‘a-lohhhhhh-ra’. I worked with a woman whose little girl was Cara Mia.

My daughter insisted that there was a boy called Nacho in her class, we laughed. Thought of all the things if could be. Then Nacho left and went back to live in Spain

Yeah, as PP said, Nacho is a name. It's short for Ignacio. There's a character in Better Call Saul called Nacho.

If the boy is Spanish then that makes perfect sense.

This thread is hilarious but I’m desperate to know what the OP’s Pancake is called on her BC. Franka? Branca? Blanca? Anneka?

According to the OP's letter it might actually be Pancake. That's what they have listed.

We’ve had classmates with (real names) Boo (girl), Tiger (boy) and Anakin (boy).

David and Victoria Coren Mitchells’ 4 years old daughter is called Barbara which I think is quite unusual these days.

This is the cutest thread ever - at least you know his speech is consistently articulate!
Poor old pancake is gonna get it in secondary school though.

Although not a child's name.
When my middle DSis was little, she came home from school a bit sad telling us that her friend was moving to Sweden.
DM asked little friend's DM about the move to Sweden.
They were actually considering moving to Swindon with the Dad's job.

Mungo is a Scottish name.It has fallen out of favour in recent years but there was a time when it wasn’t considered outlandish at all.

You move in the wrong circles. If you have Hugo then his sibling is Mungo. Both brothers to Arabella

Someone I know has a baby Walter. Not to my taste but these grandpa names.

Pancake is different - each to their own I guess!