Most unusual name you've come across.....

[erikbloodaxe]

Just that really.

I'll start.......

Camwy. - it's a river in Patagonia. Really suited him though (Welsh ..... extremely Welsh man in his 50's).

I knew a woman through work who called 3 of her children just letters - NJ, NK and AJ. She also had 3 other children with actual names. And they absolutely were not initials - I had cause to see their birth certificates.

I know a Mothinia.

DS attended nursery with a Pepper (girl).

I met a Maud-Lyn once.

I used to know a little boy called Godlove, shortened to Goddy. I also know someone who is called Max, his middle name is Chaos

Royah

Girl called Pebbles (and the parents were most insistent they weren't inspired by the Flintstones)

Man called Faulkland (born during the war), which is a great sounding name.

A male immigrant who said his real name was unpronounceable for Brits, so had chosen to use the name Bunny.

I met a toddler Gaylord 30 years ago.

Girl called Bay.

Jersey

Bentley

Holiness

Heaven

I know a Stalin too. Not Russian!

But the worst/most ridiculous name I ever heard - which I won't say for obvious reasons - was a child in the care system. I asked their social worker if it was a cultural name and she said no, just part of the abuse.

yeah, I’ve know George-eenas but never George-eye-na’s until my grandpa was boring us with his family tree research and pulled out that gem. 😂

Sorry, post above was a message was in response!

Mind, there are some bloody awful names in my own family. Even allowing for the fact that we're foreign. Think Candida, Bruno, Hedwig...

Blodwyn. A little girl. I love it.

@ConsuelaHammock Coisty 😨poor soul! A few Lennons and Henriks around my way!

I used to know an Antigone (AN-tig-O-nee). It may not be rare to some but I’ve only ever met one person with that name and thought it was utterly beautiful. Curiously, her siblings, both younger and older, had very typical English names.

Otherwise, I have met a Bracken (female) and a Star (male)

Sechiel. Have only heard it once a few years back.

I take it you haven't worked in education long? Felix and Indiana are perfectly common names.

Gaive to rhyme with Dave, his brother Heathcliff and sister Nada. Nice family actually.
Latrell and Pharell, brothers, Rob-eye, Thor, Honey, Chyna, Jimihendrix, Troy, Julie-nne and Thadra, spelt like that rather than Phaedra. 🤷🏼‍♀️
Thor

My friend's daughter is Aiden Caledonia

I quite like it

I know a Catkin too.

As someone who has worked in education and been a rainbow leader for 20 years the most unusual I have had are- Lorrae, Nahvey, and Elenoraetta

Plantagenet
Brock
Achilles (heard the name being called in a supermarket - it was a little girl)

Not where I live they aren’t !
Been in education a long time.

Some older names are making a comeback. I’m the last 5 years I’ve had a Tracy, Dean, Gary, and a Brian.

A girl called Echo. An older lady called Silver.