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).

When I was at the hospital with dd a few years there was a kid called wolf…

Lollipop
Cyrilene

Richenda makes me think of The Chalet School books.
There was an Amba at my son’s primary school - her mum thought that’s how you spell Amber.

Livinus is a family name.

irish catholics. For both boys and girls.

Jharla

My dad had a sister called Queenie who died when she was 2, I love the name.
if I’d had a daughter I would have included it in her name.

Hebe, Ariadne, Merope, Blossom (love that).
Plantagenet is coooool, but I wouldn't have the guts to use it.

A girl named Miracle
A boy named Mustard

My first boyfriend was called Fenrir. I thought it was phenomenally cool. He always hated it and now goes by his very boring middle name.

Apart from that, I've met siblings Lake (boy) and Ocean (girl).

The only one-off was a baby boy called KC.

If I was going for a super unusual name now I think I’d like Petrichor.

So maybe she was pulling my leg when she said she was named after Richard and Brenda? It’s still a lovely name though.

I was desperate to call DS Jupiter but DH wouldn’t let me. I used to enjoy reading the Three Investigators books as a child and Jupiter Jones was my favourite character. So maybe that’s why Jupiter isn’t so uncommon, I assume a lot of people who are now 40-ish read those books.

If DS was a girl I wanted to call him Isabeau. DH said no to that too. Again it’s a very “child of the 80s” name because it was in a movie around that time, Michelle Pfeiffer played Isabeau.

I know a Swastika. I think she's Thai. It means Peace.

I once taught a lad called Ice. My daughter went to school with a lad called Bran.

Wylda - which I actually love

Xenia - pronounced Zen-ya

Money - male

I met a Sian once.

Not so unusual I'm sure.

Except I'd only exchanged emails with her, and when I met her face to face and introduced myself, "are you Sian? I'm Ralph" she icily told me it was actually pronounced Cyan.

So that was awkward!

Love Queenie!

I also taught a stunning girl called Electra. Her name really suited her. Xenia is a lovely Russian name which I have heard a couple of times before.

Kermit

An elderly relative was called Fredericka Princess. Lovely!

I worked with an ImInnocent.

i always assumed it was biblical — I think they were a churchgoing Christian but didn’t know them well enough to ask in any detail.

@isthismylifenow they were of African heritage, do you know of a name it might be a translation of?

I met a young woman called Pebbles. I assume her parents were Flintstone fans.

McKnzie
Jay Z (like, Jay Z Smith)
Beulah

Over the years I’ve come across a Tinkerbelle, Velvet and Serendipity.

Barley ... I love that name too ❤️💕

I know two Rockets. One a boy, one a girl, an Ocean and an Egla.