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).

The most unusual names I’ve come across recently are

Quinn
Nyla
Charnce
Fox
Remus
Dash

DD has a Tinkerbelle in her year and we know a family of 4 called Aubrey, Audrey, Alain and Albie not overly unusual names but always makes me think the parents couldn’t be arsed to go any further down the alphabet for names lol.

And my favourite Ottilie - if I had come across this name 15 years ago, I would have given it to dd, it’s lovely imo.

I worked with a lady called Tangerine. Also met a Daffodil and a Mayday.

Oh and there was also a customer called Scrumpy Cider where I once worked, not a name given at birth but he’d changed to by deed poll!

Ho Bum, he was Chinese, also Scarlet Booty,

I knew a girl called Chania (named after a river in Africa) also a guy named Coureton.

Koda - boy
Tamar - girl
Che - boy
Lysander

I was once handed a Beowulf to hold in a park while his mum found his hat in the pram.

And I have met Elvis, not the Elvis, another one.

‘Alswitha’. I am interested family history/ genealogy and found it when researching my grandmothers side. It’s a woman’s name, she’s one of my great grandmothers sisters so my great aunt I suppose. Her siblings all have regular names such as Mary, Alice etc.

i was at school with a Keston

Oh and Selfie Smith. born 1840 so long before mobile phones.

Here we go again 🙄
You haven’t come across this name before. It’s a racist urban myth that has been doing the rounds on the internet since the early days of Facebook.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/

I once met a woman called Shine.

She had a brother called… Darren.

Persephone
Rejoice
Cherry

Treasure
Ace

Girls:
Ripley
Bramble
Rainbow
Gazelle

Boys:
Rocky
Romeo

DD has a cousin called Ripley...named after the character in the "Alien" film apparently.

Kok - a boy - Malaysian
Happiness - a girl ( had 6 brothers, she was the youngest!) Her folks are Nigerian
Cruz - MC American, a boy
Antrim & Tyrone - American boys, named after birthplaces of Great grandparents
Slainte - American boy, but the word is irish for 'cheers!'

I was in a shop a while ago and heard a mum calling her daughter ‘Velvet’.

I met a toddler called Xerxes and also a midwife called Precious

As a teacher I’ve come across a few! Blue, Crystal, Twinkle and Princess spring to mind…
Oh, and a 12yo girl whose parents allowed her to legally change her name to Chocolate. They did all the paperwork, got a new passport etc only for her to change her mind back to her birth name six months later.

Barklie great name for a dog. Less so for a human child.

Nathan & Nathaniel - I know, not unusual at all, but they were twins, and their mother called them both Nate as a nickname.

Blouse

I am not making these up, honestly.

Atomica
Kryptonica
Jolly
Baby
Happy
Also as I mentioned yesterday on another thread, Stalin and Lenin.

None of these in the UK.

It’s possible. He was taught by a colleague a long, long time ago, and I may have misremembered the spelling. 😔
I do love the misspelled names though. It takes a lot of obstinacy strength on behalf of both parent and child not to silently correct a spelling once they have realised it’s unusual. Here’s to the Jhons, Georgenna’s, Samanther’s and Pheobe’s I have encountered over the years!