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

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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).

Bledard

I met a young woman whose daughter was named Starlet.
A boy named Serious.
And a woman named Pebbles, which I actually rather love!

Hallelujah - girl, nickname Halle
Grenville - boy

Wowzas!

A little girl called Lettuce-Loveday. It was actually really sweet and suited her!

For boys I met a Cronson and Pendree (not related to each other)

I went to school with a girl called Tia-Maria and she had a brother called Bailey. Rumour was the mum was a raging alcoholic but not sure wether that was true or not ...

Siouxie, presumably her parents named her after the singer. She'd be mid-20s now. I thought it was fab, but then I'm older than her so knew of the singer, and I don't have to spell it over the phone every time I say my name is Susie.

Pedantic, maybe, but not entirely correct. Welsh is derived from Brittonic, and is the oldest modern indigenous language spoken in these isles. Few English words come from it.

Not someone I know but when I was Googling about the Mayflower, I came across the names of Mary Brewster’s children.

Jonathan, Love, Fear, Wrestling

Jonathan’s wife was called Lucretia

Walking past a supermarket carpark about 10 years ago and heard a very chav mother screeching at her Daughter "You get yourself here now Jazzledine!". Was too stunned to laugh. Jazzledine. Utterly horric name.

Vashti. I thought it was Indian, from its sound, but then I saw it in a Thomas Hardy (from memory I think she's a bridesmaid in "under the greenwood tree") so I guess it's an older English name.

I know a little Loveday too. Not one I'd choose but it suits her. I think it's Cornish.

I know a 12yo Story. Same one?

Sequoia

As in, the tree.

Lucretia sounds like something you'd need a prescription to clear up.

I knew someone who had an aunt called Lusitania - like the ship.

I also have a relative who’s first name was Christmas - guess when his birthday was lol

my husband is also related to a Hercules Archellons. Which is a name and a half!

Truely
Toffee
Kream
Afrika
Vega
Cosmo

Vashti is King Ahasuerus's first wife in the Book of Esther, so has been used in the UK for centuries by people who like fancy biblical names.

I have cousins in their 40s called Porsche and Mercedes. Their dad loved cars..

Not a human but i once vaccinated a dog called Fuckwit

@DaisyWaldron I didn't realise it was biblical. Thank you for the background. She's the only one I've ever come across.

A boy at school was called St John (Singen) Threadgold.
Sounds like something from Lord of the Rings.

Oh just remembered. The nurse on the ward when my Grandfather passed away was called Cinderella. Which provoked the unavoidable "Yeah right, whats she REALLY called?" from my Mother, when the poor girl was stood right next to her.

Tippi
Thora
Belinda
Canielle
Lumi
Reignbow
Cloud

Cemre
Jolon
H
J

Cemre and Canielle were a brother and sister whose names were pronounced with the C like a J.

I worked in a children’s play at a hotel/restaurant 20 plus years ago.

Girl at our school, Leontine, known as Tina, she'll be knocking 70 now

I used to.go to.school.with a St John to ,we also.had an Hermione, and a Nealson, and a,Siegfried in another year catholic primary school ( 1970s )

My great-Nan was Easter-Lily

Romany branch of the family

It makes me think of Doofus. Glad you had some sense at least 😁