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).

Nasus....her mother gave her her own name spelt backwards but later she called herself Alexis and her mother (guilt feelings?) went along with it.

My hairdresser is called Cinnamen, not sure if the misspelling was intentional on her parents’ part. It suits her very well though and no longer seems unusual to me.

Saw on Instagram recently a personalised baby cardigan for a newborn called ‘Dredge’ which suggests the parents don’t own a dictionary.

I knew someone called Rockwell Bonecutter

Remembered another one!

Umslopogaas. From uni, but we just knew him as Simon. Right up until our graduation ceremony when they announced him on stage by his real name. And all 250 students did a double take 🤣

And we used to have a delivery driver at work called Ignatius, Iggy for short.

Silver (girl)... the only one I've ever met

I know a Dorcas. Her daughter is Tabitha. Both have meanings to do with sewing I think.

I used to work with an Aubrey (male) who was dating a Demelza - both of them had really plain surnames (think Brown or Jones) so it was especially odd. In a nice way :)

I’ve just googled and Dorcas was a biblical woman who made clothes for the poor. Tabitha is the Hebrew version of Dorcas. This particular Tabitha had a Jewish DF.

I know some fabulously-monikered kids.
My own two have very unusual names (first name, two middles) and out of all six names, four have been mentioned on this thread.

Names I know, with approximate age of child in ()

Girls:
Electra (9)
Story (12)
Storm (6)
Raine (6)
Queenie (7)
Tiger (10)
Eartha (7)
Bluebell (9)
Beau (11)
Star (10)
Thora (12), pronounced Tora
Tuesday (13)
Calanais (4) (pronounced Callanish, like the standing stones)

Boys:
Draco (9)
Bow (10)
Arrow (10) (No relation to Bow, but we/they do move in the same circles)
Atticus (12)
Ash (10)
Blue (11)

And adults:
Rain (female) (50)
Loveday (60)
Pixie (short for Patrixia) (50)
Romaine (45)

Oak (male) (50)
Jolyon (50)

Candida - which is the yeast that causes thrush 😫
Farty - I don't actually know if that's how it was spelt but that was how it was pronounced. She was a young girl who had come over from Nigeria with her family and lived next door to a friend. She didn't go to our school but I always used to think she must be having a really hard time at school. It was a very white area too.

People I have taught:

Rahab (boy)
Cassiopeia
Serenity

No Shit.

There was a girl at school called Faith with the surname Hope. I loved that. Her little sister was Charity Hope. A few years later I worked with their younger brother whose name was ...Russell! A perfectly normal name but odd in that context.

Possibly Vharti or Varti.

Fuckwit, ahahahaha

Imagine screaming that at the top of your lungs across a park

Further memories coming back.....Simon/Umslopogaas's middle name was Yardley.

OK Farty has me howling. That poor kid

Worked with a Summer Camp and a Sunny Hill in the same office at the same time. Summer got hers through marriage but Sunny Hill was her birth name

Also knew girls called Blue and Tuesday and boys called Bear and Braxton

Was at school with a girl whose name sounded like Vinegar but I was very young and never worked out what it should be (she wasn't from the uk)

My Dad went to school with a set of brothers.....Matthew, Mark, Luke and Norman. 🤣🤣🤣

Dd used to know someone whose parents evidently thought it amusing to call her Polly Esther (surname was Cotton).

A niece’s middle name is Blue.

Jette (pronounced Yetta) is still a very common name in the Netherlands (it’s short for Henriette).

on a similar note, my gran had a Dutch pen pal during the 1940s called Joke (pronounced Yoka).

I was told of American parents in the mid-20th century, who called their children Lenin and Rosa Luxembourg. Rosa was not so much of a problem- people didn't usually have to use her middle name- but a 'Lenin' at an American school at around the time of the McCarthy era? His teachers solved the problem by calling him Lenny, though they generally disapproved of nicknames, and would never have agreed to call him Lenny if his name had been Leonard!

The Gospel according to St Norman!

I know a Comfort as well. She's Jamaican