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).

A girl in the year above me at school was called Merlin 😍

When I was pregnant with my son I had customers regularly ask about the name I'd chosen so when I told one couple I'd chosen Heathcliff, they told me about their friend called Dartanian/D'Artagnan. Never heard of either name since!

During my teaching career I taught a Lenin, Angel,Princess, Betty and Maximus.
I love unusual names!

I met a woman in NYC who said her son was called Click. Not a pet name, not short for anything, that was his name.

@Blondey2023 Elodie is popular now! I know 2!

A girl who lived by me growing up called Isis.
also my sister went to school with a girl called Princess!

Joke pronounced Yokay

Its a Dutch girls name which caused a few humorous remakes when she relocated to London

Friend's little boy is called Dragon..which I think is a fantastic name wish I had thought of that. Had a friend at school called Ophelia and another called Olimpia, Spanish kids in the late 70s.

I know someone whose male cousin's name is Knob! He lives in the hills of North Carolina...Fortunately for dear Ole Knob, the word doesn't have the same connotation in the US as it does in the UK.

I know a Candice nicknamed Candy who married a Mr. Corn and took his last name...Candy Corn

Male names:

Shepherd
Tustian
Horatio
Toah
Farse

Female

Onei (pn Onny)
Melody
Jennica
Tekla
Freesia

The 'bald knobbers' were a thing in the Ozarks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_Knobbers

Balonz

Wait until you meet Loes (loose), Floor, Freek, Ruud, Fokke, Harm, Siemen (semen), Willy, and Tiny...

I thought of another one, a girl called Havana. Dad is a communist. She’s called Havi for short.

But that’s literally two spellings of the same name! Kaiser is how Caesar is pronounced in Latin

Though ‘Freek’ is pronounced ‘frake’ and doesn’t actually mean anything. Ditto Loes (pronounced ‘loose’ in English but doesn’t actually mean that). Equally when you whack most of these into Google translate they don’t actually mean anything in English. They just ‘look’ funny at best. ‘Fokke’ though is unfortunate, I agree! A lot of Dutch surnames are pretty silly, but that at least is deliberate: rumour has it that they made them up to annoy the French at the time of the census, knowing that they wouldn’t know what they meant. See here:
https://netherlandsbynumbers.com/2013/06/05/14-dutch-surnames-which-you-are-glad-are-not-yours/

@Whelm
Thank you for the story about the
Bald Knobbers.
I've never heard of any of those incidences.

Ohhh... I know a Joke (theres a doodad on the e I think but I don't know how to make my keyboard do those nor can i remember which specific one it is). They are dutch, have the same breed of dog as me :)

Merlin isn't that uncommon....Oscar Wilde's grandson. Also come across it for girls..at primary school and a distant relative.

I know a child whose middle name is Danger. It was his dad's idea, he wanted him to be able to say Danger is my middle name.
He's about 20 now. I wonder if he ever has actually said it.

😂😂😂

I love this! Gosh, what an opportunity I have missed with the DC.

I used to know someone whose middle name was Laser

Was dad an Austin powers fan ? 😂

I know someone whose male cousin's name is Knob! He lives in the hills of North Carolina...Fortunately for dear Ole Knob, the word doesn't have the same connotation in the US as it does in the UK.

That is horrific! At least with something like Dick, it is also an accepted, traditional abbreviation of a common name (albeit unfortunate); but 'Knob' is unequivocal!

I remember on an old 'funny names of people you've met' thread, somebody met an American man with the surname 'Wank'! How could you go through life with a name like that?!

I used to work with someone whose surname was Butt. He was lovely but I felt sorry for his kids with a name like that!