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).

This haulage company sounds like they should be a joke one that Bart prank-calls Moe to ask for on The Simpsons!

It’s a Kashmiri name I think? We know a Butt family.

I really like the African culture of calling your children after positive qualities, I think it’s quite beautiful. Trouble is I probably would have had to call mine Smart Alec and Lazy Bones!

Yes. Also Bhat is a Southern Indian name. As is Dixit. Pronounced much like Dick-shit. Nobody thinks of them as strange in India!

A friend DS made on holiday one summer - Steel. Didn't 'fit' him at all, he was all whip thin gangly arms and legs!

Absolutely not wanting to demean or disrespect anybody from other countries/cultures with normal-for-them names, but it is quite unfortunate in an English-speaking country.

In the same way as most people will snigger if they encounter somebody from a 100% British cultural heritage called Fanny, Willy or Dick (or Titty from Swallows & Amazons, for that matter).

Just as I'm sure French speakers probably find it hard not to giggle when they encounter somebody from an English-speaking country called Peter!

I used to know a Chinese lady called Fanny Fok.

Reminded of a fellow British expat whose last name was Lanby! Unfortunately meant rotten vagina in colloquial slang where we were (China).

I worked with an American chap whose DD was called Cricket. Really lovely name that suited a bright, mischievous, clever little girl. However their move to the U.K. did slightly open their eyes to long tediously dreary days at Lords!

And I always fancied Bathsheba if DS had been a girl!

Yes, that sounds right. It is unfortunate in a U.K. context though.

FWIW I’m a Googlewhack. The first name is unusualish (can’t find data for my year of birth but in 2021 only 97 girls were given it, for context) but both my maiden name and married name are unusual. The combination means that if you Google me you have definitely found me!

My cousin gave Danger as a middle name to his son: Duncan Danger McLaughlin. They're in Canada and he's 18 now- same age as my DS who is most annoyed he got my surname as his middle name🤣.

Their daughter is Pandora and also has an interesting middle name, but can't for the life of me remember it as I've never met the kids.

I went to school with a Na'amah (NAY-amah) which I always thought was so cool. It's from the Hebrew Bible, her siblings all had extremely unusual names too but I forget them now.

@FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper Wank doesn't have the same meaning in the US. There's an episode of Mork and Mindy with a character called Mr Wanker. Shown in the US with no issue, but never been broadcast over here.

Wank doesn't have the same meaning in the US. There's an episode of Mork and Mindy with a character called Mr Wanker. Shown in the US with no issue, but never been broadcast over here.

That would be interesting to see the continuity announcer's pre-show warning: "The following programme is broadly family-friendly, but it does feature somebody with a very rude name!!"

I do wonder if it was deliberate, though - by somebody who knew what the word means here and thought it would be funny to put it in a US show! There's a lot of cultural crossover between the US and UK, and people moving from one country to live in the other, so some people would surely have known! The Simpsons, just for one, clearly has Brits on its writing team, going on a lot of the knowing references.

Minka.

Sadly always made me think of 'minge'

Talking of American names… Has anyone mentioned Randy Bumgardener, who used to work with President Obama, yet?

And of course the singer Randy Vanwarmer

According to Wikipedia, his real name was Randall Van Wormer. Presumably, the task fell to him after the little blighters were all attracted to the Van Dross that Luther had left in there

I don't know about about 'really lovely', presumably the little girl was named after the insect then? Pretty odd naming choice imo. Are you sure it wasn't just a nickname?

I’m sure there’s a classic book with a female character called cricket. Can’t remember the name though…

I thought that ,it rings a distant bell!🤔

boy called Æsi
a girl called Tiare' (pretty name but omg she was lazy)

I'm from the deep southern part of the US.
Cricket, where I grew up was usually a nickname of a girl who was tiny in stature...not every girl of course. I know several ladies in their 60s and 70s still called 'Cricket'..the name really suits them. I have no idea what their Christian names are.

I know a family whose surname is 'Raper' I always felt bad for them to have to go through life bearing a name with such negative connotations.