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).

The man at our local petrol station is called Vagi. I snigger silently like a 5 year old every-time I read his name badge

I know a Tallula and a Cressida.

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.

That's got to be one of the worst; but there are a whole load of funny surnames out there. Ricketts, Topliss, Gotobed, Toogood, Bytheway, Witherspoon, Sidebottom etc.

I used to know a man with the surname Brothwell, who insisted that it was pronounced 'Broth-well' (i.e. as it is spelled), even though most other similar surnames/place names/words in English would have the 'w' treated as though it's not there, so it seemed a weird anomaly. I guess he just didn't want to be known as Mr Brothel!

Not to mention the former American Ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson! Sounded more like a porn star than a diplomat.

In the 80's in Australia I knew a man called Dundee, his dad was something to do with films and I've always wondered if that's where the name for the character Crocodile Dundee came from.

I've known two different English (not of Asian origin) people called Butt; and someone who lives on Butt Street.

Some years ago, there were two MPs called Terry Dicks (Conservative) and Michael Cocks (Labour). At the start of their careers, they had stood against each other in the same constituency.

I work with a Nigerian lady called Peculiar which actually means 'special' in her tribe, thought of like that it's quite a beautiful name but she gets some rude comments off certain British clients who don't understand that.

I saw an American lady on tv called Tenekeia which I think is unusual but a lovely name.

I did know a Dutch guy called 'Cock', who I met at work when I was very young & thought people were taking the mick when they told me his name. But it was his actual name.

My first and surname are quite unusual & I often get asked by older people 'are you from this country' even when I say yes, I get 'are you sure'!!

Venetia

Also Chris Peacock used to be a reporter on some uk tv channel lol

I've known two different English (not of Asian origin) people called Butt; and someone who lives on Butt Street.

There are quite a few roads in the UK called Butt Hole Lane/Road etc. and variations thereof. Park Butts Ringway in Kidderminster sounds particularly... interesting!

I work with a Nigerian lady called Peculiar which actually means 'special' in her tribe, thought of like that it's quite a beautiful name but she gets some rude comments off certain British clients who don't understand that.

It's used several times in the King James Bible - always positively, meaning 'special', 'set-aside', 'holy' and such, rather than any negative 'weird' or 'unfortunate' connotations, as we would tend to use it nowadays.

Butts would refer to a place where archery was practiced, as it's a term for the target and/or slope that held the target in place.

Well, there's a street in Oxford called Crotch Crescent.

I went to school with a girl called Apricot

years later met someone else called Apricot so clearly not as unusual as I thought

Pumpkin and Xyla.

Both came up on hospital waiting room electric screen thing at a clinic I used to attend. Both teenagers.

Butts would refer to a place where archery was practiced, as it's a term for the target and/or slope that held the target in place.

Ah, boo - I was hoping that ye olde town planners were thinking "Heehee - let's call this street after our bums!"

What was the withdrawn post?

Was somebody blaming to actually have met a La-a ? And withdrew it cos they were called out for making it up?

Yes of course. Astonishing it was the first post and in a record 7 minutes!

@Unicorn2022 so looks like they just retreated and deleted their posts rather than admitting they had been caught out fibbing?

Ah well. Nowt so queer as folk.

Back in the 90's, Camelot warned that 30,000 people were using the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 on their lottery entries. The worry was that if this combination came up, the typical jackpot of £12 million would result in each winner getting £400 each and kill the lottery stone dead.
A colleague who had a very one-sided relationship with his turf accountant told me confidentially that if 30,000 people regularly used those numbers, they must know something and that he was going to start copying them.
I wonder if anyone has seen the urban myth, decided that La-a is very clever and decided to label their unfortunate child - or even gone one better and chosen a random sequence like X Æ A-Xii.

Lancelot and Elvis

Oh, and myurine

@Whelm well I know, that's what I was wondering.

The post was withdrawn before I saw it so I don't know what they say, but a lot of posters replied "no you didn't " etc.

But yes I wondered how they could know it wasn't true and someone isn't called that?

Magic.