Most unusual names in your children’s school class

[Nightsatthelitten]

What’s the most unusual name a child in your kids class at school has had?
Almost every other child I know is called Harry, Theo, Leo, Olivia….would love to hear some unusual examples of names!

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Skagg?! Isn't that Liverpudlian for heroin? 🤣

Mentioned this one before, an old aquaintance had a daughter named after a seasonand a plant with a colour surname. Think Wynter Rose White, straight off a Dulux paint chart!

Halo
Chase
Wynta

Beren
Ralph
Cassidy

Humphrey. Talk about ‘ out there’!

I have Find My Past open, so I had a quick look for Nevaeh/Neveah. There have been just over a thousand births with that name registered in Britain. The earliest seems to be in 2002, and most or all in the 2000s, though I didn't look at every page.

I know someone who named their children:
Prada and Chanel
She's quite a normal middle class person who works as a teacher.

Lux

I have always wondered why some flower names are used but not others. Daffodil,
Tulip and Hyacinth are unusual, while Ivy, Lily, Iris and Daisy used to be old fashioned but are now popular. But there are some flowers, Crocus, Cosmos, Paeony, Clematis etc. which I have never heard used.

Fox and Kid, surname Glove 😉

Merlin, Jazzy.

I was surprised when Audrey made a comeback.

I heard 'Cuthbert' at my local National Trust yesterday. For a young boy.

Why on earth these old fashioned names are popular is beyond me. Cuthbert is such a wet lettuce of a name.

I also know 3 prr school Zoe's which while not an unusual name, did surprise me as everyone seems to be Edie or Nora or Evie now.

@gardenservant Crocus made me laugh!

Forest, Helena, Blessing.
Romeo too.

DS’s class had a Woody and an Orion. An ex of mine has a boy called Loki.

All white British again.

There was a boy called Blue in the year below me at school - might be more common for girls now with Blue Ivy but this was Glasgow in the mid-90s!

My DS is 4 and there’s a wee boy called Allan in his nursery.

All the Evies I know are at secondary school now. It was hugely popular for a while but not so now around me.

We have a Loveday, Tennessee-Rose, Mikey (a girl)

Dreama. Maybe her parents love sleep lol.

I work in a primary school, the most unusual names are either old names which have been revived- Laurence (Laurie), Herbert, Audrey, etc. or Ethnic minority names which I won't share here. Most white kids are called variations of Ellie, Harry, Teddy, Bonnie, Alfie, etc. lots of names ending in an e sound

Renesmae...

I work in a school...we have a

Winifred
Cassius
Fifi

Keila
Penelope
Arona
Rex

I've often wondered that too.
It's the same with seasons. Autumn, Summer and Winter are not particularly unusual names nowadays but I've never heard of anyone called Spring? Why? It's a beautiful season and not an ugly word, what's wrong with Spring?
And what makes Willow or Rowan an acceptable name but not Sycamore or Larch?
Why do some names become accepted, even conventional, names but other words from the same "group" would provoke derision if used as a name?

Roberta (Bobbie)