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!

Of course.

She’ll probably name her next son Craig.

We have a Rebel and a Quintin amongst our neighbours (boys)

Oh she 100% will have never heard of that. She’s a Christian fundamentalist from Arkansas.
I’m slightly fascinated with the weirdness of fundamental Chri. It’s a rabbit hole I went down once and have remained down there.

Are you in the UK?

I had a lovely neighbour called Queenie who died aged 102. This would have been about 11 or 12 years ago so must have been born around 1912. It's a very unusual name.

Curtis, Lennon, Charlton,

Octavia, Parker

Queenie was a nickname given to girls called Victoria and named after Queen Victoria

How long before she becomes Vindscreen Viper 😩

I just did a quick look at Ancestry and there's lots of Queenies aged 22-40.

Not now, Bernard!

In Afrikaans, the name Lente (which means Spring) is unusual but not too out there. Afrikaans parents are v keen on portmanteau names like Renesmee, so you had better hope your grandmothers' names squooshed together give you Elsalise rather than Jomar. Or Renesmee!

I guess in the case of spring, the word has another meaning as well as the season whereas the other seasons do not. Verbs don’t tend to be names.

Diesel and Demani at my daughters' school.

There was a Chardonnay in my DDs class

There's a boy in my step daughter's class called 'King David'.

we have a raven and a loki

My nephew is called Fox. He's in his early 20s. Sadly for this thread it's his middle name.

All sorts of weird, wonderful (and character building names) were being considered.

I know of a spurgeon from that neck of the woods but he’s homeschooled with the rest of his siblings and they are fundamentalist too. I believe it was his father that named him, cos all the rest of the kids have normal names or would that be suitable names cos mum put her foot down after that. Well that’s what I think happened anyways.

Ah yes. In fact the family I was speaking of are also a family of 19 biological kids. Those poor women!!

We had a Prince Messiah in DD’s class. He was anything but.

Not in my child’s class but I follow a creator on TikTok and she’s called her new baby daughter Velma. Her sons are Ike and Rudi 🙄

I know of a spurgeon from that neck of the woods but he’s homeschooled with the rest of his siblings and they are fundamentalist too. I believe it was his father that named him,

There's Moody Spurgeon Macpherson in the Anne books. With names like that I assume they're surnames of family members, but while some surnames are perfectly ok as firstnames, I wouldn't land a child with Moody or Spurgeon.

Her sons are Ike and Rudi

Rudi is ok. Ike makes me think of Gen. Eisenhower, whose nickname it was, but I don't suppose many people of an age to be naming a child would think of him.

I would assume that someone named Spurgeon from a fundamentalist Christian background was named after Charles Spurgeon, the prominent nineteenth century Baptist preacher, much like there plenty of Methodists named their sons Wesley.
There waa also a very well known American evangelist with the surname Moody at around the same time as Spurgeon was active.

There are some lovely names on here.

I like the Autumn / Winter/ Bracken type ones for girls and love Parker!

Yeah! I was sorting out some named things for the PTA and questioned whether it was a mistake. No apparently.