Recent nutty names I have heard

[CockneySparra]

Sigh-Anne.

I thought the woman was mispronouncing Sian, then saw the name written down. Sigh-Anne. I mean, what on earth...?

the other was a little boy called Ragen. As in Ronald Regan, but Ragen. Ragen? I am not a name snob, but I do draw the line at deliberately misspelling surnames and then using them as a first name!

I love Hebe, it's on our list

My sister had a Storm, Blaze and a Harvest in her class.

Dad (an anaesthetist) told me about a patient whose child was born slightly jaundiced - tinged a little yellow.

Parents called the poor kid Laa-Laa....

Pitchandpotch I think I went to school with your friend hiedi!

Ocean - for a girl - pronounces as i understand it 'oh see ann'.
also 'che'.

I've heard of 'Candida' before, heard it was quite popular in America... the name, not the infection but could be the other way around
Did hear a woman calling out for 'IKEA', her daughter once.
My friends dad is called 'John Thomas' always makes me smile. 'Richard Cranium' too, but I've never met anyone of that name.
But the best on this thread has to be 'MUSTAFFA SHITTI' PMSL, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
My daughter is called 'Vesper' it's latin for evening, I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE it but it often gets misspelled 'Vespa' and people ask if she was named after the scooter.

Twins - Bonnie and Sherlock. Always seemed an unlikely combination to me...

No, Candida is not popular in America, I can assure you! At least not my little corner of it. :)

One of my friends is dating a man named Thalamus.

Red

I heard someone shouting Keegan whilst in Newcastle one day. To a little girl!

Met a delightful man called Tomtom today. Not a nick name apparently

Ollie Wood. Moon Buzzard (girl). Mike Hunt. . . have really met one. Oh and Tia Maria Diamond. Ewan Kerr . . . work it out!

I met a Chelsea Bunn the other day at a conference in her defence it is her married name.

in ds class at school is a girl called bridget........she's called biddie for short. for at least 2 years i thought he'd misheard it til i saw a christmas card from her

at work we had a customer called randy cuntapay

One of my colleagues called her DD Aimee-Li.

I have a host from teaching over the years!

I see a lot of Precious/ Blessings etc. but it's to be expected here and they don't stand out. A few Princess or Queens too. Others have translated badly (Poor Chit-paul called Shit-ball or 'Manmeet'(F))

My top I've taught are:

5. One that is so strange I don't want to identify, but it's 9 letters and no vowels and we STILL don't know what to call him so use the first initial only, it's a collection of letters from relatives names.
6. Heavenli-Angel
7. Peachez
8. (Twins) Nutmeg and Cinnamin (sic)
9. 'See-Anne' (spelt Sean-they saw it in film credits)

There's a Sidnee (girl) and a Neo (boy) at DS1's nursery. Also a Lennon which sounds like Lenin in the local accent.

I went to school with Richard Stiff. I knew a family who's children were Gaive (boy), Heathcliff and Nada (girl). There's a Chinese family at school who's boys are Jimihendrix and Bobdylan. I know a family called Storm (girl), Kelly (boy) and Jazz (girl).

I met a little boy called Saxon the other day.

we've named our baby 'Otter'. He's adorable. :) We love nature names and wanted something without obvious precedent.

I have taught a few children with interesting names

The worst are the ones that look like something else written in the register, like...

Orifice pn Orifeechee
Jesus pn Hayzeus

Worst ones I have known personally are Bethenay, Sian (pronounced 'see-ann'), Aryan and Posy Parker.