Recent nutty names I have heard

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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!

A friend who is a teacher has a Tia Maria in her class. Classic.

Havin worked with a nurse called Precious, she was from Zimbabwe and said this name was quite common over there

Velvet- woman in her forties

Precious- girl from zimbabwe

Mercedes- girl in her teens

Buffy- lady in her forties

Oh and candida, the parents didn't realise it's the name of the bacteria that causes thrush !!

When I was in a waiting room for a scan I overheard a woman telling her husband she liked the name Hermoine from the Harry Potter books, which is all fine and well, it's a nice name, excpet she was pronouncing it Her-moany.

In another waiting room a woman had three young girls with her called Alabama, Texas and Indiana

There's that poor tennis player called Misty Hymen too. Horrors.

I heard a mother calling her little boy Ceaser yesterday.

I've met a Candida. She is very very posh.

Not terrible at all, but I met a small girl recently named Benny-Soo. Her mother was Chinese, and was most excited to learn that I am British (we live abroad) and told me that she choose Benny-Soo for her DD because it was such a typical British name and she loves Britian.

Awkward.

A boy in my daughters class is called AA.

Loreal - the poor child had really thin baby hair at 8

My DS went to nursery with a boy called BJ. That's what he was called and that's what it said on his peg. I could never bring myself to ask the parents if it was short for something else like Brian James just in case it wasn't and I would end up sniggering. Lovely parents though, really nice people, it just seemed so peculiar.

DS also knows sisters who are Destiny and Miracle.

I work with new parents and it isn't that uncommon to ask the baby's name and find the mum doesn't know how to spell it, either because the father chose it or it is not an English name and they haven't decided on the spelling they will use in roman letters. Sometimes the names are misspelt by people recording them (hopefully not the registrars) I have seen Sinead written by a colleague as Shenade but assume that it wasn't actually spelt that way.

Mercedes is a real name. Mr Benz named the car after his daughter.

I know a Sigh-Ann except its spelt Siann. It never occurred to me it was weird.

Tastymuffins what type of woman has no say in the deciding of her own child's name. Absurd.

I don't get why Storm is seen as so unusual, I've known a few people with that name, and was almost called it myself.

There also seem to be a lot of "classic" names (eg. ones from Greek mythology) in this thread.

Some of the others are crazy though!

I absolutely LOVE some of these names!! Especially Storm, Aurora (sleeping beauty) and Xanthe, but unfortunately DP won't have any of them!
I also love Anastatsia which he doesn't like either 'sigh'

My mum used to teach a Steven Stevens and there was a Luke Lucas on X-Factor last night!

Bronte is a lovely girl's name and I went to school with an Araminta and Lucinda (Ralph Fiennes' nieces!).

Love the Loreal child, that's bloody cruel but funny.

Another wacky upper orders family I know gave their four children middle names of London train stations.

There is a new girl in DD2's class called Kahluah. I wonder if she is related to Tia Maria? Perhaps Cointreau(h) is a cousin?

lurkinginthebackground Plenty of fathers chose the name or sometimes it is the extended family that have chosen. Doesn't mean the mother has no say but she may have agreed to a name chosen by someone else but never seen it written in roman letters. Lots of different cultural reasons too.

I met a Justice.

It suited him.

:)

I once met a man called Cat Pasta who wanted to become a school teacher!

Girl called Pheonix.

Girl called Sky-Bella (or possibly Skybella).