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Recent nutty names I have heard

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CockneySparra · 21/01/2011 14:23

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! Grin

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CherylAnnTweedy · 26/01/2011 11:03

DS2 told me about a boy in his class clalled Crayon. I insisted that he must be called something that sounds like that and he was mishearing it until a few days later a lady was stood in the playground shouting "Crayon, Crayon come here!"

complexnumber · 26/01/2011 11:06

I used to teach in various parts of Africa, the names that passed as being quite normal over there struck me as being rather unusual:
Misery
Staffnurse
BigBoy
Logic
SkyRocket
Ringostar (The lad had never even heard of the Beatles)

But then I had a colleague called Dorina, this caused much hilarity amongst the students as it translated as Hippopotamus (sp?) in the local lingo.

FlingonTheValiant · 26/01/2011 11:42

A millefeuille is a rather delicious cake.

My Dad has some friends who named their daughter Raggle-Taggle (admittedly back in the 70s).

An American friend has a niece called firstname Blew surname, she's going to have a fun time with it at high school...

MamaChocolat · 26/01/2011 12:20

Vomity Bean

Maybe it was a nick name that stuck

eastegg · 26/01/2011 12:33

To those who have or would have chosen Regan (similar to what kicked off the thread) can I ask why? She was, as has already been pointed out, one of the 2 evil sisters in King Lear and the only other one I can think of was the possessed girl in the Exorcist. I can understand if you don't know about those references, but I think somebody said they'd been 'inspired' by King Lear. Hmm

namechangedofcourse · 26/01/2011 12:35

CherylAnnTweedy I would imagine that it was not 'crayon' but 'Creon' (pronounced 'crayon') - as in the ruler of Thebes in Greek mythology.

Mirage · 26/01/2011 12:50

I recently read a book about a gypsy family,in which the little girl was named Defiance,nicknamed Vi.I love defiance,it would have suited dd2 down to the ground.And I'm not a lover of kooky names.

BellaBearisWideAwake · 26/01/2011 12:57

leidi diana

i love the 'precious' type names

rococopops · 26/01/2011 13:05

Ryman

Vintagepommery · 26/01/2011 13:21

DD2 has a little Aura in her class.

Pippaandpolly · 26/01/2011 13:22

Chinese children who come over here for boarding school often come without English names and choose them when they get here. My favourite one I ever heard was 'Snow' Grin. She just thought it was a pretty word - and in China names do usually have literal meanings so it made sense to her. Somehow it really suited her personality, and we had a lot of fun when it snowed!

Merlion · 26/01/2011 13:41

I have a colleague in Hong Kong called Cactus and another called Twinkie.

LadyWellian · 26/01/2011 13:52

PMSL at staffnurse - drawing funny looks from colleagues...

Bexamundo · 26/01/2011 14:18

Hi ladies!
I have over the years come across a Blue (boy), Tamar (very religious parents) and my favourite "Jack Daniel", because his parents loved the drink.
I actually know a Myfwnwy who is called Myffy for short and somehow she pulls it off.
Apparently the year Footballers Wives' was first aired there were about 10 DD called "Chardonnay"!

Hatterbox · 26/01/2011 14:35

A friend of mine has named her son Riley, but alas not spelt like that, no she has spelt it Rhyleigh.

MarioandLuigi · 26/01/2011 14:45

Dude.

woodenpeg · 26/01/2011 14:49

love these threads!

Email is the greatest name I've ever heard, she had a sister called Lemon and a brother called Fish.

Titus is the other one that always makes me go Hmm but it suits the young man with it.

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 26/01/2011 15:09

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Chandon · 26/01/2011 15:20

I love Mylo and Hebe
(they are Mary Wesley characters, fab books by the way).

Bronte is fine too.

Precious isn't so bad either.

I like the Americans calling their children Londyn etc., must be a reaction to Posh and becks calling their boy Brooklyn!

lazarusb · 26/01/2011 15:58

I know a girl named Heaven- Leigh (surname ... Fox). She's either going to be a munter or a porn star methinks Wink

asdx2 · 26/01/2011 16:05

I know of a Heavenly Hiraani and her sisters Tatiana and Porsche who were at school with ds. I could never stop the grin when he mentioned Heavenly Backhouse Grin the two names just seem so far removed from each other.

BellaBearisWideAwake · 26/01/2011 16:17

Heaven-Leigh was the name of a heroine in a Virginia Andrews book, the writer who wrote such classics as Flowers in the Attic

lostfromoz · 26/01/2011 16:46

I knew a Porsche too! And Bronte is really popular in Australia, there are loads of them. My friend teaches a child called Phlame, and another friend claims to know a Te-A (pronounced Tedasha).

lazarusb · 26/01/2011 17:10

Bella- but would you team that name with Fox? Setting her up for a fall no?

I wanted to call dd Tanith. Dh wouldn't let me.

BellaBearisWideAwake · 26/01/2011 17:24

By 'classics' I was being very sarcastic Grin