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!

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!"

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.

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...

Vomity Bean

Maybe it was a nick name that stuck

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

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

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.

leidi diana

i love the 'precious' type names

Ryman

DD2 has a little Aura in her class.

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' . 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!

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

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

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"!

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

Dude.

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 but it suits the young man with it.

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!

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

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 the two names just seem so far removed from each other.

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

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).

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.

By 'classics' I was being very sarcastic