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MrsFaffnBobbocks · 16/05/2012 21:53

Please suggest the most unusual name you know by adding to the list in alphabetical order. One name per letter. One at a time. If we manage more than 26 names we can start back to A.

A is for ..............

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MoonlightandRoses · 24/05/2012 13:02

rips - three in one go isn't playing fair! Smile

Kallikrates

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ripsishere · 24/05/2012 13:32

Blush sorry, I got excited when I realised I knew three children with unusual names consecutively.
Lucretia

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Empressteryx · 24/05/2012 13:40

Mercutio

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MoonlightandRoses · 24/05/2012 13:41

Indeed - just don't let it happen again [wags finger sternly] Grin

Hortense though - I always think of Dr Suess' 'Horton' any time I hear that one - am guessing she's French and doesn't care!

Malachi

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HuggyPomBear · 24/05/2012 16:25

Nebuchadnezzar

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ripsishere · 24/05/2012 17:06

Torn between Octavia, Octavian and Orin.

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MoonlightandRoses · 24/05/2012 21:19

Hmmm [looks suspiciously at rips], how 'vexing' for you Grin

Petronella

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EmpressOfTheSevenOceans · 25/05/2012 00:42

Quincy

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ripsishere · 25/05/2012 06:06

Can't think of an unusual R that we know so I will bow out rather than make one up. Tis very vexing.

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EmpressOfTheSevenOceans · 25/05/2012 10:30

Rasputin

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ripsishere · 25/05/2012 10:32

I know a Sayonara and a Smallzsky.

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diddiehunter · 25/05/2012 10:44

Percius

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ripsishere · 25/05/2012 11:49

Quendoline - my cousin

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QueenEdith · 25/05/2012 11:56

Rhydderch

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MoonlightandRoses · 25/05/2012 13:47

I only personally know some of the names I posted - some of the others may have come from various historical books I have read over the years - oops

[realises she may not have read the OP properly Blush Blush ]

Tycho (yes, I do know one of those)

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QueenEdith · 25/05/2012 22:11

Ulph

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MoonlightandRoses · 25/05/2012 22:36

Varvara

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EmpressOfTheSevenOceans · 27/05/2012 09:15

Waltraut.

I thought we only had to know the names, not know people with them?

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Maiziemonkey · 28/05/2012 00:26

Xanthe

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Maiziemonkey · 28/05/2012 00:27

Yolanda

Zephyr

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Maiziemonkey · 28/05/2012 00:27

Ariel, sorry I'll stop now, this game is addictive

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PestoPenguin · 28/05/2012 00:28

Zita

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PestoPenguin · 28/05/2012 00:28

Ooops, I am Sloooooow! Blush

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EmpressOfTheSevenOceans · 28/05/2012 07:57

Bartimaeus

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FriggFRIGG · 28/05/2012 09:57

Arlo (my son)

Barry (it is unusual for a 3 year old!)

Chardonnay (a girl at my DD's preschool)

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