Today I heard a mother calling a child called........

[mrsshears]

Starsky!!!! I kid you not

The gypsy name must be getting popular. Maybe after 'gypsy weddings`my daughter says theirs a little girl up the road called Gypsy!

I think Phoenix is a cool name.

sometimes I call DS Batman amongst other things, strangers always assume his NN is his real name if that's what I call him on front of him, they never assume NN even if its one of the more bonkers one

Handmadetail I know someone called Biba (real name) and she was named after the shop! She pulled it off though, it suited her.

Dds also get tingbah and tinkerbell from Gps and Lucy locket.

None of which are anything like their real names.

I know a pheonix, his sister has a normal name!

Phoenix is brilliant.

I heard a lady shouting Barbie the other day. Could've been a nickname.

I don't think phoenix is an abnormal name.

My mother once called me poo-poo face in public. Why she always insisted that was endearing, I'll never know.

I do know she never dared utter those two words in the same sentence again afterwards. (I was 13...My mum is the stereotypical humiliating but extremely loving mum!)

We met a Jetta at the zoo last week, a little girl, about 1. Her brother had an unusual name too but i've forgotten it.

Really? It's up there on my list of weirdest names I've ever heard! I must be too sheltered.

In fact if I could ever have another boy I would call him phoenix, inspired by this thread.

Usual, I wanted Phoenix for DC3 but we had a DD.

There is a mum that goes to my local park with a plump little boy with a mullet hair cut who wears a muscle T-shirt called Blade.

Sadly it suits him.

I have a Nellie and know a Biba

Lurking do you live in a town beginning with S? I know of a boy called Phoenix too.

I like Blade as well.

Was the Libya in Wales. Some Welsh accents would sound a bit like that if they were shouting Libby

I know a Jetta and a Phoenix and don't think either are that unusual [shrug]

Though I do think the baby we know of who was recently named Hooligan will not thank her (yes, her) parents in future

Dd's nn is Pearl (dh tells her it's because she is small and precious but in actual fact it's because as a toddler she was like an old woman) but we use it more than her real name and so people assume it's her actual name. Only in school is she called Lucy.

My dd is very often 'Lou Lou locket' which is nothing like her real name!
Ds sometimes gets called Karl pilkington, because he has a perfectly spherical head

I once worked at a school where there were a lot of unusual names. For example, Foxy ( a girl) Charleyboy (a boy) and Twinkle (believe it or not, a boy). I promise I am not making this up.

TeaBrick No, plus I don't live in the UK.

Had no idea it was such a popular name!

Popular all over the world it would seem!

I like Phoenix.

Was speaking to my friend who lives in Fife and her DD has a friend called Artasia or Arty for short, is that even a name??