Most recent name to make you "huh?!"

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What names have you heard recently to make you stop in your tracks and wonder if the parents are a bit mad?

My most recent favourite is... Flossy, for a girl.
Made worse because my dads pet name for me is Flossy, or Floss. So to hear it as an ACTUAL name just makes me gawp.

Worst boys name - Banjo.

Oi thats my name Heavy! Seriously! Its a Cornish name

Our Felicity sometimes gets called Floss by her grandparents.

Loveday is a gorgeous name :)

Haydn. Not unusual, I know, but his mum said "The H is silent". So it's Aidan, but written Haydn.

Pixie-Trix. Not a nickname.

They are not Cornish

You can't diss the posh names on MN

I'm always waiting for dc4's made up name to appear on these threads. So far I am disappointed. It is either not as unusual as we thought or I don't move in Mumsnetty circles...

Duke

Tolly in The Children of Green Knowe to which I think BlB is referring isn't short for Ptolemy but for a name I can't remember....I'll look.
It is actually Toseland!!!!

Bubbles !!! Her sister was Pebbles.

Recently met a Zephyr. Not sure where I stand on that one. I hate fancy 'unique' names but somehow I find it quite appealing.

daisydoodoo There's a KcMae at my son's school. Spelt exactly like that. Nice.

There's a Gin at our local nursery. I've only seen the name on the peg, not the actual child, so it might be a Chinese name or short for Virginia or something, but it does conjure up a certain image of the mum!! There's also a Bessie and an Albert, which toddlers can carry off splendidly but I can't quite picture them as teens!

Banjo can be Nigerian (Yoruba) and short for Adebanjo.

My cousin's boys have, err, chavvy unusual names, and I've seen them appearing on the baby names thread (and it was definitely my cousin because the poster said what the Mum did!).

I think there will be a few teenagers in a few years time called Albert,Arthur,Gladys etc. Thinking wtf were my parents thinking.

Thorn. Is that now normal?

Haydn but the h is silent. Hilarious!

Said it before, but I know a five or six year old Shadow.

McFred. Well, it's certainly unique!

a baby girl called skyler.

I met a bloke at uni called Lindisfarne, farne for short. Weird, but it suited him.

Agree re the fact some of these can be nicknames. My DD is Emily, but we call her Lula-Belle, as she called herself Lula when she was a nipper and her middle name is Isabelle, and get some very funny looks.

I also call my DS Boo, short for Camboo which is a NN for Cameron. Not because I am a massive fan of To Kill A Mockingbird, although I am!

Juke - like the car. It's definitely this spelling as his mum got him a personalised football shirt.

Corly-Jaxx and Louwiissee are 2 particular horrors.

There's a Delilah at Ds's mate's primary school. Just as Biblical as Ruth, Mary etc, but the connotations....

Half the names on mn baby name threads make me go . I really think some take their desire to have an unusual name a bit far sometimes.

There are some names I only see on mn and to read the threads it sounds like every other child has the name.

Bo. It's like they forgot the rest of the name or couldn't be bothered.

Lark also made me go huh? but I like it

Boo. I was a bit shocked to find it was her real name, not a nickname.

I also know a Nevaeh, was a surprised as her other children have pretty run of the mill names.

I know a few Portuguese people who have given their kids old English names, so Kevin, Alan, Cedric. They just sound funny on little kids, even though all the old blokes with those names were kids once!

One of my sons is Bear, it's not his real name but I call him that all the time, so I'm sure people have heard me call him and think it is his name.

I still love Ptolemy and wish I'd been brave enough to use it! (That would have been for Bear!)