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.

Recently met a pre-schooler called Gloria. Made me go 'huh?' because it sounded so grown up....but I kind of like it.

My friends DD is called Nevaeh, she wants Tallulah for no 2. Love the name Wren but DH says no! My DS has fairly unusual name so am scanning for name fo no 2. Like Tolly but not the spelling of Ptolemy.
I did teach twins called Paris and Hilton and went to school with twins Lois and Unis.

I know of an Eric, DD's NN is Boo. I wanted to call DD Arthur if she was a DS.

I also know a grown up Enzo and a teenaged Storme.

The last name that actually made me 'huh?' was Claudio. To a family with no Italian or Spanish heritage.

Fiery-Britannia is the daftest name I've come across. Her middle name was the entirely normal & reasonable Jane. She did not even have red hair.

Twins Kai-Jai & Tai-Jai, pronounced Kay-Jay & Tee-Jay but later changed to Brooklyn & Arthur when mum split from dad (dad's mum had chosen the original names)

Cliche
And
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An Australian boy called Ziagen .
I asked the origin . After the god was the reply .
?????
Ziagen is an AIDS drug .

I love Florentine - mixture of Florence and Clementine!

Eggs Florentine

Pauline. The mum is French and it sounds really sweet when she says it. Trouble is they live in East London.

Rocky

I know lots of Irish Pailine's!

I know a few too. Also a few Paulinas/Polinas who are Polish and Russian. I like all versions.

Was it Unis or Eunice ?

Tolly can be short for Batholomew

Rusty.

Girls registered in Scotland in 2012 include:
Acacia
Adorable
Agatha-Alice
Amaryllis
Annalyse (analyse??)
April (18)
Artemis
Aspen
Atlanta-Blush
Autumn-Skye
Avery (weighing machines?)
Azalea
Barbara
Bella-J
Berry
Betty
Blu-Rayne
Bronte
Cadence
Caggie
Cairo
Cala (house builder?)
Celtsy
Chanel
Che
Cherry-Blossom
Cicely
Cinders
Coast
Coco
Coco-Wren
Connie-Agnes
Crimson
Cruize
Dahlia
Dali
Dandy
Darby
Dezstany-Rose
Divinefavour
Dixie (our cat!)
Dylan
Eden-Harlow
Eliahs-Brooke
Ember
February-Rose
Finlay
Fizza
Fortune
Gem
Halliday
Hart
Heaven
Hoor (!)
Hosanna
Hunter
Jardine
Jaxyn
Jazzlyn-Mari
Jervilyn
Jess-Jae
Jett
Jewel
Joey
Jorjie-Dawne
Juno
Kaisey-Simonne
Kaiya-Bella
Karissa-Hope
Ke
Keanu
Kenya
Kerrigan
Kiki
Lawrencia
Lawson
Leo
Levi-Jayde
Lihyla-Cole
Lilly-Elizabeth
Lilly-Ella
Lilly-Lynn
Lisa-Linnea
Lolita
Long
Lorelei
Lucrezia
Lulu
Lux
Mabel
Man
Marseille-Clair
Maud
Mavis
Mead(d)ow
Mesh
Miami
Mim
Minnie
Mingxi
Miracle
Misty
Mo
Myrtle
Nairn
Nancy
Nessie
Ocean
Ocean-Raine
Orchid
Pagan-Willow
Parker
Patience
Pearl
Peggy
Persephone
Petra
Phoebe-Bo
Pollyanna
Porscha
Purdey
Rii
River-Violet
Rl-Junior
Salve-Regina
Samuela
Scotia
Shaunie-Ann
Sheikh
Silas
Silver
Sky-Marceline
Skylar-Jayde
Summer-Ray
Sunny
Tallulah-Mo
Tatiana
Tatum
Tea
Tempest
Texas
Thistle
Tippi
Tiree
Tuba
Vienna
Virtue
William
Willow-Rose
Winnie
Winter
Wynter-Rose
Wyntrr
Yarley-Louise
Zowie
Zuzanna

Shakira Angelina (10) I kid you not!

I would draw a line at Hoor (being Irish), but the rest apart from names I would think are boys' names, like Silas, and names like Long, Tuba and Sheikh. The rest seem to me to be perfectly fine names, not necessarily my taste. Some of them reflect a religious sensibility that is not CofE (Salve-Regina for instance).

Some of the names here are normal, aren't they?

Quite a few little Delilah's around here!

I find Preistly for a girl odd. And the e before the i.....

I'd say at least 50% of the names on that list are normal. Tuba is a popular turkish girls name btw. A few on that list are Eastern European spellings like Zuzanna.

Whats wrong with being called April. Acacia and Amaryllis are flowers just like Poppy or Rose.

Nancy, Mabel, Minnie, Winnie, Maud, Juno, Mavis etc are all perfectly normal names.

Many are names I know as being popular for quite a while, Avery, Dylan (for a girl), Darby, Tatum, Chanel, Cicely.

I realise many of them are probably 'normal' somewhere ... but I did find one or two a bit odd. Some I still associate mainly with old ladies - which says more about me than about the parents (obviously) and it's nice to see some of those 'older' names coming back into fashion.

Hopefully someone will be along in a minute to explain that the following are considered normal / common / respectable names in somewhere beyond the confines of my street:

Cinders
Dandy
Dixie
Halliday
Mesh
RI-Junior
Thistle
Wyntrr
and Silas, William and Zowie - names I'd give to a boy, but not a girl.

And as mathanxiety indicated, giving a girl in Scotland (or Ireland clearly) the name Hoor is not a good idea!

A friend of mine (not UK) has a little boy with the middle name Bear. I don't know that I ever thought it weird, it just seems to suit him.

I have a soft spot for Ptolemy but DP has vetoed it for future DC3.

My brother knew/knows a Fredmir (girl). It's a portmanteau of her parent's names. Her big brother is called Freddy.

emess - most of them sound like names for lippy and nail varnish