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.

Digby is the most outlandish that I have met.

ilikeyoursleeves I'm down in South England and I've heard of Pochahontas McGuire from Glasgow!

Boy called kenna. I don't get it at all surely that's the girl version of ken?

Brother and sister called Merlot and Chardonnay

Chandestiny

Dutch couple wanted to call their son Brian, but were numpties so now have a son who's name is spelt Brain.

Xolani

Rosolani

My friend teaches two boys: Ashit and Duqshit. Indian boys, but in an international school in Dubai.

Not a baby but hearing "HORATIO" being bellowed down the train carriage recently made me then my head. Boy must have been around 7,mum was also calling him "Ratio" as a nickname. Brothers Dayton and Mason. The unusually named Horatio seemed to be the middle sibling.

I like a slightly pretentious name,I really do but...fairly sure Horatio was an unusual name even when Nelson was a boy. Why would you do that to your child in the 21st century?!

Annalyse surely just a different spelling of Annalise, not massively unusual name.

Arf at django actually being popular. the parents will be gutted!
Enoch (way up thread) is from Boardwalk Empire, nn on the show is Nucky.

Phew, my daughter's name made it in on the previous page. I was prepared to be most disappointed.
My son's shortened name is featured early on.
They are both absolutely "real" names.
Lots of the names on these sorts of thread are, it's just the poster hasn't heard of them.
Cheers.

I love some of the names on this thread.

Last name I was shocked at was rainbow-Lilly.

How do you pronounce ptolmey?

Just with a silent P - To-le-my

Alis my Grampa was Sydney Horatio. He was born exactly 100 years after the Battle of Trafalgar. But he was known as Syd.

Dd's name has been mentioned on here, I was waiting for it as when we tell people they either love it or we love it though.

Carly Armani (registrar, 'oh is that a family name? Mother said, 'No, as in the frocks')... One child with 9-10 forenames, one of which was Almonds... Child at SIL's school, 14 forenames, two of which Bacardi and Breezer... Young man I met at work, horribly ashamed of middle names 'Twelve Minutes'... Biscuit... Cornflake...

I work in a registry office.

I read recently that poor old 'Tallulah Does The Hula From Hawai' changed her name by deed poll. Hardly suprising!

Moomins yes, she had to go to Court to do it. The Jusge wouldn't say what it was changed to in order to stop her suffering from the ridiculousness of her original name.

Do you think her (I assume it is a her) parents were suprised/offended at the name change?

I'm assuming the poor kid was imagining her degree/leaver's cert/doctorate with that name on it when she changed it!

gammon (boy)
ocean (girl)
bear (boy)
loki (boy)
zephyr (boy
cinnamon (girl)

I know of a Bailey-Boo!

Bailee*

moomins if I remember correctly she was either taken in to care or adopted and wanted to change her name but had never used it anyway. I think at school she was just known as "T" or something.

There is a boy called McJesus in DDs class. He's Nigerian I think.
I also know a star, a honey and a Donald.

And at a toddler group I met Alabama and tiana.

Some great names on here. Some crazy names on here.

Peric to honour Peter and Eric made me chuckle. Sounds like a Hobbit's name.

Is that McJesus, as in MacJesus or is it DJ M.C. Jesus?

Macjesus like mcdonalds.

MacJesus??!!