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.

The apostrophe is an indulgence too, Mortified, is it not

They are obviously unconcerned by the Alistair Crowley-esque fact that things spelled or chanted backwards mean the opposite of the original meaning. OoooOOOoooh!

Jezebel is quite cool if you think of it in terms of reclaiming strong women done down by the patriarchy.

I met a baby called Fry recently. Different.

I thought I heard a man calling his little girl Fryer recently but then realised it was actually Freya and I'd just been confused by his accent

Can confirm there is a Pocahontas in Glasgow as midwife told me.

And there really are twins called Dolce & Gabanna. Dear god.

My Sister went to school with a boy called Huckleberry......
Where I love dome people love a strange name.
Met a little boy called Oberon once

Some of these names are lovely and I considered them myself (Django, Bram, Cosmo, Merlin etc). We have lots of Willoughbys in our family too (going back hundreds of years).

Somebody I know has recently called her newborn baby girl Khaleesi. It's not even Daenerys which I could have understood. Still, her baby, her choice or whatever platitude it is I'm supposed to insert here.

Cartel.

I thought this was the word for dodgy gangs involved in gambling, drugs etc?

Read an article about a woman who named her children after perfume - with one being called DKNY pronounced 'Dikini'....

No words.

I read that too Crafty! I think it was in Take a Break. It was an article about a woman who spent about £40,000 a year on clothes, toys etc for her (loads of) children.

The worst I've ever heard is always in Glasgow (from where I originate) so far I've heard " Right, Armani, if ye don't eat yer chips yer no gettin' any ice-cream!" " Mercedes McGonnagle, get aff that wa' (wall) noo!" and my all time favourite called out to a toddler who was trying to climb up the stairs on a double-decker bus "Pocahontas! Get back down here right now!" You've got to laugh!

haha glad you saw it too xigris - I couldn't remember where I saw it and was starting to think maybe I'd hallucinated it, it's so bonkers.

I also went to school with twins called Bubbles and Pebbles, and they had an older sister called Cleopatra. Unusual for sure.

Oh! Just thought of some others - again from a trashy magazine article :D

Cubby Bear (Boy) and Bunny Love (Girl).

macjesus! I am crying here! That has GOT to be the winner!

Some of these are very ordinary to me, clearly many MNetters don't live in London!

friend named her daughter Sta-Lyn. Yes it is pronounced just the same as Stalin and no she doesn't no much about murderous dictators and I don't think anyone will say anything.

o.m.g. sta-lyn. Words fail me. I think Macjesus might be overtaken there.

McJesus wins hands down! Although Jesus (pron Jayzoo) is a very common name in some parts of the world (ie very catholic parts) to make it different by prefixing it with Mc is just pure genius!

A friend of mine lived next door to a girl with two sons: Jaiden-Jay and Armani-blu................ awful awful awful (and my children have unusual names too)

McJesus is the winner though

A friend's DD recently had a baby girl and called her Je'Taime...

I boggled a bit at that!

There's a boy called Dax and a girl called D'asher (pronounced dasher so don't get the apostrophe!) in DDs school aas well

To everyone ridiculing Banjo, it is not an uncommon name in Australia, v popular in Aboriginal communities and also the name of a famous poet Banjo Paterson.

In fact many of the names mentioned in this thread are not weird or crazy, but simply have their origins in another culture.

A woman I work with has a granddaughter is called Minnie. I can see it being cute on a tiny baby/toddler I think I'd hate to be called it as an adult (although I suppose there is Minnie Driver...) either way it made me go

Minnie Driver is a nickname though. Minnie and Lorri Driver.

Thanks AmandaPayne Just googled and turns out Minnie Driver's name is Amelia Fiona so that just reaffirms my opinion that it is not a suitable name to put on a birth certificate.

I know a Minnie who is a Minnie on the birth cert.

Awful.

What if they're tall and not so slender? It's too cruel.

ROFL at Bunny Love

It sounds like some bizarre sex addiction.