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Most recent name to make you "huh?!"

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zingally · 09/05/2013 20:33

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.

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Thurlow · 09/05/2013 21:09

Is Rawdon from Vanity Fair?

I also know a little one with the middle name Danger...

AnneEyhtMeyer · 09/05/2013 21:10

I heard a mum calling an approximately 10 year old child Xenon in the supermarket last weekend. He had siblings, but I didn't hear their names. I would imagine they were Argon & Radon.

I know a baby Alan too. That shocked me.

mewkins · 09/05/2013 21:13

Enoch.

Hmm, sure it's a case of a good name being ruined by a bad person but.. would you really want everyone saying "oh, like the realky racist guy?" EVERY single time you introduced your child?

MooseBeTimeForSpring · 09/05/2013 21:14

Cashton

Ham69 · 09/05/2013 21:15

Boniface. I like Flossy!

PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 09/05/2013 21:16

I wonder if Enoch has 'knockers' as a nn.

AmandaPayneNeedsANap · 09/05/2013 21:17

Echo. I mean, I love a good hippy name, but things hardly turned out well for Echo in mythology, did they? And to think I vetoed Mallory because I didn't like the meaning.

Mamafratelli · 09/05/2013 21:18

Kaiser for a boy Shock

Elsie for a girl born to a pair of six foot broad shouldered Lancastrians.

AmandaPayneNeedsANap · 09/05/2013 21:19

Flossy is one of the traditional nicknames for Florence. I had a many times great aunt somewhere on my Dad's side who actually got registered as Flossy. Not sure I would intentionally have it as the full name myself.

Badvoc · 09/05/2013 21:20

Lancelot

mouseymummy · 09/05/2013 21:21

I've recently met a very cute snuggly little bundle called Peppa!

MatchsticksForMyEyes · 09/05/2013 21:22

Jimmy Boy

staffroomwars · 09/05/2013 21:24

Peachez

and one that is so unique I'd out myself but it's just all his Grandparents and uncle's initials has no vowels and cannot be pronounced

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 09/05/2013 21:25

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crunchbag · 09/05/2013 21:26

MortifiedAdams Bram is a traditional Dutch boy's name, variation on Abraham

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 09/05/2013 21:26

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Blu · 09/05/2013 21:27

The Hartleton-ThistleFlop that I know is called Floppy for short. Bound to get teased as a teen Sad

Catbiscuit · 09/05/2013 21:28

Mousey, are you sure it wasn't pippa? Lots of people mistake my pippa for peppa!! I know a flossy short for Florence, its lovely I think. Also know a boy with danger as his middle name!
Know of a recent arrival called Paisley
Also know a blue and a redd (not related!!)

TallulahBetty · 09/05/2013 21:28

Florentine.

I get Florence. I get Clementine. I do NOT get Florentine.

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invicta · 09/05/2013 21:28

In a recent magazine, the children models were Asia, Pyper and Honour.

invicta · 09/05/2013 21:29

Dotty is short for Dorothy.

Artichook · 09/05/2013 21:29

Sherlock

I also know an Echo and a Larkin, I wonder whether they are the same little girls already mentioned.

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nenevomito · 09/05/2013 21:29

nowt wrong with flossie

Banjo, however. Could be worse. Could have been Ukulele.