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Most recent name to make you "huh?!"

381 replies

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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JKSLtd · 10/05/2013 12:50

Anakin
Obi
(Not related)
Bane
(All boys)
&
Snow (girl)

JKSLtd · 10/05/2013 12:51

Icy & snow should get together Smile

steppemum · 10/05/2013 13:00

not recent, but knew an American family with kids called Randy and Brandy??

Peric = one grandfather called Eric and the other Peter

kid in dds class called Eboni, which is very pretty, but she is blonde and blue eyed...

But beware of what you over hear in shops. dd2 has quite sensible name. But I call her all sorts of things, not unusual to hear me calling 'Mopsy' across a shop.
She answers to anything beginning with 'm'

ksrwr · 10/05/2013 13:03

freedom

demi43 · 10/05/2013 13:08

Really don't understand names like Autumn and Summer
Know a v religious family who all have middle name Mary, boys and girls. A bit harsh when you get to school

Trinpy · 10/05/2013 13:16

I know a female Pheonix. it's actually growing on me now and I quite like it.

I also know a baby Pollyanna, which I think is awful, but may be popular in other cultures?

I used to know a little girl called Alberta, nn Bertie. Not unusual as such but she was a very shy and didn't have a lot of confidence. I think it was a difficult name for her to carry off, iyswim.

IdaClair · 10/05/2013 13:16

I know loads of these. I know a Spike, a Phoenix, a Django, an Otis, a Jax, and a Pixie, a Flower and a Dude. And a baby Dave and a baby Brian.

But the one that made me Shock recently was Khaleesi.

Really.

sparkle12mar08 · 10/05/2013 13:24

Mortimer-Moon. Surname is double barrelled with the same initials too. I also know of an Ocean, Honey-Mae, Willoughby, Flinty, and a Merlin too.

Iris1 · 10/05/2013 13:32

Shaznay. Essex girl on 16 kids. I literally cant get out of my head how bleeding awful it is.

Hullygully · 10/05/2013 13:33

This morning I came across twins, beautifully dressed in pink and blue, the girl with a lovely sparkly headband, and their names were Aetheopia and Haile

MoonlightandRoses · 10/05/2013 13:41

Surname Selassie Hully? Wink

IdaClair · 10/05/2013 13:43

Shaznay was the name of someone in All Saints, wasn't it? The band?

I have also met a Merlin. Have to admit I thought it pretty cool. He's not English though.

Hullygully · 10/05/2013 13:43

No, I did ask, but I got a blank look in reply and their mother said, "Our surname's Dodson"!

TheSecondComing · 10/05/2013 13:46

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horseradish · 10/05/2013 13:46

Zoom. Hmm I wanted to call dd Parsley, but was vetoed!

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 10/05/2013 13:46

Forbes.

It's actually grown on me, I visualise a serious Harry Potter type.

twitchypalm · 10/05/2013 13:49

I was in go outdoors last weekend and a mother was calling her really pretty dd sterling.

All i could think of was cigarettes.

GreyWhites · 10/05/2013 13:55

I met a Trixie today. It wasn't til I was on my way home that I realised that's how it must be spelled. In my head it was Tricksy. Fucking stupid.

SirChenjin · 10/05/2013 13:58

IdaClair - did you fight the urge to growl "Mmmmmeeerrrrrrllllliiiinnnnnnnnn"? Grin

AmandaPayneNeedsANap · 10/05/2013 14:00

Oh, I also discovered that an adult Christian I know has a sister called Kristen. I mean, fine alone, but really?

Tickledyellow · 10/05/2013 14:03

Gravel

I know! Whatever you are thinking is what I thought too! Poor kid!

meddie · 10/05/2013 14:04

Lucifer... that one really made me go Huh! Why? why do that.
Twins Gangsta and Beretta

Branleuse · 10/05/2013 14:07

maverick. shouted angrily in an essex accent

CinnabarRed · 10/05/2013 14:09

Not a baby, but I have a work contact called Vivid.

Wallace · 10/05/2013 14:12

Shogun