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.

Lots recently, none of my friends/family I hasten to add! Just out and about, children seem to be named after slebs or slebs children. The worst name I have heard, ever, was a two year old who had the misfortune to be named Sylar after the villain in Heroes (yes the one who cuts peoples heads open) because his DPs liked him.

Not exactly an unheard of name but I couldn't help being a bit surprised to be introduced to a baby boy at a mums and tots group a while ago called?

Eric!!

Don't be so bloody stupid, child abuse my arse.

I wasn't agreeing with you. I was being sarky.

I heard a mum yelling for little Taizer (don't know about spelling but it was pronounced tay-zer) a while ago. (I said buzzzzzzz very quietly to myself).

wot iz sarky??

Lol @ Sequin

I can't remember the last time I met anyone called John or Matthew.

Eco (pronounced as in eco-warrior) - 'met' him at a recent open day at a nature reserve/woods type place which was rather appropriate I guess!

When DS heard the name he quipped "I bet that boy Eco's friendly"

Flossy is a common nn for Florence which is very popular atm.
My dh wanted Chad for our ds-I won :)

There is a child at nursery called Lazer

America is the place for daft names with odd spellings-usually with 'ee' endings .I did see a Serinytee and a Destinee as well as Libertee and Rylee-Jo.

Banjo is the name of the little boy in The Runaway Dinner which is a great book for toddlers :)

there is a Ptolemy in dgs nursery class [I get many chances to share that on here :) ] He is known as Tolly and is a lovely boy. Dgs asks why does Tolly write P for his name?

marthastew Lazer??? Definitely not Lazar? (which is a common slavic name). There was a Lazar at DD's nursery who always got referred to as Laser, poor child.

If it's,a common Slavic name, why is he a poor child?

Didn't narmada mean he was a poor child because people always got his name wrong?

Love Larkin (girl or boy) and Merlin...

And yes, Khaleesi is a Game of Thrones reference. Means queen in an imaginary language There is also a Daenarys or few hundred out there - that's the 'first' name of said Khaleesi.

My dad was shocked to hear of a Casper the other day. I said that's cute. He said 'it's a friendly ghost'!

Also know a grown-up Loveday and met a grown up Khia recently (made me think of the car).

And also think Ptolemy as Tolly is pretty cool - my favourite book series as a kid featured a boy called Tolly and never knew (until now) what it was short for.

There was a boy in DD's class called Binh. In his parents' defence, they're Thai. And a boy in DS's class called Cheetah (Indonesian).

Actually I know several young Matthews and neighbours' kid is called Eric.

Bede.

Recently met baby Tiger Hunter - those were his first two names followed by surname.

Endo (which to me is a nn for endometriosis!)
C C - initials don't stand for anything
Boo

I knew lots of of little Italian Kevins!

Edge.

Baby Edge.

Aubree and Jurnee

Loveday