Names you only know 1 person with

[Cornishblues]

So, what names have you ever personally known one person with?

And what names have you only ever even heard of one person with?

Some of mine are:
Only ever even heard of one:

Wrenna
Nita
Tiana

Only known one personally:

Drew
Trudy
Elspeth
Melody
Rowenna
Charis

... More of these will come to me!

I went to school with a lot of girls who's names started La, so LaTeesa, LaTissa etc. They all had very similar names (5 or 6 girls) but all different and now I've left school I've never come across a LaT in my day to day life.

Rowena
Elspeth
Bethannie
Calib
River
Tabitha
Nancy
Clarrie
Karenza
Edeve
Ellieanna
Guillia
Gillian

And I actually do like them all!

Oh and a L-A. Guess how to pronounce that

oh please not that old Ladasha chestnut?
was she Black then?

No idea. Never met her. It was someone in a school my friend taught at. She just asked me if I would know how to pronounce the name?

I had heard of the name Thirza, quite popular in the C19, but until yesterday had not met a living Thirza.

Lysander
Dino

Both Jilly Cooper names, only met one of each in real life.

Kerena, shelly, sheryl, Corrine, catrine, Abiola, Pebble, Echo, Darcy.

The others are siblings and out me instantly

Ladasha/L-a is the urban myth which refuses to die. AFAIK there's still no children actually registered as L-A but I live in hope...

I've never met a real person with the same name as me though I know there are two other MNers with the same name.

I only know one of the following...

Peta
Ludmilla
Ludovic
Merlin
Phinebus
Willoughby
Erasmus
Taliesin
Sennen
Pollyanna
Angel
Baz (full name, he's 6 and BRILLIANT)

AFAIK there's still no children actually registered as L-A but I live in hope...

Me, too And how about a 4TsQ and a P2la?

Text my friend earlier. She has no idea if the name was her real name or 'preferred' name. It was an interview so she was only teaching the class for half an hour. She said girl was white and very well spoken and genuinely lovely. She turned down the job as didn't like the headteacher and accepted a job 20 miles away so never has come across this girl since.

I used to think it would be fun to have a son, named "[my surname] hyphen". So, with my married name, he'd be called something like Johnson Hyphen Johnson-Smith.

Good thing I never had one, eh

Marina
Felicity
Dana
Verity
Lorna
Bronwyn
Tate (boy)
Sandy (boy)
Ishbel
Blaise (boy)

Summer
Song
Autumn
Meadow, mostly siblings
Blake
Drystan
Emil
Malcolm
Alexis
Gaia
Finnian
Ivor
Ivan
Verity
Hope
Ailsa
Benita
Beata
Eustace
Mhairi
Roderick
Rex
Amos
Leonora
Lenny
Leo
Zebulon
Malachi ( proniunced with a hard I, also.o e pronounced with a soft I )
Nathaniel
Ned
Imogen

Sorry, male and female mixed up there

Gabe
Benedict
Alessio
Leon
Marcus
Cedric (he's French)
Gerwin
Tysol

Gwennan
Nia
Lois
Adelise
Tamatha
Alexis
Fiona
Amber
Panthea
Nutmeg
Kim
Tamarisk
Faye
Minnie

Comfort ( a very large man)

Not read everything but my niece is a REN and I have never heard that anywhere apart from in Footloose

and stimpy!

oh niffernaffer I better not remind her of that show she will be gutted

Livana (thought she was called Nirvana for the first few weeks of knowing her when she was a baby!)

Venetia, Vian, Wanda, Zara, Arianne, adrianne, Monique, Axel, Itamar, Demelza, Hermione, Poonam, tasneem, henrietta, Armani, Mercedes, Barclay, cranley, Quinten, Humphrey, Barnaby, Buffy, Barney, ivanna, Naomi, Judy and saskia.

Correction Amani

Oh and Selwyn and Hakwa.

Remembered dome more
Merlin
O'Neil ( as a first name )
Selwyn
Cullin
Jed