names in your dc's nursery/class that make you smile...

[burgatroyd]

What are unusual names that have stood out for you in your dc's class?

There is an Alaska which makes me smile every time I hear it and a Francesca and Emma which are nice because they are names that I hardly hear on children.

Tixy (not short for anything i discovered at a party)
Mya-mae (poor girl, what a mouthful)
Twins: evie-mae and ellie-mae

These are 3year olds at preschool. What is it with -mae ? I'd never come across that until recently.

I'm afraid i think i'm very boring and like old fashioned recognisable names. I think some thought is needed to how a name could affect a child throughout life.

There's a girl called cinnamon at ds's school

also brothers in year 2 and 3 called Stephen and Darren.

Vance

I taught a Matteo recently - father was Italian.
Child pronounced it Mat-ay-oh though father pronounced it slightly different.

Velvet
Pinky

I know of a little Willoughby who can't say it properly so calls himself Wibbly.

Wibbly Pig! Cute!

We have:
Flower
Artemis
Apollonia
Anastasia
Eurydice
Ocean
Katinka

And I'd better stop now or I'm going to be wayyyyy too identifiable

There's a girl at DDs school called Ruby-Blue, it always makes me smile because it is/was the name of a nightclub in Leicester square.

Does no-one else think that Maud-Lynn is HILARIOUS? Funnily enough, nor did my colleagues in the office.... I still crack up every time I think of her, though, so it's working for me

I know a Winter and a Pooky and a Topsy.

Still kicking myself I didn't call my daughter Joan...

A little boy called Sunni, dd2 says he's called that because he looks sunny, I don't know who he is but will be on the look out for a radiant 5 year old in the playground.

Omg, longest - where do you live?!

I had a moment where I wanted to use the name Sparkle.

Maud-Lynn... That sounds like a stage name.

longest do you live in London? Love this names, esp Appolonia

There was a China Blue at nursery and a Xchelle (pronounced like the loo roll brand).

How could I forget - an old neighbour: Nellie Oliphant.

I used to work with a woman who named her son Barney Bob.

I met a boy recently, called Po!

I checked (in my line of work, honestly, not just cos I'm a nosy bint ) and he's got a formal, registered name, but his family asked that he be known as 'Po'

Paxton

Destiny

Wyatt......

I met a little girl called Oceana, which I thought she was lovely. She was very pretty & striking & could totally carry it off.

DD2 has an Orestes in her class!

We have a Circus... rather unusual. And an Etta, which I think is a very lovely name.

Devora - and was she?

Dimple's the most unusual one I've come across of late.

spiderlight - my great grandmother was called Gin. I think it was short for Virginia?

Little boy called Odin at nursery, and a little girl Bowie. Both super cute.

Came across a Pinky Dawnbush once which seemed a little suggestive.

Dietcokeisgreat

Hope the cough medicine tyxylix has gone before little tixy gets gets much older then.....

DS' best friend is called Kevin. They're aged 3.

I know three boys named Roc, all under 7yo.