what is the most unusual name you have heard irl?

[spritefairy]

Heard today:-

Spring-rose

At the doctors the other day was deliah-rose. Thought it was a misspell for Delilah but then maybe it's Delia?

And the when I worked in a nursery there was a little boy called deneil. Not too bad you say, till you knew his older brother was called Neil

Frodo. I kid you not.

Both my DC names have been mentioned

Know a Lovekin, must rank as most unusual name I've come across! Poor kid though :o

Shawnathan

Through work I know of a Fanny Bushi (foreign so sure it never occurred to her parents)
Also know of a little boy called Miracle. I wonder if his parents just liked the name or if they had trouble conceiving or something. He suits it anyway

Miracle is so sweet! Well, probably awful when he reaches high school, but as an expression of his parents' affection, so lovely.

Shawnathan? Arghhhh!

IRL, I nominate Rad Ryko, Shakailah-Jayde and Maverick. Yep, real names of real children.

C'mon, nobody would call a baby 'Raspberry' that's just too silly.

When my DC were younger we had a game where I'd call them stupid names when we were in the supermarket. I'd do it in all seriousness and they would play along. I must try calling my DDs Raspberry and, umm, loganberry next time. Anything to make shopping more fun.

I've worked with Zulu, Xhosa etc DC and some had brilliant 'English' names such as Miracle, Suprise, Smiley or Thankful while other had the most amazing African names that could includ a 'click' sound and a seemingly random collection of consonants such as Mgwazeni or Phiwokwakhe. Throw in my English accent and taking the register could be very challenging indeed.

Heard a dad the other day calling "Vandieeee" - short for Vandal, it turned out.

A boy called Islay , pronounced Isla.

And a woman called Happy, hippy parents rather than cultural norm, I think.

Oh, I could call my next child Cultural Norm!

Please don't call your child Cultural Norm.
Norm is quite old fashioned and they'd be bullied for it.

Diamanti
Krystal-Pebbles
Aurora
Kennedy
Cupcake
Tiberius
Ceejay
Baron
Darrel
Iden
Leora

I love some of these names

Lamorna
Lancelotta

A friend of a friend just posted about her daughter

Ocia-Mai (o-sha may)

Lovely (who was lovely but with the unfortunate surname of sores)
Pretty

Cormoran was he named after the island? I know quite a few Islay's as I have family connections to the island!

I recently met a little girl called Ocean. There's a woman in my firm called Tequila.

Currently listening to someone called Fouque, surname.

is there surname... kew?

No, :) the surname is Fouque.

Parsley a girl

Yes, named after the island - he had very unusual middle names too, but too identifying to post as he must be one of s kind.

I know a family of Iona, Islay, Aran, dogs called Bute and Canna and cat called Skye. I've always wanted to sugguest they get a Guinea pig do they can call it Rassay.

Could have been worse, the kids might have been Muck and Eigg!