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

Disney.

Yup.

You're right, Fanta is a common name in West Africa, teaaddict.

No word of a lie here

La-a

Pronounced Ladasha ....

Disney
Otter

I know an ocean with a sister blossom. A toddler called toffee (boy) and a toddler CJ (boy)

Pff lastqueen that is the oldest urban legend in the book.

N-a, however, is real.

I've come across
October
Kitty
Petrol
Telford
Lance

These are the most bonkers ones I've encountered in real life:

Clark and Kent (Brothers)
Summer and Storm (Sisters- and yes I know Summer is a fairly regular name)
Sharky. And one of his middle names is George. I shit you not.
Candida
Saxon
Milan and Perla Valentino (Sisters)
Somerset (boy)
Hepzibah
Barrylee

That's all I can remember for now.

Oh yes and a Lancelot

Got another- Romany. As in gypsy. Knew her as a little girl

I know a romanie. She's known as Ronnie.

Plenty of Kitties round here, Kpo!

Wandering, does your Somerset have a sibling named after a smallish and not obviously attractive bird?

Sunny-jim
Zebedee
Rainbow
Afriqnmn (pronounced African moon).

There was a family on the TV and the youngest was called "Babigail" I think that was the most unusual.

I knew a guy called Dualta (dool-ta) and another fella called Aeneas (anus), they were in the same school.

I have to say Fanta is my absolute favourite so far. Remember the ad "Fanta, FANTA a bottle of fun!" what a great name.

Faunia
Zillah

Aeneas is not anus as suggested up thread

It's more like an-nay-as. I am particularly fond of it myself

Aeneas
Is a very classical name. Not usual, ok.
And definitely not pronounced anus. ..

Our Latin teacher pronounced it more like 'Ee-NEE-us', usually with Pious tacked on the front.

Not a good advert for it, really.

I can't really post the unusual names I know, because if I listed, say, Kestrel, Zebedee, Artemis, Legolas, Tintagel and Sophonisba, it would be pretty easy to narrow me down to one of a handful of people who knew people with those names.

Denim
Jethro
I'm sure there must be more. Some on this thread are amazing!

Do you think so, Jasper? When I say 'we know someone called Starling/Spinoza/Nivek', what I mean is we are Facebook friends with their parents or our kids briefly shared a school class with them or met them on a Scout trip, so it covers half the country.

Jethro
Is not unusual. It's lovely Gibbs' name.

Mannix and Hudson!!!