What does your child think is the most unusual name of their friends?

[Tirfarthoin]

I asked my 15yo DS which of his similar aged friends has the most unusual name and his answer was Kimberly .

I think he has some friends with very unusual names but when I suggested that maybe some of those were uncommon he replied well maybe but he had never heard of a Kimberly before. He then thought some more and suggested that Anna-Mai was a tad strange.

Maybe he is just pulling my leg

ooh... we know a teenage Fenton.

DD (8) says Tanyaeraswa and Obifalajimi are the most unusual girl/boy names in her year might live somewhere near Croydon too

Tleisha, spelt like that

DD has a Rocco in her class too, but she thinks the weirdest name is Teddy! (Which I love.)

A few years back DD was listening to Sarah Cox on the radio and when they announced her name she commented "that's such a strange name."

There must have been four Sarah's in my year at school. It's all about perspectives

DS2 (14) - Precious.

DD (4) - doesn't think any names are strange, although I may have done a double take with a few!

I think you're right though, it's the adults that pull faces at names, not kids. Although, if you give your DC a name that can possibly have rude connotations I suspect a group of teenagers will find them.

Did she mean Sarah or Cox though Project. Because to a fourteen year old, 'cocks' is noteworthy!

Tequila, Chyna, Rolanda

Isn't the point of the OP that kids find all those names we find strange perfectly normal, so if you ask them what they find strange they come up with Karen and Richard? Not asking you to say which names amongst their friends you find unusual.
I'll ask mine in the morning but I already know that DD3 (aged 6) finds Jo for a girl to be completely bonkers - it is so clearly a boy's name - and also has a friend called Mary whose name she is a bit puzzled by (because of Mary in the nativity and because she's never met another one IRL)

Ds is amazed at names that I regard as normal, like Paul and Anne

Bigbad, yes that's the point exactly. There is really no need for hand wringing over bullying for what we adults consider strange names as their age mates will not think them remotely unusual. Although even I can see a problem with Ashit .

We're in SE London, 36 nationalities across 60 kids, so the kids don't raise an eyebrow at anything. However, we still laugh at DS coming to us to say his new classmate (reception) was called Doofus. His parents - standing nearby - very sweetly corrected him: "Rufus".

I taught a Paloma about thirteen years ago. I remember saying "ooh that's unusual!" "Yeah, but Miss, there's a boy on our year called Gabriel - like the angel!" To my mind Paloma was much more unusual than Gabriel, but not to them!

Claire

She goes to an international school, so Claire stands out.

RiverTam depends if you asked the children if the names were weird or if they are unusual?

One of my DC has a MN dreaded 'unique' name and the other 3 have very popular names so they understand that asking about an unusual name does not necessarily equate to mocking the person, just making an observation.

Unusual as it's the only one he's ever heard of would be Warwick

I bloody love Warwick.

DS2, who is 6, said Ellie

My friends little girl couldn't stop laughing at my dds (13) Middle name.

It's Jane.

Dd1 was also at school with a Gary.

DD was telling me about the new lunchtime supervisers - Tracy and Zainab. "Isn't that a strange name Mummy....Tracy?!!"

Dd says Melanie is the most unusual name in her class.

DD1 (16) always says DS and his two best friends sound like old men when you say their names together - the friends are called Ted and Frank ☺ the boys are 12 so I kind of see why it amuses her but I think they are nice names nonetheless!

Bobby-Jane was the most unusual name when I was in school... I'm now 26 and still haven't come across another. Her name was a hyphen of her mother and father which is quite sweet.

Just asked the 16yr old. .... Alannah apparently is the most unusual.

It's definitely all perspective - most of her mates have Muslim names so alannah ( and dd2s names) are unusual.

I'd say banan was the most unusual name in her friendship group.

Asked my 19 year old. She said that all her friends have fairly normal names.
I should point out that her boyfriend is named Jesus.

What names are considered normal is completely culturally relative. That really should be obvious, but maybe isn't always exactly.