Names that made you think wtf?

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My friends Mum recently had a baby and couldn't think of a middle name for her newborn girl. The Mum has a teenage sister, so whilst walking to the birth registration place, she let her pick the middle name just so her daughter had one. Turned out to be a normal name but what a way to pick a name.

There was a boy in my year who's middle name(s) were Ryan Giggs.

Anyone else come across strange reasons/funny names that made you wonder why the parents would want to put there child through it?

I got chatted up by met a bloke in a pub who was a massive Crystal Palace fan and he'd named his daughter Crystal Alice. He even had a clipping about it from some local paper to prove it when I said I didn't believe him

I worked at a hospital and there was a patient there called Venella Topping

When i worked in telesales i had a customer called Miles Stones!
And my ndn was in a quiz team with a Phillip Brain and Alan Dick ! The organisers thought he was taking the mick when he submitted the entry form with p brain and a dick on it .

I'm pretty open-minded about interesting/ more unusual names, but my jaw did hit the ground on hearing a journalist mention her 6yr old son, Toffee.

It. was. not. his. nickname

I knew a Wayne Kerr. Genuinely his parents were not the sharpest of pencils.

I knew a Wayne Carr. Genuinely his parents were not the sharpest of pencils.

There was a traffic and travel reporter on BBC Radio Sheffield who retired very recently. He was called Everad Daley. This always used to make me snigger Carry-On style when Sheffield travel news cut in on my car journey to work.

My mum knows a lady called Eileen Forward.

Marilyn, there's a Danish name Tofi - maybe it was Tofi (I say hopefully)? Even so, picking a name that has another meaning in your host country ...

I had a teacher called Horace Prickett. I can only assume that his parents didn't like him much!

Catherine Hole.

Sounds fine, except she went by 'Cat'.

The groundsman at Lords is called Mike Hint. Always causes a ripple of sniggers when announced over the tannoy.

I met a Dick Swett once. I believe he was a diplomat

Mike hunt obviously. My phone is prudish

I met a Dick Swett once. I believe he was a diplomat

I wonder if he's pals with author Dick Swaab.

Bob Shrunkle works in IT security at my work.

lizzie,

Wish that were the case!

I was so disbelieving that anyone could truly saddle their son with "Toffee" that I immediately looked up a couple of print articles by the same woman.
And, yep, that was the genuine spelling, and wasn't just his NN.

It was 11ish yrs ago, so poor lad must be 17ish now. I'm guessing he hot-footed it down to Deed Poll the first chance he got...

IIRC, she was either Aussie or American, but definitely English-speaking and would've been fully aware of context. Was a militant protester-activist, so maybe naming kids after random foods was commonplace in such a radical lifestyle??

Hmm, very dubious about Bob Shrunkle being their real name; it seems awfully coincidental that pretty much everyone with the surname 'Shrunkle' in Facebook or LinkedIn in called Bob!!

PS, funny, though!

That was supposed to be an eye-roll emoticon after the 'La-a' post. Not sure why it didn't come out.

At work I was emailing with Prince-William and Lovely.
Had to deal with people from all over the world and found people from Nigeria and Philippines to have the most 'creative names'.

I have Also come across a few male colleagues (Dutch) having Maria as their middle name and was a bit .

I know an Irishman with the middle name Mary - named after the midwife. Not expected to live long. He's in his 70s now

My gramps middle name is Tracy haha.

Marilyn, in that case (feeling a bit shorty about this idiot woman) what is Wrong with people?!?!

I saw a client yesterday whose middle name was Bunny, but I thought that was a bit sweet and could see how in post-natal euphoria a beautiful baby girl could make you think "Bunny" for a middle name (first name was something normal like Julia or Sarah). But first names that are laughable are a bit cruel.