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Most unusual names you’ve heard at baby group!

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Nameenthusiast · 25/01/2019 21:33

Thought this might be fun and may give some people some new ideas! What are the most unusual baby names you have heard recently? Mine are:
Moses
Claude
Nula
Herbie
Huckleberry

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cricketmum84 · 28/01/2019 12:39

Huckleberry 😂😂 that can't be real surely??

cricketmum84 · 28/01/2019 12:40

I don't have a baby I'm afraid but my son does go to school with a boy called Bravo.

Not a nickname. Bravo is his actual name!

NancyFrank · 28/01/2019 12:44

@MyBreadIsEggy I also know a Khaleesi! Also an Ace and a Blue

hihellohihey · 28/01/2019 12:45

LOVE Nula, it was my Nans name and I plan on using it for sure.

Scandaloso · 28/01/2019 12:46

Did she spell it Nula though?

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 28/01/2019 13:30

I met a baby Geoff a couple of years ago. My brother is Geoff so it's a name that I notice, and I don't think I know any younger than 40-ish.

MikeUniformMike · 28/01/2019 14:26

Bran is welsh for crow not raven. A raven is cigfran (pron. kig-vran)

MikeUniformMike · 28/01/2019 14:27

Brân not Bran.

Duckyneedsaclean · 28/01/2019 14:28

Moss

Duckyneedsaclean · 28/01/2019 14:29

There's a boy in my sons school called Daddycool. Shit you not.

CarolDanvers · 28/01/2019 14:46

I properly snorted at that Ducky Grin. Surely a nick name?

Laquila · 28/01/2019 20:21

Chaim is a very normal Hebrew boys’ name.

QuimReaper · 28/01/2019 21:12

I know a young Zebedee, and a Myrtle (although she is probably a teenager by now). I've never met anyone else with those names!

QuimReaper · 28/01/2019 21:12

Also Myrtle's sister was called Benn. I really like that.

Isitweekendyet · 28/01/2019 21:18

Chiam - not the unusual part.

His Mother pronounced it Cheeum and was telling everyone her ancestors were Jewish and it means happy.

As a Jew, I wish I had told her it means life and it was both spelt and pronounced wrong.

Isitweekendyet · 28/01/2019 21:22

@lordpickle it's a small world!

It is pronounced with a gutteral Hu at the start, similarly to Chanukah.

It's easiest pronounced with a silent C like Hime.

Laquila · 28/01/2019 21:53

Ah I see, Weekend. That’s unfortunate!

l0psy · 29/01/2019 12:16

I used to teach a Donjour
Cutest little man ever though

midsomermurderess · 29/01/2019 12:52

Is Alec unusual?

prembaby2 · 29/01/2019 13:35

I attend 3 groups a week.

None have particularly unusual names (mine have the most unusual!)

However we do have siblings: Stone, Storm, Sand and Sula (Sand, not SAndy)

Thistles24 · 29/01/2019 14:24

The one that springs to mind is Abba, a girl. She’s probably about 12 now....

Slothcuddles · 29/01/2019 15:33

Kids I’ve taught over the years:-

Star
Heart
Shakira
Diesel
Tunnel
Princess
Prince
Patience
Axel (what a horrid name)
Keanu
Dwayne
Joelle (I think is pretty)
Devon
Blue
Aston
Fluer
Zuzanne
Suvannah
J.D
T.J
Sonny
MJ

Mesosleepy · 29/01/2019 20:15

Some new people at nursery today... Rocco, woody and buster 🤦🏼‍♀️
Also heard a mum call to Bluebell in the supermarket yesterday.
A friend of a friend called her daughter Xochia, pronounced Zosha. Surely that's a lifetime of spelling and correcting your name

MimiSunshine · 29/01/2019 21:16

In a baby group I went to there was an Eponine and a Bruce

Ihavealwaysknown · 30/01/2019 00:48

Rogue (girl)
Delicious (boy)
Millennium (girl)
Syndie (girl)

All under a year old

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