Most unusual name you’ve ever heard?

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Just wondering what unusual ‘only met one’ names people had come across in their lives?

My hairdresser is called Tuesday

Manchester
Tequila
Clitorine

Ram jam funky boogaloo smythe was a customer where i used to work

Also knew of a Meadow-Lark Summer cloud, who was a boy and also had a double barrelled surname

Ram Jam is an old coaching inn on the Great North Road (A1)

I wonder if it was a 'place of conception' name?

My DD is called Zanna

and I've come across;

Lettuce
Blue
Labia
Chance

Lettice (that spelling) is an old, but genuine, name.

Bessie Bramble

Valley (boy)
Tuesday (girl)

Darkgreener is a handy site - it uses all the ONS data since 1996 to give a graph for how use of names had changed. I suspect that any names used fewer than three times in a year won’t register because the ONS data tends not to publish those due to privacy issues.

Searching darkgreener shows no hits for La-a or L-a (but see above caveat) but DOES show a spike in the early 2000s for Le-a. So at least 3 kids were called it that year. i.e. not just an urban myth

I know a lovely Samanda who is constantly correcting people about her name.
Also a Persephone, nn Sephy.

Labia??

And Clitorine?

Surely not!?

K9

Seriously. For a girl. It should be illegal.

Labia! Is that from someone of a non-English speaking nationality? Do they know what it means in English???

Apple-Blossom.

Zoenaid not sure of spelling
Marza-Jedda
Graham Graeme (first name surname spelling might have been the other way round)
Wisp
Guinevere.

Odette
Gideon
Mauve pronounced maeve I presumed weird spelling.
Aurora -oblivious to Disney connection

Laiba means roughly pretty woman in Urdu.

Aurora -oblivious to Disney connection

Why would anyone naming a child necessarily be aware of the Disney connection? Aurora is a perfectly good name, and was long before Disney popularised it.

@HildaRumpole, no it doesn’t. It shows that a few people used the name ‘Le-ann’ in the early 2000s — which I assume is a variant of ‘Leeann’ or ‘Lee-Anne’.

Le-a or La-a is, with Female, from the realms of racist urban myth — all the first usages are American and make it clear that the imaginary mother who’s named her child this is African-American and is ‘too think to breed’ etc etc. Snopes finds no evidence it’s true:

www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/

Too THICK.

Enego (there was a famous architect, though, so not totally out there)
Honey (I like it though)
Red Hummingbird (Renamed himself this)
Gay (not short for anything - full name). Won’t tell you the surname as you’d be able to find them so easily... unusual surname too.
Wayne Kerr (well - now you probably know what town I live in!)
Dick Bellringer (totally outing our location)
Kahleesi (I think it suits the kid, so if you’re out there, reading this, hi 😊)

I love Hero!

I’ve taught a Shanti, Princess, Angelove, Cam’Ron, Blade...

Also Amadeus, Pixie, Vesper and Buzz at various baby groups