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Most unusual name you’ve ever heard?

513 replies

ikeakia · 23/12/2019 23:14

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

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elfbuddy · 26/12/2019 17:14

There’s a Labia in school here too
Also Bobo
Lemon
Dieffer
Any
Mohammed-Ali

Uninvited01 · 26/12/2019 18:22

Tindergal.

I shit you not.

CatalogueUniverse · 26/12/2019 19:12

I’m not saying that Aurora isn’t a perfectly good name. I did wonder what they would think about it when the child reached prime Disney Princess outfit at nursery age. Hopefully they didn’t care.

I do know that every other name on my list I met as adults and they were all fed up with explaining their name and 3 of them had abbreviated to more known names.

nearlythere12 · 26/12/2019 19:34

did wonder what they would think about it when the child reached prime Disney Princess outfit at nursery age.

Why would they care though?

HildaRumpole · 26/12/2019 19:39

I stand corrected FeigningHorror - I’d missed the part where it was “names beginning”. It seems you’re right about the ONS data - as for the origins of the myth,
I have absolutely no knowledge of it. My only interaction with it was searching on darkgreener!

Bowerbird5 · 26/12/2019 19:46

I’ve met an adult Aurora.
And an Aurelia.

I heard a dad calling for Ocean in the supermarket. I know a few unusual but they might identify me if theirs friends read it. Don’t like some I have heard.

kennyjenny · 26/12/2019 19:51

Fox

missmouse101 · 26/12/2019 20:32

@bowerbird5, are you sure they weren't calling Osian? It's a Welsh boy's name pronounced 'osh-uhn'.

andannabegins · 26/12/2019 21:56

I met a Godlove. He was adorable and his name was shortened to Goddy

Verily1 · 26/12/2019 21:57

Elle pr Ellie it really annoys me!

CPParenttoDD1234 · 26/12/2019 21:59

Boy

That was his actual name on birth certificate

GluhweinsSousedSnogages · 26/12/2019 23:49

I know quite a few people with some of the names mentioned so far.

Ziggy
Rayon
Pixie
Vesper
Ocean

I noticed somebody mentioned knowing an Annette Curtain. An elderly family member of mine was Annette Ball.

My youngest DC's name isn't listed on the ONS data for the year they were born. 3 for last year though.

GluhweinsSousedSnogages · 26/12/2019 23:50

A childhood friends DM was Theresa Green. (Maiden name)

Whatdayisit2 · 26/12/2019 23:53

Phalia.

Pronounced failure Hmm

TanselleTooTall · 26/12/2019 23:54

Aurora is Storm's name from the X-Men universe .

RiftGibbon · 27/12/2019 00:06

Friend of mine knows a Pixie, a Tinkerbell and a Raleigh (pronounced Rawley).

JeffreyJefferson · 27/12/2019 00:08

Tiamarie and Jackdaniel. wish i was joking.

RiftGibbon · 27/12/2019 00:10

Purple I had a Che at my primary school. I think he went on to become a semi-professional boxer in the 1980s.

PekTa · 27/12/2019 00:13

Butterfly

PekTa · 27/12/2019 00:15

And I 'know' a little Praise God.

MrsMillerbecameababy · 27/12/2019 00:17

Adonis

  • not Greek, had very bad acne, very skinny, painfully self conscious, sweet young teen kid when I first met him, had to feel sorry for him... Still hasn't grown into it - now skinny guy who drives vehicles for the council, still painfully shy but pleasant, has an equally shy seeming wife now.
MrsMillerbecameababy · 27/12/2019 00:21

Pixie doesn't seem to be that unusual. I vaguely knew a woman whose youngest was Pixie after older two called something like Jack and Ella.

Excitedforxmas · 27/12/2019 00:36

I know someone called Cloud

ikeakia · 27/12/2019 07:38

PekTa are you in the south East?

I know a Butterfly too.

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AJPTaylor · 27/12/2019 09:58

I had an African colleague called Happiness, known as Happy. Best name ever.