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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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sashh · 24/12/2019 08:26

@sashh what is wrong with Jenna Taylor?

Say it out loud, then think about reproductive organs.

Django is a caribbean take away near me.

username1724 · 24/12/2019 08:30

Work in public sector and have come across the following..

John Johnson
Micheal Micheals
Lovely
Blessing
Bellatrix
Sunshine
Peaches
Elenia
Lillis
Axel
Sibella

PineappleExpress · 24/12/2019 08:30

😂😂😂😂😂 oh my! I said it so many times and still didn't get it

TheClausSeason · 24/12/2019 08:31

Ones I've actually met:

Londonesa
Perseus (white, British parents, so not a cultural-difference thing)
Rhyk (pronounced Reek)- he went by his middle name
Lilith (beautiful but never met another, possibly due to the demonic connotations/meaning). Lovely kid.

Snog · 24/12/2019 08:34

Lord
Barron
Earl

HalfBloodPrincess · 24/12/2019 08:38

Paeshe, pronounced pay-she. She'd be in her 40s now. Really suited her.

Jaykae
Diamante
Denna
Arthie

SimonJT · 24/12/2019 08:39

Not seen anything particularly unusual on here, shame someone took the piss out of sone very traditional African American names.

tinytemper66 · 24/12/2019 08:42

Songololo

sqirrelfriends · 24/12/2019 08:44

Gia
Star
Precious

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 24/12/2019 08:46

Eco (pronounced Eee-co).

Looked like the family were green living, ecologically aware hippy types so his name was perfect.

MaryBoBary · 24/12/2019 08:46

Elfie

wineandcheeseplease · 24/12/2019 08:47

Rebel
Ziggy

MaryBoBary · 24/12/2019 08:49

Oh and I know of a 3 year old Queenie

scarecrowhead · 24/12/2019 08:49

Reliks

BadgeronaMoped · 24/12/2019 08:52

Leeland, Cy, Mabelynda Smile I remember being so taken with the name Mabelynda that I wrote a note about it in my diary - I'm massively vanilla with my own name choices though.

SilverOtter · 24/12/2019 08:53

My little boy is called CorinSmile

I know there are more of them out there, but I've not met one in real life yet!

Legoeverywhere92 · 24/12/2019 08:56

Jeneba- beautiful name!

hohopo · 24/12/2019 08:56

Fox
Ajax
Cillian
Crillan
Blaze
Skylar
Chardonnay
Blue
Rex which we all know is a dogs name.

jeremypaxo · 24/12/2019 08:56

Silence.

MsMiaWallace · 24/12/2019 08:57

Diego
Chase

Hero is a Shakespearean name.

Legoeverywhere92 · 24/12/2019 09:01

Met a Beowulf (boy) at a baby massage group in posh part of town.

FeigningHorror · 24/12/2019 09:11

I agree @SimonJT. A lot of people on these threads don’t appear to grasp the difference between Emmerleigh-Galadriel-Blu, and entirely ordinary names froM other cultures, so there’s often an edge of Little Englander sneering.

Names like Precious and Lovely are very ordinary in their culture, and throw a stone and you’ll hit a Cillian in Ireland.

hardyloveit · 24/12/2019 09:11

@hohopo what's wrong or unusual about Skylar/Skyler? My daughters name is that

LizzyBennett · 24/12/2019 09:23

The most unusual is a chap who does fencing somewhere in Wales called
Ram Jam Delilah Funky Boogaloo Smythe

When I worked in an area where I was dealing with the public, a lot of people of Nigerian origin had names for their children that denoted how happy they were when the children were born. Names like Goodnews, Blessing, Godsjoy etc. I always thought they were lovely names and not too dissimilar from the Victorian trend of naming children after virtues, like Grace or Faith.

DS would have been a Django if XH had his way.

I work in the NHS now, alongside people from all over the world, so unusual (to me) names don't make me blink. Although a chap called Lillian did give me pause

Eminybob · 24/12/2019 09:30

I know a little boy called Starsson which I’ve never seen or heard before.