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?

@isabellerossignol She grew up in Glasgow.

Paignton for a girl - i just can’t get over that it starts with ‘pain’ - I mean what do you shorten it to?

Overheard in a rough bar a few years ago a woman say she had called her son Snapdragon and spelt it Sna9dragon so that it couldn’t be registered properly as computers don’t like numbers being in names. I just sat there in disbelieve !

There's a McQuintan in DCs school - a lovely little girl.

I've met a Storm, a Merrilin and a Polina.

Latido. As in - Do re me fa so la ti do. Yep.

I met someone called Merillee, she married Mr Mount.

And I went to school with a boy called Dagney.

Some of these are terrific, i go mainstream though.

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz Hester isn’t that unusual! (It’s my daughter’s name) It’s the Latinate form of Esther and was popular in the Victorian era and also amongst Quakers/Puritans. Really not in the same category as Ember. Unusual isn’t the same as less popular.

Merisna
Jesus (spanish pronounced he-Zeus)
Isambard
Blue
Perri

Kick

He/his parents were Dutch, but it was the English word, actually really lovely family and child, quite alternative and they were travelling the world when I met them in Bali.

Oh yes, I know a Jesus too, Filipino, he works in QEUH in Glasgow, great guy.

Blade
Rain
Morna
Janna
Veryan
Javotte
Dove

Mention of Django makes me think of the jazz musician Django Bates (and the guitarist Django Reinhardt, which I suspect is where Django B got his name).

I did once hear a woman calling to her small child in a playground - 'Elvis! Get over here!'

DH's most unusual is the train guard he used to see on a certain line. Her name-badge read 'Alfredtina'.

In my personal acquaintance are Geronimo and Mars, Honeysuckle and Ruby Tiger.

Lettuce -

Kynantae and Tia-Maria

Etney (boy)

Soda Pop.

Nothing beats that!

Polina is a pretty ordinary Russian name (it's their transliteration of Paulina, so unusual to the extent that it's out of fashion and has been for some time)

Thing about the L-a myth is that it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that people have heard the myth, believed it, thought it was a good name and actually used it... self perpetuating.

I know a Chuff.

I used to teach quite a few African students so Blessing, Queen, Princess, Goodluck - I think because I knew them over a period of time I don't think of them as unusual, but I suppose they are.

When I say know, it’s a family member

Went to school with a Marlon.