Splendid names you've come across

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I recently heard of an Elphinstone Dalgleish. Have also met a couple of kids called Star.

What fun/marvellous/slightly wacky names have you come across?

I knew a Fletcher. Not so unusual, but his brother was called Christian.

I have taught a student called Supaporn (Thai).

I knew someone called Perri 6. Yes his surname was a number.

Also boys called:
Ebenezer
Isembard
Beau
Badge

And girls called:
Rogue
Boadiccea

@Hoppinggreen this just made me think - they’d be called the Pratt family or the Twatt family. I choked on my coffee

@CthulhuInDisguise

I know twins named Sky Curtis [surname] and Blue Sillett [surname], born on the day their parents football team won the FA Cup.

I have family members who are siblings called Sunny, Skye, Starr and Summer.

And rightly so!

@ghislaine

I knew a Fletcher. Not so unusual, but his brother was called Christian.

I have taught a student called Supaporn (Thai).

I don’t get what’s unusual about brothers called Christian and Fletcher….both pretty normal names. Am I missing something?

I don’t get what’s unusual about brothers called Christian and Fletcher….both pretty normal names. Am I missing something

I immediately think of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Christian

I used to deal with correspondence for older customers in Scotland and would come across a lot of patronymic naming. The women were often called there Dad's name with Ina or Ena on the end.

So, lots of Duncanina, Hamishina, Angusena, Hughina etc. Most of these women no doubt went by the name of Ina or Ena. I have several old aunts and old friends on my mum's who were always Ina or Ena and it was a revelation when I found out that it was short for something bizarre.

[quote ClaraThePigeon]I don’t get what’s unusual about brothers called Christian and Fletcher….both pretty normal names. Am I missing something

I immediately think of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Christian[/quote]
Ok I’d not heard of him.

@2389Champ

In the early eighties, there were two singers whose names I always remember:

Randy VanWarmer - he was born Randell, so definitely real name.
Lou Rawls - bet he was in demand at the beginning of the pandemic!

Talking of Irish names/pronunciation like Siobhan; I went to school with a Grianne - which if you said it phonetically would be lovely, but it’s actually pronounced Gron-ya.

It’s spelt Grainne and it’s pronounced Graun (like brawn) - yeah

I have recently come accross an Octavia Van Der Somethingorother (can't remeber the full last name!), I thought she sounded like someone from a Jilly Cooper novel.

I also know of a man with middle name Bonnieface, which I think is absolutely lovely.

I have a big soft spot for ‘virtue names’. There’s something inherently lovely about it all.

There are loads of them that we (in the UK) think of as fairly unremarkable: faith, grace, felicity, hope, joy, verity.

And others that are more common in west African communities that seem different to us (like comfort or blessing). But it’s the same principle.

The risk is that they will grow up such that the name almost seems ironic though. I worked with a patience once. It certainly wouldn’t have been how any of us would describe her.

But the principle of choosing a virtue name is lovely.

My dad worked out in West Africa for months at a time and was given a house and a live in sort of housekeeper. .He was a young man with the wonderful name of Sea Breeze.

There is a child in my local area named Ulysses Belcher.

I used to work with a woman called Elspeth Lickerish.

@ElephantOfRisk

I used to deal with correspondence for older customers in Scotland and would come across a lot of patronymic naming. The women were often called there Dad's name with Ina or Ena on the end.

So, lots of Duncanina, Hamishina, Angusena, Hughina etc. Most of these women no doubt went by the name of Ina or Ena. I have several old aunts and old friends on my mum's who were always Ina or Ena and it was a revelation when I found out that it was short for something bizarre.

My mum grew up in the NE of Scotland and knew a Gideonina 😳 And that’s ‘eye-na’ rather than eena.

Mr Pine-Coffin (author of book we had in our library)

Cloud and Silky - sisters

Bluebell (an old lady who used to come to the library years ago)

Mrs Snowball used to live next to my gran.

And that’s ‘eye-na’ rather than eena.

Yep, the Enas were eena and the Inas almost always eye-na.

@ladycarlotta

There is a child in my local area named Ulysses Belcher.

Worthy of Roald Dahl.

Another kid who won a trip to the chocolate factory?

DH wanted to call our son (clearly destined by genetics to be small and dark haired) Thor.

I over ruled.

I also knew a Balthazar when I was in my 20's. He was a real odd bod - very religious and not in a healthy way. I met his mother and realised why quite quickly.

Poor lad, lets hope he came out from her shadow (domineering) and forged his own path.

I have friends called Precious and Marvellous, and they are. Marvellous' siblings are Blessing and Joyful and I think they're all lovely.
When I first moved to Sweden I was a bit taken aback meeting people with names like Thor but I'm used to it now.

The surname Belcher (as mentioned upthread) is an old Anglo-Saxon name so quite cool in my opinion.

In the past I have taught students called Vincent, Jeramiah and another called Milicent.

Friend of a friend (travellers) called their lad Faraway, as he had a far away look in his eyes when a baby.

I know a few adults who have jettisoned their boring given names and taken on ones they like better.

One of them changed both surname and first name. I think it's great we have that option. Lugging the name Barbara or Rachel round with you if you don't like it shouldn't be a life time of feeling that's not me.

Go for it I say! Be whoever you want to be :)

The sisters Silk and Cloud - on the other hand - grew up to be in their 30's now. Last I heard one liked her name and the other wasn't keen at all. So you never can tell eh?

@EnglishMcSwedeFace Time and place for Thor, but I couldn't imagining bellowing it across DS's future school playground when he is as small and dark and delicate as a little elf!

We did think about Cole, which he would have loved as Cole is now a Lego Ninja. I was thinking more Old King Cole.

Anyway we settled on a lovely name in the end which didn't, in fact, come out of the Dictionary of Folklore and Gods, which DH was avidly reading whilst I cultivated the bump.

[quote KisstheTeapot14]@EnglishMcSwedeFace Time and place for Thor, but I couldn't imagining bellowing it across DS's future school playground when he is as small and dark and delicate as a little elf!

We did think about Cole, which he would have loved as Cole is now a Lego Ninja. I was thinking more Old King Cole.

Anyway we settled on a lovely name in the end which didn't, in fact, come out of the Dictionary of Folklore and Gods, which DH was avidly reading whilst I cultivated the bump.[/quote]
Yes, Thor in a Viking country is very different to small British Elfine children!