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 know someone with daughters named Sky and Storm. Their last name is Powers 🙄

Just seen one today - Velvet-Belle!
Wonder where she was from, I didn't see her face.

There's a little boy in our road called Senna (after the racing driver I believe). I presume his parents don't know about the plant that's used as a laxative with the same name. Poor kid.

In my old job I came across a vehicle that was insured to "Iva Biggun"😂😂😂

My socially pretentious MIL announced the birth of my first 2 babies in The Times. On both occasions a Mrs Pine-Coffin also had given birth and announced it in the same column . I've forgotten what the forenames were. The Pine-Coffins are an old military family I gather, and they are proud of the name.

@ffscovid re Senna: and in both cases it's GO GO GO!! (Sorry, couldn't resist)

@Spidey66

I once knew a Wayne Kerr and a Teresa Green.

Wayne Ankers is a local to me reporter. He uses his full name at times

I met a little boy called Royal

I also knew a bus driver whose name was genuinely Aston Martin.

I once met a Feichin Frisbee. Feichin sounds like Feckin'.

[quote MenaiMna]@ffscovid re Senna: and in both cases it's GO GO GO!! (Sorry, couldn't resist)[/quote]

I know a family with the surname Goodall-Knight. Always marvelled at the double barrelling of those two names.

I know a Zipporah, which I think is glorious.

@TheGratefulBread

I know a Zipporah, which I think is glorious.

There are some fantastic old Bible names. No-one uses them now, but you see them on gravestones etc and wonder at the parents looking at their beautiful daughter and thinking Hepzibah or Jezebel (I mean, don't they read the story!)

Talking of reading the story, I know a Jael. I know Jael is the heroine, but even so it's quite someone to name your child after.

Oh I think I could be tempted to name twin girls Jael and Judith .

No-one would mess with my daughters.

To be fair, Yael is a very common Jewish name, so for a lot of people it might have transcended its famous owner to be 'just a name'. My friend with that name is more interested in the fact that it means ibex.

My daughter's MN is Judith and I really wanted to put up a print of the Gentileschi painting somewhere in the house but my partner put his foot down. I'll sneak one in somewhere...

Maybe, though the Jael I knew didn't have Jewish heritage. @BloodyDamsons certainly no one would want to go on a camping trip with them!

@Laureatus

I went to school with a girl called Jett Black. She was very cool. There was a kid a few years below me called Storm as well.

I wonder if we went to the same school. Said Jett had a lot of awesome curly black hair too

Just thinking of naming Jett Black.

baby born with thick head of dark hair - Oh lets call her Jett, or Ebony or Melanie

Roll on 3 months, all ther newborn hair has fallen out and thin fine mousy brown is growing in! (or white blond, which was my brother)

Jett Black has reminded me of a guy I was at university with by the name of Matt Dymond. Havn’t thought of him or his name for 30 years!

Reminds me of the drummer in the stranglers < am an old gimmer>

There was a competitor on Pointless the other day called Rhapsody. She said her sister was called Symphony.

Blaze Fontaine

That's a beauty!