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 very old gentleman called Joe Joe. He was born in the 1920s and abandoned with a note saying his name was Joe. No surname so the orphanage wrote down Joe for both first name and surname.

@FeelingdownXmas my sister’s friend from school called her baby Rayne-Beau. I wonder if it’s the same one or if there are 2 of them. Is he a boy?

My orthodontist was called Mr. Tartar.

The late governor General of Jamaica had the very grand name of Sir Florizel Augustus Glasspole.

Yup, Goodluck Jonathan.

Names like Marvellous, Happy, Blessing, Gift, etc. are all quite common in Nigeria.

I once had business with a Randy Bumgardtner.

I forgot about Judge Judge. All through his legal studies, he must have had to endure endless jokes about his name, but he had the last laugh. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Judge,_Baron_Judge

I saw a poster once, no word of a lie, for a talk to be given at the university where I worked, by a Doctor Doctor. I think he would have been a medical professional, given the subject matter.

My sister works with someone whose kids are Tiger-Lily, Phoenix and Bodhi. I think the surname is fairly British standard but am often impressed at the parents' gumption. My mum would have given me hell if I'd tried anything too offbeat and - sadly for me - I care too much about what other people think.

Halcyon.

As a student, I lived with a family called the Gale-Browns. We nicknamed them the Mud-Storms Shit-Storms

I was at college with a William Wordsworth. He went by Bill. He would be in his 70s now.
My grandson was at school with a Ptolemy.

@GloriaSilver That's a beautiful name. I wish I'd thought of it while pg with DD.

My DD was working in HR and one of the employees names was Iona Bucket this was verified on her passport.

She was Eastern European and her English was very limited we think an unkind person ‘helped’ her anglicise her name for her move to the UK.

She was a cleaner.

The author Rumer Godden has a wonderful name. As does Evelyn Waugh. Merle Oberon is another I love.

@cafedesreves I also know Bunny Love and Candy Darling...

Also in the 80s I knew a boy called Hereward and his sister was Elfrida. The other siblings had perfectly ordinary names.

@merrymelodies

The author Rumer Godden has a wonderful name. As does Evelyn Waugh. Merle Oberon is another I love.

Evelyn Waugh's first wife was also called Evelyn, and as she would undoubtedly have changed her surname on marriage, she was also Evelyn Waugh. Their friends called them He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn. The marriage was shortlived, but not because of the name issue. He was notoriously irritable, though, and I wonder how he coped with the inevitable confusion and constant clarifications needed.

@thegreylady

Also in the 80s I knew a boy called Hereward and his sister was Elfrida. The other siblings had perfectly ordinary names.

Blimey. So Christmas cards would read something like

Love from Mary, Bill, John, Sally, Hereward and Elfrida

@JennyForeigner

Little girl called Faraday. Love it.

I used to live near Faradey Avenue and loved that name so would always drive down that way so Google maps lady would pronounce it (very elegantly !)

@Iveputmyselfonthenaughtystep

My sister works with someone whose kids are Tiger-Lily, Phoenix and Bodhi. I think the surname is fairly British standard but am often impressed at the parents' gumption. My mum would have given me hell if I'd tried anything too offbeat and - sadly for me - I care too much about what other people think.

Well, yes, but when parents give a baby an unusual name, it's the child who's being landed with a lifetime of spelling it, correcting pronunciation, fielding the endless questions. If parents like a very unusual name, they could always change their own.

@Twinkleylight

I wonder if the kids with the really out there names changed it to something ordinary when they grew up? Truly Scrumptious's parents might be peeved if she changed her name to Jane!

I always wondered if she would keep it when she was older @Twinkleylight That was about 15 or so years ago and if I remember rightly the girls were both in the early years of primary school so would be in their early 20s now.

I know a family with a son with the middle name Socrates 😍. His sisters middle name is Rainbow 😍

@Iveputmyselfonthenaughtystep

My sister works with someone whose kids are Tiger-Lily, Phoenix and Bodhi. I think the surname is fairly British standard but am often impressed at the parents' gumption. My mum would have given me hell if I'd tried anything too offbeat and - sadly for me - I care too much about what other people think.

popular names and normal. Not sure what the fuss is.

I had a great aunt and uncle whose surname was Belcher. My brother and I thought it was hilarious.

I had my horse trained by Hartley Larishe, and once met an elderly lady who was called Hermione Rainbow.

I used to know a Princess Elizabeth in whose parents wanted her to be called by her full name at all times. She later decided to go by Lizzie