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?

Saffron Gardenchild.

I’m so jealous of this name - I think I’d seriously consider taking it by deed poll, if I had the opportunity to do so without repercussions of laughter and inconvenience (e.g. my family and friends all died and I won a huge amount on the lottery enabling me to start life afresh as a tragic figure in a big house in the middle of 10,000 acres somewhere - the Tenant of the Hall, the mysterious Miss Saffron Gardenchild).

I used to work with a Grenville Heathcote. He's a teacher. Luckily the kids thought he was cool otherwise who knows what they would have said/done!

@MmeD

Saffron Gardenchild.

I’m so jealous of this name - I think I’d seriously consider taking it by deed poll, if I had the opportunity to do so without repercussions of laughter and inconvenience (e.g. my family and friends all died and I won a huge amount on the lottery enabling me to start life afresh as a tragic figure in a big house in the middle of 10,000 acres somewhere - the Tenant of the Hall, the mysterious Miss Saffron Gardenchild).

You need to write that novel!

Pumpkin was called in to see the GP (via the digital screen thing so it definitely wasn't me mishearing)

Also Havana was in the waiting room with us for a recent hospital appointment, I got speaking to her mum so again I know it was correct.

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.

A little girl named Pebbles!! - At first I always thought about the Flintstones whenever I heard her name at the nursery I worked at but it actually really suited her, and she was a very confident little girl.

Best name I've ever come across is a lady in a social history book about the Scottish Isles: Euphemia McCrimmon. She looked stern as hell in the pictures as well!

I know siblings called Ellis and Eloise, both lovely names, but an odd choice for siblings I always thought.

I've met a Ron McDonald.

DH used to work with a Tim Mallet

I have cousins called Brogan (F) and Garrett (M) dont know if theure traditional names or not but they are both very cool in my opinion.

I also know a lady called Bee Devine and she is!!

Subulter Io was pronounced Eye-oh, but I think it can also be Ee-oh?

Hoppinggreen you can see why William Henry Pratt chose the stage name Boris Karloff.

Everleigh-Raine- sounded like a glamorous Gone with the Wind character.

@RussianSpy101

Without the context, it seems normal but my fathers orthopaedic surgeon is Mr Jellinek.

Jelly neck 😂

My mum works with a gynaecologist called Dr Fanny Cocker.

Bless her!

There were some cracking names given to babies in Scotland in 2020 - including:

Pebbles
Demi-Dyce (wonder if they were from Aberdeen?)
Bijou-Amore
Jersey-Grey
Bear-Blu
Jettison
Fitz-Kiing
Navy-Blaze
Tommy-Tucker

Ace Factor. His brother was called Max Factor.

There's a teacher at a local secondary who has the name plate on his door R. Sandercock. You need to say it out loud before you wonder what his parents were thinking.

@ThedaBara

Met a lady who had twins named Natasha and Natalia... which is literally the same name

I know of sisters called Renita and Renata.

Sweetpea

[quote merrymelodies]@GloriaSilver That's a beautiful name. I wish I'd thought of it while pg with DD. [/quote]
I love it too

Mumofgirls2017

bit confused by your list, since when was Octavia or Thalia an unusual name? - and many others on that list.

I once met a young woman with a name in similar lines to Blessing, Precious, except it was a 3 or 4 word phrase, and she used all the phrase as her name.
I cannot for the life of me remember it, but it was something like:

God is always good
God loves you
or God answers your prayers

You get the idea. It was quite startling to hear, and I was amazed that she had never shortened it.

Harriet Tubman's original name was Araminta, which I think is just lovely, shortened to Minty.

Frank Sinatra Hollywood

I've met a Brilliant.

I've taught a Blessing.

I go to a dentist called 'Nice'. She is really nice.

And although not totally out there my mum was called Jonquil

I used to do a Ju-Jitsu class with a Jonquil - fab name, but she normally used 'Jon'.

One of my dad's neighbours has a Boniface.

I know of a little boy called Apollo, wonderful name IMO

My nephew is an Apollo my son has an unusual name hasn’t popped up on here yet

@HunkyPunk

I didn’t realise how much time I’ve obviously wasted on that particular daydream until I’d pressed post!

When I was temping I came across a lawyer called Alcides Hellmeister. Think he was South American. Sounds like a Bond villain!

I knew a Peter Pinches at school.

Coolest name ever was a lady that came into my work called Raven Shakespeare.