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Weirdest name you've encountered in real life?

334 replies

Socksforxmas · 21/11/2023 18:58

Slightly piggy backing off another thread in this topic but just really curious about this.

Obviously we've all heard of some very unusual suggestions on this site and we can all think of a celeb that's opted for something very unique but in your day to day life what would you say is most unusual you've come across?

For me it'd probably be Maverick for a boy and Lavender-Lily for a girl.

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user6776 · 21/11/2023 21:56

@timeforacoffeebreak I'm really intrigued now 😂

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 21/11/2023 21:57

Not in person but visiting the memorial to the first pilgrim immigrants to Plymouth MA, one of the children was called Wrestling. Have puzzled ever since why and how this was viewed as a name and what it meant.

Dogsitterwoes · 21/11/2023 21:58

I hope the twins Foxy and Wolfie were born in Tooting 😁 and the surname Smith

Pollyparkin · 21/11/2023 21:59

CaramelMac · 21/11/2023 20:54

I once saw a woman chasing a small child around a park shouting “Zebedee”

I had a hamster called that !

GardenGuardian · 21/11/2023 22:00

From the boys, Horatio. From the girls, Zillah.

FitAt50 · 21/11/2023 22:05

Myunique

PerspiringElizabeth · 21/11/2023 22:07

Logix

grisen · 21/11/2023 22:07

Disney
Dulce Candy
Dragon
Cactus
Nugget
brothers Woody, Buzz and Rex

My husband banned me from using two of them as my son’s middle name.
I also find it weird when people give their kids 3+ middle names and never use them but that’s just me.

Delpf · 21/11/2023 22:08

Tycho

Amadeus

Cosmo

Tirzah

I think they're all great names.

Medusaismyhero · 21/11/2023 22:11

Not a weird name as such but there's a family local to us who all have the same first name - think John Smith. So the dad is John Smith and the male children (now adults) are all John Smith too. So old John, big John, young John, fat John etc. I wish I was lying.

VenusInfers · 21/11/2023 22:14

@AppleDumplingWithCustard
Not in person but visiting the memorial to the first pilgrim immigrants to Plymouth MA, one of the children was called Wrestling.

It was probably short for Wrestling With The Devil, or similar. Good, puritan name!

MooseBreath · 21/11/2023 22:17

Breigha
Gerbrig
Kashanna
Tyanne
Yolanda

None of them bad, just unusual in an English-speaking culture.

Tomatoketchupred · 21/11/2023 22:21

Wolfgang.

ManchesterLu · 21/11/2023 22:21

Someone I know called her little girl Blossom. It's very cute when she's a baby, but I just don't think it'll age well with her.

ladygindiva · 21/11/2023 22:27

Stopsmotheringmeeeeeee · 21/11/2023 21:55

@ladygindiva you don't have a daughter called Honeybee do you? 😁

I'm not that brave 🤣

IDoughnutKnow · 21/11/2023 22:27

SleepingStandingUp · 21/11/2023 21:55

Depends how you define unusual. I don't know any. That would make it unusual. They're just also perfectly acceptable names.

Fair enough. I know two of each so they didn't seem unusual.

However, I've never met any Jaydens or Kaydens, for instance, so maybe they are unusual.

KingsleyBorder · 21/11/2023 22:30

AQuantityOfNaughtyCats · 21/11/2023 19:14

Chlorophyll

Chlorohyll Yip, the Hong Kong lawyer? Well known there. Her sister is called Photosynthesis Yip I believe.

Trixiefirecracker · 21/11/2023 22:31

I know a Sparkle! I love the name now.

Awaanbileyirheid · 21/11/2023 22:34

Went to school with two brothers Conan and Thor.
I do also know a Pocahontas Maguire tho she changed her name once adult.
Neveah, she hates it tho. Tarquin.
Jaxon-John. Lee-Jaxxon, Jaxx-Lee (these kids are all babies and in same family so bit confusing!)

user6776 · 21/11/2023 22:37

ManchesterLu · 21/11/2023 22:21

Someone I know called her little girl Blossom. It's very cute when she's a baby, but I just don't think it'll age well with her.

I also know somebody who called their DD Blossom. I think it's awful

BlondeFool · 21/11/2023 22:39

Walker1178 · 21/11/2023 21:03

Michael, doesn’t sound too bad until
you hear that his surname was also Michael. The guy was called Michael Michael. I really wanted to ask if he had a middle name..

I knew a Michael Michael. His dad owned a corner shop in Highgate.

HeyNando · 21/11/2023 22:41

Had a (male) teaching assistant named Blade.

And taught twins who were named One and Two.

Fantasia99 · 21/11/2023 22:46

EveryKneeShallBow · 21/11/2023 19:13

Misty Temple and Misanthrope Joseph

Misty Temple is an amazing name!

TruJay · 21/11/2023 22:49

I’ve had negative reactions to two of my children’s names. One of those negative reactions was from a woman called Merlin who exclaimed at how ‘weird’ my daughter’s name is (it really isn’t) and certainly nowhere near as unusual and rarely used as Merlin!

I also know of a Hunni-Blossom, she goes by blossom now.
And I looked after a child called Labia when I worked at a nursery when younger, she must be about 18 now.

marshmallowfinder · 21/11/2023 22:50

Pepper.