Weirdest name you've encountered in real life?

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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.

Dre
Lemmy
Babyjane (really!!)
George One and George Two (they were twins)
I thought Panacea was weird until I discovered it is an actual Greek name . Person had a Scottish surname - think Macdonald or similar. Sometimes it's all about context.

At swimming today I overheard a mum calling her son Dusky.

Song.

Easily the most interesting thing about a woman who is possibly one of the dullest people I have ever met.

I know someone called summer house but Wendy house wins 😂

yesterday I came across a girl called halo

Rosamund Pike's boys: Solo and Atom.

George One and George Two - that's hilarious. Did the parents not know they were having twins? Speaks of - I'm shellshocked, exhausted, and I just can't...even....

Zhane, pronounced Sian.

Poor kid.

You didn’t say ‘unusual’, your thread title says ‘weird’.

Sniggery bollocks.

Either way the point still stands that if you're easily triggered by someone not liking the same name as you then why would you click on a thread like this. The blame for any upset lies squarely with the person who chose to see something they know would upset them.

I'm not triggered or upset I think it's a nasty premise for a thread and it brings out all the sneery people who are chomping at the bit to snigger at Pocahontas Smith or whatever.

the blame for being sneery and nasty lies squarely with the person doing it.

edit: itis laughable really. On the one hand we have baby name threads where posters claim no one will ridicule your child for having an "unusual" name and on the other hand we have threads like this, full of people doing just that.

So who is it that forced you to click and look? You ought to get the police involved if someone in your life is forcing you to read mumsnet threads.

All adults now, but the most unusual names I’ve met people with are:

Ocean
Peregrine
Gaylord
Tudor (x2 in the same relatively small workplace - never met anyone with that name before or since)
Mordred
Ulysses

Eulalie

Renesme
Sylvester
Dusty
Hendrix
Siren

I don't necessarily dislike but these are just the unusual names I've come across. I cringe a bit at Renesme, not because it sounds bad but because it's from twilight originally.

Lovely.

Little Lucifer and his sister Mazikeen.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/

Barry Duck

And the whole thing was made up to ridicule African Americans’ name choices.

I am not ‘triggered’ or upset.

I am offering my opinion that starting a thread to highlight name choices as ‘weird’ is sniggery, and unpleasant and designed to ridicule people.

You consider yourself entitled to do this. I am as entitled to view this as unpleasant behaviour and say so.

I can't tell you any of the weird names I've encountered in school as a teacher for obvious reasons. Nearly 50 years ago I vaguely knew a couple of political activists who called their baby Tior because it was an anagram of riot. He'll be a middle aged man by now I wonder if he still uses that name.

Siblings called Mercedes and Bentley- apparently their dad liked big cars! Both are fine on their own, it was together that made them feel odd!

I honestly knew someone called Robyn de Bank. Father was also called Robin de Bank. Recently met a family with children Arrow and Zephyr (I quite like Zephyr, tbh). Also knew someone with a child called Sangreal (post da Vinci code).I've come across some doozies in my day! I wish I'd written some of them down.

I knew of a teacher called Mr. Shaw-Twillie

I can only imagine the sniggering he faced.

He could have just used one name. I have known several people with double barrelled names who only use one part of it even though its not an embarrassing combination.