Most random kids name you have encountered in real life….

[Mittemucci]

Today I met a child called Bismarck

i felt like it was one of the names you read about but wonder if anyone is actually called that….

what’s the most unusual name you have ever come across in daily life?

I also knew a Loveday once, which I think is a beautiful name.

Yes, I have come across an Eden, and a daughter called More Blessings (the parents very occasionally used to nickname her Mixed Blessings!)

Rogue,
Vandal,
Kray,
A few sets of twins called Ronnie & Reggie.
Ladeija

No doubt due to a long standing crush on Hope Sandoval and repeated late night listenings to Fade Into You.

Oh and a K-T.

But not Inspector Clouseau?

I have a distant cousin (through marriage I think?) who’s first name is Blue Ocean Wave but they call her Bow.

What puzzles me as a child of the 70s/89s is how many many of my peers have named their children nouns:
Mark (stain), Paul (pool), Ruth (roof), Matt (mat), Carol (Carol) did they never realise that their child's name was also a 'thing'?
Actually regretting writing that now as I love the names Laurel, Willow, etc - but those 70s babes aren't named after flora. I stand corrected.

A little girl called Zenon/Xenon - I'm not sure how it was spelt - overheard the name at softplay.

Kal-El - a little boy at softplay.

I imagine primary school teachers have a laugh to themselves when they see the register. Good luck teachers

Erm...

Nazi is a straightforward abbreviation of the German translation of Nationalist Socialist Party...

Nationalsozialistische

Nothing at all to do with Catholics!

(And for other posters, yes Wolfric is a German name. And little Wolfric's parents are white completely English proud "Nationalist Socialists", read into that what you will. His sibling also has a German name, which has an unfortunate meaning "to get rid of".)

Seriously? I wonder how that one managed to get through when they were registering the birth (they can be refused if deemed offensive and I think that qualifies).

I used to know someone whose middle name was Laser.

Overheard at the beach once Veli-Matti. Its a perfectly normal Finnish name but its the translation that gets me - Brother-Matt, like a monk or something

I've also met, Progress, Psalms, Godsblessing, Greatness.

Tranquility. And she was anything but tranquil!

so much this! These 'whacky name' threads are always just full of people proudly announcing that they live in a bubble and aren't curious about what's outside it.

Rogue. Boy
Arrow Vonni. Girl.

Why is the La-a thing racist???

Also forgot Attenborough, named after David. But not a great idea in my city, ad there is a village of the same name.

Also know a Rogue and a Calypso...

There’s a whole Facebook group called ‘that name is a tragadeigh’ with some epic names on it lol

@Poppins2016

Was the little boy at soft play Asian, Middle Eastern or Black by any chance?

Khalil is a very common name in our (Islamic) culture...sounds like Kal-el in certain accents.

Woman I used to work with had a GDD called Lemony. I really liked it.

When suffering from pregnancy hormone whackiness I thought of Temperance if DS2 was a girl. Considering DH is a bit of a wine snob buff that would have raised eyebrows.

Box

Danger- middle name though.

According to ancestry.com I had a great, great, great Swedish grandad called Kunt. Unfortunate.