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 love the name Peregrine. I read a wonderful book in my late teens with a character by the same name.
If I'd been braver, my 5 year old son would have been called Peregrine. Coincidentally, he is now obsessed with peregrine falcons, and thinks that any bird of prey show which lacks one is rubbish. Is there anyone harder to please than a 5 year old?

Shedloads of Lovedays in Cornwall, I'm afraid!

Ambrosia.

For a boy...

Golf. Tbf he was from Thailand and had chosen it without really knowing what it meant.

Tulliver.

Bunny Love and Candy Darling.

We have friends in Donegal and there are several Cornelius in the village- all known as Corney.

I taught a child called Jellybean

I actually quite like that. Was it a boy or girl?

That's an old Cornish name. There's a character called Loveday in a Rosamunde Pilcher novel that I loved as a teenager, I was quite keen to use it for a child of my own but (maybe luckily?) I have boys.

Beau(x) for a girl drives me bonkers as a French speaker. It's just grammatically wrong! Although on the French theme, DC1 used to be at school with a Zidane.

A girl called Fanny (old Scandi name i think) and a few boys calles Cuba (popular in Poland?)

Oh also, Dubai and Genesis.

Lots of pearls where I am, possibly because of the pearling industry?? Also lots of emeralds,rubys, opals perhaps linked to those older industries?!

Templar, when I did work experience at a primary school when I was 16.

Domino

And my grandma's sister was called Annisabella- known as Ansi. I never knew until she died what her actual name was. I assumed it was Ann. It was actually one name.

Don't you mean Kuba instead of Cuba?

Kuba is short for Jakub in Eastern Europe

At school we had a Xanthe- never met anyone else with that name

I used to work in the same place as a Lovely and a Blossom.

Are they young Pearls or lots of ages?

Yes exactly.
Basically Jacob in English so not unusual name imo...

Across the ages

A friend of a friend of a friend’s kid was called Tuesday. I’ve heard Kylon shouted in the street. Someone I know’s step daughter named one of her kids Tiberius

How else would you pronounce it if not a german speaker ??
Adolf was also a mildly popular (at least very socially acceptable name for decades before ww2) & ethnic germans make up 1 of the largest 'white' ethnic groups so theres litterally thousands of people with it as a grandparent/great grandparent/great great grandparents name same with Heinrich (himmler) ect.

Although... wasnt there an African leader with the name aswell who went into politics which garnered a fair bit of eyebrow raising over the job choice combination ?

A boy called Sept and a boy called Pacifique. Africa origin. Pacifique was the opposite of his name!

I worked with someone called Alpha. Her siblings were Beta and Gamma. A few unusual ones that I’ve come across, Winston, Tiger and Hendrix