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've heard of a girl named Atlanta

Porky (yes, really)

I'm a primary school teacher, and crikey, I've had loads over the years. A favourite of recent months was K'Dee (boy).

Again, Prince is a very common name in some cultures

A student where I worked called Shinel. I think the parents were aiming for Chanel as in the perfume and fashion brand.

In DH’s family tree there was a male christened Lucky. All of his many siblings had first names beginning with L but his was the only unusual name.

I could well be wrong (and feel free to pile on me if I am) but I'm sure I read somewhere that "Adolf" is now illegal/ unacceptable as a Christian name/ forename in Germany.

@baileybrosbuildingandloan A "Prince Albert" is commonly known as the name of a male genital piercing though...not the same as just "Prince".

Twinkle

Pebbles.
Fighter.
Bucky boo (not a nickname, poor kid)

My kids went to Catholic school, there were a lot of kids named after Saints, so; Bede, Mungo, Scholastica (nn Lassie), Rocco, Cruz, Benedicta.

😂😂😂

Fanny used not to be that uncommon a name. It only developed certain associations rather recently. Just as 'Dick' used to be a very common nickname for Richard (there is even the expression 'every Tom, Dick and Harry') but would usually be avoided now).

At the garden centre today. Three gorgeous little girls. Domino & Solitaire. Didn’t catch the third……. Patience, Rummy?

Ambition, King and Clay.

Some of these names sound like pals of Asterix and Obelix.

Was it blue?

Canasta is nice . . . 😁

I found it doing my family history and it really made me giggle. I wonder if it had the same meaning back then.

I know of a family who has three kids. They all begin with F, I can’t remember two of them but I know one was fountain , a boy. I want to say they’re Nigerian, but they’re strong Christians.

I’ve not met them personally, but about 15 years ago a colleague overheard a woman shouting at her young son in the local supermarket - he was called “Gandalf”.

Also around about the same time a lady we contracted graphic design work to told me about her colleague whose recently arrived granddaughter had been named “Aubergine” in a sort of homage to Gwyneth Paltrow naming her daughter Apple.

Clay is a very old name, predates Christianity. Like Eartha, it denotes an earlier sibling sacrificed to "Mother Earth" ( sacrifice not meaning the baby was deliberately killed, but that a child who died was buried face down to appease the Earth, that and naming future siblings in honour of the Earth supposedly pleased her, and made her less likely to claim more children from the same family)

Zinzan

If you google it it comes up with a NZ rugby player, but I don't think the parents have any connections with NZ or rugby so I have no idea where it came from!

I taught a boy called Dee Jay then his surname. He used both first names. His parents were alcoholics and I always wondered if it had been some drunken joke.

Tequila

My colleague is married to a chap call Him

Her name contains Her, so they are Him and Her (I kid you not!)