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?

Not children, but I think the most unusual names I've encountered were 'Xantippe' and 'Philemon'.

A baby boy called kai but mum insisted on spelling it kia ( like the car)
A girl called Tommy
Twins called Florence & Fred ( like the fashion brand )
A boy called keegan ( after footballer Kevin keegan )

Xanthippe was Socrates' wife.

He hated her.

SIL is Zambian, and she knows someone there who called their child Peculiar.

Alabama

A boy called Burberry

Pebbles

There is a kid called Heaven in my sons class… I get where the parents were going ie. She’s a gift from heaven, but tbh my first association with heaven is dying and death

Boy named Branch

Girl named Tyne

Girl named Tyranie prn 'tyranny'

Man named Stony

Woman named Fawn

Girl named Scottlyn, brother Camden

Girl named Xitlalay

Girl named Jazzlyn

Siblings named Ruger and Remington (gun manufacturers) their father called Cutter

Siblings Gunner and Cannon

Girl called Bentlee

Boy called Taysom

Girl called Guadalupe.

And many many more terrible/made up names/Spanish names.

I live in an area with tons of Mormons and they are notable for these types of names. Also a lot of Mexican Catholics. Makes for an interesting mix of names.

I've met several Uniques, a Fanta, an Isis and far to many teddy's

It doesn't matter how many times I see that name, I always read it as 'ignoramus'.

Trafford
Dixi
Storm (although not that unusual now)
Angel
Kyro

He was born in 1941. His parents named him "Richard Bruce Cheney".

Lots of Richards were called "Dick" for short - including my 70 year old brother.

Bernie Wang

Said child never materialised, but I did have a friend with the surname Eyre (pronounced “Air”) who was adamant her favourite boys name was Ryan. We did have to sit her down and explain why it wasn’t really a good choice with her current surname. She was genuinely mortified that it hadn’t occurred to her 🤣🤣

Fanta

Rubi Ella (Rubella anyone?)

Kensington

Lancelot

Friend told me her GD was called Neveah, adding it was heaven spelt backwards. I didn't have the heart to tell her...
Steele
Kjell, pronounced Shell, a friend from the US.
Destyni, autocorrect really fights that one.

What's your point? It certainly wasn't from Ignaz. The Nazi government certainly did refer to themselves as Nazionalsozialisten, Nazi is the way that was abbreviated abroad.

I met a Boycie at the park last year....

Plenty of Nigerians are Christian...

I know a Willy Williams.

Not a will, not a Bill, a WILLY.

Favourite so far on thread is Ladybird! I love that! I do know a Southern States woman called Lady.

My midwife told me she'd met a baby Cupcake.

@Lwrenagain

I know a boy called Wilson Robert. A lovely name....they nicknamed him Willy Bob.

Loren for a little boy.