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?

Another old Cornish name along with Loveday! One of my best mates is called Demelza.

Atlas & Ocean… they weren’t twins or siblings surprisingly 😬

I’m sure Bismark is a state capital of north or South Dakota 😂

Lunching at a pub recently and grandparents arrived with their grandson - Atticus. I did a double take to start off with but warmed to it. Lovely young lad

There was a lawyer at my firm (US branch so I never met her) called Cupcake Brown

There's a Misery Memoir written by a Cupcake Brown. I've read it but can't remember if she became a lawyer. Quite likely the same woman, hard to imagine there's two.

@LikeagoddamnVampire Everard and Ophelia Dick definitely exist. I know because someone also told me that they knew them (went to school with them) and I also didn't believe them so I googled them. They came up in the correct town and correct decade to show the friend was right and I was wrong.

I love Annisabella. Bit of a mouthful but a wealth of nicknames to choose from. Also love a lot of the nature-y, hippy ones.

@sharptoothlemonshark Oh dear, that's an unfortunate meaning! Just the one m though, looking at Google. This kid was Chymme with a double m and I can't find a reference for it as a name or anything else. When I search for her full name, I do get some results because she is good at a particular sport but all the hits are her, nobody else.

re Everard and Ophelia Dick definitely exist. I know because someone also told me that they knew them (went to school with them) and I also didn't believe them so I googled them. They came up in the correct town and correct decade to show the friend was right and I was wrong.

@miniaturepixieonacid Everard Alphonso Dick was born in 1966 and does indeed exist.

I can't find any records for Ophelia (and name variants) though. I will try again and widen the search.

Wendy House

saturny - lots of Google hits reference them together, though I suppose that isn't proof. I just assumed that, if one of them really existed then the other one must too. Unless the person telling me literally thought 'Oh, I remember that boy who was in my year at school with a ridiculous name. Wouldn't it be funny if I pretended he had had a sister with an equally ridiculous name'. That would be a strange thing to do and he's not a strange person. But I suppose it's possible!

Rebel

There is (or was) also at least one person out there called Everard Cox.

Did they have a sibling called Dibs?

Three sisters: Tallulah, Indigo-Sky and Ruby-Tuesday

😂

Could be!

Yes I've seen the Google results. They're frequently discussed, the Dick family.

I can't find her birth record though, not even with Ophelia as a middle name or under a spelling variation. I still need to widen the search, but nothing has come up so far.

Diana is beautiful! We considered it. Somehow Diane I more associate with someone born in the 50s/60s so seems so very unusual on a baby!

I saw a Gandalf Aragorn once. I didn't know them personally but spotted the birth record. I think they were born in the 70s.

Love the thread! I think we need a continuation

I forgot!

I knew a boy called Thorin, his dad told me he was named after the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in LOTR. Known as Mountain King he is leader of the company that travel to take back the Lonely Mountain.

At the time I knew nothing about LOTR but thought it was a great name.

I also met a Caspian (he was a baby around 2000, so about 23 now, this was in the USA).

My sister is in the police & came across a child called Na-a (Nadasha). It happens.

Linseed, about 20 years ago when I was doing work experience in a nursery!

SuperDopper · Yesterday 13:57

doris9034 · Yesterday 13:51

I once had to interview a lady called Sukdeep......
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Which is a common Asian name”

We have the business card of a Freyk Monster. Again, fairly common in Germanic countries.

My dad told me about American parents, in the mid-20th century, who probably weren't Republicans, and who called their children Lenin and Rosa Luxembourg. Rosa did not have too many problems- she didn't usually have to use her middle name - but a 'Lenin' in an American school in the McCarthy era? The teachers decided to call him 'Lenny', though they generally disapproved of nicknames and would not have called him Lenny if his name had been Leonard!

He also told me about a John Smith, whose parents, in order to distinguish him from all the hundreds of other John Smiths, had given him the unique middle name of 'Five-eighths'.

I went to nursery with a girl called Ravioli. Yummy.

I met an Avalon the other day.

I made a christening cake for one.

Vasinto. For a boy ( instead of Washington).
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