Most unusual name you've ever heard? - 2

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I thought I'd make another, follow-on, thread as the first filled up quickly and was so interesting

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

Boys: Tawno, Buz (not short for anything), Taliesin, Hugh (ok that one isn't out there as such but very unusual for a baby born this year!)

Girls: Channa, Hooligan (nn Hoolie), Tawny

All children under 16 that I know personally!

Oh and I once met a Harley-David at baby group!

Little girl called Sparkle.

Clayton.

Balthazar, now around 10 years old

I've just remembered another one, Jubilee. I think they were born in 2012.

I knew someone who’s middle name was ’Killer’ because his family were very into hunting! 🤮

Not that unusual: Balthazar, Caspar and Melchior were the three wise men. Out DS was born on Christmas day and we contemplated all three and plumped for Caspar as a middle name.

DH ventured Ebeneezer for a first name in the hope that DS would like money . At the time we thought Caspar brought the gold but I think it was one of the others.

I’ve always loved the name Melchior … it’s like the phonetic equivalent of melted chocolate: so lovely to say!

Names I have only ever met one of include:

Vita
Venexia
Carmel
Wednesday

Nairn
Taj

An ex-boss had a very unusual name but feel too outing to post here as when you Google it's just them and we work in a small area. No one else seems to have that name at all. I think there's very few names that are as rare as that.

This name is very common in Cornwall.

I think Momma-Princess is the most unusual/ unique I've ever met but I've also met a Banjo (boy) and a Catkin (girl) both of which I secretly quite like.

I've known a Harley Davidson (named after the bike - a boy) and a Carling Frost (named after the beer - a girl) where Davidson and Frost were their natural last names and their parents thought it would be funny. Oh and I met a Ned Kelly once; again their parents thought they were hilarious.

Ok Ive looked through the whole thread and these two girl names have not come up yet:

Sparrow
Sorrow

Boneface

Did they mean Boniface? An Anglo Saxon monk, missionary and saint.

I've just remembered another one, Jubilee. I think they were born in 2012.

There were quite a lot of Jubilees in 1887 and 1897, and a few in 1935. (from FreeBMD.)

I probably do. I know it is a real name, not something made up but it is unusual. I'd consider a baby Aethelred or Ethelwulf unusual too.

It's strange isn't it that some names just stick around, others come and go cyclically and some just fade forever.

It's strange isn't it that some names just stick around, others come and go cyclically and some just fade forever.

Anglo Saxon names generally fell out of favour after the Norman Conquest, and names such as John, William, Joan etc took over. Anglo Saxon names didn't really make a comeback until the Victorian era - Alfred, Cedric, Edith etc.

I suppose religion makes a difference too, and politics.

Alkelda
Buster

Lovely
Pretty
Lesia
Dimples

Halcyon. Son of a very crunchy family in my son’s nursery. Everyone called him Hal which annoyed them, but Halcyon doesn’t trip off the tongue.

Halcyon. Son of a very crunchy family in my son’s nursery. Everyone called him Hal which annoyed them, but Halcyon doesn’t trip off the tongue.

I bet he'll stick with Hal as soon as he's old enough to decide for himself. Parents can't dictate what his friends call him. (And let people think he's a Henry or Harry)

Oenone.

Lesia or Lesya is Ukrainian, from Olesya which in turn comes from Oleksandra.

Ulysses - heard at a park recently. The boy was about 3. I'm not in the UK but also not a country where that would be a particularly usual name.

Elmo - probably a perfectly normal name somewhere but all I can think of is the Sesame Street character.

Click. An American woman i got talking to mentioned her son Click. I asked if it was a nickname and she said no, it was his full name.