Worst name you have ever come across.

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Someone who loved Judge Dread was going to call child Dread. Thankfully was persuaded otherwise.

I've seen quite a few adults called Diesel. I was more surprised to meet someone called Petrol though.

Just remembered - I used to know a lady named Winsome.
I can imagine her parents looking at her as a baby and saying 'Aah she's beautiful, and winsome too. That's the perfect name for her. '

I believe that It's a Welsh tradition to use the mother's maiden name. I knew a man called Lawford which was his mother's maiden name. I thought it was a lovely name

I think Diesel is quite a popular a German name, though the word for the fuel is the same in German. But clearly influenced in this country by the fashion brand. I just smell fumes when I hear it though.

I've mostly shied away from mentioning specific current names for fear of causing offence to someone who's used that name for their DC.

But I've snapped. Today I've seen a list of 2 year old boys which included not one, but two, with the "name" J-Jay.

I mean, why? If you want to call your son JJ, why not give him a perfectly normal J name (there's plenty to choose from that he won't have to spend his life spelling, explaining, and trying to fit onto official forms that won't accept a hyphen) then just use JJ as a pet name?

I know someone who has sons called Dodge and Camaro

Also know of a Boss, an Anomaleigh and a Kandi-Reign

Diesel is definitely not a popular name in Germany. I lived there for several years and never heard of anyone called that.

I've known a couple of girls called Adelaide. Maybe it is having a renaissance?

Could it have been Petrel - named after the bird? In principle, no different from being called Wren or Robin or Thrush.

There are lots of women called Dervla in Ireland, though

It's pretty normal, in Scotland certainly, for 'surname' names like Kerr, Brodie etc for boys and some more unusual ones like Crawford or Drummond. But if you think about it a huge proportion of boys names are also used regularly as surnames (although sometimes with an s) - James, Thomas, William, Adam, Scott and no one bats an eyelid.

I don't like names like hunter or dusty (know both) as I take them too literally. I'd rather call a child Peaches or Apple as at least that's something nice.

At least Dusty Springfield has a nice cheerful sounding surname. Imagine being called Dusty Smith or Dusty Jones...just horrid.

Dusty Springfield was really Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien. I don't know where her stage name came from.

Oh, I know this one!
As a child, she was a tomboy, always outside getting grubby, so the family nicknamed her Dusty.
In order to appeal to audiences across the USA, she was given the surname Springfield, as there is at least one town in every state called Springfield.

My cousin is known as Patch, his real name is Patrick, but he dislikes Paddy and Pat. As a child he was Pa-Pa.

I have heard of more than one family where the children are all given the same first name and are addressed by their middle name, one I met it was also her mother's name.

My dad lived next to a girl called Olive Hoyle.

Also in Ireland.

Or as Bill Bryson put it, Connie, Donnie, Jonnie, Lonnie, Ronnie, Sonnie and Tammy-Wynette.

Diesel is a German surname.

I once worked with a man called Branston. Worse, though, was having a customer with the surname Tickle when I was in my early 20s. I was a massive Mr Men fan as a kid so couldn't answer the phone and say 'hello, Mr Tickle' without massively getting the giggles.

My dad once met someone called Dawn O'Day.

Sisters called Tin-Tin and Tindi.
Jinx.
Rae-Lianna (why didn't they at least go with Lianna-Rae?)
I've met two boys called Daylon.
Bob Sherunkle (he changed his first name to Bob though, so he could say his name was Bob's Your Uncle).
A few years ago two siblings who were from a traveller family died in a car crash, the little boy's first name was Smaller.
Twins called Reggie and Ronnie, their older brother was Rio.
And I've known people with a Chinese name who chose a Western name when they moved here called Rice, Circle and BigEar.

I knew two girls that were
named after random words in the dictionary because mum thought they looked nice and then changed the pronunciation along the lines of Enamel and Pyjamas but pronounced Enarmel and Peejarmay. I have also known sisters Angel and Trinity and brothers J & H.