What is the Most Unusual Name You've Ever Heard?

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A cousin of mine named their daughter Persephone, which had us all talking as it's so unusual.
What are the most unusual names you've ever heard of?

The nicest one I ever heard was a friend of a friend called Priti Mistri. I always thougth it sounded like a song title.

a parent calling their child in the playground: Wivernny!Wivernny!
Interested onlooker: What a lovely name, how do you spell that?
Parent: Y-V-O-N-N-E.

Alphonsus
Faith Hope and Charity

Omicron you reminded me that my DH taught a girl whose name was pronounced 'See-yo-ban' - spelled Siobhan.

Not as bad as yours (PMSL at Wiverney) but still!

I knew a Velta and a Wenonah - both girls. Wenonah means first born daughter apparently but I don't know where it comes from.

gay40 now I have exposed my comprehensive education!
Of course, after the poem...

I know a little "J Jay" [sic]

lol Cap'n

This thread is HIL-arious!

I was at school with a girl called Frisbee...

I know of a family that named their children some fairly normal names after celebrities about 15--20 years ago. The strange thing is, they included surnames. Some modern equivalents would be
David Beckham Jones
Kerry Katona Jones
Robert Pattinson Jones

Winsome
Epiphany

Zephie (girl) after the train on Chuggington
Apple (from celeb-land!)
Digger (boy)

Titus.

I mean really... this was on a grownup - perhaps his parents were history scholars, or fans of particularly gory shakespeare plays???

EatingSwansHorror Wed 31-Mar-10 11:21:33

MrsVWolf and Getorfmoiland
Not both from Devon are you? I know both Zhazawanie and Ostara (easter) very well.

Yes EatingSwans I am from Devon (Ilfracombe) - I worked in a school where Zhazawanie was a pupil, about 11 years ago. It must be the same person!

I was watching Holiday Swap or some such rubbish a few years ago, and one of the families were quite posh and their teenage DD was called Calamity. I remember sitting through the whole thing trying to work out if Calamity was just a jokey nickname, but they seemed a fairly humourless bunch and she was referred to as Calamity throughout the whole programme, so who knows?

(As an aside, I just Googled it to see if it was a bona fide name and I was just missing something, and apparently "similar-sounding names" include Chlamydia and Cement).

My niece is called Bunty.

I was thinking of Oslo for dc4 and Maybe for Dc3(didn't do it though).

Wrigley (a Great Uncle) and Parthenope (Florence Nightingale's sister I think).

Rooney

Ikea (yes after the shop)

Steele (after the solicitors firm the mother worked in)

I heard of a little girl on the radio the other week, from Liverpool, called Stevie-Gee

God's-Joy, and you were not allowed to shorten to Joy.
Horrace
Pendebede and Boudica (brother and sister!)

Oakley Beau!

I know a Zeff

I really like Oakley, it's one of the better surnames as firstnames IMO.

I knew a lady called Faberge. I know a boy called Kay-yo and a boy called Bodeun.

We have in our extended family a

Lunar Jubilee
Denim
and a Satya

They are all girls.

We also know a Lyric (girl), an Epiphany, Wolfgang (in DD's class) and there was a girl on CBeebies the other week called Cookie.

I actually really like the name Song and Story for a girl but doubt I'd be brave enough to use them

the other one I tried to get DH to consider was Ever but once again e rained me back in!!