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?

I know someone who health-visited a Lucifer... Think the mum just thought it sounded nice?!

DH's mate told us last night he was seeing a girl called Belgrano.

When we said it was an unusual name he told us she's really called Kelly but he nick named her Belgrano because 'went down really quickly' [twunt emoticon]

Odysseus (Oddy for short!)
Isambard
Éomer (from Lord of the Rings)
Neo
Denim

I lived with hippies who called their first born son Ebenezer Hedgehog Finbarr Cringebottom. He would be about 19 now. I wonder if he changed his name last year.

Bunty Buttercup! Titus and Strawberry Blue.

grumperina are you in Warrington by any chance? Just wondering if the Denim you know is the same one.

No, I'm in a part of the country that's almost diagonally opposite to Warrington (iyswim)! Bit worrying to think that there are two children with this name...

i absolutely LOVE the name Persephone ever since i became acquainted with the greek myth many years ago. i wish i was called Persephone - maybe i could change my name by deed poll?!

Bruin (boy) and Pink (for a girl, obviously!) - are two fairly unusual names i have come across that i can remember.

I knew a lady with dd's Siobhan and erm Chevelle (I actually have no idea how she spelled the names). My niece has friends Chenille and Nokia(I think this may be commonish in Poland maybe?). Also a lady I was talking to had a dd named Lilla, which I had never heard before.

Can't think of any really outlandish names, although I do love some already mentioned on the thread. Mordecai is great, I'm a big fan of biblical names, dp was a big spoilsport though.

Names I have recently heard in the park and/or at NHS antenatal classes:

Amnesty
Axel Stone
Arizona Storm
Seraphim

Seraphim? There is a MNer with a Seraphim... I thought possibly the only Seraphim in the country!
But if you're in MK, then not likely to be the same child.

Fuck me, why does everyone hate their kids?

My mum's family has quite a nice tradition of giving boys a family surname as a middle name. So my uncles and cousins have nice additions like Allen, Craig, Smith etc etc. You get the idea. Mum's cousin, however, ended up with Burpie.

My own children's names! I love them.

I know of a Tuppence and an Anradh pronounced Onrah

used to know a little girl called Lottie-Lou.
Asked if it was short for Charlotte Louise and was given a very hard stare and told "no- that is her name"

Cousin of a former workmate called his son Vyper Shanghai.

I know a Zeus.

Doesn't throw bolts of lightning but he is one cool dude.

Also an Andromache.

Anfield

Hahaha at tuppence; that's what my gran calls poo!

Years before becoming a Mother, I wanted to name a daughter Ariadne. Still rather like it actually.

Big for FlumpetMum

Haw haw at FlumpetMum.

Depends where you live. DD has Elizabeth as her middle name and the number of times I've had raised eyebrows and comments about 'how unusual' - then again, we don't live in UK.

In fact we live nearish Kinvara (the small Irish town mentioned by someone else earlier on the thread)!

Casimir

I knew someone who looked after a Propella Mermaid (Ella for short).
My nephew is friends with a Groove (boy)
I love the name Antigone and I'd spell Tiger as Tyger if I was ever blessed with another(boy or girl)

Loving these names!

Unusual names I've known:

Silver (girl)
Ocean (boy)
Zinnia (girl) - which I think is lovely. Was known as Zinny which is cute too
Arwen (girl. As in Lord of the Rings) - not that unusual probably

OP - Persephone is v cool