Another 'strange' names thread...............

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heard two crackers while out in Zimbabwe.

firstly we arrived at our Lodge in Vic Falls and were greated by

"Fatnass" (that's the spelling DH says they probably used - but pronounced Fatness)

and on the list of contact at the Hwange safari Lodge was a

"Whatmore"

Sky-Bleu

bleu

PMSL

sky-bleu

rofl

(I think Cain is an appalling name .. but the worst name to give a boy is Jonah ...but there's loads of them . ... I despair)

one of my sister's middle name is Sema (see-mah) she really really lucked out on that one

Lemonaide-I also know a girl name Nevaeh. I was very good friends with her mother and she planned that name since she was a teen..lol Heaven spelled backwards is right

I also know another Girl whose mother named her after a character in a V.C. Andrews book.. Heaven Leigh
Very cute I think..lol

Twig- Sure you dont mean Judas? I think that would be bad..lol

no definitely mean Jonah

Jonah = BAD LUCK CHARM

why would you call your kid that .. yet people do .. I find it quite sad tbh

ok Judas = traitor so can see why you wouldn't do that either .. but I don't know any Judases

ok..hahaha wasnt aware that jonah meant bad luck charm, I assumed you meant jonah and the whale..lol!!!

Was out a walk last week and heard some1 shouting MITZY thinking it was probably dog turned and saw toddler

I know a kid named Jonah.

His mother is American.

When I told Scotish DH that he said, 'Why did they name a bairn that?'

I agree, Mitzy is a dog's name.

Toffee is a cat's name.

Came across the name "Rooban" recently. Now Reuben is quite nice, but Rooban just looks like the parents couldn't spell.

I met a woman a few weeks ago whose baby was called Islay which she pronounced Iz-lay, rather than in the way of the Scottish Island.

I was in Woolies yesterday and heard a little girl being shouted at.

'ROGAN, if you do that again I will smack your arse!!'

ROGAN?????????????

Josh for a surname!!!

It is the Jonah and the whale one LadyDoom - the reason Jonah ended up inside the whale is that he was thrown overboard by sailors who thought he caused their bad luck

There was someone on DH's work list called...Ufuk Uras. Nice...

I had a cat called Mitzi as a child. My Gran said "You can't call it that - what about Great Aunt Mitzi?" I had never heard of her and have never met her. Think she lived in Vienna.

DD2 has a Minty in her class. Araminta? No, just Minty.

rustycreakingdorrbell- LOL He did cause it, but I thought he told them to throw him over..:S

Also- I lived in virginia and had a great uncle named ulysses grant as his first and second names. The reason its funny is virginia was a confederate state, and ulysses was a union general. :S

Well, yes I was summarising a bit there.....

I have heard the following on my travels:
Dali
Isadora
Oy (sp?) Work colleague
Tabitha
Ralph (always think of the simpsons character)
Focco (sp?)

a birth announcment in my local paper a couple of weeks ago was for the arrival of...

Panda, sister to David and Bumble

I just love it, lol

I really wanted to call no.4 Ptolemy. Dh told me I was just being stroppy because in-laws wouldn't know how to spell it. Fortunately she was a girl and has a much more "normal" name.

Hmm, let's see. In the past 12 months, I have met:

Fisher, Blue, Bitsy, Candy, Precious, Darling, Princess & the twins, Van & Elvis.

My first post on mumsnet! Have been crying with laughter while sat at my desk reading this. I know of twins called Digby and Rufus (not that unusual but makes me laugh for some reason).

hi sprogstersmum and welcome

they are nice names but doggy i think (rufus and digby i mean)

My friend met a guy in Canada whose name was Randy Bender. She got drunk one night and told him what his names would mean in Britain - he was not at all happy.

Also a posh girl I knew at school knew twins called Boadicea and Cogidubnus.

There was a "Tequila" on the tube tonight. Looked to be about 4, and was "a right little bleeder" according to her gran/mum.