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"

There's a woman I work with here called Bint. It means something different in Arabic but I still blush when I call her. "BINT! OI BINT!"

also DS used to have a friend called Tiger. Cute at 2, deadly at 18. Imagine later too. "Honored customer of Expensive Bank... please meet our head of investment Mr Tiger XXXX" " Do You Tiger take Leopard to be your lawfully wedded wife?"

I can't get over how much taste I have.

I quite like Loveday (from waaay back up in this post) -- it's Cornish IIRC.

My mother is a teacher and her school had a family of kids all called after classic motorcycles -- Harley, Davidson, cant remember the others but one poor girl was Z.

i odnt think there is anything wrong with Tiger!

dd has a friend called Summer and i think its a gorgeous name!

around here there is a trend for little boys to be named after their dads favourite football star

ie Larsson, Stefan, Lennon, Ferguson etc

There was definitely a Pocahontas in Sunderland at one time!

I sometimes wish we had chosen a more unusual name for dd, not ridiculous but just different. Dp didn't like any of my unusual choices and I didn't like any of his so we went for a more "normal" name, though I was pleased to se it is no longer in the top 50 names list.

I think that generally people are being more adventurous with names.

I know two sisters called Summer and Destiny

In my school there was a Coran and a Kit (both boys)

What do you think of Buddy for a boy?

I love Kit for a boy.
Not sure about Buddy, it sounds a bit too much like a dog's name to me but then I like Archie for a boy and people said that to me . I think that there was a dog called Buddy in Sex and the City, so perhaps that's where I'm getting it from and if you'd never watched that then it wouldn't be a problem.

Kit is an old nickname for Christopher.

Thought it was a nickname for Catherine. Both maybe?

what's wrong with cain?

there used to be a chinese girl called apple at school which sounded funny but she explained chinese people often chose random english words as names cos to thhe, they just sounded like a nice sound iyswim. a bit like fleur i guess - nice name but no english person would call a kid flower - well not many would at least ;)

Think Gwynneth Paltrow might be considering it for her next bairn, girl or boy...

her little girl is already called apple ... confused emoticon

DH has just told me about a family who he sold a TV Licence to the other day who had a daughter called

Rodna

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Cain - bit of a bad guy type really. Murderer. Murderer of his brother, wouldn't fancy the name myself

oh right i didn't know there was a murderer callec cain. that explains it!

*called

You've never heard of Cain and Abel??

Just for reference Cain killed Abel!

ginmummy, my mum has a lovely old record of Australian folk songs. One of them goes:

I was a cane cutter but now I'm at sea, ...
Cain killed Abel but it won't kill me,...

Went to school with a Raine, a boy ast the school I was working at was called Horatio, and a friends daughter is called Stroma

i have a friend called Rainey

short for Lorraine

Rodna? Is that supposed to be a female version of Rodney I wonder.

But even so, why do it?

SSS - I wondered that too........apparently it was a Zimbabwean family too LOL.

He's going to keep his ear open for any more crackers for us

On the subject of biblical names, I've never understood why anyone might call their son Amnon, but I've met several. (2 Samuel Ch. 13 - warning - not nice).