Can't find a funny baby name thread to add to, but these are corkers

[MrsJohnCusack]

I know names are a personal choice and everything and I try not to make fun, but these are great, had to share them. haven't included surnames. hope the proud parents aren't mnetters...
from today's newspaper (in Christchurch NZ)

Zephyr Artemisia Ahriman Vulcan Kelsey (a boy, in case you were wondering)
and
Tintin Java Rocket

couldn't make it up could ya

i quite like zephyr they were nice cars

my ds would love the tintin java rocket one,god they must have been pissed!

I think they're great
the Zephyr is kind of OK, it's the other names...and Kelsey is the surname, managed to include it after all that.

They're going to google his name and come and get me aren't they

The last one does sound a bit like the 5yr old elder brother came up with it. Which Mumsnetter was it whose bump had been decreed 'Yup Yup Prison'?
Artemisia means wormwood which is hallucinogenic so that could explain a few things...

I heard Cartier (for a girl) today - had to smile!

kids in school with my neice are,

red roses
betty butterfly

both girls, personal choice. i did think it was a joke at first

Glad to hear both of those are girls, indamb

I still love my neighbour's Australian experience from many many years ago - child (girl) called Pish, spelled Psyche!

Flock, how were they pronouncing Cartier? That's the telling bit really, you could maybe get away with Carti-ay but Carti-er or Car'iay.

Carti-ay; Mum clearly knows her stuff. Sounded quite pretty!

A girl at a toddler group I go to is called Bodicea and they call her Bo ("Bow") for short. Makes me laugh because I have always pronounced it Boo-di-ka so would call her Boo for short! Her parents are absolutely lovely by the way - hope they are not mumsnetters wouldn't want to offend them

I met somebody the other day called Hepzibah Japonica. She was dressed like an accountant.

love these threads, even though I probably shouldn't!!

My friends little boy is called Dre

As in Dr Dre the black gangsta rapper!

He is a skinny welsh boy

My mum told me of twins born in the hospital she worked at in Birmingham called Dolce and Gabanna.

Why would you?

Brothers in a school I worked in called Shawn and Sean (pronounced Sea-an) and the mother thought they were two different names!

I was on a birthclub board with a lady whose little girl was named Armani. And the most unusual one I know IRL is Neo (as in The Matrix one assumes - what's wrong with Spock?).

ballbaby - I know of a Bodicea (also called Bo) - eek - wonder if it's the same family?!!

The little brother of one of dd's classmates is called Bluestar. Have got used to it and don't even think its odd now!

I taught a child once called calico blue
one of my ds's teachers reckons she knows of 2 babies that have just been named pastrami and pepperami, I'm not too sure about that one though!!

Oh yeah, had a friend who once taught a boy called 'Gooey' that is what his mother called him but she insisted the name be spelled like this 'Guy', because that is what she thought it was pronounced as

I did hear of one a while ago, a midwife was telling me that she delivered a baby and the parents were to call her Ophelia.

And the parents surname was....

Dickie

ch - do you live in Preston?

I can't believe that we havn't yet had anyone pop in to say that we are all being horrid, and that these are fine names that show real character.

Then go on to say that children will mock somethings so there is 'Nothing odd about being called Opelia Dickie'

Well this should wind people up then,
what are your opinions on WHY people choose odd/wierd/plain stupid names for their kids?
I think they're slightly sad people who dream of a more romantic life and want to be floaty fairy princess's themselves instead of up to their elbows in kids mess so they call their daughters 'skyrose'

It's because they want to be different

And for others to comment on it "oh wow you called him Ikea, how cool and funky are you"

I know a Neo too, with an older brother called Kynu.