[Closed] Odd/different children's names

Goodluck Jonathan

Great Scott is genius when said as a full name. (Presuming Scott is the surname.)

Falls apart a bit as a standalone first name though.

"Hi I'm Jessica, what's your name?"

"Great, pleased to meet you Jessica. Can I buy you a drink"

"Err, yeah ok. A vodka and tonic please.......So what's your name ?"

"Great..... I'll just go to to the bar and get the drinks"

Etc, etc, etc.

GQT on R4 is/was full of rural references e.g. Clay Jones, Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and ofcourse Anna Hill on Farming Today.

I noticed in the Guardian a youth worker who specialises in sex education and his name is Justin Hancock.

In Northampton there is a Butt Savouries, mmmmmm yummy.

Spanners

'I'm Great...' //Jessica leaves//

Was listening to radio 2 this morning and finalists name in the short story competition was 'Great Scott'.

Anything is better than the old popular names Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The 00's is Jake, Lucas, Tom and the king of the them......JACK.

Be abit different for ****s sake. Its a persons name not a conformist exercise.

The worst kid's name I've come across recently is Pebbles - poor little brat!

The best ones I've come across as Thor and Felix.

I knew of a guy, surname Walker, who named his son Luke.

And gave him the middle name of Sky.

I liked that one, gave the lad the option to operate with a normal name "Luke Walker" while still having that "special" element.

I also used to date a girl who's parents were split on fan devotion to the Beatles and the Stones, and named their daughter accordingly after songs.

First name Julia (after the Lennon song)

Middle name after the stones song "Ruby Tuesday". Middle name therefore, obviously, "Tuesday".

Great's American cousin Awesome - or perhaps it should be Truly like in Mary Poppins, "Hi I'm Truly Awesome, Truly Awesome Scott"

I had an American colleague Charles Spears, known as Chuck
Met a guy who's name was Adolf, when he handed me his business card I was speechless.
Head teacher at my kids school was Mary Teresa Head or M. T. Head or just empty as the kids called her

Neighbours granddaughters are Darcy and Rhianna.

Used to work with someone called Sandra Shatwell.

Mate's missus is a teacher and she tells the tale of the initial meeting with some parents whose child was starting in her class. Conversation went something like this:

Her: "Okay so what is your little girl's name then?"

Them: [i]*enunciating*[/i] "Fir Mall Eee"

Her: "That's a really unusual name."

Them: "Yeah the hospital chose it for us when she was born"

Her: "Okay... 😕 ... and how do you spell it please?"

Them: "F. E. M. A. L. E."

Her: " 😯 ... if you'll just excuse me for one moment..."

Goodnews is a pretty popular first name in Nigeria. Always made me smile 🙂

My neighbour was called Andrew Andrews.

Oh and my all time favourite, Randolph Burgher

Once phoned to speak with the Environment Manager of a large company to be told his name was Bunny Warren!! 😆

One of my mates did bless his son with "Danger" as his middle name. 😆

To this day I have no idea how he got that past his wife.

The 00's is Jake, Lucas, Tom and the king of the them......JACK.

Be abit different for **** sake. Its a persons name not a conformist exercise.

I heard the same thing, but presumed I had misheard, and her name was Grace Scott, not Great Scott.

Theres a boy at my sons nursery called Zebedee.

One of my mates did bless his son with "Danger" as his middle name

On the birth certificate? If so inspired. You DONT have to tell people your middle name so inclusion of one should be unusual/abit of fun.

Our local church graveyard has a great family who went in for amusing names! Their surname is/was Hole so here are some I remember...

Phyllis
Fanny S
Arthur

Nobody mentioned "Bike Shed" yet or "Bus Shelter" or perhaps "Behind the Bar at Ritzies" 😆

Most popular at the sailing club are "William" and beleive it or not "Kate". We've gone through the Jacks, Henrys, James's and Thyaya, Torries and Jessicas and moved into a recall of Classic Royal names... We've never experianced a Chardonnay though, maybe we just don't attract the type(s) 😆

Worked with a lady who's surname was Fuchschit (she pronounched it fooshay)

You could have all sorts of fun with kids first names.

Them: "F. E. M. A. L. E."

That's lifted from Cat People, I think.

<goes away and Googles pictures of Nastassia Kinski>

Her: "Okay... ... and how do you spell it please?"

Them: "F. E. M. A. L. E."

This in the UK? I'm inclined to call BS on that if so, can't see the registrar not querying it when the birth was registered...

Some of the above names have me in stitches.

We are considering trying for a second soon (child) and I may set down the ground rule that the middle name has to be 'Danger'.

Nobody mentioned "Bike Shed" yet or "Bus Shelter" or perhaps "Behind the Bar at Ritzies"

I have a mate called Yoda, not surprisingly his folks are Star Wars potty

Also, some friends have a daughter called Non. Or to quote her full name: Non Trevina Sorcha Bliss O'Brien.

Another friend has gone all obscure biblical and called her daughter Bathsheba

That's lifted from Cat People, I think.
...
I'm inclined to call BS on that

Entirely possible. It's a good story though 😀

My Daughters are Amelia-Grace and Charlotte-Louisa.

Charlotte had a very traumatic birth, and was lucky to pull through, The midwife suggested we call her storm, as she'd been through it and survived.
I kind of wish we had because she can be very 'stormy' when she wants to be...

Had we named Millie after the place where she was conceived, she'd be 'The pride of Bilbao'

[i]<goes away and Googles pictures of Nastassia Kinski>[/i]

Try it with a "j" after the "ss" 😉

My son is the only one in his school called Lydon 🙂

Another friend has gone all obscure biblical and called her daughter Bathsheba

Sounds like a supplier of cheap designer bathrooms.

*google*

Oh look: http://www.bathshebabathrooms.co.uk/ 😆

(also, [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathsheba ]according to wiki[/url], Bathsheba's most famous for getting pregnant during extra-marital sex with Kind David, leading to him putting her husband on the front line to be killed)

I went to Russia with a girl called Hesthter Bloom-Jurksaitis. Kind of stuck with me...

Really wanted to call our son Orlando but it was never given a chance. Probably for the best.

😀 Bathrooms of timeless beauty 😀

My son has the same name as a TdF winner (not Lance!). Not named after him as such but we did like the name.

He's hoping to meet him at the Giro this weekend 🙂

My brother-in-law blessed his daughter with the name of Minnie Cooper.

Oh, the shame.

Randy Gaylord

There's a girl at my fathers partners school in Glasgow who is called Pocahontas...

My lad's middle name is Sullivan - after Justin.

I met a Julie Goodenuff once, always wondered if she was.
Also at work we had a customer called Mr sss hach eye tea (work it out) I kid ye not, that was his name, first name was Andrew so his name appeared as A S***. When one of my colleagues had to phone him we were all listening to see if he creased up, 'hello is that Mr .....' very odd.

I despair when I find out what family and/or friends call their kids, it's like they've spent practically 5 minutes on the subject.
'oh! you've called your child lily/isabell/jack that'll be good then when they're in class with 5 others of the same name'
I'm too judgey maybe, the wife and I spent months over our daughters name, we did seperate lists and stuff and discussed it for ages.

I named my son Zachary, then Elton John calls his son the same. For years people will think its vice versa 😐

A Nigerian bloke I used to work with had two kids called Excellence and Peculiar. This was a few years ago and they were young then so they'll be about secondary school age now. If they are still living in the UK I'm sure they're having a GREAT time.

I think this occurred pre birth, so not awful, but could have been!

My mum used to be a district children's nurse. One family she visited had a son which was the reason she was there. But she was also heavily pregnant. My mum asks if they have a name and they proudly stated "Chlamydia". Apparently they decided on the name a while ago because it sounds pretty. They were completely ignorant of the real meaning of the word.

My wife is a secondary school teacher, and also a Brownie leader.
She's had some good ones over the years,

A Girl called Crystal Doulton
Several boys called 'Dre' at the moment
A boy called Magik at the moment

Years ago a friend of my wife dated a bloke called Geoff Tremendous, that was his middle name ffs!

I've heard the same story ^ but it was immediately post-birth and they wanted to call their baby "Placenta" because they heard one of the mid-wives saying it and thought it sounded nice.

How about Winston Lee Tor?

I had a consultant look at my knee after an infection - her name was Dr Van Helsing !! she introduced herself and kept talking without taking a breath so that the funny joke interruption wasn't an option

but my surname invoked many oh-so-hilarious jokes about trainsets that I would have empathised if she had brought it up first

I think that generally we are more diverse as a nation and that odd names don't stand out as much

Our neighbours when we lived in Germany were Mr & Mrs ****, and here first name was Anya...

Daughter's name is Megan.
Son on the way and wife's current favourite is Christopher.
Is this ok, and would I have to change my name to Peter?

[quote=nemesis ]My son has the same name as a TdF winner (not Lance!). Not named after him as such but we did like the name.
He's hoping to meet him at the Giro this weekend

Cuddles nemesis ...lovely ring to it

Not a kid but...

Once at a job interview one of the interviewers wrote A Cock at the top of the sheet after the first few seconds, fuming I managed to get through the interview and even got the job, turns out his name was Andy Cock.

We know a "Dr Pepper" who once had a complaint made against him by "Mrs Salt" who thought he was taking the piss.

Oh yeah work with a bloke called Eggert Fruchtenicht, too. Now THATS a name.

Former work colleague who left last year

Shittu Shittu

everyone would attempt to pronounce the name in a soft way, or break it up as Shi ttu. He'd then soundly correct people that it was said as written.

Oh and went skiing with Jo Snowball a few years back. That was fun.

Oh and our maternity nurse said she'd had a newborn named "Tyranny" a while ago. Like a female Tyrone, apparently.

TM

My friend christened his son Jack Richard Eagan. So that's Jack R .Eagan . Jack Reagan .
Not sure how long it was til his wife found out.
Also worked with a girl who was called Della. After a training course her certificate went up in the office and that's when we discovered her surname...Horniblow. The name didn't fit sadly!

So that's Jack R .Eagan . Jack Reagan .

Ronald Reagan's dad? Bit obscure 😀

Bobby Gillespie called his son Wolf. Totally brilliant.

Keep 'em coming - my colleague is just about to take Maternity leave, and looking for inspiration, having met a Thor and Electra at pre-natal classes last month.

(My youngest is not amused by her middle name of Rue, but it does greatly amuse my best friend's French wife.)

My first job was as a recruitment consultant, we had a Sandy Castle on the books.

Two brothers at my school were called Andrew and Peter Nurse.

I used to work with a lad called Harsh Dave. First name Harsh, surname Dave. I never worked out whether that would be cool or a right pain.

We also had a Dongdong Smith, which is a fantastic pairing. I can only assume that's a married name.

Colleague has just told me she knows someone called TJ. It's not short for anything, that's his name.

(I wonder if... nah.)

I knew an Indian guy at college, called (so I thought) VJ 🙂

I also knew a middle aged bloke called Thor, but then he was from Iceland. Very skinny, mild-mannered and inoffensive, which amused me 🙂

(I wonder if... nah.)

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Fella who used to drink in my Dads local - Johnny Rocket. He was American and a lecturer at Bradford Uni, really cool guy too.

Couple who ran a pub in Ripponden - Derek & Derika!

Elsie Dee and Ellie Dee.

I just made those ones up though.

Weird and wacky names aside, its interesting that people as less constrained when choosing names now. When I was a kid my class had four Steven / Stephens, four Andrews, two Nicholas' six Nicolas, three Joannes, three Julies, three Sarahs, and so on - probably a pool of about 8 - 10 names for a class of 30. So we all knew each other by abbreviations of our surnames.

I recently ran a project in a primary school - a split year so 40 kids in my year group - and not one duplicate first name between them, but no weird and wacky names either.

Spoke to a chap called Ragina Sexwhale a while back.

I have a colleague who knows a woman who called her daughter Le-a, as in Ledasha, even thought 'Ledasha' isn't a name as far as I know.

As teenagers my mate Eamonn had a girlfriend called Leigh Pover.

She must have really, really hated her parents.

Forgot these, my Spin teacher is called Nadia Fantastico.

we used to to have an accountant in work called Gaylor Dron

Apparently there is (according to QI) an American politician called Randy Bumgardner!

My friend has two children a boy Sam and a girl Ella.
You don't see any thing odd until you shout for them or ask after them .
" how's Sam an' Ella ."

Randy Bumgardner

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My daughter is called Thomasin after Thomasin Yeobright in Return of the Native.

In her class there are two Xanthe's. One mum chose it as she wanted a unique name, how annoyed must she be?!

When I was a student in Brum a friend told me about his friend calling his daughter Notsa. He was a Villa fan. Another good friend's cousin, who's a car mechanic, called his daughter Caprina.

Nope, none get near these - been saving them up.

My wife was at school with a (West Indian) brother and sister with the surname of Dick.

Everhard and Afelia...

I knew both a:

Dicken Hares
Chris Peacock.