unusual names for children these days:

Sorry JessM, just seen your post- do you think it was one of these jokes or are people really that stupid?

I had a friend once who taught in a local school. She had a pupil named
Drew Peacock. (Say it quickly!)

Just muttered it to myself a few times, JessM!

my son knew a couple recently who were going to call their son Drew Peacock. But after several people had reacted rather strongly to the announcement that this was the baby's name, they changed it to something else.
Say it out loud to yourselves a few times grans

Was Hardon Glasscock a real person?

Yes Galen although my daughter took Atticus from To Kill a Mocking Bird and my son chose Cassius from Cassius Clay, but they are originally classical Greek.

gagagran

We have a friend called Jack Horner and his sister is called Mary Lamb. My chief bridesmaid was Marjorie Dawe.

In a crowded waiting room in an unemployment benefit office I once had to call out the name of the next person to be interviewed - Violet Cox please, is there a Violet Cox?

Being very young and naive I only realised when I went back into the office to find my colleagues falling about laughing

....and my Mum would be almost 103

my mum would have been 91 this year... 12 /13 yrs difference.

Suspect I might be called Sanddune

I am wondering if Pearl had a daughter called Pearl too, my mother would have been 104 this year.

Love this thread!
According to what my sister told me recently, I might have been called Arran....(holidays there).....and so might my sister!

harrigran we are getting closer!

Heavens, that Pearl Button got around a bit

My mother went to school with a Pearl Button in a County Durham mining village.

A friend who is a Vicar tells about the occassion when he was taking several christenings in a rather deprived area. The families here used to give the children somewhat flamboyant names. When the last child was handed to him he was told the name was "just Tina" You may have guessed what happened. The child got christened Justina ! I think every body was quite happy about it.

I actually never knew that. Imogen is a lovely name and D1 loves Shakespeare.

Faye it was originally 'Innogen' but for various obscure reasons eventually metamorphosed into Imogen
Nanaej
Jess

The thread has now gone full circle – from Moth and Cobweb (A Midsummer Night's Dream) to Imogen (Cymbeline). How satisfying.

My five year old GD's name is Imogen too. The name originates from Shakespeare's play Cymbeline (1609).

I once knew a woman called Fanny, She called her daughter Fanny. They were known as big Fanny and little Fanny. I never knew what happened when the daughter became a teenager but I would guess there was a change in this.

Oh my mother was at Arthur Pease in Darlington... maybe Pearl moved!

She went to Sir William Perkins School - think it's in Chertsey