Very strange names for children

My middle name is Mountford because 'there 's money in the name'?? I never got the money though.
At the beginning of the school year, the whole class would wait with bated breath to see how the new teacher would deal with my first name. No one got it right, and one teacher had an argument with me as to how it should be pronounced

I lived in an African country and came across Hyphen, Friday, Blessing, Beauty and others which I forget, also old testament names were popular, we had Abraham, Misheck,Abendigo, Ezekial (most people go to church).

Chocolate pudding, how about Hellebore?

Hildegard? Hannalore?

Honoria?

Hermione?

I went to school with Gay Gordon and Jane Eyre, a bit odd at first but we all got used to it and it was only new teachers who found the need to comment.

Is that you Havana?

Henrietta?

I used to work in a school, and there was a young black girl with the name Ebony Mouton! Poor kid!

Same school - a lad called Shawn Field!

My son went to this school, and had the nerve to ask the receptionist to tannoy for Hugh Janus! I did feel sorry for the receptionist

I have a perfectly conventional name, but the mis-spelling of it translates me into a male several times a week. To compound matters, my surname has numerous permutations of the spelling and the final straw is that my surname can also be a forename ( one which I detest) why wasn't I called Mary Smith?

chocolatepudding Hypatia, Hadrea, Hafsa, Hila, Halia, Hjordis?

I hated my own name - Lorraine - so I changed it when my first marriage ended. Mind you, it was the last name that got me teased at school. I was L. Rumph, got called Lumpy Rumpy by the other kids!

My aunt was called Trivie - not short for anything and she was born in the 1920s. Apparently my grandmother had a friend with that name but no-one knows where it came from.
My mother was called Agnes Caroline but was always called Aggie. When I asked her why on earth she didn't call herself Caroline, saying that it's a much nicer name, she said she didn't like it!

I remember being told of someone changing their name to Sydney Harbour Bridge! Don't know how true it was!

chocolate pudding, Hyacinth? Honoria?

Must tell you I have a friend of a friend, and his latest Daughters middle name is YNWA, his middle daughters middle name is Gerard, no need to guess which team Dad supports.Good job it is their middle names!

Wasn't there a rock star (forget which one) who called his offspring names such as Dweazel and Moon Unit?

How about Wanda Hoff.
This was a a possible for a colleague's niece.

I went to school with a girl called Patricia Ennis...

My name is Bernadette but I am always called Bernie, by choice, when we were young people got confused, when my friends said " Iam going out with Bernie tonight" everyone thought they had a new boy friend!

Talking of changing names, I had an uncle whose real name was Charles William, but everyone called him Bill and he had a brother whose real name was William Charles and everyone called him Charlie! No-one every explained how or why that happened.

Hedwig, Hedda?

As a teacher, I saw some absolutely awful names, and I knew children who hated the unusual monikers that they'd been landed with. I'd urge all new parents to consider very carefully their child's future and what their first name may say to the wider world. (And to look at initials as well!) There have been quite few studies which look at how a first name can influence future success, either positively or negatively. Famous people's children may get through life OK with an "unusual" name, but these studies appears to say that it's the "classic" names which seem to be more favourable for the rest of us....

I worked with a woman who called her child Buron apparently the old English spelling. We just know this poor kid is going to have to explain his name all his life. I met another one who named her blond girl Ebony, like naming a black baby Blanche (made my black friend chuckle) and her second girl Trinity, which means three. When our first DGD was on her way, we were all discussing names. My only advice was to think of the meaning of the name, imagine someone calling out that name in a public place. If you can visualise puzzled looks or even laughter, then think again.