Very strange names for children

Hi. 1 lady has said that some competition winners names etc are on Facebook. I'm not surprised.
When are you going to delete some of the input in the whole of Gransnet?
Including online.
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Okay, chocolate, how many letters, vowels, consonants? What does it rhyme with? Is it a recognisable name or a made up one? Give us a chance

Katek - I just keep looking at OP and thinking Kivvylin! It's just a bit too clever.
DD was at school with a Trai-Ci and a neighbour called her baby Emme-Leigh with an umlaut on the second e 'to be different'. I wonder whether over the years she has become Emily!
Where's an umlaut when you need one.

Helvetica ?

I asked a small Chinese boy's mother how I should pronounce his name Xexey (may be misspelt). She looked me calmly in the eye and replied firmly, 'In England, he is Gary.' Lovely family, wise too!

I had a student named Viajra and although I tried extremely hard not to call her vagina I think I might have accidentally said something like viagra........there were constant giggles and sniggers, and it was an adult class too!

Ooh ooh, I'm close. Now I'm getting more excited. What on earth can it be. Which post is closest chocolatep the first or second? Come on give us a clue

Choc pud - Honor?

I wonder whether there's a little Harley Davidson somewhere!

"Crafting" has almost hit the nail on the head.......but not quite

I thought Caitlin was a Welsh name because of Dylan Thomas's wife. But she was Caitlin O'Hara and Irish so I'm unsure now. Is it both? The Irish pronunciation sounds to me very similar to Kathleen but with an Irish accent, which makes sense, I think.
Taking an unfamiliar class register I paused at Grainne and a girl quietly said 'Gronya, miss' I was very grateful!

I always understood that the proper Welsh pronunciation for Caitlin was Kat-lyn (as in 'mat'). There is an adult somewhere in South Africa called 'Mrs Cooper's Orange Marmalade' (based on the fact that children were named after something really impressive)and my mother knew an unfortunate called Roland Butter - so there's nothing new under the sun really.

GrannyGear, ( Like John or Thomas) , but not together.

Bluebelle - Wisdom would be about 16 now. Junior school teachers often asked him to live up to his name, re behaviour rather than work!

Granny gear. Wouldn't have helped my college friend Edna, hated her name. We said use your middle one. Gladys? She said sadly. Named after two aunts.
That would have made me Beatrice Elsie, very 'auntish' in the 1940s and 50s but both back now for babies!

I think every child should have at least two given name so they will have a choice. I know a number of people who have chosen to use their middle name. My father-in-law did this and so did our younger son. I'd say it's best to aim for one fairly unusual name and one more standard name (Like John or Thomas). Worth considering how well the name sounds with your surname so you don't end up with some horrible pun or double meaning!

Like Annemac101 I remember being at school when nearly every girl in the class had one of the same three names. Anything foreign-sounding or unconventional was looked on with suspicion. I remember one new girl called Anne-Marie (which would be regarded as quite conventional today). When adding her name to the register, the class teacher said, in front of everyone, "Once and for all, is your name Anne or Marie?" She pronounced Marie to rhyme with starry. Poor Anne-Marie went red and didn't know what to answer. Times have certainly changed since then, but maybe not entirely for the worse!

dramatic and * crafting* if she doesn't tell us soon I might burst

My cousin's daughter is at secondary school with a very blonde, pale, blue eyed girl named........Pocohontas!

My middle name is Regina. You can imagine what school children made of THAT one - as did the teachers, some of whom ridiculed it and read it out to the class, to my extreme shame.
I think I was named after my father's sister Regine. They were German refugees. It was also Coronation year!

But that, with my hard-to-pronounce German surname, made me a target for teasing and bullying

Harlow? Hadeya? Hakidonmuya? Give us a clue!

Havanah, heva, Heaven, hells bells, Harley....are we getting close at all chocolatep

chocolatepudding if you don't tell us your real name soon we will eat you
Hester, Hardanger, hangover, hollyoaks, hortatory, hoitytoity, hello, halo, honesty.

No correct answer yet.......

Have we had Hecubah?