Very strange names for children

I hope all those poor unfortunate kids do as I did & change their names legally. (Although I did it to distance myself from an unhappy childhood, not because it was a crazy name). I knew a teacher once who swore a kid in his class was called Wayne Coates. Parents can be nutters!

my name is not unusual but it can be spelt 4 different ways plus made into 2 longer versions - mine ends with an E so when my daughter was born we named her Carol, many people spell her name with an E on the end - can't win plus we both have unusual surnames (mine is Austrian & my daughter's is common in our part of Devon. I always say I answer to anything as long as it's not offensive!

Please keep guessing.....my brothers were given well known English names but I missed out.

believe that was Frank Zappa who called his children Dweezil & Moon Unit

We had children at our Nursery called Tuesday and January. Have also come across a Merrily, a Zaphod and Merlin. Used to feel sorry for Merlin as the other children always used to call out ' Behold, Merlin !' Whenever they saw him coming. ?

Hyacinth?

Heloise, Hilary?

My DD is Kathryn. I wanted spelled with a K but didn't know if it had an -arine or an -erine and didn't want to embarrass her when she was older! She's asked is she is Welsh!

Thingmajig - My dog was called Ceitidh (the Gaelic for Katie) for a few months. I much prefer the spelling, and where I live is a very Gaelic area so most people knew exactly what it was!

However online it was causing confusion, and at the vets, so we changed it to Katy.

I think Gaelic names are very common and not at all strange in the right areas, especially when a lot of kids grow up with the Gaelic as their first language. But in some places, they're just out of place.

Haggai, Hippolyte?

My youngest grandson has a very Gaelic name and spelling, but as they live outside Inverness it doesn't raise an eyebrow.

Heloise? Hélène?

Hildegard, Hortense

Hope?

It took me a while to work out the viii, lol. Mine has a lovely name - Leia - no-one can spell it or pronounce it though, including the great grannies

My father-in-law used to tell us that he went to school with a boy called Arthur Dick

Having read this thread and having a smile about some of the names reminded me of a poem book that I wrote some time ago with all proceeds going to my local Childrens Hospice. Any poems that I have written are ALL based on true tales either comical or serious and during my 86 years on this earth I have come across some peculiar monikas for some offspring but the one that REALLY stands out in my memory is in this poem out of the book I wrote.

NAME THIS CHILD

During all my years on earth I have heard many a peculiar name
Did parents think that this would help bring their offspring fame?
I have lived next door to a Dickie Bird and a Dusty Miller too
And I used to know an Ida Downe believe me this is true

There was an Ivor Lott a Will Power and a Robin Hood
Also Rusty Locke and Blackie Smith and a girl named Bebe Goode
I have worked with Eva Stone and Lydia Potts and an Eileen Back
All of them have had to live with such a great amount of flak.

There was another girl I worked with whose name was May Trump
You can well imagine how she felt and why she often had the hump.
One name imprinted on my mind from many years gone by
Was of a girl starting work and I swear that this is no lie,

Of all the names that I had heard this was the unkindest of all
When the boss asked her for her name she answered Ophelia Ball.
The look of horror on his face was a picture to behold
It left a vivid memory in my mind that I have often told.

So Mums and Dads pick a name to do your children proud
And when asked what it is they will shout it clear and loud.

Copyright © - Maisie Walker 2000 - All rights reserved

We had a Raine and a Gayle at school

My daughter was at school with a Kristofer !

I used to teach a boy called Junior Angel. Sweeeeet.

I knew two sisters called Heron and Kestral and taught a family of boys - oldest brother was Shane and the twins were Wayne and Dwayne. My name is Brenda, but my DH usually calls me B. Think that's what started me collecting all things bee related.

Give me good old Freddy, Harry, Kate etc any day

My surname is Grumbley. Luckily I had an only son, as I threatened that if I had a girl I might call her Mona Grizzle, even if they were not names she was christened.

Thumbing through some 1930s books for school-girls, in a second-hand book shop, I noticed that the heroine in one book was called Lesbia. Not a common name these days!

I know a girl who is called Reine Beau - she is going to go through life saying "Yes that's my name - no it's not spelt like that!"

As a teacher in Hong Kong, in my class I had a Balcony, Cinderella and Snowflake. Another chinese girl arrived at the school without an English name so was asked to pick up a text book and choose one. She thought Vagina was quite the prettiest. The nuns quickly found her something else. Also taught a Hitler for a short time