Very strange names for children

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!

Heloise, Hilary?

Hyacinth?

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. ?

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

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

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!

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!

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.

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....

Hedwig, Hedda?

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.

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!

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

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

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

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!

chocolate pudding, Hyacinth? Honoria?

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

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!

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!

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?

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

Same school - a lad called Shawn Field!

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