Very strange names for children

My middle name is Taylor in honour of the foster mother who brought my Mum up Mary Taylor. However back in the day I was teased relentlessly as my classmates would say it wasn't a proper girls name. I hated it. Who knew it would become a popular girls and boys name?

In Iceland they have to choose from an approved list due to their traditional naming conventions.

I was at primary school with a boy called Robin Sole. Couldn't believe his parents hadn't thought about him being an R. Sole.

Most amusing time of year is when the new intake list of names arrives in school. There are the unpronounceables, the multiples (dreadful when their surnames begin with the same letter), the old fashioned ones coming back into fashion, the double-barrelled ones like Kirstie-Louise which means the child is faced with learning to write 12 letters at the top of every page, the strange ones like those mentioned by other posters, the two called Xenna and Xena but both wanting the same pronunciation etc. My favourite was Seven (please call him Sven, his dad got it wrong). My least favourite was the Callum, Calum, Kallum year, with all the parents reminding me that THEIRS was the only correct version. I didn't care. 3 different spellings made my life easier. I agree with the poster who wants parents to 'walk in their children's shoes' before landing them with weird names. Kviiilyn's parents probably think they are clever. I hope for their child's sake that she is clever and thick-skinned.

Hepzibah is a lovely name and it was considered for my granddaughter, but they went with something Shakespearian instead - one of my favourite names in fact.

I don't like boys called by so called modern names like Brandon, Connor, bailey or Webster. No offence meant to anyone with GC of that name its just me I prefer old fashioned names such as George, John or Philip.

Its the same with girls , I just like names such as Helen, Margaret or Edith. No doubt these names will make a return or perhaps Im just showing my age.
Actually I like Hepzibah.

We know someone who's just named theirs Indie. I thought of Raiders of the Lost Ark. But it's a girl.

I once knew a girl who married a Mr Burke and they had a little boy they called Hugh. Poor child!

I also knew of,(this was over 60 years since) a man called Friend whose brother was called Young Nipper.

chocolate pudding - Hermione? Halcyone? Hepzibah?

I can remember a child staying at my mum's (she used to keep summer visitors) the little girl was called Happy Harry, because her father was on a ship called that when she was born

My daughter works in the local maternity unit and hears some crackers. Her favourite was a little girl called Germolene!

my middle son is Dafydd ( the welsh for David) we have had so much fun since we moved to England with people both trying to spell & pronounce it, so much so he now calls himself Daf ( pronounced Dav).

I did hear of a child called La-a ( pronounced Ladasha, apparently)
Not sure I believe it, though.

OK guess the name. I have an unusual name beginning with H. Very few people get it right and so I tend to reply to anything - Helen, Hilary, Hannah, Heather, Helena, Helga, Holly, Harriet, Heidi

When it matters i will make sure my name is spelt correctly and said. Most of the time I just don't worry about it.

My Dad always said he had a Dwayne Pipe !!

We had a Paige Read and a
Jade Green.

Stupid woman.

We had a child at the school I worked at with what I thought was the stupidest name spelling ever but the OP's beats it hollow!

It's not really a 'spelling' at all, though, is it? A 'spelling' surely means that the sounds within the word are spelled according to the conventions of a language's orthographic system. You can't make up a completely new system on a whim; no-one else would be ab!e to read what you write!
Poor child.

We had a KC and an SX at school ( born in Essex apparently) . Just imagine what She will suffer when a bit older !

I once taught a little girl blessed with the middle name 'Aitch'. Apparently she was born in a year when the car registration letter was an 'H'. ?

I know a real life Sky whose daughter is called Rainbow. She shortened it to Rain when she went to university. There is also a child In one of our coastal villages called Prayer.........

I remember when a school friend referred to her 'Aunt Girl'. We were all intrigued; but evidently she was the last child of an enormous family and the parents had run out of ideas!

I have the misfortune of being given an 'unusual' name. I've always hated it, and in fact, it made me a very, very shy child, with no self-confidence, because I was so self-conscious. Parents that do this to their children really do need a lesson in walking in the shoes of someone 'unusual', then maybe, a proper name would be given to their little darlin' instead of something ridiculous, like mine!

Regarding names, the teachers and social workers on here will find few surprises at the bizzare names some people give their children. Particularly unusual spellings. There was trend for initials such as DB JD PJ etc.

There was a lovely Lady in Cornwall (As in titled Lady but I can't remember her full title) who always introduced herself as "Jonet the spelling mistake" because her father had been sent to register her birth and didn't notice that Janet had been spelled wrong.