Strange baby names

When I was a little girl I thought everybody grew up to have two names. My Dad's name was Clive but he called himself Cliff. My mother's name was Maude but she called herself Pat. With Dad's family they were Clive and Pat. With Mum's family they were Cliff and Maude. With their friends they were Cliff and Pat. As children we were never confused and just accepted this was what happened when you were adults!

marmight Puffin and Otter!?! I can't decide whether that's adorable or absolutely awful
I suppose at least it wasn't Hippo and Gerbil

Jalima1108 In my elders group we have several ladies named Kuini, the spelling is not an affectation but the Maori spelling.

Thank you for the information in Newt

My cousin-twice-removed is called India and it's not until I began reading this thread (some lovely names here) that I began to see it as unusual.

Oscar has just been born into their family too.

I've come across an Attila (wondered if the mother referred to him as Hun) and an Aristotle. Had to bite my tongue to prevent me from asking about the names.

Years ago I worked with a man called Tertius and once said to him, 'And are you the third child?' He was quite surprised I knew what his name meant as in all the years he'd been working for the local city Council, no one else had ever known.

Rosina The name Kathleen has morphed into 'Caitlin' (now pronounced Kate-lyn) as the correct pronunciation of that name, in Gaelic, IS 'Kathleen'. Few people seem to know that either.

My name means 'beautiful' in Spanish and Viet-namese.

I don't see anything wrong with Pocohontas, urban legend or not.

She was renamed Rebecca when she converted to Christianity, came to England with her husband John, had a son and died in Gravesend (macabre but appropriate) at the young age of 21.
She was quite famous in her day.

I was convinced an article I read years ago stated Zowie Bowie disliked his name and wished to be known as George!

Old memory playing tricks again

Damian Grammaticas on TV. What a great name.

My OH can't help recalling and rhyming it with 'the ladies at the court of King Caractacus' whenever DG is on TV.

My father-in-law used to recall going to school with a boy names Arthur Dick.........I don't suppose he was grateful to his parents for calling him that!

Bradford's Anglicans may remember the Rev. Arden Constant, vicar of St Barnabas Church in Heaton.

My mother could not talk about him without a suspicious smile (he used to visit her for tea and cakes) and I was well into my 40's before I knew why. I had just accepted the name in all innocence.

Kalu I remember that article too. If I were called Zowie, I'm not sure I'd like it either so the fact he no longer uses the name could well indicate our memories are not at fault.

A frind has just informed me that a child in her area is named Kingdom. Sadly, his surname is neither Come nor Brunel.

Surnames matching occupations is another interesting curiosity.
The person in charge of the estates dept was a Mr Talltrees. When my DC were members of the young ornitholigist club their newsletter had names and addresses of all the local leaders. There were a surprising number of names such as Robin, Finch, Starling, Bird & Wood.
So Miss Bunn the baker's daughter didn't seem strange.

My mother who will turn 97 in a month or so is Ailsa. She has spent her whole life correcting people who really make no effort to pronounce it correctly. As Mum says beer (ale) and salsa and you have it. Not Elsa, Alice or Alica, Elsie, or any of the multitude of other names she is called.

My DGS's are Angus Lachlan - good Scottish heritage there (we are Australian) and Eli Patrick. Took me a while to get used to Eli but I love it now although it unfortunately is becoming a popular name here.

There is a little girl in my granddaughter's class called Pagan. Oh dear.

I once taught a Shernade, her mum said she liked Irish names.

Grandma70....it's Penny-loap in France! Quite caught me on the hop until I thought about it

I know a couple of Australian Lachlans SueH49 - presumably named after Lachlan Macquarie!
His name lives on.

What about the woman in the news last year whose daughter was called Abcde - pronounced Ab-city apparently.

Bradfordlass72 do you know what Kuini means? My Son and his partner are making lists of names for their expected baby and I think Kuini might just make the grade .They have the meaning of the name beside it on the list .

I've just finished the Land of the Long White Cloud trilogy, BradfordLass and my head was spinning with Maori names!

kuini ataahua means beautiful queen (I think)

When I had my interview for a university place to read English Language, I was asked if I knew the meanings of my two forenames. Thanks to my parents, I did! I don’t think people always think about meanings.

I did check the meanings of my DC's names before registering them!

Bradfordlass72 there were a number of names I came across in NZ that I really liked, but my favourite was Tui. There was a young girl of that name that we met in one of the churches we visited, she was just as chirpy and friendly as her bird namesake.

Having said that, I've just remembered that one of my daughter's has a Maori name.

My Mum had school friends called Elsie Leatherbarrow and Pearl Button.
My name means 'Princess' and DD3's means 'in the image of' or 'last born daughter', which by chance she was!
Grandmainoz My reaction to Puffin & Otter was 'what the f***!'. Ok when children but imagine when they're adult or elderly ?

I believe that there was a court case in ND that resulted in the parents not being allowed to call their baby daughter Talluladoesthehulainhawaii (breaks down into Tallula Does The Hula in Hawaii)