unusual names for children these days:

Love this thread!
According to what my sister told me recently, I might have been called Arran....(holidays there).....and so might my sister!

I am wondering if Pearl had a daughter called Pearl too, my mother would have been 104 this year.

Suspect I might be called Sanddune

my mum would have been 91 this year... 12 /13 yrs difference.

....and my Mum would be almost 103

In a crowded waiting room in an unemployment benefit office I once had to call out the name of the next person to be interviewed - Violet Cox please, is there a Violet Cox?

Being very young and naive I only realised when I went back into the office to find my colleagues falling about laughing

We have a friend called Jack Horner and his sister is called Mary Lamb. My chief bridesmaid was Marjorie Dawe.

gagagran

Yes Galen although my daughter took Atticus from To Kill a Mocking Bird and my son chose Cassius from Cassius Clay, but they are originally classical Greek.

Was Hardon Glasscock a real person?

my son knew a couple recently who were going to call their son Drew Peacock. But after several people had reacted rather strongly to the announcement that this was the baby's name, they changed it to something else.
Say it out loud to yourselves a few times grans

Just muttered it to myself a few times, JessM!

I had a friend once who taught in a local school. She had a pupil named
Drew Peacock. (Say it quickly!)

Sorry JessM, just seen your post- do you think it was one of these jokes or are people really that stupid?

But i did have a patient once called Dwayne Pipe.

I used to work for a Solicitors practice which had a large number of West Indian clients - I lost count of the number of girls/women called Princess

Boy in my friend's brother's class at school - Shaun Lamb, poor soul!
My mum had a cleaner called Doris Morris (Mrs, so I suppose bad luck)

Worked briefly for a company with a client by name of Onion. His initials were A.N.

A Doris Morris was a cousin of our 'best man's' mum!

In our local BT Telephone Directory a few years ago there was listed a William Whanker...(wonder how many peole shortened his name to Willy

An Irish Catholic friend told me that her brother's middle name is Mary. She claims it is not unusual in Ireland, but I have never heard of another.
When working in a hospital I used to hear a lot of unusual names, which would be listed with surname first, such as Rolls, Royce: Gotobed, Mary: Phanphart, Fanny (yes really!):Peachey, Cherry: Berrill, Beryl and Joyce Joyce.

yamyam I don't know. It was in NZ and he claimed it was a friend of a friend. But then they do always say that when telling apocryphal stories/ urban myths don't they.

When I was on jury service about 10 years ago the young defence barrister was called Cary Grant. I wondered if his parents were fans or just unaware!

Our local vet many years ago was called Peter Knutt, his sign read P.Knutt, and his wife, no lie, was called Hazel.

I have friends Hazel Hazel and Lynsey Lindsay. I went to school with a girl called Theresa Green.