Strange baby names

When I was teaching it was the unusual spellings and the hyphenated names that always got to me. Kylee-Marie, or Kayleigh-Anne, or Tracie-Louise

One of my DGSs was going to be Ada, if it had gone the other way. I love it!

Cross posted, phoenix.

David Bowie's son was registered as Duncan Zowie Jones. He was only known as Zowie until he was old enough to object.

I do love the old fashioned names. My DGS3 has the sort of name that makes everyone look round for the very old man with the cloth cap and whippet when it's called out at the doctor's. It really suits him. His best friend at Nursery is Arnold.

Kalu it was Duncan, actually, not George. He is now a film director, I think.

Oh it's not the same as being saddled with a daft, or maybe I should say unusual name in the past, although Lucifer is perhaps a step too far Many children these days have what their parents might perceive as edgy names, except they aren't anymore because there will be others with similar, it's probably more cutting edge to resurrect a bog standard moniker.

I remember one of my son pronouncing the beautiful name "Persephone" as Percy Phone and he also had a friend who he continually referred to as Ann Harrad, I would ask him why he felt the need to always use both her Christian and surname when he called everyone else by just their first name, to which he replied "cos that's her name". Later on I discovered that she was actually a Welsh "Angharad"

I also mistakenly thought that little girls called "Trinity" were named so, by committed catholics, how wrong apparently she's a character in "The Matrix"

Growing up with a foreign and fairly unusual surname, spending my childhood being mispronounced, I didn't want to lumber my children with a name that would be mispronounced, however my late father in law still managed to do that to my older son by changing the "x" in the shortened version of his name to a "c" and continued to do it all the time, even though we told him umpteen times "that's not his name" got on my nerves

I had a number of strange names on my class register over the years but don't want to be judgemental as purple daffodil has said. I will just tell of one poor soul who was called Heavenly - her surname was Best ?

Someone else I know has a grandchild called Ada, would rather that than Odin, who was (I think) a God of War!

My GGC's names are a mixture of ancient and modern, English and European and include many family members names too. Nothing fancy.

The baby next door but one to us is Elsie.

I do know of someone with a 7 year son called Odin..........

My 6-year-old granddaughter’s best friend is called Edith. It does make me smile. You just can’t have a 6-year-old Edith!

I used to collect strange names when I worked in the Civil Service.
Isabella, who married a Mr Bell
Justin Salmon
Don Juan Eccles (A farm worker)
Annette Curtain

Hahahaha, JenniferEccles.

? Baggs ?

There was a time when only ‘slebs’ Gave their offspring ridiculous names...’Apple’, Gwyneth Paltrow’s choice was the first I remember but now, so many parents want to be ‘edgy’, not giving a thought to their poor children who have to bear these names. David Bowie’s son, Zowie Bowie changed his name to George. I can understand why.

I remember the TV programme, Cheyenne. There were a few people naming boys Cheyenne then. I wonder if they kept the name?

Infant classrooms these days sound like the Darby and Joan clubs of my childhood. Full of Wilfreds, Stanleys and Mabels ?Do prefer that to deliberate naming of children to simply use their initials eg TJ or JJ. Or my pet hate, names spelled in an idiosyncratic way such as Jaxon ?But parents will continue to name their children what they choose. Just as we did, so probably best not to be judgemental.

I hadn't thought of that Baggs. I guess he could be Luke too if he wanted to.
I remember there was a baby Elvis in our town.
Our DGC have lovely unusual names, at least that's what we thought, and then as soon as we tell people we hear of a couple of others.
Nothing is original under the sun.

There is a pop star who has boys called Artemis, Galileo and Geronimo.

I know a little boy called "Zeus" - he's absolutely gorgeous too.

I have heard "Chardonnay come 'ere" shouted out a few times, usually by an overweight tattooed teenage mother.

I am sure there are far sillier names out there though!

Yes Grandma70s, I thought, on reflection, that Celery was quite a sweet name.

I am not a fan of the vegetable though!

Percy Phone - oh dear! Such a beautiful name, too. Teachers obviously the opposite of the ones at my school who told the girl who pronounced her name Ireen that it should be Ireen-y. They were right, but I suppose a name should be pronounced the way its bearer wishes.

Come to think of it, Celery would sound quite pretty, if you didn’t know about the vegetable.

Oh and one of our neighbours has a twelve year old DGD named Persephone after the greek goddess.

To their shame, when she started secondary school, every single teacher pronounced her name "Percy Phone" until she corrected them.

I am sure I heard a mother in the supermarket yesterday call her little girl "Celery".

She was nowhere near the fruit and veg aisle and wasn't talking to herself about things she must buy...things on the list..(the way I often do.)