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My wife is a secondary school teacher, and also a Brownie leader.
She's had some good ones over the years,
A Girl called Crystal Doulton
Several boys called 'Dre' at the moment
A boy called Magik at the moment
Years ago a friend of my wife dated a bloke called Geoff Tremendous, that was his middle name ffs!
I've heard the same story ^ but it was immediately post-birth and they wanted to call their baby "Placenta" because they heard one of the mid-wives saying it and thought it sounded nice.
How about Winston Lee Tor?
I had a consultant look at my knee after an infection - her name was Dr Van Helsing !! she introduced herself and kept talking without taking a breath so that the funny joke interruption wasn't an option
but my surname invoked many oh-so-hilarious jokes about trainsets that I would have empathised if she had brought it up first
I think that generally we are more diverse as a nation and that odd names don't stand out as much
Our neighbours when we lived in Germany were Mr & Mrs ****, and here first name was Anya...
Daughter's name is Megan.
Son on the way and wife's current favourite is Christopher.
Is this ok, and would I have to change my name to Peter?
[quote=nemesis ]My son has the same name as a TdF winner (not Lance!). Not named after him as such but we did like the name.
He's hoping to meet him at the Giro this weekend
Cuddles nemesis ...lovely ring to it
Not a kid but...
Once at a job interview one of the interviewers wrote A Cock at the top of the sheet after the first few seconds, fuming I managed to get through the interview and even got the job, turns out his name was Andy Cock.
We know a "Dr Pepper" who once had a complaint made against him by "Mrs Salt" who thought he was taking the piss.
Oh yeah work with a bloke called Eggert Fruchtenicht, too. Now THATS a name.
Former work colleague who left last year
Shittu Shittu
everyone would attempt to pronounce the name in a soft way, or break it up as Shi ttu. He'd then soundly correct people that it was said as written.
Oh and went skiing with Jo Snowball a few years back. That was fun.
Oh and our maternity nurse said she'd had a newborn named "Tyranny" a while ago. Like a female Tyrone, apparently.
TM
My friend christened his son Jack Richard Eagan. So that's Jack R .Eagan . Jack Reagan .
Not sure how long it was til his wife found out.
Also worked with a girl who was called Della. After a training course her certificate went up in the office and that's when we discovered her surname...Horniblow. The name didn't fit sadly!
So that's Jack R .Eagan . Jack Reagan .
Ronald Reagan's dad? Bit obscure 😀
Bobby Gillespie called his son Wolf. Totally brilliant.
Keep 'em coming - my colleague is just about to take Maternity leave, and looking for inspiration, having met a Thor and Electra at pre-natal classes last month.
(My youngest is not amused by her middle name of Rue, but it does greatly amuse my best friend's French wife.)
My first job was as a recruitment consultant, we had a Sandy Castle on the books.
Two brothers at my school were called Andrew and Peter Nurse.
I used to work with a lad called Harsh Dave. First name Harsh, surname Dave. I never worked out whether that would be cool or a right pain.
We also had a Dongdong Smith, which is a fantastic pairing. I can only assume that's a married name.
Colleague has just told me she knows someone called TJ. It's not short for anything, that's his name.
(I wonder if... nah.)
I knew an Indian guy at college, called (so I thought) VJ 🙂
I also knew a middle aged bloke called Thor, but then he was from Iceland. Very skinny, mild-mannered and inoffensive, which amused me 🙂
(I wonder if... nah.)
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Fella who used to drink in my Dads local - Johnny Rocket. He was American and a lecturer at Bradford Uni, really cool guy too.
Couple who ran a pub in Ripponden - Derek & Derika!
Elsie Dee and Ellie Dee.
I just made those ones up though.
Weird and wacky names aside, its interesting that people as less constrained when choosing names now. When I was a kid my class had four Steven / Stephens, four Andrews, two Nicholas' six Nicolas, three Joannes, three Julies, three Sarahs, and so on - probably a pool of about 8 - 10 names for a class of 30. So we all knew each other by abbreviations of our surnames.
I recently ran a project in a primary school - a split year so 40 kids in my year group - and not one duplicate first name between them, but no weird and wacky names either.
Spoke to a chap called Ragina Sexwhale a while back.
I have a colleague who knows a woman who called her daughter Le-a, as in Ledasha, even thought 'Ledasha' isn't a name as far as I know.
As teenagers my mate Eamonn had a girlfriend called Leigh Pover.
She must have really, really hated her parents.
Forgot these, my Spin teacher is called Nadia Fantastico.
we used to to have an accountant in work called Gaylor Dron
Apparently there is (according to QI) an American politician called Randy Bumgardner!
My friend has two children a boy Sam and a girl Ella.
You don't see any thing odd until you shout for them or ask after them .
" how's Sam an' Ella ."
😆Randy Bumgardner
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My daughter is called Thomasin after Thomasin Yeobright in Return of the Native.
In her class there are two Xanthe's. One mum chose it as she wanted a unique name, how annoyed must she be?!
When I was a student in Brum a friend told me about his friend calling his daughter Notsa. He was a Villa fan. Another good friend's cousin, who's a car mechanic, called his daughter Caprina.
Nope, none get near these - been saving them up.
My wife was at school with a (West Indian) brother and sister with the surname of Dick.
Everhard and Afelia...
I knew both a:
Dicken Hares
Chris Peacock.
Leigh Pover?
I had one called Rosemary Malady.
Was Great Scott born around the time of the first Back to the Future film?
I used to work for a very large financial institution. Think 3 letters and a Scottish HQ. Every Christmas we got a lot of mileage out of looking up a gentleman in our Amsterdam office who was called ... Rudolf Reinders
I just wonder if some parents of famous people simply couldn't spell or were just trying to be different
Ro(n)ald Dahl
Jancis Robinson
It's a cliche but Michael Hunt does exist and worked in the City (along with quite a few brothers)
Girl at son's school called Poppy. Dated a block called Dom (surname). Shame it didn't last as she could have opened an Indian restaurant when married!
My brother-in-law blessed his daughter with the name of Minnie Cooper.Oh, the shame.
That was my idea too - I was overruled 😀
Have we done [url= https://sanjuanco.com/Prosecutor/randallgaylord.aspx ]Randy Gaylord[/url] yet?
Lol@ b r
Our first one is Casper, the stipulations were, nothing religious or in the favourites list. Struggled with number two son but he was born with jaundice so we called him Billy after bilirubin (the pigment that turns you yellow with jaundice) 🙂
I taught a kid called Ikea.
IKEA!
I used to live by a girl named Ester Bunny many years ago.
She was a good looking girl luckily for her, if she wasn't, her school years would have been a nightmare.
My sister in law called her 3 kids Jez (not too bad now), Kai and Oni ..
Went to Uni with some good ones - top bloke called Geoffrey Jeffrey, lad from Doncaster with the middle name Ambrose (bet his schooldays were fun) and another called Mitford (yes we called him Nancy).
A Swede who works for us called his kids Erik and Mena.
A few oddball names in the village Ribey Blue and Kye Magic spring to mind.
It's all very well having an 'interesting' name but surviving school can often depend upon how dumb your parents choice of name has been.