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I've heard of a family called King that had a daughter named Jo and a son called Wayne.
Also knew a guy who's drag act name was Etta Goodcock.
We named our daughter Lyra Emma Zakis Jenkins.
Lyra is Greek for harp, a constellation and the name of a character in my wife's favourite books. Emma was the name of my late sister and Zakis is my wife's Latvian maiden name, which means Hare.
3 UK DHers:
Haby-Blu Cann
Calamaty-Jayne Cann
Bow-Jango Cann
Thought my ears were deceiving me when I first heard the commentators mentioning them
What about Mr & Mrs Champions? With their diminutive footballing son, wee Arthur.
Or Mr & Mrs Calcutta? A Swede married to an Indian and their son, black Olaf.
😀
I honestly worked for a while with a young chap called Micheal Hunt. He was most adamant his forename was never abbreviated for some reason..
I know the Cann's and they're lovely. They ride like demons too so they can have whatever names they like!
I have taught:
Zarathustra
Troy Eagles (so not a super hero)
Brock
Tiana
Shaya
And wished my mother in law had told me about the name she hates and won't actually use for her friends grandchild...Zephyr, would've used it as Kip Jr's middle name in a flash..
I worked with a michael Hunt as well
I also used to go to meeting where we had him and Alan Dick...had to be careful writing up those minutes
A friend is called Donna Rhea, although next week he's changing it to Scarlett Snatch.
My mate was watching a single venue stage rally in New Brighton, he got talking to one of the locals whose daughter was called Sapphire Cosworth, so named because her father liked the Ford Sapphire Cosworth
Young lad at my sons school is called Charlie Boy. Yup that's his first name(s)
I know of 2, yes that's correct 2, people called Wayne Carr. 😯
They work for different organisations so I know it's not the same person.
I went out with a girl called Jo King when I lived in Swindon.
I just wonder if some parents of famous people simply couldn't spell or were just trying to be differentRo(n)ald Dahl
Or, alternatively, Roald Dahl's parents were Norwegian, and Roald is a normal Norwegian name?
Mr and Mrs Down were either mean, stupid or hilarious: Their twins were named Ben and Neil.
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I know a Zephyr.
My sister teaches a child called "(", as in you pronounce it "bracket" but it's spelt with a single character.
Bizarre.
Someone where I live used to to have a BWW garage.
Eric G. Hunt.
I wonder why he always insisted on putting the 'G' in there.
We called our son Eben (Shortened form of Ebenezer) with middle name Hendrix as I'm a big fan and the missus has German family. We love the name, but some people pronounce it Ee-Ben. If he had the missus' surname he'd spend the rest of his life getting his whole name pronounced wrong.
I went to school with a Martial Law. He was a pretty cool guy too.
Not an unusual name as such, but a mistake in our school yearbook one year meant that my middle initial 'P' was misprinted as 'D' and I spent the rest of my high school years immortalised as VD Arrow.
My father's first name was Hansard, never seen it since, though our wee boy has it as a middle name. First name Montgomery aka Monty. Conjures up visions of Uncle Monty. I doubt I'll introduce him to [i]that[/i] film.
Chemistry lecturer at Bangor, Dr Beckett, named his son Thomas A. IIRC.
I always liked the names from the Cocteau Twins' album 'Treasure'. I guess after Doctor Who the name Amelia will be more popular.
Ivo
Lorelei
Beatrix
Persephone
Pandora
Amelia
Aloysius
Cicely
Otterley
Donimo
I studied up to Grade 3 on the Persephone.
My sister teaches a child called "(", as in you pronounce it "bracket" but it's spelt with a single character.Bizarre.
I blame the parentheses.
Aloysius
That's a fantastic name. There aren't enough Aloyses in this country.
Donimo
Gods help the poor kid if it ever got acne.
I was taught a kid in Zimbabwe called 'Blessing', his little brother was, I kid you not, called 'More Blessing'. 🙂
Also, when my husband was a teacher, he had a girl in his class called 'Jenna Tails' it still makes him crease up now, thinking back to the first time he called the register (poor girl!)
just a few wot i have taught,
Carl Ling probably the biggest @rse in the world
keziah...
paige turner
shelley brook
Jay jay amadeus ...
and a few conception related ones, seattle and his brother michigan,
mercedes,
many more that i thought 'i must remember that one' but never did
shouldnt ^^^^ be called less blessing.
at cricket club in 70's Ray Alder and 2 sons
older alder,older younger alder and younger younger alderstill makes me smile that one
My boys names are Alaric,Fabian and Lyndon
I knew a Nigerian bloke called Lucky. Complete misnomer on every conceivable level.
Chuffy. Just do it.
My wife went to school with a Jenny Taylor, and a Rosemary Haddock.
Brilliant.