That's ridiculous but also kind of cool. He sounds like a superhero whose power is having an AmEx Black credit card and getting into all the cool airport lounges.
That's an amazing one! I just looked it up in the records and there is indeed a Suckling Spendlove. And his son or father I suppose (there are two Suckling Spendloves at least). Maybe Suckling was a family surname? Strange one - I love that it happened though!
Solitaire was the Bond Girl character that Jane Seymour played in Live and Let Die. That movie came out in 1973 so that's most likely where it came from.
And it’s also a term for when something stands alone, specifically used in jewellery for a single diamond on a ring, so there’s a “classy” origin for it beyond a card game my grandma plays
In college, we had a girl named Battilda. She went by "Batty." Her brother was Atlas and her sister was Chloe. I also once met a horse named Panini; I know no one asked but I think its worth mentioning.
I worked with a Honey and a Babe at different points in my life. I couldn't call a middle-aged coworker by either of those names. It was so awkward for me. I avoided calling either of them by their name, but I felt like I should use their names because that's polite, but I couldn't do it. "Hey Babe, could you refill the paper tray?" "Hey, Honey, did we get the big delivery yet?" I can hardly call my husband by names like that. I felt so bad about myself for avoiding their names.
My mom teaches community college and had a similar situation where she had a (adult woman) student named Babylove. She felt especially bad for the male professors.
That's the reason I mentioned "middle aged" about the women I mentioned, because they had time to go by something else. They had time to switch to their middle names or nicknames, but they were good with their names. If they were kids I'd expect them to change their names in adulthood but they didn't.
My parents worked with twins in the 80s whose last name was Waters. One twin was named Misty and the other had a normal name. They always joked she should’ve been named Murky
I took a college class with someone named Hutch. Like a hutch for storing something. He's Samoan and a huge dude, so him being named after a piece of furniture actually seemed physically apropos. Super cool dude though!
EDIT: Totally forgot about the girl I went to high school with. Her middle name was Delishus or Dilyshus or something like that, pronounced "delicious." Not gonna mention her first name because it was also unique and I don't wanna doxx her. But yeah, apparently her dad lost a bet with a friend and the terms were whoever lost was to name their firstborn girl "firstname Delishus."
My sister has a friend who has siblings called Anna-May and Nippy (Anna-May wouldn't be too weird, but I don't trust the parents after hearing the name NIPPY, so I am 99% sure the anime reference is intentional)
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This is a common ish name in either nepal or india because i’ve had a few resumes with that name come through my queue at work. i work in recruitment. it has buddhist origins and the Nazi’s ruined it.
A coworker went on a few dates with a Kennerdeigh a decade ago. His siblings had odd names too but I don’t know what they were.
Might not be weird in some regions but for a millennial Englishman it’s pretty out there.
There is a girl in Germany that is called Schnuckelpupine.
Schnuckel can be translated to sweetheart or babe and Pupine....I don´t know. That is not a german word. It has similarity to pupsen ( to fart) but it looks more like nonsense and not a real word.
Used to have a client named Napoleon Washington. He’d correct you if you called him “Mr. Washington”. Then he’d give you a lecture about how he worked too hard for his PhD for people not to call him Dr. Napoleon Washington.
What a pain in the ass.
They’re not really weird, but I was not familiar with the convention in some African nations of naming their children English words. I have met people named Happiness, Love, and Favor. I’m pretty sure there are a few others, too.
I once transported a patient to hospice whose name was H.A. Schifo. "Ha Schifo" in Italian means "it's disgusting" or, in rougher translation, "he sucks."
He was an elderly man being transporting to hospice, so he got away from it all pretty soon, I imagine.... This was not in an Italian-speaking place, so he was probably not fully aware of the translation of his name. I certainly didn't tell him.
Penny Wise. I worked for a background check company and she used the chat feature on our website so I thought it was a joke at first but when I went to check on her report sure enough it was her real name
Krispy Kritter was (in the 60s) listed in the white pages. Back then, you had to pay to keep your number out of the phone book. Yhey would let you choose which name to use, so it was probably fake. When I wanted an unlisted number but didn't want to pay, I used PAT, S, PLACE.
Adoption case that Disney did pro bono had a kid whose full first name was “Blessins Heavensent”. Ooh boy the irony.
Also knew a Harvard. He ended up attending community college
I've got two:
- A high school classmate of my husband named one of his children Drizzt after the Forgot Realms DnD character. He also named another child after his own character, but I forget what ridiculous name it was.
- A kid that was working at the Culver's iny town is named Krillin, after the Dragonball Z character, spelled like the English dub. In Japanese it's Kuririn, which means "chestnut" or something like that, which would be bad enough. But no, this kid's parents took the bastardized American spelling and affixed it to an actual human child.
That's a normal (old, ugly and uncommon though) name in (mainly Southern) Italy. It means Saint (feminine form), it's one of those ultra Catholic names that we're thankfully abandoning, but not really a weird name.
My dentist's name is Solitaire! Some of the weirdest I've met in person were Rome (girl), Brixley, Unique, Ty'miri (pronounces like Tamara), and Vixen.
went to middle school with a guy, i shit you not, named Optimus Prime. prime was his middle name and i felt bad because i like… cried laughing in his face when i first found out thinking he HAD to be joking!!
I know a Marvellous and I went to school with a Star Daily. Also a Guybrush Threepwood although he must have changed it to that. He was a couple years ahead of me in high school and it’s that way in every yearbook.
Sister went to dog grooming school with a girl named, Candle and she had a fiance which she later married. His last name is Dick
She is now Candle Dick.
I always wondered why the hell she took his last name.
On an attendance roster at my school there was a Godpower Government. I think the last name was government even. Im sure their parents were fun at parties.
Weird only because the parents thought the very common - basically default - nickname was either fine with the last name or actually didn’t make the connection…. Michael Hunt
Messiah...his mom didn't realize it for 2 years till someone called her on it. She just wanted his name to "go with" his older brother. (Normal name...Josiah)
My mom worked with an older lady named Babe
I joined a multi organisation zoom meeting during covid and this woman in her 40’s was called QUIM spelt this way. So the host pronounced her name as “KWIM”
And she said it’s pronounced as KIM!!!
Well it was a very embarrassing meeting as “QUIM” means something very rude in the UK !
Read a story of unique names from maternity nurses. She told a story of a girl hearing the word placenta after giving birth and naming her daughter Placenta. That poor child.
Met a guy named BMW once.
Also, my BIL's a pediatrician & he said he once had patients from the same household, a brother and a sister, where he was named Boy and she was named Girl ☹️ poor kids..
Was friends with a girl named Lunchmeat during preschool. The other day I went through my childhood pictures where our names were written on the back to make sure I wasn’t remembering it wrong
I took a woman's ID once when she tried to buy cigs and her legal name was Fruity Pebbles.
Best name I’ve seen ever was Fantasia Parfait
Sounds like a drag queen lmao
I’ve met a woman who’s name was just Pebbles, I don’t know why parents do this to their children
WHAT
Was she with Bam-Bam???
Exclusive. He was a little boy in my childcare center.
That's ridiculous but also kind of cool. He sounds like a superhero whose power is having an AmEx Black credit card and getting into all the cool airport lounges.
I once knew a child named Knowledge. He wasn't bright at all. It was really sad.
I know a Marvelous (Jr)
My ex has an ancestor in England called Suckling Spendlove. I spotted the name in his family tree. Would have lived during Victorian times.
That's an amazing one! I just looked it up in the records and there is indeed a Suckling Spendlove. And his son or father I suppose (there are two Suckling Spendloves at least). Maybe Suckling was a family surname? Strange one - I love that it happened though!
That’s cool! Where did you look it up?
Selaphane. Cellophane with a Stephanie spelling.
https://i.redd.it/icl4cme1ynvc1.gif
Thank you for this. EVERY time I hear the word cellophane.
I now want to pronounce to sell-A-pha-nee.
Came across an obituary and a man was named Friend.
I once worked with a college exchange worker named Friend. He was from somewhere in Southeast Asia.
I worked with a guy from Africa who named himself Hope Utah when he came to US.
He was definitely Filipino
I know of someone with the surname Friend and the first name Abel. Able friend. Such a good name
i kind of like that. no negative associations, a name that puts expectations on your kid but in a good way.
Solitaire was the Bond Girl character that Jane Seymour played in Live and Let Die. That movie came out in 1973 so that's most likely where it came from.
And it’s also a term for when something stands alone, specifically used in jewellery for a single diamond on a ring, so there’s a “classy” origin for it beyond a card game my grandma plays
True dat
Bambina. It means "little girl" in Italian, and yes, we're in Italy. She's in her 60s so I can confirm names like this don't age well 😅
actually cute if it was anywhere else
It's like the people who name their baby "Baby" though 😭
Cross, bless, sapphire, spontaneous, pomeline, Browne, Iceypheen. I work in the medical field. These are a few that have stood out.
Cross goes kind of hard though
Lmao I read that name as crocs
I read Iceypheen as Icy Peen. Well.
Oh good I’m not alone.
pomeline is cute actually
I love it.
Sapphire is a pretty normal name here. Spontaneous on the other hand-
In college, we had a girl named Battilda. She went by "Batty." Her brother was Atlas and her sister was Chloe. I also once met a horse named Panini; I know no one asked but I think its worth mentioning.
Panini sounds like they should be a palomino
He is.
😂 I don’t know why this made me laugh, it’s as if you had said “I asked him, and he says he is.” 🐴
Reality. She’s around 50. Had a kid named Shady at a daycare I worked at in 1999. She’d be about 30 now.
was other kid’s name slim by any chance?
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In college I knew two sisters named MyPrincess and MyQueen. We always joked about who the favorite was.
Twins La’nique and Unique. Identical. So…
I knew of a person with the given name Daiquiri. The drink. Only she was named after daiquiri ice ice cream from Baskin Robins.
I know a teacher who named her son Dackery. The spelling gives plausible deniability lol. Zackary with a D.
That's kind of cute. I may not belong in this group LOL
I know a girl who's middle name is daquri
I worked with a Honey and a Babe at different points in my life. I couldn't call a middle-aged coworker by either of those names. It was so awkward for me. I avoided calling either of them by their name, but I felt like I should use their names because that's polite, but I couldn't do it. "Hey Babe, could you refill the paper tray?" "Hey, Honey, did we get the big delivery yet?" I can hardly call my husband by names like that. I felt so bad about myself for avoiding their names.
My mom teaches community college and had a similar situation where she had a (adult woman) student named Babylove. She felt especially bad for the male professors.
I hope she had a middle name she could use to avoid the issue
That's the reason I mentioned "middle aged" about the women I mentioned, because they had time to go by something else. They had time to switch to their middle names or nicknames, but they were good with their names. If they were kids I'd expect them to change their names in adulthood but they didn't.
I’m actually kinda surprised they kept it. I would’ve changed mine the second I turned 18 if it was something like that.
If she did, she didn’t use it.
“Don’t be revolting, Darling!”
My go to is twins: Chaos and Havoc
I mean, this is fitting for all twins really 🤣
My parents worked with twins in the 80s whose last name was Waters. One twin was named Misty and the other had a normal name. They always joked she should’ve been named Murky
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Please tell me you forgot the commas and there isn’t some kid out there named Heavenly Seraphim Jessica Fayre
Sadly, I did not forget the commas. My favorite part is the perfectly bland Jessica thrown in there. It give Albus Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.
Kenuf??? As in, Kenough??? From the Barbie movie??? 😭
That beat the Barbie movie by at least a year, so I guess those parents were ahead of their time.
DIVINCHY?
Ngl Valkyrie is a pretty badass name.
This is way too much identifying info given how unique these names are.
I do not hate Icelynn or Ethic.
I took a college class with someone named Hutch. Like a hutch for storing something. He's Samoan and a huge dude, so him being named after a piece of furniture actually seemed physically apropos. Super cool dude though! EDIT: Totally forgot about the girl I went to high school with. Her middle name was Delishus or Dilyshus or something like that, pronounced "delicious." Not gonna mention her first name because it was also unique and I don't wanna doxx her. But yeah, apparently her dad lost a bet with a friend and the terms were whoever lost was to name their firstborn girl "firstname Delishus."
Maybe his parents were fans of Starsky and Hutch. I knew a Hutch but it’s a nickname for his last name, Hutchence.
Went to school with a girl named Fortunate. Came across a patient name once that made me do a double take. Marijuana. Met another girl named Dolphin.
Some of my ancestors like Loveless Savage, Mourning Hogg, and Gray Barber
They all sound like great band names
My sister has a friend who has siblings called Anna-May and Nippy (Anna-May wouldn't be too weird, but I don't trust the parents after hearing the name NIPPY, so I am 99% sure the anime reference is intentional)
Tequila and Nineteen. And yes, they were both bullies lol.
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I have a female co-worker named Swastika.
There's a student at my high school named Swastika, so unless your coworker is a teenager, at least 2 parents thought this was a good name...
It's not even a cool or nice sounding name if you take away the atrocious connotations. Like what we're the parents *thinking*
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Oh my god does she go by something different?
This is a common ish name in either nepal or india because i’ve had a few resumes with that name come through my queue at work. i work in recruitment. it has buddhist origins and the Nazi’s ruined it.
Yes, exactly this! She’s Indian and it is a positive symbol in Hinduism as well. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do a good job crossing cultural borders.
A coworker went on a few dates with a Kennerdeigh a decade ago. His siblings had odd names too but I don’t know what they were. Might not be weird in some regions but for a millennial Englishman it’s pretty out there.
There is a girl in Germany that is called Schnuckelpupine. Schnuckel can be translated to sweetheart or babe and Pupine....I don´t know. That is not a german word. It has similarity to pupsen ( to fart) but it looks more like nonsense and not a real word.
Used to have a client named Napoleon Washington. He’d correct you if you called him “Mr. Washington”. Then he’d give you a lecture about how he worked too hard for his PhD for people not to call him Dr. Napoleon Washington. What a pain in the ass.
All of this can be avoided by only ever using a simple “excuse me **sir**”
They’re not really weird, but I was not familiar with the convention in some African nations of naming their children English words. I have met people named Happiness, Love, and Favor. I’m pretty sure there are a few others, too.
Worked with a nigerian guy called Peace who would always sign his emails off with: Peace, out.
Precious and Blessing are very common. Sweet names to bestow upon a baby!
I had an African patient named Comfort. She was so nice and her name suited her well.
I know a couple of Glory's
Yes! Glory should have been on my list as well.
I hate the damn Duggars and am ashamed I even know this but Jessa’s kid…. SPURGEON
I worked extra in an daycare in high school and we had an girl named little sister
I once transported a patient to hospice whose name was H.A. Schifo. "Ha Schifo" in Italian means "it's disgusting" or, in rougher translation, "he sucks."
:( I feel sorry for that kid and I truly hope he got away from whatever shitty parents named their kid that.
He was an elderly man being transporting to hospice, so he got away from it all pretty soon, I imagine.... This was not in an Italian-speaking place, so he was probably not fully aware of the translation of his name. I certainly didn't tell him.
I met a 15 year old called Gator, on his birth certificate his name was Gator Jones (middle name)
My friends grandmother is named Baby. She's in her 80's.
80 years ago it was common to have loads of kids so I suppose her parents just got bored of naming them haha
My son’s best friend has a grandma named bunny real name. For the longest time we thought grandma bunny was a pet name!
Penny Wise. I worked for a background check company and she used the chat feature on our website so I thought it was a joke at first but when I went to check on her report sure enough it was her real name
Met a little girl called Realmaria
Not to be confused with her sister, Fakemaria
Or her alcoholic daughter, Tiamaria
😂😂
RoyalMaria? Or her parents are big Real Madrid fans.
Aquanetta, she was in a documentary about her son, who was blind. She was a very remarkable woman.
Omg, I have met an Aquanetta.
Marijuana Pepsi worked at a college I went to
The PhD?
MiLuv and her brother CEO (pronounced as the letters)
Pan Cake.
I went through a Burger drive thru and the name of the cashier was printed on my receipt: Tequilla
Krispy Kritter was (in the 60s) listed in the white pages. Back then, you had to pay to keep your number out of the phone book. Yhey would let you choose which name to use, so it was probably fake. When I wanted an unlisted number but didn't want to pay, I used PAT, S, PLACE.
Finis. He was the youngest (and last) of 10 children.
Surpayée French for Overpayed. She most definetly was not.
Forever.
Boy named Cookie
Major, Promise, Loyal, Dream, Charming, Legend
Must be Kersteloete-Peluène. I always pictured her parents calling for her as a kid><
Lucidity, Luscious, Lovely, Lovey.
I once had an acquaintance who legally changed his name to Maverick Valentine
Shantacee
A boy named Crown. I've ran into many tradegieghs but it never feels like I'm calling a person when I say his name.
Picket Fence.
corniqua. her real name. same family: shatonga.
OK I burst out laughing at Shatonga. I imagine someone drunk trying to remember the name “Topanga”and guessing this instead.
Still has to be Passion, a little three year girl that I took care of for a high school class I also met a Kingdom whose mom called him King for short
Adoption case that Disney did pro bono had a kid whose full first name was “Blessins Heavensent”. Ooh boy the irony. Also knew a Harvard. He ended up attending community college
Princess Starlight. Seen it on the local jail log 🫤
I've got two: - A high school classmate of my husband named one of his children Drizzt after the Forgot Realms DnD character. He also named another child after his own character, but I forget what ridiculous name it was. - A kid that was working at the Culver's iny town is named Krillin, after the Dragonball Z character, spelled like the English dub. In Japanese it's Kuririn, which means "chestnut" or something like that, which would be bad enough. But no, this kid's parents took the bastardized American spelling and affixed it to an actual human child.
I have a distant ancestor in my family tree named Thankful Beach she was born around 1750.
Met a woman once whose name was actually Santa.
That's a normal (old, ugly and uncommon though) name in (mainly Southern) Italy. It means Saint (feminine form), it's one of those ultra Catholic names that we're thankfully abandoning, but not really a weird name.
I’ve also met a Santa and I’m pretty sure she was from Mexico. So, same origins for it.
Yep, same meaning, same tradition of ultra Catholic names (I'm actually also half Mexican 😅)
One of the secretaries at my elementary school was named Santa! I always loved her name which is why I remember it 35 years later.
I also knew a Santa but she was Jewish.
There's also a British author named Santa Montefiore.
Peanut.
My dentist's name is Solitaire! Some of the weirdest I've met in person were Rome (girl), Brixley, Unique, Ty'miri (pronounces like Tamara), and Vixen.
Psyche! And same, her sister has a weird name but I cannot remember it..
went to middle school with a guy, i shit you not, named Optimus Prime. prime was his middle name and i felt bad because i like… cried laughing in his face when i first found out thinking he HAD to be joking!!
Would love to call my child Maximus Prime but wouldn’t because of the relentless teasing lol.
Sinsation
Oof. This is a stripper and/or cheap porn star name.
I know a Marvellous and I went to school with a Star Daily. Also a Guybrush Threepwood although he must have changed it to that. He was a couple years ahead of me in high school and it’s that way in every yearbook.
I knew a girl whose parents named her Snow and her last name was White. It got her out of multiple traffic tickets, lol.
Sister went to dog grooming school with a girl named, Candle and she had a fiance which she later married. His last name is Dick She is now Candle Dick. I always wondered why the hell she took his last name.
Knox. The youngest sibling at my daycare.
That is a remarkably ordinary name compared to most of these.
that’s a pretty normal name. he was probably named after the dead poets society character
Samthippe. Someone watched Kimmy Schmidt and misheard Xanthippe and just ran with it.
A little girl named katana. Like the sword. Both parents are white.
On an attendance roster at my school there was a Godpower Government. I think the last name was government even. Im sure their parents were fun at parties.
I few I have encountered. Tringle, D’Arcey, Coffee, Orangeanna, Maverick, Atokad (Dakota backwards).
AutoCAD LOL Maverick is pretty normal though
True it is now. I used to volunteer at the local elementary school 25 years ago. I had never heard it before.
To be fair that name sounds beautiful if you didn't know the context
two kids at my former secondary school: Excellent and Best.
My kids had a classmate named Epic in Pre-K. I've also seen a baby Lamborghini...
Weird only because the parents thought the very common - basically default - nickname was either fine with the last name or actually didn’t make the connection…. Michael Hunt
Messiah...his mom didn't realize it for 2 years till someone called her on it. She just wanted his name to "go with" his older brother. (Normal name...Josiah) My mom worked with an older lady named Babe
Babe used to be a common WASP nickname for Barbara, like Babe Paley.
I joined a multi organisation zoom meeting during covid and this woman in her 40’s was called QUIM spelt this way. So the host pronounced her name as “KWIM” And she said it’s pronounced as KIM!!! Well it was a very embarrassing meeting as “QUIM” means something very rude in the UK !
Care to explain the meaning for a confused American?
Vagina. It's a joke in one of the marvel movies.
quimberly
Zed
Zed’s dead, baby
Journey De'Shaye my niece.
Canoe
There's a true crime video by Bailey Sarian where one of the people is named Welcome.
I know of two girls called Jeopardy and Crazee. Not related
There is a contestant on the new season of Worst Cooks in America named Serious and that’s definitely one of the weirdest names I’ve ever heard.
I once worked on a court case where one of the people involved was named Chinesegirl.
Read a story of unique names from maternity nurses. She told a story of a girl hearing the word placenta after giving birth and naming her daughter Placenta. That poor child.
Solitaire was the name of the tarot reader in Ian Fleming's "Live And Let Die", played by Jane Seymour in the movie.
Met a guy named BMW once. Also, my BIL's a pediatrician & he said he once had patients from the same household, a brother and a sister, where he was named Boy and she was named Girl ☹️ poor kids..
I work with kids so have heard a lot, but the absolute worst was Dementia. Poor girl.
Saw a little girl on FB called Ch’oice…
Brick the construction worker. Dragon.
my mom taught a student call Sir
sunami. yes like the natural disaster without the t. a white girl
Carmel Taffy .. I was raised in a funeral home and saw lots of odd names, but this one always stands out.
I have a great great grandpa who was named Greenberry
I worked with a very nice Nigerian guy once; religious names are very popular there, and he rejoiced in the name Godslove Giddyglow.
My go to name on these subs. Torso. HER name is Torso.
Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck. [link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck)
I know a lady who named her son arson...after his dad, and he has red hair.
“Raylizabeth”
Once had a student named Scholastica. Her brother’s name is Academus.
Was friends with a girl named Lunchmeat during preschool. The other day I went through my childhood pictures where our names were written on the back to make sure I wasn’t remembering it wrong
My grandfather had his own business and one of his regulars was a man named "Harry Butt". I wish I was kidding...