It amazes me sometimes what parents name their kids.

When I was at school, there was a boy a couple of years above me called ARDEN BENT everyone called him Soft and Straight.

Another one was a midwife told me she had just delivered a boy called DWAIN whats wrong with that I hear you cry! His last name was PIPE!

A few months ago there was an article in the paper about a couple who had called their son DREW PEACOCK and when the proud Dad did a search on the net to see if his son had the same name as anyone famous the question DO YOU MEAN DROOPY COCK? came up.

Whats the silliest name you have heard of?

You only have to look at what some of life's non-entities (sorry, 'celebrities') have called their sprog.

Didn't Frank Zappa call one of his daughters Luna-Bay? Bob Geldoff's daughter is called Peaches and that foul mouthed cook off the tele with the funny lisp called his child something like Daisy Boo.

Ozzy and Sharon Osborne however had the opportunity to call their daughter something really apt but didn't. I reckon as they sat in the delivery room with their newborn child, names like Incredibly Ugly Thing must have sprung to mind....,

Out here in New Zealand many people give their children uncommon names.

My Moari neighbours have 5 children-Chezzity, Tequila, Santana, Saxon and Paradise.

A nephew and niece are named Minke and Blue after the whales.

There is a Chardonay and a Mercedes in the village and many other different names.

Happy days

Originally posted by dawny1
Whats the silliest name you have heard of?

While I've heard of (and know people with) many silly names, the funniest are the way the parents spell them. It sometimes seems that the mother scrawls random letters on the birth certificate application and then calls the child the name that it is most unlike!

My late Grandfather assured me that he attended school with a boy named, Aaron Mycock. However, he was prone to comical invention, such as insisting that a local butcher had accidentaly emasculated himself whilst preparing a skirt of beef , that the 'Lollypop Man' near Wincobank School wore ladies 'briefs' underneath his uniform, and sometimes sported lipstick and eye shadow etc. This leads me to doubt the authenticity of the claim, somewhat.

Originally posted by Ousetunes
Didn't Frank Zappa call one of his daughters Luna-Bay?

No. He called his 2 daughters Moon Unit and Diva

I know someone called eye ball in norway :D

I knew someone in Sheffield called Iball! Worked for Midland Bank in 1980s.

One of our network contacts at a customer site was a big black guy called Cecil Daisy. Built like Frank Bruno as well.
It always reminded me of the Johnny Cash song - "a boy Named Sue"

I know someone with the initials VD, no prizes for guessing what name she was known by at school, and it wasn't Roxy :D

I used to date a german guy called Uwe, which looks harmless enuff, but it's pronounced oover, so you can imagine the amount of jokes it created as to his sucking effects?!?!

There was a girl in my class at school whos little brother was named Edward Edwards.

We had a client at work whose name was Hugh Juan.

Some Idiot back home named their newborn Michael Owen David Seaman.

User ids at my company are made up of your first initial followed by the first 4 letters of your surname.

So why was Gill Spotswood not happy with the ID she was given:D :D

Originally posted by mojoworking
He called his 2 daughters Moon Unit and Diva Don't forget their brothers "Ahmet" & "Dweezil", and of course his wife whom he nicknamed his "Barking Pumpkin" due to her smoker's cough.

Then there was my friend who was named "Philip Matthew Simon", three names that gave him interesting initials.

My junior school had an Andrew Andrews! Never could figure that one out.

I knew a girl called Labyrinth and heard of another poor girl in Sheffield called T'Pau. :gag:

A guest speaker at uni was called Basil Sage!

Originally posted by FetishFairy
My junior school had an Andrew Andrews! Never could figure that one out. Try this one on for size: the father of Gary & Phil Neville (crap footballers) is named "Neville Neville".

An unfortunate schoolmate had the name William Jonathon Richard Cock. Naturally everyone used the less formal versions of his forenames...Willie Johnny & Dick.

used to go to school with a girl in the 70s called ira chester..not sure i would like to go through life being called after the I.R.A. i doubt she was actually called after that though,not sure when the ira were formed anyway,so it could just be bad luck.

I went to school with:

Robert Roberson
William Williamson
Andrew Anderson
Andrew Dick (A. Dick)

but the best was walking past a playground a few years ago to hear a mum calling for her daughter


"Pocahontas! where are you Pocahontas!":suspect:

They had a "Helen Back" and a "Megan Bacon" on Graham Norton's show once.

i went to school with a guy called John thomas and to make matters worse his dad was american. Still cannot get over gary and phil Nevilles dad either - Neville Neville poor guy

Originally posted by Carmine
and a "Megan Bacon" on Graham Norton's show once.

She works in Cole Brothers, don't know if it's the same one though.

Makes you wonder what some parents are thinking when they name their kids.

I grew up with boy named Free, who had a sister named Glee. They had hippie parents who were also nudists.

Went to school with a girl named Anemone Indelicato. Whose family owned a winery.

Our neighbors, the Miramontes family. Who had four sons named Angel, Jesus, (whom everyone called "Chewy", the mexican nickname for Jesus), Jose, (also nicknamed Pepe), and Ignacio, (also called Nacho)

Lots of people name their kids after nature in California. I knew plenty of girls named Misty, Star, Rain, or Sunshine.

Spanish and Native American names are popular. A classmate of mine, a girl named Blanca (spanish for "white"), who had a younger brother named Lobo (wolf) Girls named Cheyenne or Sioux, and boys named Cody or Dakota.

And my favorite, one of my sister's friends, Evangeline Pagaduan. Who was forever having to spell her name for teachers.

:) Sierra

I know someone called Cherry Butterfield...lol

I know someone who also lives in California - place of weird names lol - one of her children is called Bliss and the other Brie.

How unfair is that, one called after a wonderful feeling of joy and the other named after a smelly old cheese. hm! :rolleyes:

a lad who used to work for me swore blind a kid at his school was called Aaron Mycock

Yes and he had a brother called Alec!

I knew a lad in school called Barry Cade.

The bloke I really feel sorry for is Bill Posters. Everywhere I look I see it plastered on walls, "Bill Posters will be prosecuted." Trouble is, no one ever seems to know what he's done.

Dawny .........:D

For work I used to take a lot of phone calls from teachers and one woman who rang up was called mrs simpson. Not a very strange name I know but she worked at springfield school in springfield! The kids must love her :bigsmile:

I had a biology teacher called Miss Virgin. As you can imagine, the hilarity never failed to impress us.
What's more, she became a single mother when I was in the third year :)

Originally posted by MovingOn
I knew a lad in school called Barry Cade.


That one sounds about as likely as Mr & Mrs Tits and their lovely daughter Ophelia ;)

Originally posted by mojoworking
That one sounds about as likely as Mr & Mrs Tits and their lovely daughter Ophelia ;)

And their cousin, Norma Stitz

I went out with a primary school teacher a few years back and she was always coming across strange kid's names. Some of them bordered on child abuse.

One mother, Mrs Abbot, had about 5 kids and each one's name started with the letter K. Kurt, Karly, Kris etc. The poor lad Kurt was named after 2 celebrities. Kurt Russell Abbot!!!

Another poor girl had a double barrel first name, a double barrel last name and a very bizarre middle name. The poor lass was obviously named after a motorbike. Harley-Jo Davidson Cliffard-Harding. What were her parents thinking?

One poor lad was named Zebedee Zachovich and another was named after a famous footie manager. Brian Clough Copley.

Why???? :loopy: When the kid reaches 18 he/she will be straight down to Deed Poll for a name change. I know I would!

Once knew a family called PIGG...when kids started arriving they changed it to PEGG..

Had a mate in the army called 'Jock' Rea. His rank?......Gunner!!:P

there was a teacher at a sheffield school called mrs hor

but before we critises parents just consider some of the siggies on here - remember you chose that name for your self!!

Fetish fairy,
I also went to senior school with an Andrew Andrews also a Wei Ping Wall and a few Crappers, I work with elderly people and the christian name Fanny is common, surnames that follow that really stand out are Whole and White. I know old fashioed names are making a come back but lets hope nobody names their new borns this

I went to school with a Katie Dickson-Cox...so unfortunate.

hrhrhr is deffo a silly name :)

I went to school with a lad called Albert Wiffin. Of course everyone called him Albie.

Had an art teacher in senior school called Mr Dick.

I was on a course years ago with a Richard Sole, nothing wrong with that until he wrote R.Sole on his form and then some wise guy(not me) mentioned what it sounded like!

My twins are called Traktor and Traylor :)

Wally Jumblatt's mum was havin a laff

Went to college with a girl called Loveday. One of my ex's was called Stan Mann.

At uni I met a girl with the surname Horniblow ..... I'm sorry to say I giggled when she introduced herself :o Not surprisingly perhaps our acquaintanceship didn't really recover from the first meeting .... :P

StarSparkle :hihi:

We've all heard of 'Ben Dover', but earlier I heard the Yorkshire version, on the news I think it was... Ben Door.

Whilst I have never met (most) of these people myself, friends of mine (claim) to have met:


Lydia Kettle
Roman Britain
Annette Curtain
Emma Royd
Michael Hunt (think about it - but not too long!)

when I was at school at Wath On Dearne there was a girl called mary cockin but everyone( boys ) called her Ismay.seamed funny at the time.

I've just remembered the Akuma-chan incident which drew national attention about 10 years ago. A young couple tried to name their son Akuma. :o The city didn't accept the application because akuma (=devil) is not appropriate for name. In the end, they chose another name.

I've heard of a young girl called Wednesday Joy Adams - poor girl.

Also, a guy once told me that he'd heard of a woman who called her two kids Red and Blue!

Originally posted by miniminch
there was a teacher at a sheffield school called mrs hor

but before we critises parents just consider some of the siggies on here - remember you chose that name for your self!!

My kids knew a teacher by that name.

Worked on a hospital ward with a Dr. De'ath... wasn't a popular chappie with the patients as one can imagine :?

also whilst working in a call centre, one of the girls spoke to a customer called Mr Gilly's Pie, the thing was, she had pronounced it wrong, it was Gillespie!!! :loopy: lol

About 40 years ago a Manchester man gave his son all 11 christian names of Man united .

I had a teacher called Ann Pratt (it said A Pratt on her locker)! I once spoke to a man who changed his name to 'Pink Dandelion'. The very famous one in the place I used to work was a customer who was called Adaepo S h i t t a! I think we all looked at that file at one time or another :D

K x

I was at school with a girl called Acua Juicy Apple dont know if thats how to spell it But thats how you pronounced it

we had a lad at our school named jj jameson.. now we thort that was his name till he told us it short for

jamie james jameson .. with his 1st name named after his dad and 2nd name after his g-dad.. no wonder the poor lad made his name to two letters.

Wasn't there a makeover show on TV not long ago hosted by a couple of gay blokes called Howard and Justin?

I have heard of some one called Assumpta Hall. I wonder if she knows Belinda Hend.

Don't know how many of you have been following "Danny Baker's" radio shows over the past 15 years or so, but he's been collecting a school register of odd names for most of that time. I think the list is currently:

_________________ Aspro Fender
_________________ Mal Peachy
_________________ Jesus of Garston
_________________ Loveit Cortez
_________________ Pierre Pierro
_________________ Wonder Mango
_________________ Quentin Garside P.I
_________________ Maria Ros Usa-Navy Hernandez
_________________ Poovan Saravanna Pervana San
_________________ Wirrawit Wirraworra Wit
_________________ Drew Blood
_________________ Prince Nicely
_________________ Everton Council
_________________ Chay Rustin Puzaris Hedger
_________________ Fezzerhat Ubey
_________________ Mika Natasha Natashka Winoa Allen
_________________ Cliff Sparrowhawk
_________________ James George Barty Barty Goldfinch
_________________ Emerra Movez Mo
_________________ Constantino Constantos
_________________ Brent Shillato
_________________ Leicester South
_________________ Giles Franklin Cool Peterson
_________________ Mario Scarro Skipper Scarri Discomprer de Biffa
_________________ Moses Moses Eppiphany Appleseed
_________________ Norman Saxon
_________________ Cordelia Delia Wong Chong Chang Po
_________________ Emillio Spandozee
_________________ Boring Geoff Frimley
_________________ Millicent Matthew Mugubligan
_________________ Mr. and Mrs. Booneeboompana

It's best if you hear him read them out here (http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/wlist.ram)

Met a child once called Lee King, cruel parents or what?!

My brother-in-law taught a lad called Sean Gash.

I work for an insurance company who has a life policy for
Fungus the Bogeyman.....
presumably changed by deed poll.....
No Mrs Bogeyman though........Odd that:loopy:


EDIT: forgot to mention....
He lives in sheffield!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anybody know him????

On my childhood street was Mr Ivor Woodhead!
& at City School there was Jack Russell.
I know a Max Wall too.

my hubby is mates with a chap called chris dover, but everyone calls him ben.

Most people he works with etc only know him as ben and when he and his mrs send out xmas cards, he signs them
Chris (Ben) so that people know who its from.

good job he has a sense of humour. :D

When i was at school I knew a girl whose brother was called

Barclay Card

I know it's funny, but I just don't understand why some parents don't think about how much teasing they're gonna cause...

LoopyLou - has this Ben Dover got a mate called Phil McAvity ?
:heyhey:

A friend of a friend of a friend etc, had a baby called Blue......... not so unusual but then she married a bloke that adopted her... his surname was Lamb!

Blue Lamb!? Hope she ends up marrying someone with a sensible name!

Originally posted by LoopyLou
User ids at my company are made up of your first initial followed by the first 4 letters of your surname.

So why was Gill Spotswood not happy with the ID she was given:D :D

A company I once worked for had a 'first initial + first 3 letters of the surname' convention.

All fine and dandy until Terry Watson started his employment.

Mine was 'atom' which was nice.

A friend of a friend worked with Mr. and Mrs. Slicker's son, Rob.

I also know a 'Chris Peacock'

Or how about this poor girl......
http://www.electraisd.net/alumni/1993_seniors.htm

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