odd names for children?

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Know of any?

A friend of mine named his first born son Raiden (after a Japanese thunder god).

An acquaintance just had a child they named Kaden (I had to look it up... it either means "fighter" or "Companion").

And I just heard one the other day at (of all places) WalMart... a woman called her son Kelso (after her favorite TV character?).

[Mytical]

Before he passed on (without having children) My brother wanted to name his first son Montana Dakota. He wanted to name his second son Dakota Montana.

I've known an Ima and Ura(pronounced your a) last name Pigg.

Skylar (one of my nieces)
Mathew Darth (school friend)

[Grape The Cat]

There was a kid in the paper a few months ago named Pocket.

[AnaKhouri]

I think Kaden just falls under the Aiden/Braden/Jaden etc thing.

There are some truly awful names out there. My son's name is unusual in this day and age, but it isn't downright weird (Conrad Rainier).

If we have another son (unlikely) the husband has his heart set on Caspian. If we have a daughter (unlikely) it would be Diana.

Although if Conrad had been a girl I was prepared to fight Husband to name her Tenar (Earthsea reference).

So we like unusual names, but I don't believe they're all that strange. Like the waitress we had whose nametag said "Blendena".

I went to school with a kid named Rhett Butler.

[DeltaSierra]

I went to school with a girl named Montana, one of my sorority sisters named her son Jaron, and two online friends of mine have daughters named Renaissance and Summer Rayne. A neighbor's son is named Skylar.

[trailerparkmedic]

Check this out if you have too much time.

I've seen kids named Neveah (not weird anymore, I just dislike it) and Maru and even had a 30 year old mother named Sparkle. One of my nursing professors swears up and down that some nurses in a different city encouraged new moms to name their babies things like Syphilis, but with weird pronunciations.

[Kogarashi]

Two more links for the morbidly curious.

For closer-to-home ones, I have three cousins (all in the same family) named River, Sterling, and Colton, which is only halfway odd.

[Shpepper]

Is Phaedra (pronounced fay dra ) Weird ? if so then I am in that category. It's my daughter's name.

[fireheart]

One of the 5-year-olds I helped teach when I did work experience in Year 12 was named Kesia. (kess-ee-ah)

There was an article in the paper some time ago about parents in New Zealand who wanted to name their kids * (asterisk) and . (full stop). I shit you not.

In My Sisters Keeper, Anna was short for Andromeda and there was a mention of pregnant ladies tossing around names like Freedom, Low, Jack and Sleet. (Jack=not so bad).

If I ever have kids, a name I've tossed around for a girl was Freya. For a boy, can't remember :P

[blas]

I like the name Sura, the wife of Spartacus on the popular TV show.

Unusual but pretty.

[MoonCat]

Oh man, this is one of my pet peeves. Names should have meaning, not just be a random collection of sounds thrown together, and people so often seem to forget they're naming a person, not a little extension of their own interests or hobbies.

Some unusual real names I've seen:
Nugget
Philosopher
Chesterine
Ruby Champagne
La-Otis

[Kogarashi]

I'm not quite as upset if the names don't have meanings, but I do think some parents need to put a bit more thought (or a lot more) into the names they give their kids and whether or not that name will be as "pwecious" when the child is a 30-something lawyer or CEO. Sure, Precious Diamond is cute and all, but who's going to take her seriously in the courtroom?

I mean, there's odd/weird (like a lot of the forumites' kids' names), and then there's "should never be allowed to name children ever" (like the parents of Millionz'a Dollas or Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special-K or even poor little Chlamydia).

As for us, the weirdest we have so far is our daughter Maryn, who we named after a roleplaying character of mine whose name I thought I made up (and only later found in a baby name book). Another friend of ours named her oldest daughter after one of her roleplaying characters. The thing is, both girls have names that are fairly normal, as well as middle names they can fall back on if they turn 20 and decide their names are too odd.

[AccountingDrone]

At my last job I had to deal with a lovely woman named Latrine.

A friend of my husband named his son Elric.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Maru

After the cat? (As far as I can tell, it means circle or round..which fits the cat quite well.)

Can't say I've met anyone with a truly 'weird' name. My name is spelled like the German word for 'alone' but is pronounced differently. I had a customer once say to me "that's an odd name" with this little sneer on her face. Mostly I just get people who can't pronounce it no matter how many times I say it for them. (It's really not that hard.) But whenever I meet anyone who speaks German and they see my name before they hear it, they ask if it's pronounced that way. (Had a regular customer who told me how to say "I am not alone" in German; can't remember now, though.)

[Kogarashi]

(Had a regular customer who told me how to say "I am not alone" in German; can't remember now, though.)

"Ich bin nicht allein."