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Tiger, Ferret and Awesome are among the quirky names which have been given to babies born in Britain in the last year.

At least three families have given the name Miracle to newborn boys, and at least three girls have been called Tequila by their parents.

A football-mad family even decided to name their child Rooney-Scholes in tribute to two Manchester United footballers.

Figures released by the Office for National Statistics reveal that the names Awesome, Marvellous and Excellent were each given to at least three boys in 2011.

Boys called Zeus and Billybob appear to have been named after a Greek god and Hollywood actor Billy Bob Thornton respectively.

One family even named their child Jagger-Rock after the lead singer of the Rolling Stones.

As well as Tequila, girls' names include Velvet, Ray, Loveday and Comfort.

Parents keen to instil good manners in their daughters from an early age have called them Purity, Promise and Justice.

Other names registered this year are understood to include Peace, Rogue, River, Serendipity, Diesel-Joe and Rider Zoom.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188624/Tiger-Ferret-Tequila-Rooney-Scholes-Just-bizarre-names-given-British-children-parents.html

Ferret???

Just makes me think "He's got a ferret down his trousers!".

Or the Ferret song from the radio Show "I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again," which was the forerunner to the Goodies, and started with the line:

I've got a Ferret sticking up my nose

not kidding ~ local boy is named Tsunami :-)

Imagine naming your child Natural Disaster.

What's next ~ Ying Tong Iddle I Po?

Good luck to future genealogists.

:-D

Actually, Scozz, that is the name of my great nephew. He's a bit of a goon :-D

Was that a splash I heard????

He's fallen in the water :-D

there's also a young girl who lives near here, her name is Ocean!

I can't help but wonder what would happen if Tsunami & Ocean get together :-(

Allan ~ is your nephew really called Ying Tong Iddle I Po? lol

:-D

Yep and his changing mat is reffered to as his i pad :-D

The moon is also made of cheese

but in Oz, as you may be aware, this is a blue moon month with two full moons, the next on August 31st...and that is about the only true statement on this post of mine :-D :-D

Many of the 'unusual' names you have listed are commonly popular within the African and West Indian communities.

Comfort - Marvellous - Excellent

Worked many years ago (far more than I care to remember) on the Post Office counters and names such as these were not that unusual.

And OT biblical names were and are also very popular. My favourite old gent (and old Englishman) was named Obadiah, and I really like that name for some odd reason, maybe because I associate it with a lovely old man. And Loveday is a traditional old English name much associated with Quakers (I believe).

One thing we did notice, which we realised must have gone back to the slave owning days was the amount of West Indians with names that meant white including: White - Blanche - Blanco etc.,
:-)

Did come across a first name yesterday in one of the census' that didn't give the poor girl much of a chance in life

"Harlot"

Bet it was Hariot and mis-trranscribed!!!!! I am always amazed at the many and varied spellings of this name, having several in my tree (including the daughter of the man below).

My g/g/grandfather was shown as a MORON on the last census he appeared on and I thought how sad - when I looked at the original it was MASON!!!!

FERRET pmsl twice :-P :-P

My OH's great-grandfather's name is Isaacher ~ a good Methodist from Cornwall!


:-D

It's not just nowadays that strange names are used.
My favourites, from various censuses are:
Obadiah Orange Lemon, and one of my ancestors - a lad from Cornwall called Brighton Gay!!

I have a relation with the unusual first name of Gaius. That was one of his grandfather's names, and his g grandfathers, and gg grandfathers etc etc!! So not such a 'new' strange name.

a few years back in the births column of the South Wales Echo was a baby boy named Deckland - presumably his parents had heard the name Declan and thought that's how you spell it!!!

..I'm afraid there are quite a few Derricks around too :-D

I have some "interesting" names in my family tree.

Scottish families used to have a definite naming pattern for their children (made it easier for researchers!).

But! I have families with lots of daughters. Obviously the grandads were getting annoyed at having no grandsons named for them......... so the girls got a female version of the grandad's name.

Some are fine, Roberta, Georgina, Edwina etc etc....... but what about.......

Andrewetta, Douglasina, Gideona, (just a few I have)......... but the prize has to go to..... Archibaldina! What a name to give a baby girl!!

:-D

Had an aunt Ray born in Wales in 1917. Always thought it was Rachel until I looked up her birth.

Pat :-)

LOL@ FERRET :-D :-D :-D :-D.. ;-)

I quite like the name Jagger --- moves like Jagger - moves like Jagger.... :-D

And another name we need to pause and think about is Florence, before Florence Nightingale (named after Florence where her parents honeymooned) this was solely a boys name.

And Pink was for boys and blue was for girls