The Most Outlandish Names for British Children

During the past ten years fanciful British parents ran up quite a list of highly uncommon names they gave their children, sometimes borrowing words from the worlds of cars or fashion to use them as names!

Researchers from Bounty.com ploughed their way through reams of records looking up unusual baby names given since the beginning of the century. They came up with a Top 20 list that places such names as Shy, Unity and Bean firmly on top places. And naturally, being leaders, they are not the strangest ones yet.

Some car fans went so far as to name their children Porsche or – a more educated and generalized idea – Diesel.

MTV may have helped bring about the idea of naming your little one Bowie or Cobain, with Maroon also very much reminiscent of Maroon 5.

Fashion craze gave rise to personal names like Armani and Denim (maybe Serge would have been more suitable, after all?)

Deriving names from children’s surroundings resulted in the appearance of children called Puppy, Ice and Stone. And maybe we should congratulate parents who thought up the name Victory!

A craving for beauty and flights of fantasy drove some to name their children Gift, Echo and Heaven.

A spokeswoman for Bounty.com expressed her concern with the names she called “wacky”, which represent a growing tendency among British parents to try and be very creative over their children’s names. It is all right if you want your child’s name to single him or her out, “but there are a few names here that children may find hard to live up to!”

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