What's the oddest name you've found?

[NooshieW]

Two great great Aunts, both who died in infancy,were baptised Falantua (Flantau on one document).
Although we have extensively researched this name we cannot find out where it originated from.

[a-l]

Two great great Aunts, both who died in infancy,were baptised Falantua (Flantau on one document).
Although we have extensively researched this name we cannot find out where it originated from.

It has southern hemisphere sound to it , NZ , Samoa that area.

[mirl]

A very quick google search found references for Flantua in the Netherlands.

[Maiden Stone]

This is a current one. A celebrity couple, a Mr West and his wife/partner have a child called North.

[GrahamSimons]

This is a current one. A celebrity couple, a Mr West and his wife/partner have a child called North.

Sort-of following on from that - the Southern Blot is a molecular biology technique named after Edwin Southern who invented it. Since then similar techniques include the northern blot, the western blot and even the south-western blot.

[jestina_d]

This is a current one. A celebrity couple, a Mr West and his wife/partner have a child called North.

I have been surprised to learn that Mr West and partner were not the first to name a child North -- I have recently found a North Carter (male) on my tree, born in 1903.  Rumour has it that he was not held back in life by the name, and became an Air Vice Marshall in the RAF (yet to be confirmed).

[jillruss]

Nothing to do with genealogy, but I was watching the athletics the other evening and one of the (I think, Jamaican) women runners was called Sparkle!!  What a lovely name - a lot to live up to, though! 

[Knight-Sunderland]

I recently found a new ancestor, Jane WOMPRA (born 1775). The surname is so unusual I thought it had to be a mistake - but no, it is a genuine surname that seemed to exist solely in the North Yorkshire region in the 18th-19th century.

A few of my favourite ancestor names -

Stirling Begbie Hood (a solid name, I like it a lot)

Benjamin Smyrke-Wyat (changed his name by deed poll from plain old 'Smirk' to sound more posh!)

Elizabeth Belch (!)

[CarolA3]

Elizabeth Belch (!)

There are lots of Belchers in my family - a classic Oxfordshire/Berkshire name

Also an Elizabeth ZEKIEL, which could be a variant of Ezekiel

Carol