What's the oddest name you've found?

[Geordie daughter]

What a shame you'll never know the source of Vence Dora's name, Prawncocktail! Maybe it was the name of one of the vessels on the docks. Was it passed down through her descendants?

Here are some more contributions to the odd names list, from Sussex registers:
George Hedgehog (appropriately enough, a gardener by trade) who was buried in Clayton in 1753
The Hogsflesh family, whose son Francis was buried in Brighton in 1743

[Andrew Tarr]

In my Turton parish - which by now is pretty familiar - a new strain arrived in the 1830s called Fish, which in itself is not especially strange.  However one member appears to been named Fish, i.e. his full name was Fish Fish.  Either that, or he simply had no forename at all ....

[Rosinish]

Just found a Mary Moonlight...

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYSQ-6V2

I haven't looked for others with that surname nor have I seen it before.

Annie

[Sloe Gin]

Alas, no! I remember hearing the name when I was a child, and liking just the sound of it. But I never thought to ask where they'd got it from!

The Perry's were boatmen on the Weaver Canal, they could have picked it up from anywhere. They went down the Canal, and even over to Liverpool - Vence Dora's dad was in the Victoria Dock in the 1881 Census, so it could have come from anywhere in the world. And he wouldn't have had a clue how to spell it! 

Canals .... I wonder if someone misread Venice - saw a painting of it perhaps, and read the title as Venice.  Just a thought. 

Vence of course is a place in the South of France, again perhaps someone saw a picture or read about it and pronounced it as it looked to them.

[Sloe Gin]

ooops - That should of course say "read the title as Vence".

[littlesis 76]

I had a siblings  who where named Orange and Lemon ,sadly Orange died aged 7 but Lemon went on to name his eldest Lemon
My favourite was Cook Rice from Suffolk he also called his son Cook so must of liked his name 😀😀

[mijath]

When I first found my 4 x great grandmother I was sure her name was Ann Teak. I later realised it was actually Feak.

I was particularly confused when I found an ancestor in the 1630s named his daughter Matthew. This was apparently not unusual in Norfolk at the time.

I find certain biblical names odd - Mehetabel and Nazareth spring to mind.

Ann Feak's own grandmother had twins named Marmaduke and Bolland. I've always liked those as a pair.

[..claire..]

I found a marriage tonight of a BELLY RYDING ~ took me an age to realise it should have been Betty Ryding.

I'm blaming the wine

[a chesters]

Yours or theirs