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Lisa Hodge

Mums share the weirdest names they've heard - including Miracle and Marvellous

Choosing a name for your baby is no easy feat.

Once you decide on it, in almost all cases, they're stuck with it for life, so you really need to be sure.

Mums have been revealing the most weird, whacky and downright splendid names they have ever come across.

One mum said she knew a teenager called 'Miracle' while another said she knew a GP called 'Dr Pain'.

But that wasn't the only unusual monikers people shared.

Mums have been revealing the most weird, whacky and downright splendid names they have ever come across. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

The Mumsnet discussion was prompted by one post from a woman who said: "I recently heard of an Elphinstone. Have also met a couple of kids called Star.

"What fun/marvellous/slightly wacky names have you come across?"

People replied in their hundreds revealing some of the whackiest and unusual names they'd heard.

One said: "I know 3 sisters called Summer, Moon and Star. I feel like Moon pulled the short straw."

Another said: "I was in a doctor's waiting room once with a young woman called Jubilee McQueen. She was born on the Queens Silver Jubilee."

"A Lollipop-Mae. In A&E in front of me," said another.

Another woman said: "I recently met a little girl called Loveday. I thought it was a most splendid name"

Another woman said she had met a 'Billie Midnight Blue', while someone else said they knew a lady called 'Coriander', and another went to school with a girl called 'Jett Black'.

One woman said she knew a 'Diamanté' and that she had 'serious name envy', while another added: "I once worked with someone called Alphonse Wondergems. Awesome name!"

Other names were more fanciful with one woman saying she knew "two sisters called Rainbow and Star, last name: Hart" and another said she knew a "Precious and a Sleepy" - and no she was not Snow White.

Teachers also weighed in on the discussion, giving unique names they had come across during their careers.

One said "I know a child called Marvellous!" another added: "[I knew a] Blessing. He was no such thing."

Another person said the name 'Gary-Frank' was the most unusual she had come across, while another mum had a midwife with a very suitable name. She said: "My very first midwife was called Comfort. What a marvellous name for a midwife."

For others in the medical profession their names were less suitable: "I knew a GP called Dr Pain," said another; "Met a GP Dr Death (Dee eth) apparently it’s Czech," said someone else.

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