Reminds me of a story my Mum has mentioned a couple of times (she works for local government) - was visiting someone who had just given birth and was filling in the paperwork; she asked for the name of the child, to which she was given this "word", which turned out to be a character from Star Wars - let's go with "Buboicullaar" - I can't remember which one it was, but it was something random like that. After Mum doing some research about where this name had come from, she asked how they were spelling it - to which their response was "Oh, we don't know how to spell it, we just liked the name" - once my Mum had managed to find the correct spelling online, it had suddenly become something more like "Bubaicular" and nothing like the original spelling. I believe the child is no longer with the parents, has been adopted and the child's name was changed by deed poll.
(PS - I am not a Star Wars or Star Trek fan - so the names mean nothing to me, apart from they are not names I would consider as "normal") - my kids would definitely be from lists including James, Thomas, Richard, Elizabeth, Laura and Victoria! I'd save Blossom, Apple, Peaches and Nectarine for middle names!!
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Incidentally, strange/unusual forenames are not a new thing - can you remember any of your school class with names which might actually seem normal now, but were a bit "out there" back in the day?
I remember we had a Nina, Francesca, Sonia, Jill and a Martin was about as strange as it got!
), we took a booking for a Polceman by the name of PC Truncheon.
