Born in Udine in 1912, to a family of artists and interior designers, Afro's
unusual name was given to him by his patriotic parents in honour of Italy's recent colonisation of the North African coast of Libya.
Not exact matches
To help, here
's our round up of the most
unusual baby
names given to boys in 2014 — perfect for mothers who like to think outside the box.
Almeria
is an
unusual given name for women.
Amorra
is an
unusual given name for women.
Ameliya
is an
unusual given name for females.
Whether you
're after a traditional or
unusual baby
name, our collection of baby
name articles
are here to
give you the inspiration you need to choose that special baby boy or baby girl
name.
It
's acceptable to
give your child more than one
name (my step - daughter, for instance,
is called Tyra Janice Elizabeth) though it
's slightly
unusual.
Jamei
is an
unusual given name for women.
To help, here
's our round up of the most
unusual baby
names given to boys in 2016 — perfect for parents who want something outside the box — as opposed to off the shelf.
One recent example
is Hazel — which undoubtedly would not have increased as much as it has if first Julia Roberts hadn't
named her daughter that, and then John Green hadn't
named the main character in «The Fault in Our Stars» Hazel — a highly
unusual name for a teenage girl when the book
was published, but one that educated avant - garde writers like Green (prep school grad, Kenyon College English major, married to an art museum director)
were giving to their own baby daughters.
That mention of Liz Kendall
gives the game away somewhat: a brave and doughty fighter for her brand of social democracy, she
is rather
unusual in that she
is both a «
name» that means anything at all outside Westminster, and
is prepared to put her head once more over the parapet.
Giving this dying star such a weird
name is less of a challenge than trying to figure out how dying stars create those
unusual shapes.
When Amber Rojas
gave birth to her fifth child, a girl she
named Amadeus, she knew something
was unusual.
The
names in this male cat
names list contain more
unusual or unique ones alongside popular
names that have
been given to male cats.
The
names in this male cat
names list contain some of the more
unusual or unique ones alongside popular
names that have
been given to male cats.
It
's unusual in a game like this a
name's lead character to
be given this much personality of his own, but he
's a decidedly witty fellow back up by some pretty good voice acting, although it does have to
be said that for someone tasked with the saving of the world by way of defeating an ancient evil he doesn't really seem in that much of a rush to get anything done.
(We assume the artist's
unusual name can
be parsed as the backwards spelling of his
given name, Derrick Bowser — though we
're only speculating.)
The «Beast from the East»
was the
name given by the media to an
unusual weather pattern which saw warmer that average temperatures over the arctic sending colder air further south than normal, resulting in much of western Europe
being hit with sustained low temperatures and heavy snow, blown in from Siberia.
Hatti L. Hamlin, an independent PR practitioner and consultant, has an
unusual name that
is most often spelled with an «e.» She doesn't spell it that way and notes that it «irritates me no end when people to whom I've
given my business card don't pay attention to how my
name is spelled.»
But he acknowledged that it
's not
unusual for realtors to
give out the more comprehensive broker full MLS listings, even though they contain «sensitive» information such as the
name of the homeowners, their exact address, mortgage details and even sometimes notes to brokers such as the times the house can or can't
be shown, the Tribunal heard Tuesday.
He'd
been born at the time that
unusual name had popped into my head and it
was the very same
name his birth mom had
given him.