Several posts in one

[girlsteve.livejournal.com]

I'm currently running student elections where I work, and one of the best bits is taking names when people vote. First, I've noticed that there seem to be a lot of people with the rather unfortunate surname of Cockburn. Second, there are a lot of unusual names out there.

Some that I remembered, because I couldn't note them down, were:

Comfort
Leander
Odie
Morrisey
Michael and Luke, both girls
Anderlea


Also, a friend of the family over in Ireland has a son, about five years old, named Brè. Pronounced Bray, it's apparently the Galic name of a seaside town in Dublin. Just wondering what people thought?

Also, and this question is directed to anyone living outside the UK, how would you pronounce the name Leicester?