Unusual First Names

[BettyofKent]

On Geneanet I found a Royal Hunt WANSTALL, born in America.  With those forenames I would love to claim him as one of my Kent Wanstalls, but I've just been looking for him on the censuses & he was a Native American (Arapaho) born in Wyoming & living on a reservation.
I'm going to keep looking just to try & satisfy my curiosity, as Wanstall doesn't sound very Native American, nor does Royal come to that.

[Rena]

At one time in the 20th century if a Registrar didn't agree to the couple's odd choice of names for their baby he would insist they choose a different one.  That news didn't stay hidden in the registrar's office;  it often found its way into the daily newspapers.

 

In the mid 60s, in Germany, the registrar had 2 lists - 500 boy's names and 500 girl's names. Not on the list = not registered. At that time, there were many hundreds of thousands of Turkish "guest workers" and their families living there. Practically all the baby boys were called Michael, because Mohammed was not on the list. 

Regards 

Chas

I didn't know about the Michaels, but I did know that those who had a permit to work were allowed a permit to live in the country.  Once the work ended they had no right to live in a house or the country.  Then one year Germany was hit by a very bad slump in fortune and there was no work.  Forty-one year old people with Turkish heritage were expected to leave the country and go back to a "home" they knew nothing about.    I remember the British government was amongst other governments who voted that Germany had to change its law.

[Annie65115]

If we're coming up to date, what about the Kosovan babies named Tonibler, as a thank you to one T. Blair after the Kosovan war?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/20/kosovan-albanians-name-children-tony-blair-tonibler

[Albufera32]

The most unusual name I have in my tree is "Jeanornella" Ure.

She was at least the sixth daughter in the family. There is definitely a Jean already born and living (my 3xG Grandmother) and although I have not found the birth record for a Helen (ie Nellie) her mother's name was Helen so it seems likely there was a Helen already as well, possibly one who died in infancy. I have a mental image of the parents trying to think of a name and mother Helen saying something like "We can't call her Jean or Nellie"

The name is NOT a transcription error - she has a daughter with the same name born in 1863, and the birth register distinctly has both mother and daughter as "Jeanornella". I suspect the daughter disliked the name however, since on her marriage she gives her own name as simply Jean, whilst her mother is listed as Nellie. Her first daughter is named as "Jane Ure" Bennie.

[BumbleB]

Not in my tree but I've just been transcribing again - Andrewartha - 2 instances, one in 1869, died the same year, and 1871, all in the Penzance RD, and the only instances showing on FreeBMD.

[Treetotal]

They make my Venadora or Vence Dora depending on which document you read seem quite normal 
Carol

[BumbleB]

Yes, and I'm not even sure which gender they were 

[Treetotal]

A misheard Andrew Arthur perhaps? 
Carol

[BumbleB]

Could be - GRO gives the sex as male for the 1869 birth registration and 1871 - same mother's maiden name for both entries.