strange family names

[MacGrigor]

Actually, I have one great-great-aunt with a strange name! Her name was Tryphena Ivy Levinia Pepper. Sadly, she died in infancy. Her sister was my great-grandmother, Florence Sarah Irene Pepper. Much more regular names thankfully 

[Redroger]

It was not uncommon for the next child of the same gender to be given the names of the child previously deceased, so perhaps your ancestor was lucky? In my own family in earlier times I have seen this take place from a few weeks after the death in some cases, to in one case several years before the next child of the same sex was born.

[Maiden Stone]

Austin was a good one, presumably a family name.

Austin can be a variant of Augustine.

[pinefamily]

My line with the Ferdinando's was definitely not Catholic. After checking my files, there were actually three of the name. The first seemed to have done for himself, working as a secretary at the Exchequer. Perhaps the other two were named in his honour.

[AdamsHodgetts]

I have a couple of friends with Greek names (not related to each other) with long unusual names. One is Nickarzia (pronounced Nic-kar-zia) Zeke who has a Welsh surname but has Greek, Italian and English ancestry. The other is Christothea  who has Greek ancestry.

In our family tree, unusual names I hadn't heard of, were the names Brilliana and Parthenia. Where have these names come from?

[Sloe Gin]

Actually, I have one great-great-aunt with a strange name! Her name was Tryphena Ivy Levinia Pepper. Sadly, she died in infancy. Her sister was my great-grandmother, Florence Sarah Irene Pepper. Much more regular names thankfully 

Tryphena is mentioned in the New Testament, along with Tryphosa  (Romans 16.12)
I've come across a few Tryphenas, but never a Tryphosa.
Thomas Hardy had a cousin named Tryphena Sparks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryphena_Sparks

[carom]

I also have a Tryphena in my tree and my first thought was that it sounded very Thomas Hardy.
He used some wonderful names in his books, Clym, Bathsheba, Gabriel, Angel etc.
 Sadly most of mine are John, Robert, James, Ann, Martha.

[Taylor94]

One unusual name for me is 'Ranieul' I currently have it as my middle name and got it from my grandfather whose first name it was. He got it from his uncle who got it from his granddad, My 3rd grt granddad was called 'Ranieul Ishmael Gipp' but I think was actually baptised 'Rainald' but through records went by the names Riley/Ranieul.

[Eirik Gudmundsson]

Some strange family names I found in my line were.

Fearnot Shaw
Clone Maudelene Blackwell
Clorine Doris Brislane
Comfort Day

Some were American puritan names as I was told and others are just bizarre.
These are only but a few I found.

I have a large American and English family relation, as I have found out, since late last year.