What is your most uncommon name?

[Deb D]

Ok, I wasn't going to mention this and it's probably off-topic a tad ... but ... the descendants of my great-neices will have no trouble whatsoever in tracing them.  I won't even mention their names because they're so unusual, and a google search (of which the elder is quite capable!) will throw them up straight away.  However ...

When their mother was pregnant with the first child, my brother (her uncle Keith) died quite young ... so she decided to name the baby after him.  Unfortunately, as mentioned, the baby was a girl ... but she stuck to her vow, and "feminised" the name rather alarmingly.  Suffice it to say, it has four syllables, and starts with "Keith" ...

When the second one came along, ... I swear, she must've thrown the Scrabble tiles into the air, and used the ones that landed face-up!  It's pronounced "Julisse", which is quite pretty ... but that's not how they spell it!

[damnonii]

My 4x g-aunt was called Christian Pagan!  I'd love to have been at her Christening 

Also I have a 5x g-aunt called Ferguson 

No match to some of the belters posted here so far though

Lora. 

[caroclay]

i have just found in my tree a cyrus & jabey clayton

not what you expect to find in shropshire


but the i like the unusal to my be a family thing my youngest daughter is
niamh ynez

[nickgc]

For a little oneupsmanship on Deb D's Dr. Benj. Doctor:  I used to work with a married couple named Doctor who both had PhDs.  Of course we always referred to them as "Doctor & Doctor Doctor".

Nick

[Deb D]

ROFL! 

[Eyesee]

Mine would have to be the gentleman in the photo to the left.

His father was mad keen on family history, this being back in the early 1800s, so all the kids got names associated with family, or the fathers mates from Cambridge University.

1806 Edward William - two grandfathers
Couple of others in here that died young
1812 Paget Wotton - Fathers mate + ggfathers surname
1813 Beaumaurice Stracey - gfather William's second name + fathers mate
1815 Walpole Hammond - Fathers mate + ggfathers wifes maiden name
1817 Octavius Halford - Not sure on these ones
1819 Augusta Angelica Laura - ? + mother + grandmother
1821 Angelica - mother

Ian C

[forthefamily]

Good grief  ......definitely different names  .......errrr I wonder if they had nicknames? Imagine if you were called Beaumaurice Stracey and your mum was calling you home for dinner  I wonder if he was called Beau maybe  ......which is actually a very nice name  .......but I'm not too sure about Paget Wotton though ......hmm

mab

[0rinoco]

I had a great aunt called Seretter, another male relative called Craven and my great-grandfather was Uriah Artus. Sounds like something out of Dickens

[forthefamily]

Do you know where the name Seretter came from  It sounds like a surname.

mab