What is your most uncommon name?

[Jaguare]

My husband's side of the tree has a Royal Archer (m) from Kent, and a Salome Snelling from Sussex.  A good friend once dated a Matt Black.

[alllegs]

I can't believe I forgot Thomas Thompson, William Williams and Wright and Admiral (yes that is his 1st name) Mellor!  I also had a lodger with one of my families called Sykes Buckley....hmmmm!

I think my lot are officially mad - I mean William Williams thats just silly!

And if anyone can find dear old William I'd love you forever - he and his daughter, Margaret, exist only on her marriage certificate, otherwise I'm sure I'm imagining them!!   

Legs
xxxx

[goggy]

HiALL,gotta get these two down afore I forget!! Tail,+Froney both Binsteads,honest!Froney,yeah,can see that okay,but Tail??
                     Cheers,Goggy.

[forest]

Found on the Wheathampstead 1851 census:

Hallahbeenah Gray!!

forest

[JAP]

Is this thread about uncommon names or outrageous names!

One name I'm researching is definitely extremely uncommon (rare would be a reasonable adjective) but it is certainly not outrageous.

The surname is LOCHTIE.

I wonder how many other uncommon - in the sense of rare - surnames people are researching.

JAP

[goggy]

Jap,might just be the diminutive of Lochiel,dont know about the T,but was at school,(many moons ago) with a feller we called 'Locky'.Liverpool Scots.
                    Cheers,Goggy.

[Sooziecats]

We have a Younger Young - and yes he appears to be the youngest of the family.  he married my great Aunt Jane Wanklyn. You can imagine the expressions on peoples faces when I say I am looking for Wanklyns in Herefordshire 

[salmon]

Following on from the 'commonest name thread', what are the most unusual names that people have encountered?

I have twins called...

Caswallon and Gwythfyr Price


 

   Reuben,Abraham,saiforella,zillah,feofilus,albaina,marleyboni,Do i win? lol   

[JAP]

Jap,might just be the diminutive of Lochiel,dont know about the T,but was at school,(many moons ago) with a feller we called 'Locky'.Liverpool Scots.
                    Cheers,Goggy.

Hi Goggy,
No - I've got the surname LOCHTIE back to the beginning of the 1600s, no connexions with other similar looking names, and firmly based on Aberdour, Fife.  When I first heard it, I thought it was just an ordinary Scots surname - but not so.  I have every LOCHTIE I have been able to find recorded in my database.  In the second half of the 1700s one family adopted the spelling LOUGHTY; that still exists but is extraordinarily rare.  A story came down in one line (still living in the area) that the originator of the name was a foreign mariner in the late 1500s who married an Aberdour girl and settled there - and the name is what the locals made of his name or the place he came from.  And that there is a Finnish name and place spelled Lahti which, I am told, is pronounced in a way which might fit the bill.  Who knows ...  And I guess I'll never find out ; )
JAP