What is your most uncommon name?

[chinakay]

Keren-happuch, hyphenated, was one of Job's daughters born after the restoration of his family.

[Redroger]

I have an Osmond (1599-1671) and an Eranamous (sic) should be Hieronomous! Interesting though this is a male name it is used by a woman. Interestingly she went back to her family after having an illegitimate child after 8 years of marriage and her husband was allowed to remarry. (1750's) Not surprising with a name like that!

[RedMystic]

I have several named Eulalia. It was my great grandmother's given name & is my aunt's middle name. Mis-spellings on census have been mind boggling.

[Rishile]

I have recently added Percy Artiss to my tree.

Don't say it too quickly 

[Charlesworth]

Don't know if this has been posted up before but many of you may find this of interest - the GB names profiler, the results of a project by UCL to look at frequency and location of British names in the 19th and 20th centuries.

http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/

Louise

[Redroger]

Not mine, but in the 1964 British General Election a candidate Eric Moonman was asked by a constituent if she could name her baby after him. He was surprised but amazed to find that she didn't want to call the baby Eric, but his slogan. His campaign slogan was "Launch Moonman" So there is somewhere in the UK a guy in his late 40s called Launch. Poor chap!

[andrewalston]

I too have a Kezia in my tree. One of her children had a first name of "Docter".

There's an Ezit in there too. Has to be biblical.

My ggg gm Arabella Marsh married Thomas Bullough. She appears in 1861 as "Bellow Bullough". Maybe she had a loud voice!

A relative of her husband was actually Bullough Bullough. Some parents had no imagination!

There are loads of surnames used as unusual given names. My Breakel Dunbabin turns out to have a grandmother born Anne Brekhill.

[veeblevort]

I can claim a couple of Keziahs, as they appear in censuses and so forth, but they
were registered at birth as Keturah. One, my great Aunt, called herself Kate on marriage,
and stuck with that for life.

vv.

[Redroger]

I was surprised to find that in my mother's tree there is a Nebuccanezzer. Or, as the extended family specialised in Old Testament names, perhaps I wasn't.