What is your most uncommon name?

[Floss]

Hi Russell

I seem to remember that this Armageddon was a man.

Fiona

[bitty_matriarch]

My Great Grandfather was Louis Henry PALMER - no probs with that, but some of his brothers' names were something else:

     Lapauldro
     Don Thurshalht
     Ryfealyer DeSilva
     Younather  DeSilva

I have pictures of most of them here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/Gallery/Em&Su/index.html

Their grandmother was Portuguese, and all her children had standard English names - Emmanuel, Stephen; William; Mary; Henry; Honor and Louis - it was Emmanuel & his wife Suzannah who thought they'd be a bit different 



Cheers,  Ann.

[Kim in Qatar]

My grandfather, born in 1918,has three first names, the third name was Hedauville.
Hedauville is a village in Northern France, presumably GGF was stationed there in WW1,I would love to know what happened there to include the name in GF's name.

[stonechat]

Reminds me of my late Aunt

She was called Lille, her brother was Verdun

Bob

[jakky]

Hi,

just stared on a new family and already found a  Quartan  and (love this)  Jane Snowball Lamplugh she was born in August?

Jakky

[Simma]

I thought I'd contribute with a few.

Horn Appleyard. A neighbour of his parents was called James Horn - too much of coincidence, I think there was a connection with this neighbour.

I did think that two of my relatives called Aldred and Theophilius had unusual names but a quick search of the censuses proves otherwise.

I have yet to find another Horn, however.

[Zelley]

ARNO in the Dartmouth, Devon area, and
MABB in the Wyke Regis, Dorset area

[JAP]

Simma,

Like you, I hoped that Theophilus might prove to be unusual - mine is John Theophilus GOUGH, a musician from Dublin, father of Eleanor who married in Victoria, Australia in 1859.

But sadly I found that Theophilus is quite a common forename!

Hamlet was another for which I had high hopes - but it too is quite common!

JAP

[Zelley]

The name is Magdalene ARNO of Devon