Quirky names from your family tree?

[olivianne]

Xenophon, Basil, Llanah, Moses, Palladia, Priscilla, Theophilus, Ursula, Josan, Flower (middle name Flora), Deweyden, Amicia, Iselia, Warine, Serlo, Alessia, Rainald, Sybilla, Grisell, Truebull, Amarilla, Esak, Mehitable, Sylvanus, Zerubabble, Annis, Sealed

The best part is that all of these people are either from the UK or born in Canada.

[greyer]

Boys:
Willfred
Benoni
Sanyek (by marriage)
Josiah
Ephraim
Silas
Phineas
Abel
Jonas
Sylvanus (was a MN)
Sheppard (MN)
Ernest
Walter
Fred Dexter
Arch (just Arch)
Jotham

Girls:
Dinah
Eunice
Betsy (not Elizabeth, just Betsy)
Polly
Lydia - married a man named Washington
Mehetiable (I assume this is another spelling of Mehitabel)
Jane Emeline
Maude Alice
Helenora Clark (first and MN)
Lotta Mildred
Orley-Anna
Bessie
Mercy
Arethusa

That's just on my dad's side, which we can trace back to 1450 so far.

[valkyrie]

I've done some extensive research so far, mostly just find out all these different names. (Warning: this list is long... and this is just from my father's mother's side)

Strange boy name finds
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Pleasant (my great x4 grandfather)
Wilborn
Dewayne
Delmar
Chancie (mn Loy)
Jewell (married a woman named Alpha)
Crannel (Jewell's son)
Eldon
Deloy (middle name)
Odell
Glendon
Coon (great-grandmother was once married to him)
Homer
Taten (my first cousin)

Strange girl name finds
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Zeona
Cleona (middle name)
Syvada
O'Phellia
Estaline
Ranea (middle name; I think it's supposed to be said like Renee)
Evylyn
Tresia
Vernie
Ardina
Alpha (married into the family to Jewell)
Athene
Arreda
Veta (mn Dorlea)
Monika Monique (the latter being her middle name)
Sharen (what makes it strange is her mother's name was Sharyn)
Ollie
Ardellie (middle name)
Alta (middle name)
Easter (her middle name being Elvina)
Oda (Easter's daughter)
Halene (Oda's sister)
Eppa (Oda's sister)
Rosella (Oda's sister)
Nova
Tinnie (wife of Homer)
Cella (Tinnie's daughter-in-law)

[lineska]

Boys..
Bloomfield
Alwin
Rolandus
Hudson

Girls...not so many. Some double names that are a little quirky:
Carrie-Viola
Ella-Lucretia
Ida-May

[jame1881]

There's this one french family on my grandmother's side that I just love:
Henri
Leonie
Alma
Berthe (prn BET)
Rodolphe
Laurette
Yvette
Alida (prn a-LEE-do)
Marie-Aimee (prn a-MAY)
Gilles (prn zhil)

I wish I was French so I could name a girl Marie-Aimee. It sounds so much better with a French accent. Like an updated Marianne.
So...not as whacky as the rest of you, but I still love them!

[esrever88]

My maternal grandfather's given name is Enrod - he hates it and has always gone by Joe. His wife, my grandmother, has the middle name of Merline, after her father, who was Merlin - her mother was Norita. On my father's side, one of my great-great-grandmothers was Elva, which I like a lot.

[britrobni]

Girl:
Jeffrey- b. circa 1919

Boys:
June- b.1930
Buddy- b. 1936

June was my grandfather and Buddy and Jeffrey were his brother and sister he also had an older brother named Frank

[frustratedauthor]

I've been doing a lot of research on my family tree, so here are a few of the more interesting names:

Male
Alonzo Bird
Alvin
Denver
Devoe
Elisha Lindsey
Felix Washington
Luther
Sanford
Sterling
Wayland
Welsie

Female
Albina
Delma
Delpha
Donis
Hattie
Lovina
Zellah
Zona

[bluebonnie]

Jemima Fox (this was a first and last name combo- very Beatrix Potter-esque!), Ambrose, Field, Madge.

[beebear]

Palmira. It doesn't sound weird here, but believe me, it's the odd one out in my family tree of Paul's and Brian's and Anita's. I'm pretty sure it's off limits though, cause she was like legit crazy or something.