What is your most uncommon name?

[slightlyfoxed]

Digory Hext and jeronimo Hornblow?

[leagen]

My cousin really named her dau. Belle Lee.  Poor thing wanted to change it to Elizabeth.  Belle was from the grandmother but no idea why the Lee!.

[Annahannah]

Further back in the 1770's I have a "Husofut" this is the only record of his name he was the partner (never married) of Ursula Taylor. My Taylor line are just glad all the children took her last name!

~ The name has probably been changed over time and this is the only translation we have now. I am still unsure if this name is his Christian or Surname! 

Could "Husofut" possibly be a corruption or abbreviation of "Jehosaphat"?

Anna

[nooshie]

I have two great aunts called Flantan Horne and Fulantua Horne - both died in infancy in the late 1800's - no idea where they got these names from as their other children were normally named, Frederick, Daniel etc.

[Penninah]

I have a Zankey Pilch!
But on my mothers side, her great uncles wife was called  kierenhappuck Hillman!!!!

[teddybear1843]

One I have come across is Eusebius, a Biblical name.

A publican in Dereham was called Maha Tuck but his full name was Mahershalalhashbaz, the story goes that his father wanted to call him Uz, the shortest name in the Bible but the Vicar refused.  So, dad called him the longest name instead.

One of my own ancestors was called Aminta but known as Minty.

Another was called Owner, after a famous local Politician and others in the family were called Miles after another politician.


Names are great, they sometimes give an insight into our ancestor's inner most thoughts.

Teddybear

Oh & by the way, I take my name on here from my GG Grandfather who was Edmund, called Ted, Bear.  He was born in 1843 before the famous 1904 remark by Teddy Roosevelt.

[celia]

Wesson the christian name of my G.Grandfather.that name was carried on throughout the Jones family. I have never seen another Wesson anywhere exept the odd one in Wales. So if you are a Jones and have a Wesson in the family. You jus gotta be connected

Celia

[ryan]

My best mates' Great Grandfather (I think?) was named Whitbread. Apparantly, he came to an untimely death as a result of an accident.

[BrendaP]

I also came across a chap recently looking for his gt gt grandma Faith Hope Charity Smith- a romany.
Needless to say I only found her listed as such once.
By the time she was a teenager she was just plain Faith.

I'm doing some indexing at Medway Register Office and found one little girl born in the workhouse who was named Faith Hope.  I guess her unmarried mother thought she'd had enough charity.

In my own family the most unusual surname is CUPHIS

BrendaP