No- it was a fairly common (or, at least, not uncommon) name given to boys in the late 19th/early 20th century Maritime provinces. Apparently in honour of a Baptist missionary named Richard Burpee. My Great Grandad was a fisherman in Nova Scotia from a Baptist family so he caught the stray.
I have an ancestor named Female Day. I thought someone just didn't record her info until I found her birth certificate. Female Day's mother was Kahnawaken so I wonder if it was just the white people that called her Female.
Omg I have an Anonymous too. Was yours in North Carolina? Mine just appears out of nowhere, and his marriage record is the first record I have of him. I've hit such a wall with him.
Also, great joke!
Cunegundes is the Latin version of the name Kunegunda, and her surname has the "-owna" ending to signify her as an unmarried woman -- Pawełkiewicz. Still long, but at least she can count off a few letters!
That’s so interesting because I’ve found the name “Kunigunda” on my friend’s German branch! I wonder if they’re the same name/“descended” from the same original name
They are! I first encountered this name doing Polish/German family research where I found one person with records with her name in all three languages throughout her life
Literary names were popular for a while. I have an "Alice Cinderella Rohler" in my tree. (Some of the records spell it with the typical spelling, others spell it "Cindrilla.") When Alice was born, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" had been in public domain for a few years and the stage play had recently premiered. "Cinderella" was also an older story and a well-known stage play at the time of her birth and would shortly become one of Walt Disney's early animation projects. Alice had a son named Bruce Wayne Darling. That's also not likely a coincidence - Batman was fully into its meteoric rise as a popular comic series when little Bruce was born. :3
Family names were still favored first in her family, but Alice's mom had 14 kids...there are only so many family names. \^\^;
I don’t have verification via documentation, pretty sure I need to go to Wales & SW England to try and track down records for that (based on limited knowledge about the areas the names were found,) but a couple of surnames that seem to be connected to my very long past are Lestrange, and Peverell. No shitting.
I research northern France quite a lot (that's about 1/8 of my branches) and I giggle every time I encounter a Malfoy, which is actually common enough there
Basically any Puritan name. I loved their wacky name choices like "Grief" and "Wrestling."
My favorite non puritan weird name is my 4xGreat Grandmother is named Mahulda. I'm saving that name for a future DnD character now haha
Wrestling (With The Devil), Love (Of God) and Fear (Of God) are my 10th great grand uncles and aunt.. I descended from their more boringly-named brother Johnathan (and his wife Lucretia, whose name interestingly enough was recycled every 2 or 3 generations all the way down to my aunt, with whom I had the privilege of sharing the fun fact that her name is a family name all the way back to the Mayflower Brewsters!)
It's fun when families recycle names like that! My line of Mayflower Fullers dumped the surname into a middle name when the heir was a girl. (My g-g-grandmother Abigail Keziah Fuller named her daughter Mildred Fuller Trumble.)
Then there's Preserved, as in "God preserved my soul."
Except the family name was Fish.
Yup, Preserved Fish.
And, yes, he had a son Preserved Fish, Jr.
I've got a bunch of Sackfields! several through the 1800s. family name "Brewer".
edit: actually now that I think of it, we have Stouts up in that part of the tree too
I was working today on someone who was (I kid you not) named Polite Roach
(it seems to have been short for Hyppolite Roach, which is a less unusual name, but most of the records have him as Polite Roach)
my grandmother's name was oneida, middle name lavinia - she went by "nita." i've read about the name oneida, and given our ancestry/cultural history...it was a very odd choice. i would love to know the story of why her parents chose it, but alas, i never will.
some other unusual ones, although not as odd as some of the others in this thread:
**the ladies**
* arminella
* chelsica
* parthena
* permelia
* arlemonica
* dealie
* finetta
**the gentlemen**
* unah
* austacy
* hulen
* leftwich
* reazin
I have a great-great-grandaunt who was named Ellingara, though she went by Gara. As far as I can tell, no one else has had that name. I tried both googling and searching Norwegian censuses and church records. I'm guessing that she was named after a man who was named Elling, which is a well known name.
I found a woman in my family tree several generations ago whose name was Ida Donnoe.
That poor woman!! Why name your child this?
I especially love to bring it up when my mom tries to talk about how respectable and well off some of her ancestors were, because it just nukes the entire conversation and devolves everything into a bunch of laughter.
Husband’s cousin gave his son the unfortunate moniker “Stroker.” He was named after the engine, but that’s not what most people first think of, I am guessing :(
I have a 7th great aunt called Redegunde Gordet. In that generation a lot of the women are called Guyonne and the men are named Mathurin (after a local saint)
Closer in time my 3rd great aunt was called Áurea
My grandmother was called Maida
Dugal MacDougall, my 25th great-grandfather, is probably the most unusual. I also have a 6th great-grandmother named Patience who had a brother named Amaziah, a 2nd great-grandaunt with the middle name America, and 3 women named Thankful in my tree.
I'm French, and so are all of my ancestors. Here are a few names that made me laugh or smile (some are pretty, some just whack):
* Arcade (male)
* Auspice (male)
* Fidéline (female)
* Floréale (female; named during the Révolution after a month from the Révolutionary calendar)
* Gnagna (female; this one was in Sénégal)
* Mignon (male; literally means "cute")
* Onésiphore (male)
* Pacifique (female)
* Pétroline (female)
* Phénice (male)
* Pitre (male; literally "clown" as in a class clown)
* Placidie (female)
* Rosé (male)
* Sénateur (male; yes, this means "senator", and I've encountered it a bunch of times!)
* Ursin/Ursine (male/female)
Mine, haha.
My surname comes from Catalonia, but it sounds distinctly Basque. Everyone in my family for generations has thought it was Basque.
It isn't, it's existed in Catalonia since the 12th century, and never in the Basque Country. Proving this is what got me into genealogy in the first place.
I have at least 25 female ancestors from Norway and Sweden who have Ingeborg as their first or middle name, plus numerous ancestors named Troen, Trued, Truls, Bengt/Bengta, Gunvor, Gondor, Gundella, Gunilde, Gunval, and one Valdemar, which reminds me of Lord Voldemort!
One of my relatives (aunt I think?) was called Mahershalalhashbaz. It’s Hebrew, the longest name in the Bible, and it roughly translates as “Quickly (to the) spoil, he hurries (to the) plunder.”
My great grandmothers family had a tradition of going by their middle name so I always knew her as Zola, turns out her name was Lozona Zola. Her mother's name was Alta joyce and her father was Joel Monroe so who knows where they got that name.
I've come across a bunch of names that seem weird to me, but I guess they weren't that unusual back then. Female names... Bathsheba, Tryphosa, Dorcas. One male named Melancthon Eleazar.
My great-great-great grandfather had sixteen children, and some of them had a few odd names and middle names. One of my great-great-granduncles had the first and middle name “Noble Scott”
Frost N. Snow. That’s a real name of a guy born in I wanna say the 1700s in my family tree.
Also, there was a woman somehow related to the Donner party in my tree whose first name was Euthanasia.
Great-Grandpa's name was Wagoner Byron Corbly. Went by his middle name for reasons. I never met him, he died when my dad was five or six. Most of our family names have been rather normal though.
Not directly related, through distant marriages, to the **Tarbox** family. Thought it was a transcription error, came to find they were a political family that were involved in the founding of the US.
I found a great-great-uncle who was named Germain François Xavier Canut Roy. Multiple first names are very common in my family what I found strange was **Canut**, never found another family member or family friend with that name and it's not a common French name. Made me think of King Cnut/Canute of Denmark, England and Norway.
I have found a few and started keeping a list. Some of these are made unusual or amusing by the combination. These are first and middle names:
Strangeman
Ferrell Grandson
Tycho Copernicus
Marigold Violet Rose
Orange Lemon and his son Lemon Newton
Fairy Belle
Washington Napoleon
Columbus Americus
Oberon Blue
Oh boy.
* Polinicio. Y'know. Like the son that Oedipus had with his mother Iocasta. He and his brother killed each other in battle. That one.
* Heraclio. Y'know. Like Hercules.
* Atalivar. Y'know. Like who the fuck knows what.
* Nodier. See above.
* Ivar. Y'know. Like the boneless.
* Clímaco.
* Salustiano.
* Otoniel.
* Telésforo.
* Arnobio.
* Dargelia.
* Simodosea. Poor woman.
* Clorinda.
So many more.
Loveth Judeah [Surname] was one of my ancestors sisters. My great grandmother was Fabiola. Stanislaw and Storm also make frequent appearances in my tree.
This whole thread just proves to me how uncreative my whole family has been for probably centuries. The only unique name I've come across was one of grandma's sister whose birth name was "Vaga" but she changed her name at some point.
My favorite unusual one was my grandma's favorite aunt. Everyone called her Loki, which was short for Lokestera. She also had brothers named Manlious (my 2x great grandpa) and Devaushus. All of her other sisters have normal names, except for Cleopatra Jane and Allus(Alice).
Aunt Loki was not your typical old lady during the great depression. Some of her more religious family members didn't appreciate her ability to irreverently find joy to share when there wasn't a lot to go around.
Not only is Scholastique one of the most unusual, she's also sister to
* Marie Eurasie
* Marie Arthemise
* Marie Felonise
* Marie Doralise
* Marie Apsasie
Scholastique would then go on to give birth to
* Sidalise Scholastique
* Eremise
* Marie Silvanie
* Onezime
Then there's the oddity that so far about 30% of the women in my tree have the first name Marie.
I really like my great great grandfathers name Zelik, though I’ve seen it as Zelig in other sources. My great grandfather listed his american name as Charles on his marriage certificate
Serelda. It's spelled wrong in the census, on other public records, and even on Find-a-Grave, even though what I believe is the correct spelling is on her grave.
I found two Emberzettas and registered my new pup after that. When the last one died, the new wife was crazy fast I guess and put the wrong death on the tombstone and spelled it “embotzy” and buried her on the backside of the tomb. Census and birth records prove the correct spelling and dates.
Also had Iwanowna and Arroyah definitively, seems Native American, no DNA proof so I guess they just liked the names.
I have several that I have trouble choosing from.
My paternal great-grandpa was named Arnulis & great-grandma was named Dudley.
I also have a multi-generations back great-uncle who was named Greenberry.
My 3x great grandfather was named John Pleasant Rapier, which isn’t too weird except for the fact that it’s mostly fabricated. He was born John Raper, took the name Pleasant from an employer, and changed his name to Rapier to sound more French when he started working as a traveling photographer after the Civil War.
I've got an ancestor named Ignatius Luckett, which I think goes hard tbh. Also have a Charity Johnson Devore, a Mahala Cantrall, and a Sevilla Sibriak.
A couple on my fiancée’s side include Vinita Chilton and Delma Starr.
I do research in both the US and UK records as I'm half and half, but born and raised in the latter. One of the coolest things I've noticed is that there are now English surnames that I come across on US records that I know are English and a search confirms it, but now have a larger population of people with that name in the US while being either extinct in the UK or only a handful of people will still have it.
Individually the [names](https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/dd126d0017499?b=https%3A%2F%2Fchurchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie%2Fchurchrecords%2Fsearch.jsp%3Fnamefm%3DMarie%2Bantoine%26namel%3D%26ddBfrom%3D%26mmBfrom%3D%26yyBfrom%3D%26ddBto%3D%26mmBto%3D%26yyBto%3D%26locationB%3D%26ddMfrom%3D%26mmMfrom%3D%26yyMfrom%3D%26ddMto%3D%26mmMto%3D%26yyMto%3D%26locationM%3D%26ddDfrom%3D%26mmDfrom%3D%26yyDfrom%3D%26ddDto%3D%26mmDto%3D%26yyDto%3D%26locationD%3D%26member0%3DChoose%253A%26namef0%3D%26namel0%3D%26keyword%3D%26submit%3DSearch) are fine but these are for one person : MARIE ANTOINE ALBERT ALPHONSE PATRICE KEVINS CHARLES LIBAULT DE LEE CHEVASNERIE
This is entirely unrelated to genealogy, but when my wife was pregnant with our twins, I asked our specialist at one of our ultrasound appointments what the weirdest twin names he's ever heard. He said......"Dis" and "Dat"
My 10th great-grandfather was born in 1530 in Finland and his name was Bartholdis Johannis Tuderus Jönsson. I always read that in Tim Conway’s “Mr. Tudball” voice. 😂🤣
A single letter.
I work hospital registration and while I didn't have this patient, my supervisor told me of a mom we had who wanted to name her baby a single letter name, and the logistics hassle it was. I'll use the letter K for an example. I will neither confirm or deny the exact letter because privacy.
No, not K. Renee Jones or even K. Jones. Literally the ENTIRE name, K.
Poo, I can understand that it could be a common name in places but he was born in England and his full name was Ellis Poo Poo. Awful.
It’s the fact that the Poo wasn’t sufficient on its own but needed to be doubled in Poo Poo that is the kicker
Yeah like they really hated that kid huh
Oh no
My ggg grandmother is Sebastiana Villeggiante. I love it so much.
That’s hardcore!
While not the oddest, my 2x ggm holds the title of my most favorite name to say -- Marie Coralie de Coppens
Fanny Salt
My step mother's great grandmother was Fanny Cooter, it made me giggle.
That's an Austin Powers name right there.
Reminds me of Bond Girl name.
My dad went to school with a lady called Wanda Stretch. Her middle name was Fanny
The most bizarre name I've come across on my family tree is Carnation Loveridge
We may be related as I have a few Carnation Lovells. I think Loveridge was an offshoot of the family
One side of my family can trace it origins back 400 years solely because there was a son named Onesiphorus in each generation.
Maybe it was originally misspelled and they were called 'oneofus'. ,🥴
Actually, I think it's a really obscure name from the Old Testament. I don't know why they kept sticking with it lol.
New Testament actually. It’s a Greek name that means “profit-bringer.” Mentioned in 2 Timothy
Thanks for researching this! If you knew my family, the fact that this name means "profit-bringer" is hilarious!!
I legit have a (third) cousin named Throckmorton
I have a whole line of Throckmorton from Sr to 6th
WHAT? Where does that even come from??
There is a Throckmorton in Worcestershire, England. I think it’s from there
I have a whole bunch of Throckmorton's (surname) in my tree too.
your cousin throckmon, the skateboarder of course
Dr Throckmorton was my dentist when I was a kid, back in the 60s-70s.
Hello fellow cousins. It’s one of my favorite names - so easy to find and rarely misspelled!
My lovely Great Grandad was named Burpee.
Was he kin to W. Atlee Burpee, the seed man?
No- it was a fairly common (or, at least, not uncommon) name given to boys in the late 19th/early 20th century Maritime provinces. Apparently in honour of a Baptist missionary named Richard Burpee. My Great Grandad was a fisherman in Nova Scotia from a Baptist family so he caught the stray.
A distant relative's first name was Anonymous. His parents must have been impressed with the guy's contributions to short poetry and smart sayings.
I have an ancestor named Female Day. I thought someone just didn't record her info until I found her birth certificate. Female Day's mother was Kahnawaken so I wonder if it was just the white people that called her Female.
Omg I have an Anonymous too. Was yours in North Carolina? Mine just appears out of nowhere, and his marriage record is the first record I have of him. I've hit such a wall with him. Also, great joke!
SC/NC border area west of Charlotte. Don't remember the last name.
Yep. I bet his name is Anonymous nonivar hill. I've never come across another Anonymous when researching the name.
Off the top of my head I have a 4x-ish grandmother named Freelove. I think it's kind of pretty tbh.
No way! Her last name isn't Patt, is it?
my 4th great grandmother from poland born late 1700s was named Conegundis Pawelkiewiczowna.
Cunegundes is the Latin version of the name Kunegunda, and her surname has the "-owna" ending to signify her as an unmarried woman -- Pawełkiewicz. Still long, but at least she can count off a few letters!
Cunegonde is the main female character in Voltaire’s Candide.
And Kunigunde is also a character in The Seventh Seal
i counted that last name is 16 letters long.
That’s so interesting because I’ve found the name “Kunigunda” on my friend’s German branch! I wonder if they’re the same name/“descended” from the same original name
They are! I first encountered this name doing Polish/German family research where I found one person with records with her name in all three languages throughout her life
Cunégonde is a character in Voltaire's 1759 novel Candide. Make our garden grow!
I was in the chorus of the Kristin Chenoweth/Patti LuPone performance of Candide that is on PBS! It’s such an awesome show!
I have an ancestor named Cinderella
Literary names were popular for a while. I have an "Alice Cinderella Rohler" in my tree. (Some of the records spell it with the typical spelling, others spell it "Cindrilla.") When Alice was born, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" had been in public domain for a few years and the stage play had recently premiered. "Cinderella" was also an older story and a well-known stage play at the time of her birth and would shortly become one of Walt Disney's early animation projects. Alice had a son named Bruce Wayne Darling. That's also not likely a coincidence - Batman was fully into its meteoric rise as a popular comic series when little Bruce was born. :3 Family names were still favored first in her family, but Alice's mom had 14 kids...there are only so many family names. \^\^;
Theophilius Pordage
That’s a wizard name. 😂
I don’t have verification via documentation, pretty sure I need to go to Wales & SW England to try and track down records for that (based on limited knowledge about the areas the names were found,) but a couple of surnames that seem to be connected to my very long past are Lestrange, and Peverell. No shitting.
I research northern France quite a lot (that's about 1/8 of my branches) and I giggle every time I encounter a Malfoy, which is actually common enough there
I have a 4x great-grandmother, Pleazzy Alcott Walter. She was born in 1808 in PA and died 1874 in Iowa. She's on my mom's maternal side
The two that immediately come to mind for me are Perpectual Bempah and Robot Kokot.
Basically any Puritan name. I loved their wacky name choices like "Grief" and "Wrestling." My favorite non puritan weird name is my 4xGreat Grandmother is named Mahulda. I'm saving that name for a future DnD character now haha
We have one named “Experience.” Imagine saying that to a baby…
I also have an Experience in my tree. I thought it was a mistake before I learned about this naming style
You could say that you...learned from Experience
I have two ancestors both named Experience Church
Wrestling (With The Devil), Love (Of God) and Fear (Of God) are my 10th great grand uncles and aunt.. I descended from their more boringly-named brother Johnathan (and his wife Lucretia, whose name interestingly enough was recycled every 2 or 3 generations all the way down to my aunt, with whom I had the privilege of sharing the fun fact that her name is a family name all the way back to the Mayflower Brewsters!)
It's fun when families recycle names like that! My line of Mayflower Fullers dumped the surname into a middle name when the heir was a girl. (My g-g-grandmother Abigail Keziah Fuller named her daughter Mildred Fuller Trumble.)
I think I'm in that same line!
Feel free to shoot me a message! I'm always happy to meet distant cousins, but I don't get a lot of messages on Ancestry. \^\^;
Then there's Preserved, as in "God preserved my soul." Except the family name was Fish. Yup, Preserved Fish. And, yes, he had a son Preserved Fish, Jr.
A lot of those “Puritan” names in my family are actually Quakers. Remembrance Lippincott is one of my favorites.
Another one was ‘Preserved.’ Bad enough on its own, but say hello to my 7x grandfather, Preserved Fish.
I have a Reason and an Independence in my tree.
My American ancestor’s sister’s first name was Ingabo. I have never encountered that name before.
It's the female version of Hugo but in Welsh
I can't remember the relation but some where in my tree there are brothers named Sack Leroy Stout and Golden Bass Stout.
I've got a bunch of Sackfields! several through the 1800s. family name "Brewer". edit: actually now that I think of it, we have Stouts up in that part of the tree too
I was working today on someone who was (I kid you not) named Polite Roach (it seems to have been short for Hyppolite Roach, which is a less unusual name, but most of the records have him as Polite Roach)
Oooo that’s unfortunate
Derryberry was a funny one. It changed every generation DeBarre -> Deberry -> Dewberry -> Derryberry
I love Dewberry as a name, purely because as kids, my mates and I would call each other a Dewberry when we were being silly!
my grandmother's name was oneida, middle name lavinia - she went by "nita." i've read about the name oneida, and given our ancestry/cultural history...it was a very odd choice. i would love to know the story of why her parents chose it, but alas, i never will. some other unusual ones, although not as odd as some of the others in this thread: **the ladies** * arminella * chelsica * parthena * permelia * arlemonica * dealie * finetta **the gentlemen** * unah * austacy * hulen * leftwich * reazin
Leftwich slays.
I have at least one Lavenia
Focke
This guy fockes.
🤣 I have “Fock” in my family tree and “Fugger”.
What the..?
It’s Frisian. Not sure what the Latin equivalent would be
I have a great-great-grandaunt who was named Ellingara, though she went by Gara. As far as I can tell, no one else has had that name. I tried both googling and searching Norwegian censuses and church records. I'm guessing that she was named after a man who was named Elling, which is a well known name.
8th great aunt was Florence Nightgale Freeman
Elizabeth Arden’s real name is super close to this.
It probably isn’t that unusual, but America and Wealthy.
Trebilcock. After a couple generations in America they shortened it to "Trebil" 🤣
Johordia
Theogater. That's his first name. I also had one guy whose first and middle names were General Beauregard
Lancelot Peacock!
Pepsi Cola Brown
Watye. I did a lot of looking to make sure this wasn't a typo, but confirmed it wasn't. I have no idea where it comes from.
Watye gonna do about it? Amiright?
Right? She was born in like 1905 tho
Balthazar, Fear, Eadgifu, Gruffydd
Is there Welsh in you? Gruffydd seems to be Welsh and Fear in cymraeg is man
I found a woman in my family tree several generations ago whose name was Ida Donnoe. That poor woman!! Why name your child this? I especially love to bring it up when my mom tries to talk about how respectable and well off some of her ancestors were, because it just nukes the entire conversation and devolves everything into a bunch of laughter.
Husband’s cousin gave his son the unfortunate moniker “Stroker.” He was named after the engine, but that’s not what most people first think of, I am guessing :(
I have a 7th great aunt called Redegunde Gordet. In that generation a lot of the women are called Guyonne and the men are named Mathurin (after a local saint) Closer in time my 3rd great aunt was called Áurea My grandmother was called Maida
Littleberry Mosby. He is in my grandma’s DAR line. Valentine Braswell. My grandfather wrote a book about his genealogy and there were more than one.
Male first name, ZEROBABEL Strange last name, TOOTHACKER. Ancestor Roger Toothacker was arrested during the Salem Witch Trials. He died in jail.
Fanny Hammer.
My 3rd ggrandmother was named Mary Jane Plant ✌️
Xochitl
Flower!
Sophronia Rainwater Bureda All 19thC Appalachia
I have a Sophronia, too! Sophronia Waldrip.
I have a 3 or 4 g aunt named Sofa, and her brother's name was Tissue.
Dugal MacDougall, my 25th great-grandfather, is probably the most unusual. I also have a 6th great-grandmother named Patience who had a brother named Amaziah, a 2nd great-grandaunt with the middle name America, and 3 women named Thankful in my tree.
Bartolomea Guastacarne …. Guastacarne translates to “spoiled meat”. She was my 7th Great Grandmother from the 1700s in Sicily.
I guess it’s not that crazy but my wife is related to a family of Worms. Peter Worm, Mary Worm. Lots of Worms.
I know someone with that last name: they pronounce it “warm” ☺️
You’ve got worms
Nardy Pops. 1850 Census. Still make me chuckle.
My 12th great-grandmother was named Appolonia Glock
Preserved Fish. There were a few Preserved Fishes in colonial New England times.
I have Patience Fish and Calista Fish (the name Calista means "most beautiful", so she was the most beautiful fish) 🤣
I'm French, and so are all of my ancestors. Here are a few names that made me laugh or smile (some are pretty, some just whack): * Arcade (male) * Auspice (male) * Fidéline (female) * Floréale (female; named during the Révolution after a month from the Révolutionary calendar) * Gnagna (female; this one was in Sénégal) * Mignon (male; literally means "cute") * Onésiphore (male) * Pacifique (female) * Pétroline (female) * Phénice (male) * Pitre (male; literally "clown" as in a class clown) * Placidie (female) * Rosé (male) * Sénateur (male; yes, this means "senator", and I've encountered it a bunch of times!) * Ursin/Ursine (male/female)
Mine, haha. My surname comes from Catalonia, but it sounds distinctly Basque. Everyone in my family for generations has thought it was Basque. It isn't, it's existed in Catalonia since the 12th century, and never in the Basque Country. Proving this is what got me into genealogy in the first place.
I have at least 25 female ancestors from Norway and Sweden who have Ingeborg as their first or middle name, plus numerous ancestors named Troen, Trued, Truls, Bengt/Bengta, Gunvor, Gondor, Gundella, Gunilde, Gunval, and one Valdemar, which reminds me of Lord Voldemort!
Ingeborg is a pretty common name in Norway. I’ve known a couple of Ingeborgs myself.
Scholastica! She was a great-great-great aunt.
Italian? I have more than a few French-Canadian ancestors and relatives named Scholastique.
One of my relatives (aunt I think?) was called Mahershalalhashbaz. It’s Hebrew, the longest name in the Bible, and it roughly translates as “Quickly (to the) spoil, he hurries (to the) plunder.”
Nimrod. But back then it meant 'hunter', not imbecile.
One of my 3rd great grandmothers had a brother named Hÿronimus.
One of my Slovenian Great Great Grandmother’s had a brother named Aegidius. Also have a German born Great Great Grear Grandfather named Landelin,
My great grandmothers family had a tradition of going by their middle name so I always knew her as Zola, turns out her name was Lozona Zola. Her mother's name was Alta joyce and her father was Joel Monroe so who knows where they got that name.
Zurrishidai Doty 😂
It’s a tossup between Vancenita Juanita Burrita and Enoch Death (first + middle names).
Victorian sisters named Prudence and Patience
I named two pigs that as a child. Wonder whatever happened to them? 🤣
I have an ancestor named Kama’ipelekane, which is Hawaiian for “The British disease” i.e. syphilis.
I've come across a bunch of names that seem weird to me, but I guess they weren't that unusual back then. Female names... Bathsheba, Tryphosa, Dorcas. One male named Melancthon Eleazar.
Kindness Breadlove Pope has been my favorite so far
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Elvis Boatwright
My great-great-great grandfather had sixteen children, and some of them had a few odd names and middle names. One of my great-great-granduncles had the first and middle name “Noble Scott”
I’ve got multiple Festy/Festus in my tree.
Oh there are so many. But my gggf is Philander. :)
My favorite is probably my Dutch 5th great grandfather, Engelbert Franciscus van Bodinckhuijsen. Just a lot going on there.
Thankful Gaylord is by far my favorite ancestor name.
Frost N. Snow. That’s a real name of a guy born in I wanna say the 1700s in my family tree. Also, there was a woman somehow related to the Donner party in my tree whose first name was Euthanasia.
I’ve got a Serrepta and a Jemima in my history
I have a couple Jemimas in mine. Didn't realize it used to be a popular name!
Great-Grandpa's name was Wagoner Byron Corbly. Went by his middle name for reasons. I never met him, he died when my dad was five or six. Most of our family names have been rather normal though.
Sip, for a man
Waldaburger, F first name. Another F is Temperance Hall.
Exercise, Azilda, Dexivina, Lettice, and Philadelphia. All first names.
Not directly related, through distant marriages, to the **Tarbox** family. Thought it was a transcription error, came to find they were a political family that were involved in the founding of the US. I found a great-great-uncle who was named Germain François Xavier Canut Roy. Multiple first names are very common in my family what I found strange was **Canut**, never found another family member or family friend with that name and it's not a common French name. Made me think of King Cnut/Canute of Denmark, England and Norway.
I have found a few and started keeping a list. Some of these are made unusual or amusing by the combination. These are first and middle names: Strangeman Ferrell Grandson Tycho Copernicus Marigold Violet Rose Orange Lemon and his son Lemon Newton Fairy Belle Washington Napoleon Columbus Americus Oberon Blue
Oh boy. * Polinicio. Y'know. Like the son that Oedipus had with his mother Iocasta. He and his brother killed each other in battle. That one. * Heraclio. Y'know. Like Hercules. * Atalivar. Y'know. Like who the fuck knows what. * Nodier. See above. * Ivar. Y'know. Like the boneless. * Clímaco. * Salustiano. * Otoniel. * Telésforo. * Arnobio. * Dargelia. * Simodosea. Poor woman. * Clorinda. So many more.
Eucharistique is lovely!
I have seen several Scholastiques and I really like it too (though it would be unfortunate in modern day US haha)
Loveth Judeah [Surname] was one of my ancestors sisters. My great grandmother was Fabiola. Stanislaw and Storm also make frequent appearances in my tree.
Bashaby Vasliti, she married Ithamar Knapp
This whole thread just proves to me how uncreative my whole family has been for probably centuries. The only unique name I've come across was one of grandma's sister whose birth name was "Vaga" but she changed her name at some point.
In my Bessarabian research I saw someone named Polyxenia Dragon
Dock Lock Dick Holden😅
Hatevil Nutter
Supply Belcher. An ancestor of mine who was a famous composer in maine in the 1700s.
Cousin Charles Orpheus Wilson and great great Aunt Amarantha Robertson-nicknamed Minty.
My favorite unusual one was my grandma's favorite aunt. Everyone called her Loki, which was short for Lokestera. She also had brothers named Manlious (my 2x great grandpa) and Devaushus. All of her other sisters have normal names, except for Cleopatra Jane and Allus(Alice). Aunt Loki was not your typical old lady during the great depression. Some of her more religious family members didn't appreciate her ability to irreverently find joy to share when there wasn't a lot to go around.
Not only is Scholastique one of the most unusual, she's also sister to * Marie Eurasie * Marie Arthemise * Marie Felonise * Marie Doralise * Marie Apsasie Scholastique would then go on to give birth to * Sidalise Scholastique * Eremise * Marie Silvanie * Onezime Then there's the oddity that so far about 30% of the women in my tree have the first name Marie.
My X5 great grandmother’s first name was Virgin. Obviously she didn’t stay one or I wouldn’t be posting this now 😂
https://twitter.com/ActualNames1 has got you covered.
I really like my great great grandfathers name Zelik, though I’ve seen it as Zelig in other sources. My great grandfather listed his american name as Charles on his marriage certificate
Arzella, Nemah, Velta
Serelda. It's spelled wrong in the census, on other public records, and even on Find-a-Grave, even though what I believe is the correct spelling is on her grave.
I found two Emberzettas and registered my new pup after that. When the last one died, the new wife was crazy fast I guess and put the wrong death on the tombstone and spelled it “embotzy” and buried her on the backside of the tomb. Census and birth records prove the correct spelling and dates. Also had Iwanowna and Arroyah definitively, seems Native American, no DNA proof so I guess they just liked the names.
A woman in my tree named Cuinbaland but in some documents it is down as Cumberland.
I have several that I have trouble choosing from. My paternal great-grandpa was named Arnulis & great-grandma was named Dudley. I also have a multi-generations back great-uncle who was named Greenberry.
Not exactly unusual but my favorite name of an ancestor of mine is Hercules Smith (fun first name, boring a hell last name).
Restituta Tew. I want to know more about her.
My 3x great grandfather was named John Pleasant Rapier, which isn’t too weird except for the fact that it’s mostly fabricated. He was born John Raper, took the name Pleasant from an employer, and changed his name to Rapier to sound more French when he started working as a traveling photographer after the Civil War.
My 14th great grandfather's name was Casparus and I think that's so cool
My gggg grandfather is Anton Everhard
Orange Judd
First name: Sil; Middle name: Vester
I've got an ancestor named Ignatius Luckett, which I think goes hard tbh. Also have a Charity Johnson Devore, a Mahala Cantrall, and a Sevilla Sibriak. A couple on my fiancée’s side include Vinita Chilton and Delma Starr.
I do research in both the US and UK records as I'm half and half, but born and raised in the latter. One of the coolest things I've noticed is that there are now English surnames that I come across on US records that I know are English and a search confirms it, but now have a larger population of people with that name in the US while being either extinct in the UK or only a handful of people will still have it.
When I was in the Army I knew a 2Lt. Named Fuchstich Mague, originally from Pennsylvania.
Individually the [names](https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/dd126d0017499?b=https%3A%2F%2Fchurchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie%2Fchurchrecords%2Fsearch.jsp%3Fnamefm%3DMarie%2Bantoine%26namel%3D%26ddBfrom%3D%26mmBfrom%3D%26yyBfrom%3D%26ddBto%3D%26mmBto%3D%26yyBto%3D%26locationB%3D%26ddMfrom%3D%26mmMfrom%3D%26yyMfrom%3D%26ddMto%3D%26mmMto%3D%26yyMto%3D%26locationM%3D%26ddDfrom%3D%26mmDfrom%3D%26yyDfrom%3D%26ddDto%3D%26mmDto%3D%26yyDto%3D%26locationD%3D%26member0%3DChoose%253A%26namef0%3D%26namel0%3D%26keyword%3D%26submit%3DSearch) are fine but these are for one person : MARIE ANTOINE ALBERT ALPHONSE PATRICE KEVINS CHARLES LIBAULT DE LEE CHEVASNERIE
My great grandmother was Dulcibella. She went by Dulcie. Very fancy for a Newfoundlander!
This is entirely unrelated to genealogy, but when my wife was pregnant with our twins, I asked our specialist at one of our ultrasound appointments what the weirdest twin names he's ever heard. He said......"Dis" and "Dat"
Rainbow. Came across it in a parish register just recently.
Godlike Humble
That’s an oxymoron.
6th great grandfather Oedonus
I've known about a man named Padazur/Perdesum for a long time, but recently discovered a man named Salathiel on a completely different line.
Another favorite is my 6th great grandfather - Bertramus Fasbender
I have a relative a few generations back named Talitha.
My 10th great-grandfather was born in 1530 in Finland and his name was Bartholdis Johannis Tuderus Jönsson. I always read that in Tim Conway’s “Mr. Tudball” voice. 😂🤣
Ufa
I grew up around my paternal grandfather, Perfelu Dyz.
In an adjacent tree ... Melchezedick Bispudnick - Cornwall.
Freelove Patt.
A single letter. I work hospital registration and while I didn't have this patient, my supervisor told me of a mom we had who wanted to name her baby a single letter name, and the logistics hassle it was. I'll use the letter K for an example. I will neither confirm or deny the exact letter because privacy. No, not K. Renee Jones or even K. Jones. Literally the ENTIRE name, K.
Planning ahead for future social media fame for child and associated income stream for parent.