Question of the Week: What's the most unusual name you've found in your family tree? [closed]

Question

We've all struggled with the families who use the same names generation after generation. When we come across someone who dared to be different, it's like a breath of fresh air, AND it makes it easier to trace those ancestors.

What unusual names have you found?

 

Comments

I have two LittleBerrys:  LittleBerry Shields and his grandson, LittleBerry Chandler.  A southern thing?

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I just read the will of one Solomon Wood, of Jefferson County, Georgia... His son's names?? Green Wood, Red Wood and White Wood,

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I also have a Theophilis, my 3rd or 4th GGG was Theophilis Thompson.

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Classical Roman-Greco names rated right up there with the  Biblical names.

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I've come across a Clapsaddle somewhere on my mother's side, a relative of one of her 3 marriages. Some names should be changed, please!

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one family I found, with the surname of Branch, they named their sons, Forrest and Oak, and their daughters, Olie and Leafy Glenn.

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Just found a new one:

Increase Clapp

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That is cruel. What were they thinking? LOL

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LOL !

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It would have to be Mey(i)nolph,the first name of a maternal 8th Great-Grandfather Happe who probably was born in Germany during the late 17th Century.

Answer 1

The surname of Zeoli .

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I've found an Experience in my family tree. Also an Edith America.

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My great grandfather Richard Banks wife Thel La Vell

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This may not the most unusual, but I think it is my favorite... would sti!! Be a great name today. Totally hippie/ flower child Indiana Boone. My 1st cousin 4 times removed .Daughter of my 4th great aunt who was married to Daniel Boone.....The Daniel Boone's  1st cousin.The ,Daniel  Boone is my first cousin 7 times removed. Kind of like being 20 feet from stardom !o!

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I found a Lancelot Yellow whose father was Abner Yellow (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Yellow-16) , the other children were called William, Elizabeth, and John though

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Local Vicar in Bolton Lancashire Rev Daft

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Abimelech Allen, Abimelech told Joshua off in the bible for being such a sneak.

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You probably won't believe this one but I swear it's true.  I came across it researching some sources for a friend.  Icy Ann Frost.  and her great nephew, Cooly Frost.

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In Donnie Blackstone's tree, fellow with first name of Zorababel

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Chief Cornstalk Hokoleskwa Stream

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I have a man that married into my Qualls family by the name of Applehans

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My gg/grandmother's middle name was Sicoria.

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Weneedyou a girls name

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I have two Zilphia and a Seaborn

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Well how about my 4x great grandfather Theophilus and his brother Parmenas and sister Sarephana. Their is also a Branch and Banner a Lawson,a Tillman, Issachar, Mayme, Esker, Maynard, Talitha, Hezekiah,Pleasant, Elzeazer, Korah, Arimon. Loads more even my name is different than most.

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I found a 4th Great Grandaunt whose name was Freedom Rider.  The family name has been spelled Ryder and Rider, changing over time for various reasons.  My Great Grandfather changed his spelling to Rider because his older brother married an Indian woman which was not acceptable in the 1880s.

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Increase Mather

Before starting my search, I had never heard of "Increase" being used as a name. I thought I had come across a mistake! Lol

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Not my family and possibly not an unusual name but it amused me greatly when I found Pink Floyd. He was enumerated as a boarder, living with the Skipper family in Brunswick County, North Carolina, on the 1910 Census.

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I tried for a few years to locate the death certificate for my father's younger brother, Clifford, who ded in 1938, or so I found on every family tree, etc. However, I wanted to find the original one, so I contacted the Canadian Archives, and a couple of weeks later, my answer came! His birth name was: Cleophas! Who knew? I received a copy of same by email and have scaned it to my ancestry tree(s).

Sincerely,

Jeannette (Martin-Brideau) Saladino

Answer 20

A few more unusual names in my family tree: Stanislaus, Magloire, Lazare - there were quite a few. If I think of any more, will share.

Sincerely,

Jeannette