What’s the most unique name in your family out of all your relatives and ancestors? [name_f]Do[/name_f] you know how they were named? [name_f]My[/name_f] Gram’s name is [name_f]Ada[/name_f] which was very unique at the time she was born but maybe not so much anymore haha 
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[name_f]Adelaide[/name_f] Roses - nn Roses (my great grandmother)
Not the most out there but definitely unusual - and beautiful, I think!
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[name_m]Horace[/name_m]: my grandfather.
I would love to be brave enough to use it, but it just feels so….much?
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Lolita
A grandmother and out of the blue name in the 20s. She was never aware of the risqué associations, but would always just tell people it was Spanish!
I would love to name one after her but don’t think that will be the way I do it 
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[name_f]My[/name_f] grandmother was named [name_u]Dean[/name_u]. She is the youngest of six sisters. All of her sisters were given names in the top 100 when they were born but [name_u]Dean[/name_u] was in the 990s when my [name_u]Nana[/name_u] was born (but it was in the 120s for boys when she was born). I suspect her parents had been wanting a boy and decided to give her the boy name, anyway.
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Hilkaa. (Great-great-great grandmother.)
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[name_m]Council[/name_m] and Honor; both girls, I believe!
There was also a [name_u]Benjamin[/name_u] [name_u]Franklin[/name_u] (surname).
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[name_f]Celinda[/name_f] is an interesting one!
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[name_m]Sherlock[/name_m] (great uncle)
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my grandmother’s name!
[name_f]Gunhild[/name_f]
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All my family has very basic first names 
I think… [name_m]Valentino[/name_m]? [name_m]Thierry[/name_m]? [name_f]Claudia[/name_f]? [name_m]Massimo[/name_m]?
I am serious, I cannot think of anything more, the others are like very basic 
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Not sure about past generations but my grandparents switched religions before having kids and gave all their children Hindu related names
[name_f]My[/name_f] mother is Durga -no middle- she just went by [name_f]Dee[/name_f] most the time
Sisters are Nalini, [name_f]Daya[/name_f] and Ajanta-she goes by AJ
Brothers are [name_u]Ananda[/name_u] and Anil
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Zabina [name_m]Flavius[/name_m], male missionary.
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In the sea of Louis’, Joseph’s, and Jean’s and Marie-_______'s, Anne’s, and Madeleine’s, there are so many interesting [name_u]French[/name_u] names on my family tree!
Archange
Euphrosine - quite a handful of them actually
Exilda
Genevieve-Scholastique - the coolest hyphenated name I’ve ever seen!
Perinne
Alibé
Hildège - This guy’s whole sibset of 7 is wild!!
[name_f]Hyacinthe[/name_f] (m)
Lupien
Télesphore
And although it’s not actually her name, one of my great aunts named [name_f]Mary[/name_f] has always exclusively gone by her nickname [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_f]Honey[/name_f]! 
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Some where way back in the line:
[name_f]Dorcas[/name_f]
Groveretta (daughter of [name_m]Grover[/name_m] who clearly wanted a son)
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[name_u]Merit[/name_u] has been used (for boys and girls) as a little name in my family for generations! It’s the most unique I can think of off the top of my head.
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Tebbo
It’s hard to find anywhere! [name_f]My[/name_f] uncle is named Tebbo and there were several for a few generations back. [name_f]My[/name_f] family has [name_m]German[/name_m] ancestry— what I’ve concluded is that is an anglicized version of [name_m]Thibault[/name_m] (which is Old [name_m]German[/name_m] or French) and is pronounced Tee BOH.
[name_m]Just[/name_m] a guess but it’s a unique name for our family it seems (since it isn’t a surname)
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my great grandmother was named cascile! also, one of my cousins is named after her, and her twin is named lydon <3
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From my ancestors:
Bezalel (b)
[name_u]Rice[/name_u] (b)
Kirtley (b) full name was Kirtley [name_m]Johnson[/name_m] [name_m]Buford[/name_m] [name_m]Lewis[/name_m] [name_u]Winn[/name_u], nicknamed [name_m]Jabe[/name_m]
Malzuma or Malzurna (g) hard to tell from census records
From my husband’s:
[name_u]Indiana[/name_u] (g)
[name_f]Crescentia[/name_f] (g)
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[name_u]Calder[/name_u] and Nathelyn
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