[name_f]My[/name_f] great grandmother was [name_f]Cynthia[/name_f], I have a brother [name_m]Wilfred[/name_m] and twin cousins [name_m]Rafael[/name_m] and Emma-Leigh (pronounced Emily). I also had a great great aunt called Daisy-May who I’m named after!
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I’m going to sign up to ancestry and try to find out more because now I’m intrigued!
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[name_f]My[/name_f] great great grandmother was named [name_u]Evergreen[/name_u]! 
Which I coincidentally passed down to my second son as a middle (I was unaware that was my great great grandmother’s name until after he was born and named).
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It is Spanish indeed, and I doubt there was any negative association before the novel by Nabokov, which was only published in 55
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A few unusual names in my family tree but these three are the weirdest:
Tootsie (f)
Prime (m)
[name_u]Otter[/name_u] (m)
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I’ve just done some more digging. Here are some intriguing ones from the 19th century.
Chrysomer
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Dulcibella[/name_f] [name_f]Mary[/name_f] [name_f]Susanna[/name_f]
[name_m]Sherlock[/name_m]
[name_u]Winter[/name_u]
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found some more!
Aanen
Rosephene
Flara
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