Unusual names

Does anyone have strange names in your family tree? Here are some of mine:
Thankful Howe,
Sarah Minnie Bigg,
Thankful Howe's mother was Hepzabah Death,
Needless Oakely married James Day becoming Mrs. Needless Day.
There are more but that is good for now.
What strange names do your ancestors have?

I haven't found many that were strange. I'll have to go back and look. I couldn't imagine Hepzabah Death. goodness!

Christian Abstinence Ffrost

Not my family, but a place where my sons' would go camping with the Boy Scouts is on a piece of property that was part of the original Land Grant given to the widow of a man who fought for Texas Independence. She had the now-tittering name of: Freelove Woody.

Not really , but I have several unique names on my website

Orange Lemon
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Richard Crap
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A. Lincoln GoLinkin
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those are so cool. I dont have any cool names like that in my family... : )

I've got a gentleman named Valentine Honey on my wife's side of the family.

#7 Poor guy.

Zorrababel Endicott. It's in the Bible somewhere.

Whole slews of virtue names like Remembrance and Restore etc.

#9 Puritan? In other words do they come from early New England? The ones I mentioned in #1 do. They loved those Bible and virtue names.
BTW Zerubbabel or Zorobabel was a great king of Judah at the time the Jews returned from Babylon. The name means born in Babylon. Of course you probably already knew that and I should tell the nerd in me to shut up.

Son of John Endicott, Governor of the colony of Massachusetts.

You can't beat those Puritan names, but I have some great Victorian names in my family. Two come to mind immediately: Belveretta Pringle and Cinderella Hewitt.

Another interesting name - Shearjashub Goodspeed. He was born in Montgomery, Vermont; his father and mother were from Massachusetts.

I've got a cousin Sherjashub, but he's not a Goodspeed. Maybe a Lippincott, and in Massachusetts or New Jersey.

Another interesting name: I have a great-aunt named Electa because she was born on election day shortly after women got the vote.

I had a great grand-uncle whose wife was Electa. (She's not related by blood, but I suppose she would be considered a gg-aunt.) She, however, was born in 1876 so I have no idea how she came by the name.

I had two great great uncles and all my dad could remember was that the called them Uncle Fuzzy and Uncle Tater. Thankfully, the Tombstone project exists adn I found James Franklin "Fuzzy" Rhea in the county they were from!

I've found this Dutch family who emigrated to the US in the middle of the 19th century. They keep giving their children traditional Dutch names like Jan (John), Hendrik (Henry) or Willem (William). But then they decide to name their daughter Nelly Nevada! What??

#16

Could her parents be in any way connected to Edison? He started his Edison Electric Light Co. (US) and American Electric and Illuminating (Canada) just two years later and he had to be doing research prior to that.

I have a distant cousin named Antha Euphemia. No idea where that came from. She was known as "Daisy."

I had a great aunt who died before I knew her. Her name was Missouri, but she was known as Aunt Zurry.

I just stumbled onto an interesting name in my latest research activities...Exam Jessup. What would you call him? Ex?

Major Henry Payne Kidder, 1844-1925. "Major" was his given name, so he appears in some records as Major Kidder. We like to call him "Major Payne" Kidder.

On my mother's SPRATT line, we've gone back to the 1500s to a John. So I guess I'm descended from 'Jack' Spratt!

A friend of mine has a couple of unusual names--his Goldstine ancestor came to the USA in the mid-1800s, and wanted to show his enthusiasm for his new country. Two of his children were Alaska Goldstine (named after Sewell's purchase) and Mark Twain Goldstine, after meeting the famous author while working along the Mississippi.

I have an ancestor whose first name was Bishop, and another whose name was Squirrelskin Lumpkin!

lol, these are great! Wish I had some good ones to share. Some unusual names I'd never use on my kid today, but nothing that funny.

In a very remote branch of my extended family there was an Italian-American named Osvaldo Rabbitini, whose Italian parents, it is claimed, were utterly unaware of the Disney cartoon character of much the same name.

I did remember one name that's unusual - not funny, more like awkward. My great-grandfather (1883-1972) was named Adolphus. Normally that would be shorted to "Adolf", but for some reason he preferred just "Dolf". Weird, huh? :

In re #28. Nor weird in my experience. There once was a famous polka band led by "Dolph" Hoffner. The weird part was that he was from Texas.

Texas had its share of German immigrants. Have you noticed the accordions in Tex-Mex bands?

In rebus 29 & 30. Actually, I DO know about the German immigrants, and of-course, about the squeeze-boxes. My crack was a little joke for the benefit of our Canadian colleague cecrow -- who might NOT have known about all of this. Back -- or should we "zurueck"? -- to Hoffner. He started-out as Adolf, but changed his name for fairly obvious reasons later-on. enough of this! It's Polka-time!! And-a one and . . .

Dolf is actually a common Dutch nickname for Adolf/Adolphus (or at least used to be, when that name was still in use...). Any possible Dutch ancestry?

>28 Cecrow:, I was being tongue-in-cheek with my "Weird, huh?" In light of the times through which he lived (in Canada), particularly the 1930s and 1940s, it's not surprising that he would wish to avoid being called "Adolf".

He was 56 when WW2 broke out. What was his name before that?

>34 rfb:, I think he generally went by Adolf prior to the other one becoming infamous. Incidentally his younger daughter is turning 97 this year.

Golden Bird(no indian in this line) had sisters named: Kiturah and Caletha.
also have a Napoleon Bonaparte Herron, Kunigunda Gehring,

My mother's paternal family has an unusual first name that has been passed on for generations - Hazelle. People confuse it all the time for Hazel or mispronounce it. As a young woman I told my mom the last baby in the family to be "cursed" with the name, that the name would die with her. Two years ago I had my son, who will be my only child. Needless to say I didn't have to worry about passing the name on to him. My own maternal grandmother who agreed to name my mom Hazelle started calling her Suzie Q at the age of 4! Now my mom just goes by Sue.

I have a family of Vaughn ancestors from the southern U.S. who, through several generations, named their children Christopher Columbus Vaughn, George Washington Vaughn, Benjamin Franklin Vaughn and Andrew Jackson Vaughn.