<p>Years ago we carpooled a child name Alisara…Alice-Sara maybe? I still like it and have never heard it before or since.
We had acquaintences whose son was named Proben. Never heard it before or since.</p>
<p>Expecting my third child, my DS (aged 5) and my DD (aged 2) pleaded to name the new baby girl Rainbow Rose. I told them that that wasn’t a real name, only one in a story. When we attended an art show years later, there was a painting by a student in elementary school signed Rainbow Rose. A real girl with the name they had chosen. Boy, did I hear about that!
(They both admitted to preferring their younger sister’s real name to their earlier preference!)</p>
<p>I googled Proben for you - apparently it is popular in Germany. My family is from Ireland and uses a lot of Irish names. People often remark that they are made up or spelled wrong. It is quite offensive! I had a salesman once ask me if my parents couldn’t spell when I spelled my first name for him.</p>
<p>A friend of mine had a dream, that when she gave birth her H said the baby was Magnificent, guess what they named her? yup!</p>
<p>A little boy in my daughter’s kindergarten class was Iralee. Love that name.</p>
<p>Mamabear, growing up I had an Irish neighbor named Shivon (Phonetic)…imagine my surprise when I saw her name spelled Shiobhan - I thought there must have been a mistake!</p>
<p>There are no weird names anymore.</p>
<p>I may have mentioned this before but I once dealt with a Sequoia Woodlands.</p>
<p>“Adolf” was once a common name in Germany until the 1940s, but is now rare (for what are probably obvious reasons).</p>
<p>[Vorname</a> Adolf * Statistik und Bedeutung](<a href=“http://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/4501-adolf.htm]Vorname”>Vorname Adolf * Herkunft, Statistiken und Bedeutung)</p>
<p>Proben sounds like some kind of pharmaceutical product. </p>
<p>“Ask your doctor if Proben is right for you.”</p>
<p>I’ve come across a child named Ocean (honestly, the parents seemed quite normal!) and another named Storm :S</p>
<p>I almost forgot about Saffron!</p>
<p>I’m just mad about Saffron,
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<p>Do they have a brother named Stone? ;)</p>
<p>[Pearl</a> Jam’s Stone Gossard](<a href=“http://m.billboard.com/articles/news/1560760/pearl-jams-stone-gossard-talks-solo-album-debuts-your-flames-track]Pearl”>Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard Talks Solo Album; Debuts ‘Your Flames’ Track – Billboard)</p>
<p>We have a sampler made by an ancestor of ours in the early 1800s. One of her sisters was “Wealthy Ann.” Odd names are not really a new phenomenon!</p>
<p>“I almost forgot about Saffron!”</p>
<p>Wasn’t that the name of the daughter in Ab Fab? </p>
<p>I knew a Sequoia, too.</p>
<p>Growing up, I was never able to find pencils or key chains with my name on them in gift shops, or a license plate with my name on it to put on my bike. I didn’t like that.</p>
<p>As an adult, I have to spell my name all the time. And people, even people who have known me for years, misspell it. I don’t like that.</p>
<p>I was probably thirty by the time I realized that when I go to a restaurant and they ask for my name so they can call me when my table is ready, I don’t have to tell them *my *name. I just have to tell them a name. I tell them my name is Alex.</p>
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<p>Funny. But I’m glad my unusual name doesn’t sound like a drug name.</p>
<p>A girl long ago in my daughter’s school was named Io, from the Greek myth. I love it. </p>
<p>When I was in the hospital after having my baby, the woman I shared the room with had named her baby Starr Silver. On the phone she was defending the name as not being hippy-dippy, because Starr was spelled with two Rs.</p>
<p>The first name Sequoia is not completely unknown because of the Cherokee Sequoyah - or variant spellings. But to put that with Woodlands must have been a parental joke.</p>
<p>There is a name that gives me pause. A player drafted this year by the Cleveland Browns is Barkevious Mingo. That’s a name out worthy of JK Rowling. Also reminds me of the famous baseball name Van Lingle Mungo, who pitched for Brooklyn.</p>
<p>I know a girl named Ceridwyn. She’s not allowed to have nicknames per her mother. I think that’ll change one she’s grown.</p>
<p>I played softball with a girl named Chardonnay Champaign. Kinda curious about where she ended up now…</p>
<p>“But to put that with Woodlands must have been a parental joke.”</p>
<p>I think that goes without saying! </p>
<p>Growing up, no one was named Emily, unless they were over 80. I didn’t even know another until I was in high school. No key chains, no name necklaces, pencils, etc. I so wanted to be a debbie or a lisa. </p>
<p>Then in the 80’s there was an explosion of them. I still turn around whenever I hear someone say “emily” thinking they must be talking to me.</p>