when my wife was pregnant we had many discussions about names for our baby. i got rather frustrated becuz i would suggest names and she'd shoot them down, usually becuz they reminded her of some kid she taught years ago (she's been a teacher for 13 or 14 years.... so a lot of kids have passed by her desk). do you really think that just becuz xyz was a brat or as dumb as a fence post that our kid will be like that just becuz they have the same name?? really?!?!
eventually i gave up with suggestions (i'm still choked she figured out my plan of "if the baby's a boy i'd like to name him calvin gary.... we can call him cal")
she would give me name lists and some of the names on them were awful. she later confessed that she put some terrible names on her lists to make the names she liked more 'attractive'
as for people i know with weird names - one of my best friends in high school name was dragan (his folks are from croatia and i guess it's just a normal name over there), but he went by dave. i thought dragan was waaaaay cooler name, but oh well!
there's a guy that plays hockey in my men's league and his name is fabbio. at first i sorta thought it was a joke name on a score sheet, but it is legit. i'm still waiting for him to take off his helmet during a game and see long flowing hair fall half way down his back! ha! ha!
again, back in high school, was a girl named 'tuesday' and currently i do business with a lady named 'summer'