Stumbled upon this site: www.britishbabynames.com/blog/uncommon-and-unusual/, just thought I'd share for the name lovers here, especially those who love the more unusual ones.
This for the boys from 1853, click on the link for the girls, and more years.
Alexander Thurstanus
Alfred Appleton Percival
Allan Homer
Annesley Charles Ernest
Bourchier Beresford
Bradshawe Washington
Cary Charles
Casebow Theodore
ChedorlaomerÂ
Dalton Harper
Demosthenes Alexander
Devonshire Alexander
Dionysis Kinsman
Fenwick Yellowley
George Bagot Gosset Francis Richard Pigot
Glanville Alexander
Hamlet Frederick
Hannibal Nicholas
Hercules Benjamin
Hollyoak Mazzini Owen
Jephthah Ballantine
Leicester Wellesley
Leoline Arthur
Leonidas Cornelius
Lovedon John Tom
Lucretius Augustus
Luke Waterloo
Major Dunn
Masfen James
Melbourne Burnere Short
Merchant Charles Octavius
Montague Archer
Morman Moroni Joseph*
Napoleon The Great
Nebuchadnezzar Knight
Nestor Isidore Charles
Nimrod Lilly
Nugent Ezra
Obadiah Josiah
Orpheus Joseph
Peachey Alban Gregory
Peleg Eber
Rider Edwin
Rochford Augustus
Stanford Jacob King
St Ledger John
Sydney Syria
Theophilus Elam
Tito Durell Hodges
Trevelyan Charles
Tudley Humphrey
Urban Cave
Uvedale BennettÂ
Virgo James
Warden AlexanderÂ
William Reform
Wolfgang Sigismund Geoffrey Chaucer Freydon
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