In 2011 I published a list of unusual American girls’ names collected by H.L. Mencken in his magisterial study The American Language. I should have gone back for the boys’ names:

• Allmouth
• Anvil
• Arson
• Centurlius
• Cho-Wella
• Clarmond
• Cluke
• Comma
• Crellon
• Cyclone
• Doke
• Elesten
• Elgne
• Elvcyd
• Felmet
• Florns
• Habert
• Harce
• Human
• Jat
• Kark
• Kleo Murl
• Koith
• Lig
• Loarn
• Mord
• Murt
• Quannah
• Rephord
• Terbert
• Thrantham
• Torl
• Valourd
• Virgle
• Yick
• Zelmer
• Zurr

“In Connecticut, a generation or two ago, there was a politico surnamed Bill whose given-names were Kansas Nebraska. He had brothers named Lecompton Constitution and Emancipation Proclamation, and sisters named Louisiana Purchase and Missouri Compromise.”

(H.L. Mencken, The American Language, Supplement 2, 1948.)