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I had occasion to go to a local cemetery this week (in downstate Michigan, US) and was pleased to find some unusual names. Some I'd heard before I hadn't. The best of the bunch:

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Hersilora
Tryphena
Mima
Percena
Fidelia
Mariamne
Zerah
Dwella
Orpha

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Philetus
Otis
Tisdale
Rufus (I don't care for it personally, but I was surprised to see so many that were not obviously related)
Elam
Gershom
Erastus
Eliakim

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What do you think?

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Hersilora was my favorite by a mile. So odd and unusual.

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"He was healthy to the point of heathendom and he acknowledged no power but his own."

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Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy