The strangest names I've heard were all connected with war stories. Smyrna was the boat that rescued a woman's father. Torness was the last name (all he ever learned) of a marine who saved a man's life. Likewise, Stroad.There are a couple of others that won't come to mind right now. One man who thought he was going to die at the landing at Tarawa swore to name his first child after the patron saint of soldiers (Romanus) if he survived to have one. He did and it was a girl - Romalee.