I remember when kids were mostly named after grandparents or other ancestors/family members, to carry family names and memories on.
There were probably a lot of weird names in that lot...
Think that’s more prevalent on the East Coast. Less happening as people move east from other parts of the country. Also seems less with the young people today. The ones I know are more likely to fall in love with a name or to want something not common among their circle. I was named with the east coast patterns, as was my brother, but his grandchildren seem pretty randomly named after being raised in California.
Oh, for weird older names. I do have one ancestor named Freelove Arnold.
Now you have children raising children in the US too, and without DNA testing many don’t know who their daddy is... their older brother, uncle, step dad, mom’s boyfriend.... Of course within a generation of DNA testing (25 years) we could rid the black community of the scourges of their society, and probably a lot of other races as well. For the Hawaiian’s royal family it worked out, but not so much in the hood.