When I was in 4th grade, in my class of 16, there were 5 Johns and one Jon (me). That’s the year I started going by Jonathan.
Onchanta and Onchante both showed up on a list I was working on.
After spending a while mentally pronouncing them ‘Onch-an-tuh,’ I realized they were both phonetic spellings of enchanté.
There’s nothing odd about a cute smushing of Jonathan and Max. But the only time I’ve seen Jax as a full name is as a character on General Hospital.
Different Names of People I have known:
Tuesday and Gidget (Sisters)
Today
Aloha
Chance Lucky (I kid you not)
This just in from the internets. The good folk there named a kid (bum-ba-bum):
Amelia Savannah Joy McLaughlin
Well, that’s anticlimactic. At least 3 of those are real names. No Melodee Khrystal Strippername. However, looks like it wasn’t really the top vote getter: that was Cthulhu All-Spark (McLaughlin, presumably). 
I do see the hint of a belly button tentacle. Maybe she’ll lose her “baby legs” a la the Simpsons’s Treehouse of Horror.
My son knows one of those! Apparently it’s a big family and they all have weird names. The only other one I can remember right now is a girl named Ocala National Forest, because that’s where she was conceived.
My younger brother went to school with a girl named Memphis Boston, though I don’t know why she was named that.
The winner of the official name of the year competition is Shamus Beaglehole.
There is in this world a man who spells his name Andrue.
There is a child at my kids’ daycare who is Jrue. You know … pronounced like “drew”.
There’s a genre mystery series in which the first person narrator is named Brooklyn, and she has a brother, Austin, a sister, Savannah, and so on. Same reason.
At some point, the parent would have to start planning intimacy around nice place names. I mean, imagine a kid named San Louis Obispo or Jersey City.
There is a game that I love to play called “Rowowor.”
You are given seven letters one at a time, and you have to place them in such a way with respect to each other as to form as many words as you can. (They can overlap/share letters.)
Anyway, in the course of playing this game, I ended up with interesting letter combinations often enough that I ended up making a running list of them for use as names in fiction I write or whatever. Here’s some of them:
**Xidonee ** (pronounced “Sydney”)
Henoari (never thought about it til just now, but I suppose it could be pronounced “Henry”)
Annelux
Ielando
Wixcine
Aofania
Shiveil
Man’s name: “Ronwanda” - His father’s name was Ron, his mother was Wanda.
Man’s name: Nickleus - His mother couldn’t spell Nicholas.
Woman’s name: “Freelove” - Her mother asked her father to name her. I think it was his way of saying, “No, honey, we aren’t getting married.”
Freelove was a common name among the Puritans in the 17th century.
Only someone from Philadelphia (like me) can appreciate the true horror of it, but my first cousin’s daughter named her first born Camden. The story is that she was watching a game at Camden yards when her husband-to-be proposed.
I have an acquaintance with a daughter named Luna and one on the way that will be named Io. Io is a moon of Jupiter I believe.
Or a chick who had sex with Zeus. She was changed into a cow to hid from his jealous wife, and guarded by a dude covered in eyes. Zeus put a hit on eyeboy and Hermes did the deed. He was literally bored to death. Then adultery and technical bestiality commenced/continued.
Those two are unusual names but not really :rolleyes:. At least they’re not made out of whole cloth. The unread will have a hell of a time pronouncing her name though.
What’s so bad about Luna? That’s a perfectly acceptable girl name.
Io is a little weird, but not even close to the weirdest name I’ve ever heard.
Io was originally a woman from Greek mythology. The moon was named for her.