I found the source:
http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2013/5/khaleesi-the-non-name-from-a-non-language
Note that 146 girls is below position 1000 on the chart, which is why a normal observer wouldn’t find it. Laura Wattenberg, who runs the Baby Name Wizard, knows of techniques to find info about names rarer than show up on the standard lists. (She’s explained it sometimes, but I don’t remember the details at the moment.)
Around here, “Khaleesi” means “Rabbit haemorrhagic disease”
I have to agree that the weird names don’t bother me near as much as the mangled spelling common names. The Y and X abuse is rampant in middle class white suburbs. As a substitute teacher is such a pain to be standing up in front of a class trying to decipher the roll sheet again. There’s at least one kid in every class who has to correct me with a quick sigh and an eye roll. I feel badly for them, and I am getting better at deciphering the spelling atrocities of parents who were trying way too hard, but there’s only so much I can do when they deliberately use letters in ways no one has ever used letters before. Vowels in the English language are lovely flexible things but even they don’t make a certain sound just because you liked the look of the U in the middle of the name instead of an I. Sigh.
All that said, one of my daughters almost went by her middle name at the start of the school year. Her name is vanishingly rare, but not made up and is actually a name in a classic children’s book. (Also it belonged to my grandmother.) The issue is that it has a double L and we live in an area that’s about 20% Hispanic. Everyone assumes the Spanish pronunciation of the LL instead of the English, turning her very uncommon English name into an exceptionally common Spanish one. Drives her nuts. To be honest the Spanish angle never even occurred to me. I didn’t even notice until the nurse at her one month check up pronounced her name wrong.
A co-worker’s daughter wanted to name her baby what sounds like keera. She started with Keira but really wanted a Y in there! So, the poor baby’s name is Keiyra. Um, what about the perfectly cromulent “Kyra”? It’s served Ms. Sedgwick pretty well all these years.
Thank you.
I often have to spell my name for people writing it down because there are just so many spelling variations out there nowadays. I’ve seen people with all sorts of weird spellings of my name, like “Emmaleigh” and “Emilii.” At least, I think those are pronounced “Emily.”
For full racism marks, next time don’t forget that the myth says the mother responded “the dash **don’t be **silent.”
I’ve seen a fair number of unusual names among the kids in my son’s classes over the years, but none that struck me as “weird, pretentious or bizarre.”
I don’t find genuinely unusual names as off-putting as attempts to come up with a semi-original spin on a name that’s already too popular.
Once “Jason” and “Aidan” got too popular, everyone and her sister starting coming up with variations on those names (Caden/Kaden, Jaden, Jayson, Chasen, whatever).
I read not long ago of a large Chicago high school in which no two children in the freshman class had the same name.
I see people with a lot of offbeat names come through my court, and have long kept a list. My two favorites of all time are Daphne Threat Medley (band name!) and Imhotep Box. In recent months I’ve seen:
La Mercedes
Duequaner Jordan
Riviera Golphin
Dalemone Spruill
Lacardaire Thedford
Theodoric Bland
Tranceita Norman
Darvell Zellers
La’Asie Null
Symphony Falcon
You’ve never heard of the Symphony Falcon? It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs!
Also it plays “Flight of the Bumblebee” in less than twelve seconds.
Semi was Akeem’s Aide de Camp in the esteemed film “Coming to America”. 
Maybe there are siblings named Peaseblossom, Cobweb, and Mustardseed.
Since Paltrow was an actress, and the daughter of an actress, I thought maybe she got the name “Apple” from the movie One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, which is a great movie, and one of the all-time classics of feminism. Then I saw and interview, or read somewhere that she just thought it was cute. Later it dawned on me that Apple’s last name is Martin, so it sounds a lot like “apple martini.”
sigh
I just occurred to me that Quincifer could be named after Quincy & Jennifer. But the Lucifer connotation comes to my mind first.
“Tanner” is another one of those “medieval occupations” surnames that has become popular recently: Hunter, Connor, Fletcher, Chandler, Mason, Tailor/Taylor, Cooper, Reeve.
Pretty soon, I expect to see kids named Ratcatcher, Witchfinder, Serf, and Yeoman.
I heard it was because a friend of theirs had named their kid Apple. Ah, here:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,639624,00.html
So, unoriginally original.
A relative of mine named their son “Drexton.”
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We have these threads from time to time. I wonder if another 'Doper has ever (honestly) said: “Hey! I named my kid Jaxcskon! Fuck you!”
Oh, good lord. I had the fleeting thought that someone somewhere might have named their innocent little baby boy “Jeighson.” Then I thought to myself, no, no one would ever do something so horrible. So I googled it, because I google everything, and yes, there is more than one person out there who is named Jeighson. :rolleyes: Also Jeighden, Jeighdon and Jeighdyn. And there’s one lonely Cheighson. 
I recall we had one Doper whose kid had an ordinary name with a messed up spelling because (iirc) her husband had chosen the name and she wanted to get her say in too, or something like that. I don’t think she got a lot of positive feedback from us.