My son has a unique name, which I'm not posting on the internet because he's probably one of a handful of boys with that name. I have no issues on unique or different names. I do think that the really odd ones should be given some thought to how it will affect them in life. See "Yourhighness" above. I knew one woman named "Jail." She pronounced it "Jah-eel," but it says what it says no matter how you choose to pronounce it. Big surprise - she'd been in jah-eel many times.