The phrase "a curious name" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a name that is unusual or intriguing in some way.
Example: "The book featured a character with a curious name that piqued my interest immediately."
Alternatives: "an unusual name" or "an intriguing name."
I'll put buttonwood, it's a curious name.
This was the debut of an amazing new begonia hybrid with a curious name, Dragon Wing.
But regardless of its merits, this scheme may be doomed to rejection purely because it has a curious name.
But regardless of its merits, this scheme may have been doomed purely because it had a curious name.
The granite marker he placed above the empty grave says NICK BEEF, a curious name that has prompted years of Internet speculation.
On the Bab is a curious name if you're just passing and not down with the whole Korean street-food thing.
A dish with the curious name of hit pot chicken ($12) was crisp but merely insipid.
It'll be legible even on a high shelf, and its curious name (which is the term for when a cartoon character gets so hungry that he hallucinates his friend turning into food) is sure to hamburger the eye of the casual observer.
(The list of pitchers with April no-hitters in the last twenty or so years, for example, contains some solid starters mixed with a few curious names: Chris Bosio, Kent Mercker, Scott Erickson, Nomo, Derek Lowe, Kevin Millwood, Mark Buehrle, and Ubaldo Jiménez, who threw last year's first no-hitter of the season).
With its curious name – an affectionate derivative of marito, which means husband, it first became popular in the Middle Ages as a token of love.
Set in the suburbs of south-west London (quirkily stylised a la Muriel Spark or a more upbeat Patrick Hamilton), the novel concerns one Edward Blakestonaiveth, a naive young man who, after fleeing some kind of monastery-cum-mental institution, is employed by an agony aunt to track down a serial seducer by the curious name of Septimus Tuam.
