Sentence examples for rare name from inspiring English sources

A rare name, the professors surmised, had a negative psychological effect on its bearer.

I think the strongest factor was the name, that being a rare name".

It was from a man in Turkey who had just named his son Orkut — a rare name, apparently — and who wanted to learn more about its provenance.

Ellar is a rare name with Scottish roots that is also used for girls.

Sellar was of the opinion that Ölvir was not such a rare name as Matheson had previously thought.

"My name isn't a rare name, but the amount of immature friends I have who get my attention with the following absolutely makes my blood boil: 'Hey.

Other rare names include Brütsch, Rollera, Jurisch Motoplan and Reyonnah.

The Strad mystique can put enormous pressure on performers to play on a rare named instrument and devalues musicians who don't.

There was death in the arms of his dresser, a lost unforgotten first love, a disapproving Methodist mother, a wife he never spoke to again after she scorned his art, and a tantalisingly unclear friendship with his stage partner, Ellen Terry, another of those rare names that still resound in a world of passing fame.

The disambiguation of the rare names tells us that they indeed represent to a large extent unique researchers.

We define rare names as surnames where for the whole WoS there is only one type of initial and that initial is itself very rare (q, x, z, u, y, o, and w), which results in 87,000 author names.