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For me personally, I like some unconventional names because many of the consistently common English names make just as much of a statement to me as unconventional ones. And it's a statement I'm not that comfy making. What is it? Well ... they say "conventional, mainstream, conservative, majority group, values fitting in with the 'right' people," that sort of thing. I don't need or want my kids' names to say those things. If the names I like say them a little bit, that's okay, but some names just seem to say it too loud, according to my personal impression. Unconventional names or unpopular ones are often loud in other ways I'm not comfy with, but many just appeal to me based on my individual experience.

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I like most of the names on your list and I think they're all good and not very loudly conventional (except maybe Joseph, Mary, and Matthew). The unconventional names people like are almost always a small subset of all weird names... it's a matter of individual taste.