What is a beautiful but unusual name?

Very unusual. @MaryJanine

@LukeTheDuke "Michaelene" is the feminine form of "Michael" (and I love that name) and "Melisande" is another form of "Melanie" or "Melissa".

@MaryJanine Back in the late 80s, the employees at El Pollo Loco used to call me michaelene.

@Mguinm You don't hear it too often nowadays, but often it's when a father wanted a boy and he got a girl instead. I was stuck with that when Dad named me after himself and Grandma (his mother). I always hated my name and thought it was an "old lady" name. I never met another girl with my name until I went to high school. And the teachers called me "Marcia", "Marie"; and others - they never got the proper name right,

@MaryJanine I made a mistake. My name is Michelle so they called me Michelene.

@Mguinm Just as nice. I knew a family whose older daughter was Michelle and youngest daughter (three boys later) was Melani.