I still know a couple Lavernes and alot of Francis's, some of whom go by "Fran" rather than "Frank"
Popular girls names in my area that passed with time- Viola, Agnes, Phyllis, Fern, Lucretia, Silvia, Gertrude, Lenore, Hortense, Gladys, Doris, Dorene, Mavis, Winifred, Edna, Enid, Milly/Mildred, Agatha, Goldie (wife just lost her aunt Goldie), Wanda, Starla , Edith, Dorothy/Dot (musta been 40 ladies called Dot where I grew up) and my all time 2nd favorite nominee for an awful girls name- Myrtle. Every lady I knew named Myrtle either went by "Mert" or more likely a nickname like "Tilly", "Skipper" or "Sandy" if they had light colored hair at all. First nominee has to be Hortense. Good Lord, why would you name you girl baby Hortense?
My wife has an ancestral grandmother named "Freelove Bucklin". I have a couple way back when with names like "Smervimore", "Duibhn", "Findoig", "Fynewald", "Dwbhn", and my personal favorite "The Treacherous Gabran". Honestly, that's how his name was recorded! We're talking Scotland roughly 900AD around Argyle. He married a, presumably, lovely girl named Lleian Ingenach from Wales. She died in France, he was probably hung or killed doing something nasty in Bonnie Old Scotland. When we get over into the Welsh side you may as well just assume every name is spelled with at least one w or y and either 2 d's, f's or g's in procession. "Gwyddiffid", "Dyddyffany" or "Hedydd" crop up as examples. No clue how you pronounce any of them!