Why did the Victorians name their children weird names such as "Jubal Early," "Vestal Coffin," "Pleasant Unthank" or "Euthanasia Meade" ?

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Any reason behind this trend? What started it? What ended it? Was it due to a different sense of humor about life then? Would the names have sounded equally epic back then, or was this sort of thing relatively normal?

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