Are you looking for a name that is rare, but not unheard of? These are names that have gone extinct. That is, these names haven't appeared in the SSA database since 1926-- I figure since they haven't shown up in 100 years, they're fairly extinct!
A lot of them are typos or alternate spellings for names that are still around:
Many of them are Japanese. After a large influx of Japanese immigrants in the early 1900s, the Immigration Act of 1924 banned Japanese immigration until 1952. It is probable that children of Japanese parents were not widely given Japanese names as first names during this time:
The rest of the extinct names are a combination of names commemorating events (i.e. Jeannedarc-- St. Jeanne d'Arc was canonized in 1920), names that just fell out of style (i.e., Dormalee, Euphrasia, Myrlie, Ozeller), or names that weren't very popular to begin with and never really caught on!
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