yeah, we have a hard to pronounce last name, but sometimes colleages if my dad call up and they don't really know how to pronounce it.
I want unique, but not totally off the wall names for my kids. My name is too common, I've almost always got someone in class with the same name. Blah.
My sister named her son Valen, which is her husband's favorite character on Babylon 5 (it's also an Old English name).