Traditional every time.

I don't mind my name now, but people can be so rude about it. It is not pronounced "Crane" (by teachers, who did not listen to my corrections) and as to "why do you spell it like that?"... because I came out of my mother's womb perfectly articulate and saying "Please, mother dearest, give me a name with an unusual spelling so idiots have to start a new form when I speak to them on the telephone seventeen years from now." I think there is a central computer with that has flagged me up with "don't mention the name" as it stopped happening completely after I started to have fun. But until I did that, it really hurt. And I mean really. I still have a friend who mocks my name a little, but I do his so it's all good fun. Having strangers and people who have power over you doing it... not nice.

My son has traditional names, but an unusual nickname. (I call him Welly, although Liebling is fairly unusual around here too.) He actually has the same name as a brewery when you google him (great for future employment: employers less likely to find his drunken teen photos.) Although his name isn't uncommon, the girl name we had picked out for him is normal, easy to spell, pretty, traditional... just hasn't been used a lot in recent years. Traditional doesn't have to mean same as everyone else.