Giving your protagonist a unique or unusual name can make him or her more memorable. However, if it’s so weird or impossible to pronounce that your readers stumble every time they see it, then it can be a distraction, which is something you never want to do. It works best if you keep it short and easily recognizable. If you have several such names, make sure they’re of different length, and don’t have the same first letter, which makes them easier to tell apart.

This seems to happen a lot in science fiction and fantasy and something I’ve struggled with from time to time.  Now that my series is being made into audio books, I have to admit I’m wondering how my narrator will say some of those names! I’m reminded of the movie, “Men in Black”, where some of the space aliens have some pretty strange names that I’d have no clue whatsoever how to spell!