What's the weirdest baby name?

Specialties Ob/Gyn Nursing Q/A

Hi, I was wondering about some of those weird names that you've probably encountered in L&D and PP. I remember when I had my maternity rotation a couple of weeks ago, one of the nurses said she remembers a patient that named her child Placenta. I couldn't believe it that some child has to live his life named after disgusting afterbirth!

Specializes in L&D, NICU, PICU, School, Home care.
work on a postpartum unit in a large urban hospital. The trend I see (and cringe at) is the increased use of apostrophes and hyphens in names that are difficult enough to begin with. Examples; Ke'mareion, A'nillayah, De-quarius, and X'avierion.

All i can think of is how much Kindergarten is gonna suck trying to learn to write those names! Do the name tags even come that long?? That is gonna be tough :o

Kindergarten will be bad but think about those cruel little middle and jr high kids and what they will do to the poor kids stuck with crazy names!

I met a guy named...Dayton Raper

Specializes in L&D.

Today I saw (thank God not a patient) a Clitaurus...Either the parents had a sex and astrology problem or they loved their car a little too mcuh!

Orion - (baby boy) - ok, this one did have a romantic, constellation engagement story behind it, so it's not so bad, but still a strange, out-there name.

I used to live in the Quad Cities, and there's a small town south of there called Orion, pronounced Or-ee-on. I know someone whose sister named her daughter that. Thing was, the girl was 15 when the baby was born, and there was a local news story from Orion and she asked her parents if she could name her child that. Her parents replied that it was her baby and she could name it whatever she wanted. Oh, and this was a middle-class family, and as they were leaving, one of the nurses said, "You know, most of the time, we don't want to send these babies home, but I look at your family and this baby will be raised in a loving home." When I knew this woman, her sister was in college and Orion even had a good relationship with her father, who was also 15 at the time, and his family as well. His relationship was initially like a big brother but had matured as he got older.

"Orion" is an old song by Metallica that has been remade by an acoustic guitar duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and has been performed on a number of recent late night chat shows. Check them out on You Tube and be prepared to be blown away.

I recently heard about a little boy named Ozzy. Not John Michael, which is Mr. Osbourne's real name, but OZZY. :down:

My sister in law went to school with a girl named Fonda Dicks.

Your SIL must be from Moravia, Iowa. Fonda Dicks was a high school basketball legend in the 1970s.

work on a postpartum unit in a large urban hospital. The trend I see (and cringe at) is the increased use of apostrophes and hyphens in names that are difficult enough to begin with. Examples; Ke'mareion, A'nillayah, De-quarius, and X'avierion.

All i can think of is how much Kindergarten is gonna suck trying to learn to write those names! Do the name tags even come that long?? That is gonna be tough :o

The first wave of these "ethnic" named babies are finding it nearly impossible to get jobs, and encounter enormous prejudice in other arenas of life.

Sad but true.

our new anaesthesist's name is Dr. Goodmorning, hahaha that's how I looked like, when she introduced herself: :eek:

I'm not a nurse, in case you hadn't noticed, but the wackiest prescription I ever filled was Caverject by a urologist named Dr. Wiener.

:lol2:

I worked at a mail order place at the time and you bet we all got a good laugh about that.

At this same facility, I also once filled a prescription written by Dr. William Barry, a dermatologist from Athens, Georgia. You R.E.M. fans will know what I'm talking about. No, it's not spelled the same but it's definitely pronounced the same! For that matter, there is a lawyer in Seattle named Peter L. Buck, which is where the musician of the same name has lived for many years. (Edit: Peter's 13-year-old twin daughters are Zoe, which is a common name, and Zelda, which hasn't been for decades.)

:jester:

(I've found a few pharmacist blogs but no message boards, anywhere, that have more than 100 or so posts. So, here I am.)

What a great thread!! I love hearing all of these names, it is amazing what people come up with. In the NICU we have a lot of Neveah's (Heaven backwards) and Miracle's. While my mom was working as a field nurse for the PHD, she had a baby who's name was Female (rhymes with tamale). The family was from Mexico and saw it on some papers, thought the hospital named the baby and just went with it I guess.

Ever notice sometimes people's names just suit them to a T? I had a roommate years ago who was the cutest, sticky-sweetest, smurfette voiced, lacy pink scrunchie-wearing goody-two shoes you would ever want to meet. Her name?

Becky I wont spell her last name for confidentiality (but it was pronounced Nice-Wonder) Just say it out loud...."Becky NiceWonder"...;)

work on a postpartum unit in a large urban hospital. The trend I see (and cringe at) is the increased use of apostrophes and hyphens in names that are difficult enough to begin with. Examples; Ke'mareion, A'nillayah, De-quarius, and X'avierion.

All i can think of is how much Kindergarten is gonna suck trying to learn to write those names! Do the name tags even come that long?? That is gonna be tough :o

I'm in TX. From what I've heard, I don't think they are allowing hyphens or apostrophes on the actual birth certificates any more. They may write it any way they want at home, but on the official documents it's a no no.

Your SIL must be from Moravia, Iowa. Fonda Dicks was a high school basketball legend in the 1970s.

Then chances are she wasn't...... Kidding ;)

I'm in TX. From what I've heard, I don't think they are allowing hyphens or apostrophes on the actual birth certificates any more. They may write it any way they want at home, but on the official documents it's a no no.

What if the baby was named something like Rose-Marie? Or O'Fallon, which I understand is not unusual in the St. Louis area - parents hear the name of the town (there's one on each side of the river) and name their child that?

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