What's the weirdest baby name?

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!

[deedee3]

[color=orangered]my hubby does social security disability and he swears that he personally has seen people named lemonjello and orangejello (pronounced le-mohngello and or-ahngello). i don't know.

urban myth dennie. i have heard that one a million times.

isn't there an old story about a hispanic lady who had a baby girl and saw "female" written on her baby girl's layette.......so she thought they had named it for her?? female hernandez. pronounced "fehmallee

yup, heard that one too.

i also had a teen mom who named her child margarita......(sad).

i wanted to name my oldest that, because when she was concieved i was drinking, guess what ?:imbar

live in the deep south (middle mississippi), and while the story has been around since i was a kid (am 44 now), i have known more than one lay-mon-jalo ---- even flaynell pagy-may (spelled something like, flannel pajama)...may be urban myths, but these parents must have heard them too - he-he....don't even get me started on fa-mall-eh......lol -

mercedes and porsche or porsha

[Jamesdotter]

I used to work with a woman named Mercedes--she pronounced it MER-sa-dees.. As to Porsha, well, there's a character in I-forget-which-Shakespeare-play named Portia. Maybe that's what they were trying for.

[christine_chapel]

I think the car brand Mercedes was actually named after someone's daughter Mercedes. It's a pretty common Spanish name!

according to Wikipedia, yup, named after a daughter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_(car)

ok, can't fix the link for some reason, the last parenthesis won't stick to the URL! try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9rc%C3%A9d%C3%A8s_Jellinek

[jnrsmommy]

Modesty and Nemesis... 2 friends of my daughters

[madnurse2b]

Someone I knew once - Bruce Wayne

[happychickRN]

Twins--Orangejello & Lemonjello

[mamaellis2many]

the strangest i have seen was an african-american who had twins and named them - get this - orangejello and lemonjello, we all cracked up over this at the nurses station. I was a senior nursing student at the time

[OhBoy123]

La-a. Pronounced Ladasha. -=dash sooo weird

[egglady, LPN]

I am still amazed that the Michaels and Jennifers are the most popular- heck, EVERYONE has personally known or known someone personally who has met the Jello twins!!! I can honestly say I have not- but I know I will someday, cuz I work in geriatrics, and they gotta be getting old by now!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Staragate, ADN, ASN, RN]

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i also had a teen mom who named her child margarita......(sad).

margarita is a hispanic name for margarite. the baby may have been named after the drink which would be sad.

for my own. my kid has a normal first name, but harley for a middle name. just to be fun.

[Jarnaes]

I know of a girl named Aquanette Hair...

My guess is her mom was a fan of AquaNet Hair Spray. I'll have to ask her about the origin of her first name one of these days.

[psalm, RN]

the strangest i have seen was an african-american who had twins and named them - get this - orangejello and lemonjello, we all cracked up over this at the nurses station. I was a senior nursing student at the time

What school? What hospital?