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!

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

What does it say about a parent (George Foreman also comes to mind) when they have to "brand" each and every child with their own first name?

I can cut ol' George some slack....I will have to check it out, but I 'heard' that he named all his kids George because he was adopted and that was what he felt he could rightfully pass on to his kids as 'his'. Let me go snopes it.

[luv_a_nurse]

How about "Meconium" (even though we explained to the mother what 'meconium' was, she still felt it would be a beautiful name for her daughter-haha.)

..or "Essence?"

..or "Nos mo king?" (No smoking, get it?! I'm not even kidding!)

Hope you all enjoyed a good laugh, I know I did

[rn/writer, RN]

I can cut ol' George some slack....I will have to check it out, but I 'heard' that he named all his kids George because he was adopted and that was what he felt he could rightfully pass on to his kids as 'his'. Let me go snopes it.

I still cringe when parents give their kids names that will cause confusion, ridicule or other problems to meet their own (the parents') needs. Too many people treat their kids like little billboards, using their child's name to promote a cause or stroke their egos or make some kind of declaration to the world. They come up with "kreativve spehlinng" that ensures years of clarification. Or they make some other choice that sets the kid up for all kinds of grief.

I'm not saying there shouldn't be any imagination used in naming a child. Only suggesting that parents take a look at their motives when choosing something unusual or potentially problematic and examine whose needs they are really meeting.

[ShariDCST]

in my local paper, a nearby town lists the births at their hospital, and i swear the parents there must have contests to see who can come up with the most bizarre spellings for classic names.

extra "h"s are popular too.

fakers are a big problem on multiple birth websites, and are easy to spot because the pregnancies are impossibly easy, the babies are enormous (i.e. quadruplets weighing over 7 pounds each), and - this is a dead giveaway - the babies are always girls, with an occasional token boy tossed in, and they have these really cutesy names with lots of "y"s in them.

yeah - what is it with all the y's lately?? we were just reading our local paper this evening - small midwestern town of about 12,000 or so - and there's one in there that's going to make this child's life a litany of explanations, corrections, mispronunciations and misspellings...........madylyn caryle?? (sigh - and i also substitute teach in said school system - i see some doozies there too!)

[ShariDCST]

anyway, his mom's name was aquanetta. she's in her 40s so i do not know the origin of that name. did the product aqua net exist back then?

yep - aqua net has been propping up beehives, mohawks, "mall bangs" (think 80's big hair) and so on since the 50's.......i still remember purple cans of #4 unscented aqua net in my bathroom - i swear that stuff is just lacquer with some perfume in it! (it's even been recommended by miniature modelers for use on their projects to seal paint!!!)

[jnrsmommy]

My local paper had a 'cutest baby' competition, and in among all the Rubys and Harrisons there was a kid named:

Jed....

I. Knight

yup, Jedi Knight.

Maybe one day he will meet my niece: Leia Elizabeth Arwen (brother is the Star Wars fan, SIL is Lord of the Rings... don't know where Elizabeth came from)

[tbell2]

yeah - what is it with all the y's lately?? we were just reading our local paper this evening - small midwestern town of about 12,000 or so - and there's one in there that's going to make this child's life a litany of explanations, corrections, mispronunciations and misspellings...........madylyn caryle?? (sigh - and i also substitute teach in said school system - i see some doozies there too!)

uh-oh. my littlest girl is jessica and we call her jessy. i like it with the "y". i think it looks better than jesse or jessie. does that make me lame? i am either way.

[mommyonamission]

Miracle

Jadakiss

Lexus

Infiniti

Waffalena

Messiah

I used to work in social work within Philadelphia so I've nearly seen it all

[mommyonamission]

Oh another one... first name: Andy, last name: Stankass

[ShariDCST]

Uh-oh. My littlest girl is Jessica and we call her Jessy. I like it with the "y". I think it looks better than Jesse or Jessie. Does that make me lame? I am either way.

No darlin' - that does NOT make you lame! On her birth certificate, school records, drivers' license (some day) and so on - her name is JESSICA. You can spell Jessy with a "y" if you like - Jesse is traditionally the masculine spelling (aka Jesse James), and the "y" or "ie" is interchangable for girls. It's more in how you pronounce it than how you spell a nickname - it's how you SPELL given names that makes their lives hell on earth........and it's the ones who put y's everywhere but where they DON'T belong who are having self-identity issues and are foisting them off on their children! This, in my book, makes YOU perfectly normal! LOL

[sharpeimom]

in my hometown there was a man whose last name was krapp. his first name was his mom's maiden name -- fuller. put 'em together. yep, fuller krapp... don't people think and sound the name out first?

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

[Moss1222]

Had a neighbor growing up named Candie Barr

and my husband SWEARS he knew a Harry Butt

while he was growing up!