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!

When I was in nursing school, I was working in an OB dept. My patient who was pregnant said that she was naming her baby "Kflitawna".... I think that's the most unusual name I've heard!

Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.
RESPECT NAMES!!! I dont know maybe people might be thinking the name you gave your KID is stupid. DO you want that being the talk on the web? If not, then stop insulting these wonderful parents. YOu have no right to do this and you should be given respect. Just to give you a little heads up, you can get fired for insulting a name given to a parents baby. So, it's not going to be funny if you get fired. SO STOP IT!!

All the same, I'm glad my parents didn't name me Chlamydia.

Specializes in LDRP.

recently did my school nurse rotation.. there was a little girl named Sexibeth, a boy named Kreem, and a boy named Shithead (prounonced shih tead)

Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.
recently did my school nurse rotation.. there was a little girl named Sexibeth, a boy named Kreem, and a boy named Shithead (prounonced shih tead)

Well we found Shithead. Now where are Lemonjello, Orangejello, Chlamydia, and La-a's school nurses?????

Specializes in general nursing.

mine was the name a mother called her child mac croni

Lochia--even worse than the Placenta (at least that is life sustaining, while it's around).....................

My LD nurse when I was having my son said that there was a patient who decided to name her child Meconium.

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.
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Specializes in NICU.

I was walking in the unit and noticed a crib card with the begining of the alphabet on it. When I asked who wrote the alphabet on the card, I was told that was the baby's name. "Abcde," pronounced "Ab-si-dee." The 15 years old mom was oh so proud and had plans for her next baby to be "Xyza," which I don't remember how to pronouce.

Specializes in CST in general surgery, LDRs, & podiatry.

-Working where I do now (since having to retire from the ORs due to several physical limitations which seem to want to stick around permanently) I got a call the other night from an obviously middle-aged sounding woman who needed to speak promptly with her son Anthony's doctor, because of some emergency or other. We are required to ask for the caller's name and their relationship to the patient. She said her first and last name, and while the last name was easy enough, I was sure I had not heard her first name right, so I asked her to spell it for me. She said it again, and then spelled out

"A-r-t-i-f-i-c-i-a-l".....................:confused:

Specializes in NICU.

One of the ladies I work with just had a baby boy named Rooster. Her husband's grandfather's nickname was "Gallo," which is rooster in Spanish. This lady fought and fought against it, but he and his family won out in the end.

My sister-in-law is a teacher in IL. and she has a little girl name Shitaria, pronouced how it looks. They call her "Shy," for short.

In the NICU, where I work, we had a Rocky Road, Silar (like the bad guy on the show Heros), Cain (like the bad brother from Cain and Abel) , ShaQuan (not sure how to spell- mom didn't either), Ja'nia (parents were offended when I asked how to say it- they should get used to that. My question is when she has to take a test on a scan tron, in school, when the fill out the little bubbles for their name... where is the apostrophe?), Cashe Counts, Lotta Monet (lota money), Dazzaly, twins Lucifer and Satan (parents were scary goths and abusive).

For all the Abcde's, to me it not only looks funny, but sounds funny, too. I think the first part sounds like "absent", so I could imagine Abcde being very absent-minded. But that's just me.

Awhile somebody was talking about drug names that would work for baby names. I saw a few that I wanted to add to the list: Januvia, Cialis and Premarin. although I'd probably do something like Premmaryn, Premarenne, etc. Just to make it unique, of course :)

Specializes in Labor/Delivery, Pediatrics, Peds ER.
funny you mention these names since one of my aunt name was "etheleen" and her sisters were charleene, and aileen :cool:

my mom told me not too long ago that she almost named me earlene after my grandfather. :eek: whew, that was close! the name she wound up giving me is rather unusual, but not strange, lol.

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