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No. 60
from AHRN
Old Apr 27, 2002, 10:05 PM

After 30 years of pediatrics, I've heard a lot of UNUSUAL names! These are a few that come to mind.
Diamond Dick - named after grandpa
Darvonne - named after gramndma's medicine.
Ecclesiastes
Porsha, Mercedes and other car names
Precious Miracle Tomorrow Hope and then another named Precious Miracle Tomorrow's Hope
Triplets-Shaquita, Tequila and Markeeta
Rugby
Chandilier - not sure how spelled it now
November Dawn
Spring Forest

Some are the unusual (creative) spelling
Nike -pronounced like Nicki
Ambyr - never thought there was another way to spell Amber
Shunleo - mother pronounced it differently the three times I heard her say it.
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No. 61
from Jolie
Old Apr 28, 2002, 06:05 PM

I guess I take the cake! My oldest daughter was going to be Portia (from the Merchant of Venice, not the car), until my hubby came up with an even better name from the next piece of classic literature he read.

My youngest is on AHRN's list, although spelled differently. I won't give their names here, but suffice it to say that they never have had and probably never will have any duplicates in their classes!
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No. 62
from shannonRN
Old Apr 28, 2002, 06:31 PM

i was telling my fiancee about some of these crazy names and he said that in pharmacy school, he had a classmate named sparkle box!!!
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No. 63
from bvb
Old Apr 29, 2002, 11:52 AM

I took care of a patient by the name of "Lufituaeb".. beautiful spelled backwards!! There is a girl at my son's school named Whiskie!
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No. 64
Old May 01, 2002, 12:10 AM

The other morning we had a Kelly Green....Have no idea if that was intentional or not...We have had a few lately that are not so weird but seems the eitology might be from lack of imagination...Robert Roberts.....I mean, come on....
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No. 65
from shannonRN
Old May 01, 2002, 12:59 AM

just admitted a patient tonight by the name of tequilla....i have heard of margarita, but tequilla?!?!
a girl i graduated from high school with had a middle name of aspen. said her parents gave her that name because that is where she was conceived.
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No. 66
from NICU_Nurse
Old May 01, 2002, 01:00 AM
Updated Aug 28, 2003 at 06:52 AM by NICU_Nurse

OHMIGOD!!!!!!!!!!! I was laughing so hard at this my husband actually came OUT OF THE BEDROOM to see what was so funny. You guys, I really needed this. I thought we were the only ones down here who had a largely illiterate population naming their children. Thanks. I have been working for four months now and have seen these... A mother named her baby Donald Donn. We called him Don Don, which isn't too bad, although a bit redundant. I had a mom name her baby LaQuinta, and I thought it was hispanic, but when I asked her how she chose the name, she said that was where the baby was conceived. (LaQuinta Inn, do ya'll have those?) The cake taker was a young, fifteen year old girl who had her second baby. The first was taken away from her, and when she was in delivery, she kept pushing. The doctor kept yelling, 'Stop, STOP!'. Guess what she named her son? Stop Jones. Yep. She said it was to remind her of how horrible it felt to give birth- every time she'd get near to having sex, she'd STOP. ROFL!!! We laughed for weeks about that one...wondered how she could reprimand her child as he got older- 'Stop, Stop!'. If she was telling him to move forward, she'd have to say, 'Go, Stop.' ROFLROFLROFL. We also just had a mom who named her beautiful daughter CANDIDA. We tried to explain, but she wasn't hearing any of it. I think this is hilarious...just think, someday, some nurse will be saying, I heard of this baby named Stop... We heard the 'Nosmoking' story down here ...nurse who told it SWORE she was there. Too funny!! She said they pronounced it 'Nozz-mo-king'. Whether it's true or not I'll never know, but makes you want to cry, doesn't it? Keep this post up...I can't wait to print it out and show it around at work.
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No. 67
from kimtab
Old May 01, 2002, 08:29 AM

There is a thread on General Nursing Discussion about a case of child neglect that everyone should read for other reasons...but I mention it here because the babies name is Ice.
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No. 68
from bungies
Old May 02, 2002, 04:46 AM

The funniest name I ever struck was “Jarrah” (a type of wood). This wouldn’t have been funny if the young patient’s surname wasn’t “Kitchen”. (Perhaps his baby brother/ sister will be “Huon Pine” or “Tasmanian Oak”)

Another I heard of was a boy called Onyx – b/c he was “onyx-pected”
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No. 69
from merilynjc
Old May 02, 2002, 05:50 AM

Default Makes you say...what were they thinking...
As a nurse as a poison center a few years ago, we had a call from a mother who said her child's name was (it sounded like) "Shi-theed". She was asked to spell it for the record, and mom spelled "S-h-i-t-h-e-a-d". What a way to go through life...
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