More Strange Baby Names

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just had a unique baby name the other week....thought i'd share, and hope to continue this thread from earlier.... "strange baby names":

strawberry :roll (thank goodness this was changed by the adoptive parents)

~jennifer:chair:

admin note: edited to add links to the first two threads:

https://allnurses.com/ob-gyn-nursing/whats-the-weirdest-16017.html

Specializes in oncology.

I had a paitent a few weeks ago named Sunshine. She said when she was born her father looked at her and said "she's my sunshine!" so her her mom named her that. :rolleyes: I used to work with a girl who named her son Bon after Jon Bon Jovi the rock singer. She would have been kinder with Jon. I have have nephew named Zorn - We all tried to talk my sister out of that one.

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There was one in our paper with a family who had the last name Rush so they named the baby girl California Gold Rush and after it had "Cali"

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I also had a girl in my highschool named sunshine (forgot to add that)

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My in-laws gave the middle name of "Gerard" to three boys... :p

Saw enough "destiny's" and "miracle's" to choke a horse...but what about naming your baby Apple? Gwenith Paltrow named the poor thing after a fruit!

I couldn't read the whole thread, that may have been mentioned already! :)

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My husband's high school principal in Ohio was named Dick Ball. Honestly.

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I had a patient with the first name Dorkus, can you imagine how she was teased in school? Poor lady! :o

I used to attend school with a Dorkus. She was teased mercilessly.

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I took care of a little girl named Majesty!!!!????? Also my neighbors little girl's name is Delaney (I thought that was a last name??)

I LOVE Delaney. No, it's also a first name now, and very cool.

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I dated a guy named Stamper

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I live in La La Land (Los Angeles) and in recent years, it really has become "La La" land. This trend of putting a "La" on the front of EVERY name irks the crap out of me. As well as the APOSTROPHES (come on people, those are NOT accent marks) in the middle of names for no good reason.

e.g. LaCha'nel. what the h*ll is that???

The most stupid names I've seen lately have been liquor names, along the lines of Alize, Hennessey, Remi Martin.

As for home grown names....my first son almost had an unusual name: Thelonius. After the jazz musician Thelonius Monk. My son's Godmother discouraged me on that one (besides, Monk already has a son who's his name sake). So my son became Sebastian James. His first name means 'revered' in Greek...and the middle is his late grandfather's middle name.

And my second son is Solomon Alexander. His father and I haggled over the first name, but I'd had it in mind since Sebastian came along. The middle name is his father's doing. My poor baby will have a heck of a time when writing time comes along. His last name is hyphenated with mine and his father's. It's like this -------- _ --------. That combined with his first and middle...or even just his first will REALLY help him learn the alphabet.:rotfl: :imbar

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Specializes in NICU.
No offense but sometimes when I hear weird names I wonder how educated these people are that name their kids these names. Of course, I'm not talking about ALL weird names but some of them almost seem obvious. An old boyfriend of mine....his mom was a RN said that she knew of a lady that had a baby girl in the hospital where she worked and named her "Female" (pronouced it "Fa Molly". Someone said that she saw the birthcertificate and it said "female" for the sex and the mother put "Female" for the name.....

I know what you mean. In the NICU, we'll ask the parents what the baby's name is so we can put it on the crib card. Sometimes they'll be like, "Oh, I don't know how to spell it," or will be confused as to where they want the hypen and/or apostrophe. Yes, AND/or. We've had kids with more than a dozen letters in their first names, with multiple punctuation marks. Then the parents get VERY offended when you can't pronounce these weird names correctly. Um, hello, you totally MAKE UP this name with a bunch of letters and I'M the one that's in the wrong? :angryfire

I'd rather see kiddos named after things that are words but not really meant to be names. At least you know how to say it!

Also have seen way too many kids in the NICU named Destiny, Heaven, Angel, Miracle, etc.

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Specializes in OB, lactation.

I don't know if I already wrote this, but my son has a classmate named Air Jordan.

There is a Stormy Weather around here, too.

About Thelonius, there is a baby in my breastfeeding group that is John Thelonius :)

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heavenly and fentanyl are the two interesting names i've heard recently when at work.

i'm sure there are plenty more to come.

oh and yes fentanyl was after the med :uhoh3:

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