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!

Specializes in High Risk In Patient OB/GYN.

Kind of OT, but my father has this stupid joke....

A man wants to get into showbiz, so he hires an agent. The 1st thing the agent says is "Well, with a name like member van Lesbian, you'll never get work. We'll have to come up with a stage name......I got it! We'll call you Dick van Dyke!"

Stupid, yeah....but that's my dad's sense of humor.:lol2:

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oh no, don't try to suggest that there are any racist or classist or age-ist undertones to any of these. You'll be called a kill joy and get run over by the defensive-train.:uhoh21:

That's just the name of the Snopes page referencing poor name choices. Considering that some of these "names" have been rumored since the early 1900s, a time when racism was "normal", it's not a surprising title for the page.

I've been in L&D for a few months now, and I've been reading this thread waiting to have a name to contribute. Finally had one the other night-- a baby girl named Blaze O'Glory (O'Glory is the middle name, not the last). Interesting.:lol2:

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I had a patient today named Oregel. (Pronounced Ora-gel) Wonder if her mother had a toothache when she was born? :smackingf

Harley-Davidson. Davidson is not the middle name. Mother wanted baby called Harley Davidson at all times. Don't remember the middle name, but could it be motorcycle?

Just took care of OSAMA the other day in NICU..... jeez, maybe just change a letter, like OBAMA.... could save a few playground fights as this poor child gets older. Maybe by that time Barak is prez and all is fine.. but OSAMA? Could be a good conversation starter when he becomes an adult?

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Harley-Davidson. Davidson is not the middle name. Mother wanted baby called Harley Davidson at all times. Don't remember the middle name, but could it be motorcycle?

I'm sorry that is just crazy. For the mother tp be so insistant, I get the feeling that for the Mom "it's all about me." Because if it were about the infant, he or she would have been named a respectable name or some variation that gives the child an option.

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i took care of a little boy named cayman. pronounced like the islands. also took care of a damien. both very cute little boys.

we had a baby whose first name was damien in our nicu. it kind of scared us because of the omen and all that. well, on 6-6-06, he suddenly got very sick just before dawn and passed away before midnight. :( kind of freaked us out.

Okay, the lady who was in the room with me when I had my older daughter named her son Country Joe.

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.

My daughter has a friend named Orion. All I can say is that his parents were way cooler than we were!

Oh! And I took care of a lady in her 80's whose name was Lola Dimples. Can you imagine? I told her she must have been the cutest baby in the world to have been named that!!!

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Oh my !!!! I was going to respond to this "survey" by mentioning a Lemonjello and Orangejello"...they were born In Connecticut (Waterbury) and none of my friends believed me until one of my friends who worked for public health and reviewed school health records saw those names listed as students!! That was years ago, the children might be 10 or 12 years old...recently at a party a nurse who works for an insurance company came across the names, so now my own husband has proof that they exist!!!!! This is too funny..I thought for sure I would say those names and no one would believe it!!!!!! LMAO...so, your husband is right!!!!!

I have heard the same story about the jello names from the wife of my best friend who works for the social security administration. I wonder if this is not an urban myth perpetuated in the SS administration,hmmmm?

I had a client once named Dufus, and witnessed the birth of a child that the mother names Gunns

I have heard the same story about the jello names from the wife of my best friend who works for the social security administration. I wonder if this is not an urban myth perpetuated in the SS administration,hmmmm?

I had a client once named Dufus, and witnessed the birth of a child that the mother names Gunns

As crazy as it sounds, its no urban myth created by the SS administration. They were born at the hospital I worked at. there really is a Lemonjello and Oranjello and they live in Connecticut. We even had a baby named Placenta born here!!!

I came across one today, Happynewyear, and of course she was born on 1/1?!?!? What was mom thinking??? :uhoh3:

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