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!

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I once talked to a gentleman whose first name was Harry and last name was Dick....His parents must have hated him:rotfl:

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I am from the south and it seems there are a lot of 'eccentric' people there that name their children all kinds of things.....

I knew of a:

Penny Dollar

Candy Barr

Forrest Meadows

and

Dilbert (Dill) Pickle

A couple of my favorites:

Tropicana Tabasco (named because her mom could only drink the orange juice); not really sure why "Tabasco". When she was about 8 she had a baby brother she named "Rainbow". Still see members of this family and its been almost 20 years!@

My all time favorite is 15 or so years ago we were putting a woman to sleep for a crash C-birth. She woke up in recovery and said she heard the most beautiful name: Meconium. So poor Meconium Delight :rotfl: Jones is somewhere...

i decided, since the 2nd "strange baby names" thread was getting so long, let's start another.

ready.....set.....go!

twins from last night - gypsy and cinnamon. (what a great start to their Media/stripper careers)

orion - (baby boy) - ok, this one did have a romantic, constellation engagement story behind it, so it's not so bad, but still a strange, out-there name.

orzio - another baby boy - poor kid

and, drumroll please.....................

happy birthday to the winner of the year:

queen messiah jesus christ :balloons: :balloons:

oh yes, that was the baby's full, legal name for the birth certificate. oh how wonderful.

give me a few more births to attend at work, and i'm sure to have more to add. i have definitely noticed a trend towards the unusual/unique names lately. some of them sound and look just like random letters thrown together, that i can't even recall them once i get home.

the poor, poor kids........

jen

l&d rn :rolleyes:

took care of a baby nevaeh last night. that is heaven spelled backwards!

We recently had a patient named Harry Johnson :) and I took care of a Babe Ruth once.

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Took care of a baby Nevaeh last night. That is Heaven spelled backwards!

My best friend's daughter is name Nevaeh - she was named after a relative of Native American background - they said it is an old family name. I had never heard it before, but apparently it's been around for a while. :)

My oldest son had a teacher named Mrs. Butt. Her husband's name was Harry. Yes, Harry Butt.

There is a GYN doc in Virginia named Harry C. Beaver. (I'm not making this up. Everybody knows him.)

When I was pregnant the first time, we had a baby name book. Two (three actually) names that they knew of that were awful:

IfJesushadnotdiedforyoursinsthouwouldstbedamedBarebones. Kid eventually shortened his name to Damned Barebones.

And twin girls in Texas: Kate and Duplikate.

I can't attest personally to tha last two since they were published in a book and I didn't know them personally.

And twin girls in Texas: Kate and Duplikate.

That's hillarious!!!

Some of these names are crazy! When I worked at a hospital in Colorado, we actually had a young mom name her daughter Abcde,

pronounced Ab-ca-dee. Poor little girl!

The nurses tried to explain to her that she needed to actually put a name on the birth certificate and not just letters and the mom insisted that it was her name!

I have a cousin named Robin-Red-Best, and another named Abby Road.

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A friend of a friend is named Akene (a-kee-nae) Freechild. I'm not exactly sure about the spelling of her first name. I think the "Freechild" part came because neither of her parents wanted to give her their last name.

In (South) Africa it's common to name children after an event that happened around the time of their birth or that resembles something that family members talked about/thought about when the baby was born. Thus there are:

In Zulu

*ngoMgqibelo = Saturday

*Themba = Hope

*Nokuthula = the quiet one

In Portuguese

*Feia = ugly, I know a woman who named her 8th child like that, she said she didn't like the look of the baby when it was born, poor child

In English

*Truelove

*Remember

*Freedom

*Lastborn

And my favourite: first name: Lucky, second name: MyDarling

This poor guy had 2 English names (normally it's 1 African and 1 English name) but this guy went through life called Lucky Mydarling

He didn't like it too much :)

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