What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

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As many of you know by now, Kim Kardashian had her baby. As if you couldn't miss all the annoying coverage over every single detail. They named that poor kid North West. What are some of the funniest/weirdest/most unusual baby names you have seen? Could be a patient or someone you know in your personal life. And if you are someone with one of those odd names did you just learn to live with it or would you change it.

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How about Auroa Purple Dawn?

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

(This guy's passed away.) His last name was Dover; They called him by a nickname for Richard but it wasn't Ricky. :sarcastic:

Specializes in ED, med-surg, peri op.

I had a patient called grace but was spelled jgrace, the mum said the j was silent and spelled like that because she didn't like her initials.

Specializes in Emergency Department.
No Stars In My Eyes said:
(This guy's passed away.) His last name was Dover; They called him by a nickname for Richard but it wasn't Ricky. :sarcastic:

I would have thought he would have been called Ben. :roflmao:

Sorry, could not resist.

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
GrumpyRN said:
I would have thought he would have been called Ben. :roflmao:

Sorry, could not resist.

Isn't there a "Ben_Dover" posting on this site somewhere?

The guy I mentioned didn't sign his name with the 'y' on the end.

Can you imagine the tough time he got from schoolmates?

I think being Dick Dover could be quite painful...in many ways.

Specializes in Emergency Department.
No Stars In My Eyes said:
Isn't there a "Ben_Dover" posting on this site somewhere?

Ben Dover is a British Media star which is what I thought of. If someone is using that name on Allnurses good luck to them. But it does have connotations to Brits.

PS, Do not Google Ben Dover unless you want to see less than savoury items - you have been warned.:no::eek:

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

My mom went to school with a guy named Harry Zass.

Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.
riblets63 said:
Not lemonjello, just Lemon. I always pronounced it LAY-mon, kind of French. I could not imagine someone naming their child Lemon. He did tell me I was pronouncing it incorrectly. When I apologized he said, "No, that's fine! I like it the way you say it! Just wish I had thought of it sooner." (He was 58.) :yes:

I had a coworker whose son was named Lemon. She said that it was pronounced Le-MON. It was still spelled like the oblong yellow fruit.

GrumpyRN said:
I would have thought he would have been called Ben. :roflmao:

Sorry, could not resist.

with a sister named Eileen!

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
T-Bird78 said:
with a sister named Eileen!

Good one!

Specializes in Psych, Peds, Education, Infection Control.

I went to high school with a girl whose last name was Case...her first name was pretty average, but I'll not mention it here because I know she did go on to become a nurse. ;) She had a brother named Justin and even as a teenager I was like like "poor kid."

I have a short list of names I used to adore that have been since banned for any of my future children, after having difficult patients with those names...one of them was pretty unique, too, but not so much that it was "weird."

My favorite name story was from nursing school. We had the sweetest little old lady on the med-surg unit. A tiny (she couldn't have been more than 5'0" and thin as a rail) little African-American woman who was nearing 90, and she LOVED to have the nursing students sit with her when we had a minute. She had been a nurse when she was young, and she was a living history book! We'd head to her room every chance we got the week she was on the unit. The day before her discharge, she told us she had to make a confession. She told us another great tale about visiting poor folks out in the boondocks of Tennessee as a young nurse, and she and her companions attended a delivery in which the mother informed them she'd gotten the greatest name from the doctor who had visited a few days before - Uterus. The confession this sweet lady made was that they hadn't stopped her from naming her daughter that. "Somewhere in this world there's a woman named Uterus," she told us, "and I really feel like I should apologize to her." She made us swear that, as nurses, we'd at least TRY to say something if we encountered a similar situation. I haven't had to in my career, as my patients already have their names...but in my L&D rotation, the excited big brother (age 3) of one of the postpartum couplets I got to care for did strenuously advocate for naming the baby Christmas. (They compromised and named her Eve, which was both cute and totally something she could live without having to explain her whole life. Especially since she was born in the spring.)

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Great story, audreysmagic!

Saw in the obits, a woman named Lura Fish. Guess what her daddy's hobby was?

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