What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

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Members are discussing the process of screening names on birth certificates, sharing unusual names they have encountered, and discussing the implications of changing names legally. Some members mention specific names they have encountered, while others talk about the history of certain names and the process of changing names legally. The discussion also touches on the publication of upcoming weddings in newspapers and the practice of announcing name changes for adoption and building variances.

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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wondern said:
or how about Liam, pronounced (yum)?!:yes:

Liam is a fairly common Irish name, but we say LEE-yum when he comes to visit our church ?

Dorcas was actually used quite often before it had the connotations it does now. I've met several of them. They're usually 60+

I worked with a woman named Muffin. Not a nickname. It was the name on her birth certificate

Just took care of a Graylynn and a Jsyiah (pronounced similiarly to Josiah)... I had to have her repeat it twice because I thought I missed a letter.

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That Guy said:
I can say that I have seen that with dogs a lot, especially remington.

I am one who has dogs with those type names... Gauge and Sabot.... My husband was a gunner on a Bradley tank. haha Thank goodness it was only the dogs.

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mercyteapot said:

Weirdest name I've come across (and it's a doozy) is M'K'N'Z'Y. McKenzie. Why would you do that to your child? .

What is wrong with this? Well, I spell my daughter's name Mackenzie....

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I think they are referring to the way that it is spelled "M'K'N'Z'Y" and not the name.

I've got a new one: Kÿng (pronounced like king)

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Agent Zero and Firetruck. Actual names on their birth certificate.

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NICU Guy said:
Agent Zero and Firetruck. Actual names on their birth certificate.

This makes me think of the Bobcat Goldthwait bit about flying (video is NSFW):

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Buckeye.nurse said:
I don't have any baby names to add sadly. But, my favorite physician name of all time is Dr. Pepper. She was a pediatrician in North Carolina, and, needless to say, a hit with the kiddos!

In one ICU I was once working there was in-house intensivist from South America. His name was a really long one but the first part he preferred to be addressed with was Jesus, which he pronounced more like He-SOOS and so everybody called him that way.

Intensivists had a weekly NP hospitalist on rounds. That day, the NP's name was Mary.

So, that beautiful morning, an ICU patient coded. The unit secretary called announcement center, where people did not always know who was named how.

There promptly came announcement, all around the ICU tower and the whole place:

"CODE BLUE ROOM ### CODE BLUE ROOM ###. DOCTOR JESUS AND MARY, PLEASE COME TO ROOM ###."

Later, we were told that some visitors on floors almost fainted after they heard that.

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I worked with the (sweetest) Filipino nurse who had a very long name, but one of them was "Apple." Some people on the floor called her by that, though I never quite could; I chose another one of her names. Another was named "Lovely." Luckily her name matched her personality!

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