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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Seriously, What's wrong with the name "Nevaeh"? Other than its popular now. It's kinda cute.

Seriously, What's wrong with the name "Nevaeh"? Other than its popular now. It's kinda cute.

I have no idea where it came from; its most common pronunciation is "neh-vi-ah."

Having come from South Carolina, I witnessed loads of -let's be honest-AWFUL names for the kiddies. Here is a list of my faves! (BTW, these are all true)

Seductress

Shithead(e) :This is pretty common-pronounced "shhaa-theede"

Twins named Oranjello and Lemonjello : pronounced "O-ron-gillo" & "Luh-mon-gillo)--after orange jello and lemon jello

Hairbrane Foster

Chicken Durham:this one sounds like dinner!

Maryjane Roach

Vamprilla

Lucifer

lady parts: this one is pronounced "Vah-geena" and pretty common

Vanilla Bean

Baby Girl

I am seriously loving my parents right now...and I know they love me cuz they didn't do that to me!!:heartbeat

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Oh, Boy! What a great thread! I have seen some real doozies in my 20 years. When I first started in OB we used to just write the sex of the baby and last name of the mother (male smith, etc.) On one ID card we wrote the name Female Jones. The mother thought that we named her daughter for her and put Female (fee mal ee) Jones on the birth certificate! Another time we had twins - Twin A and Twin B - same thing with that mother - she named her twins Twina (twin uh) and Twinb (twin buh). Another mom named her son Justin but she gave him a middle name of Credible - Just incredible! One of the girls I work with named her son Michael Jordan because her husband creates web sites and, when someone starts to become famous, he creates a web site with that person's name (MichaelJordan.com). When Michael Jordan filed a law suit against him, he said that he only created the site because his wife was pregnant and that was going to be the baby's name. So they named him Michael Jordan which is his entire first name. They also have a daughter named Briar Rose (entire first name) because she was conceived in Disney and Briar Rose was Sleeping Beauty's real name. Go figure. We have a lot of Precious, Heavenly, Devine, etc. :chuckle

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No matter how pretty you pronounce it, it still reads Ganaria......

(gon-a-ri-a)????????????? hmm..........

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An old muder case was mentioned on the news today. Victim's name was : Malice Green.

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An old muder case was mentioned on the news today. Victim's name was : Malice Green.

Yes! I remember vaguely that case, near Detroit, right? Or was that Saginaw?

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Detroit- 2 cops did what they were taught to do, and ended up serving prison sentences

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A friend of mine works with children in a social service agency and has come across some weird names. One family had four boys: John Jr., Jonathan, Johnny, and John-John. These were the actual names on the birth certificates. Guess what dad's name was? Guess how big dad's ego was?

Another one: Bayarea, perhaps not so bad except that they lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, locally referred to as the Bay Area.

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Samiracle (like it's a miracle)

Secret Love (On the US, the baby's fingers were doing the sign language for "love", so the parents thought it was a secret message to them...LOL)

Kunta Kinte (Yes, they were African Am...what a sad name...if you've ever read Roots)

Jezzeriah (just think how many fights this boy will get into...shoulda just named him Sue!)

Baby Girl A-Havana BabyBoy B- Memphis

I'm sure I have more, but these are the ones that stick out!

Scary to think my parents put 2 names in a hat and DID NOT draw 'Candida Marie' out. They pronounced in 'Con-DEE-dah'. My nickname would have been 'Candy'.

Whew! Dodged that bullet!

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Scary to think my parents put 2 names in a hat and DID NOT draw 'Candida Marie' out. They pronounced in 'Con-DEE-dah'. My nickname would have been 'Candy'.

Whew! Dodged that bullet!

Congratulations! First thing I thought of were twins....

Candida Marie and Typhoid Mary! (Sorry! :chuckle)

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