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!

How about Candy Land?? Her legal wasn't Candance, but Candy. :chuckle

I knew of a girl with an interesting name back in highschool.

The story went that after a traumatic pregnancy/delivery a baby girl was born. Her mother was inspired to name her daughter Miracle. Nice hunh? It so happens that the last name was Fingers, hence the name Miracle Fingers.

Turns out Mom knew what she was doing, little Miracle turned out to be a fantastic basketball player.

Once, there was this lady and she had twins. She didnt know what to name them so she named them after the foods she craved when she was pregnant...Lemon jello and Orange jello! :rotfl:

Seriously, I first heard that story in 1989, right after I graduated from nursing school and started in NICU at a large teaching hospital. I heard that one and about the lady who thought the hospital had named her baby....Fe Male' or the lady that thought Chlamydia was a beautiful name. These stories have gone around for years.

If Lemonjello and Orangejello do exist out there somewhere do you think they have a clue about their place in medical folklore?

I went to school with Beaver Funk. Thats no joke, he was very nice. I hope he changed his name.

My little sister was almost named Pebbles Lynn.

I think I will start keeping a record of silly names. When they come up I always tell myself I will remember them but I never do.

Specializes in L&D, Antepartum.

Ok, so growing up I thought I was the only one with a strange name. I have come across quite a few recently now that my own kids are in school.

A few that come to mind and some in my friends kids school are:

Trajan (is that the condom that failed you?)

Edoard (aren't we missing an O at the end?)

Quinn for a boy

Jade for a boy

Jaden for a girl

Gryphon

Aidan for a girl

Dartanian

Princelyn

Splendid

And now mine...Nyree is my name and I get asked at least 3 times a week about it. It has nothing to do with my heritage, not a family name, nothing. My parents saw a show 30 odd years ago and it was the name of an actress on the show. Even weirder..she changed the spelling from Ngaire to Nyree so it was spelled how its pronounced. She was from New Zealand.

- Nyree

Specializes in L&D/MB/LDRP.

Omega Blue

Big brother's name was Z Mazwell....Z just the letter no Zee just Z

Went to school with a Gail Storm

Had a music teacher who called here 3 daughters, Melody, Harmony and Symphony and her son Timphany.

Worked with a Dot Dash

At work we have a Truelove, Blossom, Princess and Dorcas.

SB

Specializes in cardiac ICU.

Met a Lorraine who married a Middle Eastern guy--you guessed it--Lorraine Hussein.

Also a LOL named Mittie, and a girl named Blendia (why? no idea).

Specializes in Peds Critical Care, Dialysis, General.

Actual names from our NICN and PICU:

Acknowledge A Blessing

Heaven L'Angel MiJoy

Harry Peter (he was the III - went by the nickname of "Hank")

We had one little girl whose neuro assessment got skewed because she would not respond to us when we called her by her name - we did the best we could - family was very offended we could not pronounce her name correctly - I can't remember exactly - something like Chutea - the pronunciation was nothing near what the spelling appeared to be.

Truth is always stranger than fiction.

Did a rotation in our NICU a few weeks ago. Surviving twin was named Lavita (reminds me of the ED drug!). Twin that did not survive was named Medusah.

i went to skewl with a couple of kids with weird names

... sunny tan

.... a name pronounce keanhong teowmeow

and my favourite.. anis o'squezit (often teachers would try to get around the isue by calling his name out ANAS during the role call.. but he would always correct them and say "its prounced orifice OSQUEEZE IT)... not a joke... :imbar

How about Colin, Austin, Destiny, Eli, Saylor (boy), Tristan (girl), Milo and Dorian. These are siblings in same family. Dorian was born last week and I think they plan on having more. Wonder what they'll come up with next.

and my favourite.. anis o'squezit (often teachers would try to get around the isue by calling his name out ANAS during the role call.. but he would always correct them and say "its prounced orifice OSQUEEZE IT)... not a joke... :imbar

Oh my gosh! That poor guy. I certainly wouldn't correct the teachers if it were me!

:)

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i met a little boy the other day that goes to school with my girls. his name is hunter farmer.

a former coworker of mine let her husband name their sons: hunter, fisher and mariner (after the baseball team). guess what he liked to do in his free time!

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