What's the weirdest baby name?

Specialties Ob/Gyn Nursing Q/A

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!

Specializes in L&D.

chlamydia, king david, & miss greta. Poor kids!!

Specializes in CCU, Orthopedics, Peds, Gen. Med..

NurseDennie: yes, I too have heard the,'Lemonjello' (pronounced: "le'mahn'jell-o")..a close colleague of mine knew of a family who pinned this name on their son..she also knew of a(get this) ,'pajama' (pronounced: "pay'juh'may")from the same area(Pine Bluff,Arkansas)..dear me...I suppose it's all in keeping with the "need" to be different? I personally knew of a patient named, "Ova"...my oh my oh my....

:monkeydance: i dont think anything is worse than abcde. you see-it pronounced (ab-cu-dee). terrible.

I once met a woman named Andrea. Her maiden name was Maxwell. And guess who she married? A man with the last name of House. Andrea Maxwell House.:chuckle And oddly enough she hated coffee!

My patient named her baby PLACENTRIVIA CAESAR..u knw probably why she got that name...poor baby...

Specializes in NICU.

Charisma............... How do you say something nice when the parents inflict an odd name on a baby? This was mom's choice, and she was very sure.....just not sure of the spelling, so it could be worse! Maybe she'll turn into Kari, though!

Specializes in High Risk In Patient OB/GYN.
Erin(for a boy)

Not too uncommon. Irish I think.

An ex-gf of a friend named her daughters Liberty and Justice.

Kandy(first name)Kane(last name)!

Emily

Kandy(first name)Kane(last name)!

Emily

I went to school with someone who had that name. She was mentally challenged which added a whole 'nother dimension to it. :(

We recently had a toddler in the hospital named Ozzy. Not John Michael, which is Mr. Osbourne's real name, but OZZY.

One hospital in my region prints babies' names in the paper, and one was named Aryan. It was probably pronounced A-ry-an but wouldn't you think SOMEONE would have known what that word meant?

I have also heard about a woman whose name was Female, pronounced Fe-ma-lee. Her parents saw that word on the ankle bracelet and gave her that as her name because they thought the hospital named the baby. There have also been stories (maybe urban legend, maybe not) about girls named lady parts and boys named Sh1thead, pronounced Shi-theed.

I have actually come across the name lady parts myself, she was a really sweet Phillipino lady.

Sometimes you don't know what a name might mean in another language. In 1996, Iranian newscasters had some issues with the Republican presidential candidate because "Dole" is the Farsi word for "member."

:roll

ooh I finally got one....

Hippo!!

Baby's whole name was "Hippolito". Mom said it was a hispanic name--she pronounced the H. Which is fine...but to shorten it to HIPPO?

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