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Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Oh I got one. Goth parents (18ish) had a baby. They wanted to name this sweet baby girl Death. I could not stand for it. So I told them every time I went to type it into birth certificate it changed the form to a death certificate. They bought and that girl is now named Morticia

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Dest 3 years ago

Morticia is a epic name tho. Can be shortened to Morti for casual conversations.

208points

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My grandmother once put Virginia on a birth certificate when the parents had requested Vagina but didn’t know how to spell it.

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

Imagine the amount of teasing the poor child would have had to endure if the parents had known how to spell 'Vagina'.

121points

Choosing a perfect name for your little one can be totally nerve-wracking. One day, the one you carried in mind for the past 9 months just doesn’t feel right anymore, and you’re back to searching for a new one.

Of course, many parents bear a great deal of confidence in their baby name choice, but it’s totally normal to have second thoughts. A survey conducted by Mumsnet.com found that almost one-fifth of parents in the UK would opt for a different name for their child if they had a chance.

The reason according to the survey is 25% of regret because the name was “too common,” and 21% of regret was caused by a name which “just didn’t feel right.”

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My husband wanted to name our son Truck . Almost ended in divorce. Needless to say, none of our boys are named Truck and we are still married

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ume reid 3 years ago

phew!

70points

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

Elon Musk's son! LOL I heard that the name was not allowed and needed to be changed or at least modified.

117points

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My boss's friend named their kid 'Monster Galileo.' The nurse tried to talk them out it, but they insisted. The kid goes by 'Galileo.'"
"Honestly, I kind of like the sound of it for an adult or a performer's name, but being a kid named 'Monster' has to be rough in school

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

Magnifico!

39points

The best way to avoid such thoughts is to think about it in advance. So before registering your baby a name, do your homework. You can check whether a name’s popularity is trending up or down on sites like BabyNameWizard.com and Nameberry.com. Make sure the name you want is not super popular at the moment, because if it is, the chances are you’ll be hearing everywhere wherever you go!

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My classmate's mother was a maternity nurse, and she once had a couple who wanted to name their son 'Collin,' but wanted to give him a unique spelling. So they chose to spell it C-O-L-O-N. They tried to name their son Colon — as in, the organ attached to your anus. When my classmate's mother explained this to them, they were painfully embarrassed, and asked her to just use the usual spelling instead. I don't think they'll ever live it down

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

I have a collegue, she wanted to call her son Connor (rare name in Germany), but nearly wrote Connar in the documents...."Connard" is an insult in French....not very clever when you live 2 km from the french border...

66points

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Back in 2000-2004 I worked at a hospital doing admin and an ol' battleaxe of a senior midwife stomped over with this angry-looking pregnant teenager in tow.

"Varvara!" Old Battleaxe roared. "Varvara, open up that internetty-thing on your computer!"

Old Battleaxe did not know computers, but she was well scary, so I agreed, and opened up the internetty-thing.

"Show this ridiculous child the first picture that appears when you type in the word Chanterelle!"

The angry pregnant teenager whined about how it was a pretty name and loads of girls were naming their little girl it, and then went stone-dead silent when she saw picture after picture of nasty sulphur-yellow mushrooms sprouting out of muddy forest floors.

"Told you! It's a [friggin] fungus!" Old Battleaxe roared, and stamped off to be Terrifying and Sensible at other pregnant teenagers, leaving me with the angry one.

Turned out that the name she had actually been thinking of was Chardonnay, which is both the name of very expensive wine and the name of a character in a UK soap opera called Footballers Wives, which was about as classy as it sounds.

The baby got that as a middle name later on, which was fine, the first name was Sophie or something along those lines.

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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago

In primary school I was classmates with a girl who was named after a wine (as was her younger sister, their father was a pretty famous sommelier). That said, the name was as pretty as it was unknown to be a wine, so I don't think they ever suffered (and sadly I cannot remember the name).

43points

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My ex-husband didn't think it was fair that girls could be named 'Grace' or 'Hope,' and he seriously suggested 'Pestilence,' 'War,' or 'Plague.' And his choice for a girl was 'Tangerine.' Fortunately, we never had any children

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Nigel Rodgers 3 years ago

Tangerine's not nice but it's not that bad

105points

On the other hand, picking an extremely rare name is not an ideal way to go about it either. Make sure your child will be able to grow and socialize comfortably with the name you’ll give to them and it won't cause any unwanted attention.

#10

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My dad wanted to name me 'Sky' — but he thought replacing the 'y' with an 'i' would be cute. Thank God my mom didn't go along with it, or I may have been named 'Ski.'

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Arthur Waite 3 years ago

In my hometown, with a lot of German and Eastern European immigrant families, 'Ski' was a common name - every school class had a Stanislavski or a Dubrovski, etc. All shorten quickly to 'Ski'. Boys, anyway.

38points

#11

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I once had a student named 'Linoleum.' Some midwife definitely dropped the ball on that one.

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glowworm2 3 years ago

La La la linoleum!

28points

#12

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Working as an ERT on overnights, I got called to OB to help out alot. One name will always stick with me because of how unfortunate it is for the kid and how ridiculous it all is. The mom was deep in meth and other substance abuse and she told us she wanted him named Zion. We were like oh cool no problem so we asked her to fill out the paperwork of everything for us to submit and put in the chart and she wrote down Vzyiion.....she looked us dead in the eyes and said, the V is silent..... She also gave him 5 middle names because she didn't know which one was the father so he got em all

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Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

That kid should've been taken from her immediately.

177points

After all, we all learn to love names. You see, it’s usually not the name per se which bugs us, but a person we know who bears that particular name. If we don’t like the person, we’d probably have the same feeling about that name.

So, imagine that a child who you and your family adores to the moon and back will forever be precious no matter the name you give. In the end, some people just won't get that name you picked and that’s also fine.

#13

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Ladies and Gentlemen, Adolph Hitler.

The parents then tried to claim they weren't Nazis.... At first

ShamelessFox Report

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

the real name is Adolf - they thought that they could fool you by writing it with ph?

86points

#14

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I worked at a registrar for a while, and some of the standout names on the birth certificates I got were 'Killer,' 'Syphilis,' and 'Sweet Prayer Sunrise'

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

Were these parents on drugs?

125points

#15

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I lived with a student midwife when I was a student, and the first set of twins she delivered were named 'Red' and 'Blue.'

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angie but who cares 3 years ago

i think color names are cool and creative

25points

#16

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of As a med student, I had a patient who wanted to name her child 'Mudpiles.' The nurses silently protested and waited a few days. Mom eventually changed her mind

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Zaza 3 years ago

God I'm glad that I live in a country where the office where you have to register the baby can protest ridiculous names

100points

#17

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I know a teacher who has a elementary age student with a African name that unfortunately does not translate well into English North America, the kids name is Acock Ring, and yes I wish I was kidding

The_Roptor Report

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Welcome Welcome 3 years ago

funny not funny

38points

#18

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My uncle wanted to name his daughter Raider God. I'm glad they settled on Jada

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Sista of the moon 3 years ago (edited)

I misread that Jabba. As in Jabba the hut.

32points

#19

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Not a nurse or a midwife but I had to talk a friend out of naming their daughter jkmno

acallswell Report

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

What happened to the L?

118points

#20

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My daughter named my grandchildren...Draven Tyrion Dexter Zaraphil Johnson, and Andromeda Nymphadora Jane Zaraphil Johnson....I'm not happy , but at least we convinced her to leave Lucifer out

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Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

That's borderline child abuse

68points

#21

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I work in a music store that offers lessons and rents instruments. We have a list of the oddest child names.

~ Jamuary, Qwest, Sixte, She'Bra, Battle, ShyAnn are just a few on there.

~ The best one was Alivia (pronouned Ah-Lee-Vee-ah). When speaking with the grandmother she said that the mom wanted to name her Olivia but the father hated the name. Dad saw a bottle of Aleve on the counter so he and the mother compromised and came up with Alivia

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Zaza 3 years ago (edited)

January isn't that ridiculous, considered April, May, June and August are regular names. I wouldn't wish on any child to be named January, but nah, not stupid enough to make this list imo (fun fact: the month of July was named after Julius Ceasar and August was named after emperor Augustus) Edit: Thanks for pointing out that I misread the name. i see it now Oh the irony... All of you "correcting" me for misreading 1 letter, when I corrected it myself after only 2 comments. Something pot, something kettle?... God you all suck. I edited my comment almost immediately, no need to repeat that it's an M over and over again. And calling me out for misreading? How about you yourselves do some proper reading before commenting

41points

#22

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Obligatory not a nurse or midwife.

Took a call at the call center once and this poor frazzled EMT told me that she was delivering a kid and the mom's bowels voided, which is normal and apparently that's called "miconium."

She told her partner "Oop we got some miconium here" and the mom yells "Oh my god that's such a beautiful name - you just named my baby!"

The caller said "Paul, I...I tried to tell her, but...there's a kid running around named Birth S**t and I just don't know how to handle being responsible for that"

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Mere Cat 3 years ago

Meconium is actually pooped by the baby. Can be dangerous if the baby inhales it.

96points

#23

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I'm neither of these, but I had a classmate in university whose name was Meganathan.

...To date I don't know why Nathan failed to suffice

DebugLifeChoseMe Report

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Jo Morris 3 years ago

Named after both parents: Megan and Nathan? I'd like to know if Meganathan is male or female.

60points

#24

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I tried to tell someone not to name their kid 'Tarmac.' They'd recently learned the word from NASCAR.

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Robert T 3 years ago

Oh please please tell me that they were considering Adam as a middle name. :D

4points

#25

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I used to work in labor and delivery. One of the very experienced nurses had two times she had to talk people out of naming their child Vagina... and explain why they were hearing that word they liked so much

KMoneySupreme Report

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Max 3 years ago

... Multiple vaginas?!

49points

#26

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of When I travelled around Africa, there were people named for qualities the parents wanted for the kid. So met Happiness, Joy, Loveness, Goodluck (very common), Leadership, Sunshine.

My favourite: Shoes.

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Zaza 3 years ago

Shoes? Really?

43points

#27

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of A baby here is named Covid Bryant... not even kidding. Look it up

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James016 3 years ago

*screams internally so I don’t wake up my family*

60points

#28

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My coworker went to school with a girl named 'Fallopia.' I feel sorry for her when she's in biology class and they talk about Fallopian tubes.

NotMyKl Report

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Sista of the moon 3 years ago

Oh no.

42points

#29

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My brother wanted to name our soon-to-be younger brother 'Corn Peas,' and our parents almost went with it because they felt bad for asking for his input and then rejecting it. Fortunately, they got over that.

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Max 3 years ago

Middle names. This is what middle names are for. Also for ensuring the fae can't use your name to cast spells on you.

40points

#30

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My mom wanted to name me Kirby. After her vacuum. Thankfully my dad talked her out if it.

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Raine Soo 3 years ago (edited)

I don't know. Kirby sounds kind of cute. And, the video game character is cute.

113points

#31

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My mother wanted to name my baby brother 'Ichabod Rusty.' Our surname is 'Ford,' and she was determined to call him 'Icky Rusty Ford.' She tickled herself sh*tless through her pregnancy, but eventually my dad said 'No,' and they settled on something much more appropriate.

Omega12596 Report

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Fred L. 3 years ago

Ichabod is an old Hebrew and thus also English-language first name.

33points

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#32

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Girl in highschool was named yanique (pronounced unique)

She was certainly one of a kind

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QueerTheory 3 years ago

Yannick is a common German first name

47points

#33

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I was almost named Cinderall I have no idea what my dad was smoking at the time

313Lenox Report

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kjorn 3 years ago

at least put a "A" at the end

27points

#34

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I'm not a nurse or a midwife, but I was once paid to design birthday cards for a kid named 'Mileage,' pronounced My-Leige, like how you'd refer to a king

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Theo C 3 years ago

lolololol

17points

#35

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My kids have a friend in their class called Famous (male).

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RadiatorAnkleSpider 3 years ago

Famous Kardashian

33points

#36

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My boyfriend was nearly called 'Eggbert,' but 'Egg' for short. So glad they decided against it!

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Karl Baxter 3 years ago

Egbert was King of Wessex in the 8th century

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#37

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My sister's initials were almost PMS they swapped the first and middle names

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Dest 3 years ago

My initials are SAD.

66points

#38

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I currently work with someone who's first name is "Imunique". I don't think any midwives or nurses were involved with the naming

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kjorn 3 years ago

Hi Monique!

13points

#39

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I used to work with youth who needed mental health support. I worked with 2 girls who had the following first names: Nawja (pronounced like nausea), & Cinnamon. I felt terrible for them.

driven_under666 Report

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Rose the Cook 3 years ago

Cinnamon is not bad, there are many songs called Cinnamon. The first that comes to mind was by Tommy Roe circa 1969.

39points

#40

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My ex wanted to name my son Jager (pronounced either Jagger or Yager) or Shotenjäger. That was a no.

Everyone talked me out of naming my daughter Evelyn (and nickname Evie - it’s a family name but apparently it’s for old women only lol)

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Danieletc 3 years ago

My friend named her first girl Evelyn. Lovely name. I got her the Masters of the Universe villainess action figure, Evil-Lynn.

59points

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#41

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of As a Family Medicine Resident, I personally delivered two different girls named Khaleesi. This was around 2016, well before season 8. I imagine there might be some buyer's remorse on the parents part at this point

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Something 3 years ago

At least it's technically a title, not the name of a specific character.

11points

#42

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My brother talked my mother out of naming me 'Mulan', because he had a major crush on her and didn't think a 'sack of potatoes' deserved her name

Rose_Aryn Report

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angie but who cares 3 years ago

why is mulan a bad name maybe it's just my opinion but it's a cool name

16points

#43

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My wife talked me out of naming our son Leviacus. She settled on Levi

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Paul Budhram 3 years ago

For those Jews-- does this sound like Levidicus?

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#44

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I once met a dude named Lovey. It was a family name. I think it was especially cute because he was such a big tough guy.

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Coleonema 3 years ago

No offense, but why do you name your kids weirdly on purpose America?

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#45

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Not in the medical field but my fiance wants to name our first born son Murloc and I very much protest it.

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Michael Gore 3 years ago (edited)

I have a Brazilian friend called Sirloin which I always assumed was some form of traditional Brazilian name. Anyway one day we're chatting over some drinks and my gf (now fiance) asks him about his name, it turns out his mother sent his dad to go sort out his birth certificate and on the way he stops for a few drinks and just names him after a steak. Best part..? Sirloin grew up to be a chef!

5points

#46

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My boyfriend's grandmother wanted to name her daughter Sunshine. The midwife said that wasn't allowed because "it wasn't a real name" and his grandmother had no other back up baby names. So, a few minutes later when she heard someone down the hall screaming "Tina", she named her daughter Tina because she couldn't think of anything else on the spot.

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angie but who cares 3 years ago

sunshine is an awesome name tho

40points

#47

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Again, not quite what was being asked, but a friend of mine was almost called Apollo. To be fair, he was born on the day of the first moon landing in 1969, and his dad is Greek. His mom put her foot down, though, and he ended up Alexander, which is still a good Greek name (okay, technically Macedonian, but the Greeks claim him too).

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Raine Soo 3 years ago

Apollo isn't as far out there as some of the other entries. When my cousin had her son, her husband wanted to name him Rocky, because he was a fan of the movies. They asked for my opinion. I said that Rocky was fine as a nickname, but that they should probably choose something more conventional and less likely to be fodder for jokes. They settled on Andrew.

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#48

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of Not a nurse, but my mom had to talk my dad out of wanting to name me Prudence. I wouldn't have mind being called Prudence, but that's just me. Now I have an even weirder name that nobody knows how to pronounce because of a popular TV show

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Danieletc 3 years ago

What's the beef? Classic name, classic and beautiful Beatles song.

28points

#49

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of My dad loves Stevie Nicks and wanted to name all of us Rhiannon but my mom wouldn’t let him. So my oldest sisters name ended up being Stevie Nicole but now people always assume she’s a guy when they see the name Stevie

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Zaza 3 years ago

Rhiannon is not a bad name. It's Welsh and it's not uncommon. Had to look it up, but over 13k (women) in the US alone are named Rhiannon

46points

#50

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I have a false leg, and the midwife had to talk my parents out of naming me 'Peggy.'

OrangeMessy Report

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elStiJneriNO 3 years ago

but you didn't have a false leg at birth.

13points

#51

Nurses And Midwives Reveal 40 Baby Names That They Tried To Talk The Parents Out Of I was almost named Thaddeus

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Trying so hard thinking 3 years ago

It's a Greek male given name. It means a heart or courageous heart.

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What do you think ?

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

I am so happy that in my country there are laws prohibiting this kind of crap.

35points

Hans 3 years ago

100% agree. Bureocracy sometimes is over the top, and the state must not interere with what is private. I believe, however, that the state should protect all the members of societies – this includes children who have stupid, clueless, or selfish parents.

16points

Ozacoter 3 years ago

In mine too. You cannot name a kid anything that its offensive. Like "idiot' to put an example. But sometimes the clerk abuses his power to ban non insulting non traditional names. For example a couple wanted to call their son Lobo (wolf) and a clerk refused. Its such a cool name.

3points

NMN 3 years ago

Not only to stop shameful or ridiculous names, but many countries have laws where you have to use proper grammar of the language, you can't just say "it's pronounced this or that", cos it'd pronounced how it's written and thats it, no crazy pronunciations defying grammar

2points

Mere Cat 3 years ago

Me too!

1point

Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)

I hate also when families keep naming everybody the same. I get using a middle name if you want to honour a relative. But having three generations under one roof that are called the same is simply stupid. In my family there are two couples of father/son and one mother/daughter that are called the same. Its maddening. One of them had a baby and at least had the common sense of giving him a proper name and then keep the dads name as a middle name. My greatgrandma, grandma and mum were also called the same. When I was born my grandma wanted me to be called like that as well. My mum refused. Sorry four women in a row with the same name is too much. The point of names is to have a sense of individuality.

24points

Michael Gore 3 years ago

Where I live it used to be traditional to name your oldest son John it used to get pretty confusing when my dad (John) , granddad (John), other granddad (John), uncle (John), and my dad's best man (John), Would get together. That said I kind of regret not being called John myself and really wanted to name my son John.

7points

MAL 3 years ago

I have a friend who's John VI and named his son John VII. He calls his kid Seven, which I really like. He told me that he wasn't going to continue the tradition, but his dad died days before Seven was born and he wanted to honor his father by continuing the tradition.

4points

Nela Rothenbach 3 years ago

I work at a school with only about 400 students....every class has at least two boys called Mohammed, Mohammad, Muhammed...and so on...to make matters worse they all have one of two last names which are sometimes spelled differently, sometimes not. We srarted to give them nicknames to avoid confusion 😂

3points

Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

I hate that, too. It's like setting up the kid for identity issues. When the most basic thing about you is determined by others who came before you, you'll never be your own person....

3points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

My family had so many with the same first name that it was "So-and-so's Name", like they had no existence otherwise, but there were SIX of them!

2points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

That’s what I commented too. I think it’s very wrong to do this. Or to use names that are so common and everyone uses them. That’s not okay really.

2points

SoozeeQ 3 years ago

I hate it when people name their son the first part of their surname, eg. David Davidson, John Johnson, Robert Robertson. I mean, come on. Couldn't you be a bit more original?

1point

Karen Lyon 3 years ago

LOL, that sounds a little like my family. My late Dad's name was Bob, his sister's husband was a Bob, and my youngest brother's wife liked the name Robert, so that's what they named their eldest. I've had to explain that when I am talking about Bob, I don't mean my Dad to some extended family. Mom's youngest brother is John, one of my aunts married a Juan -- both went by Uncle Johnny. I also have a brother Jon, a cousin John! Then there's my aunt Susan and cousin Susie, uncle Frank, cousin Frank Jr, and his son Frank III. To to it off: my name is Karen, my sister is Sharon, and we have twin nephews named Carey and Perry. We get called by the sibling's name all the time -- once an aunt called my place wanting to talk to me but she asked for my sister instead. My then-roommate told her no one named Sharon was at that number, and was confused as hell when I almost grabbed the phone out of her hand. LOL. Not all of this name duplication was on purpose. We just learned to deal with it!

0points

Jay Weigel 3 years ago

My daughter's family has a raft of Jonathans....her husband, his oldest by his first marriage (called by his middle name, Zaccheus, in the family but Jonathan everywhere else), and her son by a previous relationship with a Jon, short for, you guessed it, Jonathan. And her father's name was John.

0points

Fact Perils 3 years ago

I definitely agree. i think names should be resonable (easy to spell and such) but not all the same boring name! id never name my kid john for example

0points

Uncommon Boston Premium 3 years ago

People confuse the whole numbering of men with the exact same name. The oldest living person with the name is senior, the second oldest is Junior. When the oldest dies, junior becomes senior. There are exceptions, like royalty.

-1point

Al Jones 3 years ago (edited)

At some point, parents need to ask themselves who they're choosing the name for. Clearly most of these parents chose a name they would be happy with, ignoring the c**p the kids will have to put up with their entire lives.

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

I am so happy that in my country there are laws prohibiting this kind of crap.

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Hans 3 years ago

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

3points

NMN 3 years ago

2points

Mere Cat 3 years ago

Me too!

1point

Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)

24points

Michael Gore 3 years ago

7points