Midwives have revealed the worst baby names they have ever heard from body parts to TV characters. Some of the midwives confessed that they even tried to talk parents out of certain names for their children, reports the Mirror.
Several of the healthcare professionals took to social media to lift the lid on their profession and give the inside track on baby names. One nurse took to Reddit to share that many parents end up regretting names that quickly go out of fashion.
They said: "I personally delivered two different girls named Khaleesi. This was around 2016, well before season eight [of Game of Thrones].
"I imagine there might be some buyer's remorse on the parents' part at this point." Another nurse revealed that some parents don't even know how to spell their chosen name.
They said: "A nurse was telling us that the previous birth she attended the mum named the daughter Klee, pronounced Kaylee. When they asked how to spell the name, the mum just pointed at the diaper bag, where the name had been misspelt.
"Apparently everything had been personalised with the misspelling and she didn't want to redo the bags and stuff." Meanwhile, others told stories that they had heard from friends and family members about bizarre baby names.
One user said: "My classmate's mother was a maternity nurse and she had a couple who wanted to name their son Collin but wanted to give him a unique spelling for it. I do not understand why parents do this.
"It doesn't make a boring name more interesting; all it does is set your child up for lifelong inconvenience. They spelled it out for her to put on the birth certificate 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 write it down with the normal spelling instead. I don’t think they'll ever live it down."
Another user added: "I lived with a student midwife when I was a student. The first set of twins she delivered were called Red and Blue.
"When I worked in a boring admin job dealing with applications from members of the public I came across Jessica Rabbit, saw her passport and everything. I just hope she chose that later in life rather than her parents landing her with it.
"The worst ones I saw in that job were combinations made by women getting married and taking their husbands' surnames so can't really be blamed on the parents."
A third user said: "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."
One more user added: "I worked as a registrar for a while. Among the birth certificates I got, some of the standouts I saw were Killer, Syphilis and Sweet Prayer Sunrise (this one was a boy)."
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