21-07-2025
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- Daily Record
Nurses shares 'worst' baby names they've every heard during careers
A man has been left horrified after learning some of the 'worst' baby names NICU nurses have ever heard - and people are gobsmacked by the 'atrocious' monikers
A nurse has shared the 'worst' baby names she's ever encountered during her years working in a hospital, leaving people utterly flabbergasted. This revelation came after a man asked a nurse to 'share the worst' names parents have picked while visiting the his wife, a question he admits to asking whenever possible for amusement.
On Reddit, he revealed: "My wife and I asked all the nurses what the worst names they've seen while working there. The really bonkers ones I had multiple nurses confirm were real: J' pronounced Japostrophe, Pheline pronounced Felony, Cash Money with variations like Ca$h Money and Kashmoney." In complete disbelief, he quickly took to social media to share these peculiar baby names with the Reddit community r/tragedeigh, an online term used to describe "a given name that has been deliberately misspelled or completely made up to appear more unique than it actually is".
Reacting to his post, one user commented: "There was a baby called Thumbelina when my daughter was in the NICU. This was 23 years ago I thought her name choice was atrocious. I was so wrong. It gets way worse.."
Another user chimed in: "Back in the early 70s I had a children's record of Hans Christian Anderson stories (narrated by Danny Kaye, who played him in the movie). One of the stories was called Thumbelina."
A third user exclaimed: "Oh my lawd! These are horrid. People name their kids anything just because they can."
Yet another user added: "Met a kid with the middle name Dinosaur and have to admit I was a bit jealous.
"When I was pregnant with my second daughter I met a woman who had just given birth to her first daughter, Mars... also kind of cool, but I prefer more traditional names for my kids."
One final user commented: "It's worth mentioning that OB and peds nurses have a certain sense of humour about kids names.
"I suspect it's common to see who can come up with the best fake names and they always get told as if they are 100% real.
"If you had to deal with crazy parents all the time, you'd develop a weird sense of humour too."
