Well, it’s my best friend and he is not known to lie. But hey, anything is possible.
People take the “friend of friend” out of the story, shorten the chain all the time.
Doctors and nurses can get tired of their more dysfunctional patients and they mock their ignorance and the made-up names some of them give their babies. My own OB-GYN told me that when her husband was in residency in Philadelphia, a new mother named her baby Placenta. I might have believed it if I hadn’t read that anecdote three other times.