A doctor I know told me that when he was doing his residency he and the other young residents would make up names for the kids of these young single mothers who hadn’t given it a single thought. Sometimes they’d just look around, maybe see some meds in a cabinet, and morph a name out of that. Gotta put something on the paperwork.
That may have been the way Nosmo King got his first and middle names. :=)
“maybe see some meds in a cabinet, and morph a name out of that.”
That’s hysterical.
My mother worked at Boston City Hall-—Registry of Births.
A woman came in once for a birth certificate for her daughter.
The child’s first name was “Femmulley”.
My mother asked for the spelling,so the woman spelled it out for her-— F-E-M-A-L-E.
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“Sometimes they’d just look around...”
You’re right about that. Worked at the KU Med Center. Gal who had just given birth went to her room, looked out a window and saw a tree so named her child Seeatree. Nobody spells their child’s name the “normal” way any more - grandson has a female classmate whose name is pronounced Linda but parents spelled it Lynneduh. Just crazy.
Oranjello and Lemanjello
In the book Unintended Consequences, there was a character, a federal agent, named Gonorrhea Gladly (GG for short). The back-story was she was born in a hospital where resident doctors had taken to suggesting really stupid names for the babies. The mother didn't know what gonorrhea was.