[mylife]

my dr told me about a baby girl in Philadelphia who her husband treated -- the girl's name was Female (pronounced Femalli)-- she hadn't yet been named when she left the hospital after being delivered; her parents saw Female on the birth certificate and assumed someone from the hospital had stepped in and given her a name, and they liked it, I guess...

There is more than one! I witnessed a woman naming here child the same thing in a hospital in CA!

[IncPen]

My wife's sister was a paramedic in Chicago, and always had funny names to relate, like Pepsi, Formica, Velveeta and Cadillac.

My favorite was Female, pronounced "Fem-alley". Seems the mother made a mistake filling out the birth certificate, and liked the 'uniqueness of it'. No doubt that kid's a shoo-in at a Michigan state school

Also, I think my father, no slouch at naming kids, would have enjoyed this article.

[mylife]

I met a guy named Darvon, I didnt have the Moxie to ask if his mother was under the influence of that muscle relaxer while giving birth to him.

[stand watie]

when i was at Tulane, i heard "FEmaLEE" was fairly common in New Orleans as a girl's name in the 40s.

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