[ShadowAce]

I've heard Female, pronounced "Fe-mah-lay", and Gina, short for a female body part. The poor mother had no idea what it meant--just saw it on a hospital chart, and thought it sounded pretty.

[old_sage_says]

Speaking of female names. I once knew a woman whose first name is Fonda and her last name is Peters. Figure it out.

BTW,she hated her name.

[warchild9]

Fe-male-ay was a character in the ovie Angel Heart, if I remember correctly.

[warchild9]

Fe-male-ay was a character in the...movie Angel Heart, if I remember correctly.

There, I fixed it.

[AirForceBrat23]

I am not making this up - my mom's a nurse and used to work in the newborn nursery. She once told me about a woman who named her newborn girl "Placenta", because right after her delivery she heard the doctor say that word, and she thought it was pretty.

[jocon307]

"The poor mother had no idea what it meant--just saw it on a hospital chart, and thought it sounded pretty."

I have to sympathize with that. Once, when I was a little kid, I was trying to figure out what the best name in the world was (girls do stuff like this), one that had all the good elements of names in general, would go well with many last names, etc. After much pondering, and to my chagrin, the name my brain arrived at as "the very best" was Lucifer!

That was the end of that thought experiment. But I bet if he hadn't turned to evil it would be a very popular name.

[dagogo redux]

I've heard Female, pronounced "Fe-mah-lay", and Gina, short for a female body part. The poor mother had no idea what it meant--just saw it on a hospital chart, and thought it sounded pretty.

My mom was a nurse at Johns Hopkin Hospital in Baltimore in the late 1940s, often told the story of the new Black mother who named her child (girl) Placenta, because she thought it "sounded pretty".

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

My grandmother said that when she was in the hospital back in the early 30's having my father, a woman was brought in from Trenton, NJ. After the woman from Trenton had her baby, my grandmother and she started talking baby names.

The woman said that she already knew what she was going to name her baby, that she'd heard the child referred to during her birth and decided it was such a pretty name. The child's name? Placenta.

Now, this is what my grandmother told me. It may have been one of the earliest known urban legends. But that's what she told me.