I’m waiting for the day when some poor black kid in American gets named “Gonorrhea” by their mom because she liked the way it sounded. You just know it’s bound to happen.
Either that, or Chlamydia. “Chlamydia Jones... that has a nice ring to it”
lol......
I knew (not very well) a girl in Hong Kong named Malaria. The kids there get to pick their English name in middle school when they take English lesson and some of them are pretty strange
Other names I’ve seen:
Corn Flakes (No fake)
Ice Cream
Chevrolet
Lingerie
Money
Cash
Fruit
Ferrari
Little Bit (Last name Yeung - pronounced young)
The worst was a girl named Coco whose last name was Tin
http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-chlamydia-1183535.htm
http://www.thecatdish.com/musings/did-they-really-name-their-baby-chlamydia/
http://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-chlamydia-1183535.htm
http://www.thecatdish.com/musings/did-they-really-name-their-baby-chlamydia/
Actually, from the 1920s to the 1940s, many blacks were deathly afraid of hospitals because of rampant rumors that medical students would experiment on them. The one exception was when women gave birth.
Often the parents either had no idea of what to name their children, or wanted a better name, an uncommon name. So they would ask doctors and even interns to name their baby.
Often they would give them the names of great Roman and Greek leaders, like Scipio Africanus, or Hannibal, the enemy he defeated. But sometimes they would give them names from medical words, like “Spirochete Jones”, and “Priapism Smith”.
Perhaps the most insulting was “Oligoneuronic” last name unknown. That is a Latin term meaning “few brain cells”.
One of the most appropriate names for a girl was pronounced “Femalee”, a typographic error on the birth certificate which put the gender “Female” under “name”. But you have to admit, it is a very appropriate name for a girl.