Welcome to 2024, where naming children is serious business.
Gone are the days of simply giving your newborn a name from the most popular list, handing down a family moniker or simply reusing your name and popping a 'Jr' on the end. Nope, parents are putting deep thought into choosing a unique, strong, once-in-a-generation name and there's a lot of pressure to get it right.
They're even turning to baby name consultants.
But in the pursuit of finding the 'perfect name' to put on the birth certificate, some parents are being judged for going a little too off-piste.
One Australian healthcare worker has come forward to lift the veil on some of the most, er, unique names she and her colleagues have heard around the hospital waiting room. The medico created a TikTok video to share her findings, and we'll let you be the judge of whether or not these names have gone too far.
"One of our favourite things as healthcare workers is to talk about some of the names that we come across, especially for young people," she said. "A few years ago it was making the rounds, ABCDE, just keeping things really easy for the child."
And no, that's not a said like first five letters of the alphabet — this is a name you pronounce Ab-suh-dee. Obviously.
Watch: Aussie healthcare worker reveals wildest children's names in TikTok video. Post continues below.
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