'I'm a healthcare worker – I've heard these names that will make kids' lives difficult' – Daily Express US

Parents often choose unique names for their children to make them stand out, but sometimes the results can be more puzzling than pretty. A healthcare worker recently took to TikTok to share some of the most unusual names she’s come across in her profession.
Alystina, who posts under the username @zerohourliving, revealed that some of these names were so unconventional that she and her colleagues had difficulty pronouncing them. She noted that these peculiar names were particularly common among younger patients.
The first name on her list was ABCDE, pronounced ‘Ab-Suh-Dee,’ which she joked was the parents’ way of “keeping things really easy for that child”. Another name that surprised her was Le-a, which she initially thought was pronounced ‘Leah’.
However, she soon learned that the hyphen was meant to be read as ‘dash’, making the correct pronunciation ‘Ledasha’.
Alystina then shared a recent incident: “Recently, we had a girl come into emergency, and the doctor was like,’ How do you think we should pronounce this name? ‘ So it was CVIIILYN, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s easy; I really feel that would be pronounced like civilian’.
“But when he called out ‘Civilian? Civilian? ‘ in the waiting room, there was no response. Eventually, a girl stood up and corrected him, saying, ‘That’s me, and I think that you mean Caitlin.’
“She then proceeded to tell everybody that she was pretty unimpressed and that the VIII in her name was actually Roman numerals, so that was an eight. So her name was Caitlin.”
However, the most baffling case she encountered involved a “young child in the paediatric room,” whose name she described as “absolutely crazy”.
Alystina shared a shocking choice of name by the parents: “The parents of this child had named this child – I don’t even know how they’re allowed to register this – it was S, H, I, hyphen, T, H, E, A, D. And it was pronounced Shatheed. But they had essentially named their child s***head.”
Despite the potential for future mockery, the parents found their decision amusing. No matter how funny they found it, we certainly don’t endorse that one!
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