Everyone wants their child’s name to be special but this takes the biscuit.
The aim for most parents when trying to figure out what they’ll call their bundle of joy is to hit on something that suits, that won’t be the same as every other child in their primary school class, that isn’t too confusing to spell and hopefully won’t get the kid mercilessly picked on.
Not every new mum or dad has that criteria, though.
A Netmums user has said that a friend of hers has just called her newborn Abcde.
It’s pronounced ‘Ab-si-dee’, she said.
“I’ve never heard of this name before – has anyone else?,” she wrote.
The name didn’t go down well at all with the fellow forum users, with one even claiming that calling a baby that should be illegal.
“That is the silliest name I’ve ever heard – but kudos for the imaginative pronunciation. Some parents are too cruel.”
“It should be illegal to saddle children with names like that. Awful.”
“It’s great because if they have another they can call it fghij then the next klmno and so forth.”
As it turns out, Abcde isn’t a totally unique name. As one Netmums user pointed out after a little digging, 328 girls were named Abcde in the US between 1990 and 2014.
The first known Abcde was born in Hawaii in 1986 and the name especially caught on with Hispanic families.
At least baby Abcde won’t be alone in having a fairly unique name.
A list of the most unusual baby names of 2018 so far released by parenting website Kidspot earlier this year includes names like Daylla, Freesia and Gwinia.
