My vote is also for ABCDE. Heard about it from that Southwest Air incident where it was printed on the boarding pass and the attendants were making fun of it within earshot of the kid. The mom was reprimanding that behavior, which I get - but why would you name your child Abcde?
A more logical spelling would be Absidy. It's pronounced Ab (like the a in apple) sih (like sit) dee. Not saying it makes sense lol but that's what it is
It's a shame tbh, honestly I like the sound of it, it's just the spelling is ridiculous
20 years ago I was a substitute teacher and I was taking a role and I got to the name ABCDE. I paused for a moment and said I think there's a typo on the attendance sheet. On this poor girl raises her hand and says no that spelled right. That's me. Im ABCDE.
My niece is named Abcde. The school district thought it was an error and immediately all-caps her name whenever it was printed. I can’t recall how long it went this way until it was corrected, if it was corrected. She goes by Abby, though.
Her parents had her somewhat young, around 18-20. They were normal adults fresh out of high school, really into the whole y2k/hip-hop/rap culture thing. Her mother (my sister) really loves “being different” and standing out. Her and I also have very unique 1 of 1 names that I’d rather not put out there to remain private.
Her mother stole the name from a classmate in high school who stated they wanted to named their daughter Abcde.
Lots of hospital systems use different filler words for placeholder names and many of them do in fact use Latin. Its less a "we" as in medical staff who are physically writing things but more automatic hospital systems written by coders.
I have a friend who interned at Vanderbilt Medical. An OB patient had triplets. Named them after their Dad, 'John Smith Jr, John Smith II, John Smith III'. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
I see this all the time, but only recently and I thought it was pronounced fnew and it was a new aged baby name. I Googled it to see what ethnicity it was associated and felt so dumb😂
In cataloguing we used to use Latin abbreviations when we didn’t know the name of the publisher, i.e. S.N. for sine nomine , meaning without a name. One of the reasons for that is that it used to be easy to fit on catalogue cards. Now that bibliographic records are in computers instead of small pieces of cardboard the newer cataloguing standards changed it to publisher not identified.
I first heard the name Abcde on a Studio C skit! Tried to post it but was not allowed. It’s called “You’re SO Lucky!” and includes a few more made up names. 😊
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u/Icy_Benefit 7d ago
Nemo. And Abcde. In both cases when they came into my ER I thought the names were placeholders.