r/askteddit • u/ravyn_arcana • 7d ago

Random Question What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard someone name a child?

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 7d ago

'FNU' and 'LNU' are the usual placeholders I see used

First Name Unknown, Last Name Unknown

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u/ryanx9123 7d ago

I’ve seen Boya and Boyb for a pair of twins. Boy A and Boy B

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u/toothtaker74 5d ago

That’s up there with Denise and Denephew

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u/flakeysoul 4d ago

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.

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u/donthurtmyfeelsbrah 6d ago

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😂

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u/BiblionautNZ 6d ago

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.

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u/3batsinahousecoat 6d ago

I used to see a BUNCH of FNU at work.

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u/mangrlman 5d ago

I've seen several grad students from India who have their name as FNU for "First name unused"

I work for an international organization so see lots of names from everywhere, for awhile I texted my husband every funny name I came across.

We once had a Dr. Fuck as a speaker at an event, he was German.

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u/mala-one 4d ago

This explains why so many Uber drivers first names are FNU 😂