A baffled teacher shared their horror after changing classes at work and discovering one of the children had a rather unusual name. The confused educator took to social media to share their dismay at the moniker for the child as they slammed the spelling and the pronunciation - which bears striking resemblance to the name for a yeast infection. The teacher also criticised the child's personality as they made a jab that the name seemed "accurate."
They wrote: "Started working in a different grade at my school and we have a Kanydida, which is an awful spelling, and then you realize that it’s also pronounced like the yeast infection bacteria (Candida)! It’s accurate to her personality, so maybe mum was on to something."
One response to her post saw a fellow social media user claim that they also knew someone called Candida. They typed: "I know a Candida. She goes by Candi. She’s a full and proper grown-up, but I haven’t had the nerve to ask."
Other users on Reddit then joined the discussion as they shared their own stories of bizarre names they had encountered. One offered: "Reminds me of the lady who named her kid Lavanderia because she thought it was like lavender (lavandería means laundromat for non-Spanish speakers)."
A second said: "I love that. I had a teacher in college whose first name was Zanja. His parents saw it on a sign and thought it was beautiful. It means irrigation ditch lol." A third posted: "I was thinking Hana. It has quite a few different translations.
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"Some are good, like flower (Japanese) or to shine (Maori) but it's a bit odd in others, like nose (Japanese), one (Korean), faucet (Finnish), eat (Albanian), work (Hawaiian). I think it also translated to her, attack, and house as well but can't remember what languages."
A fourth social media user posted: "I was a Disney one evening and heard some dad yell to his kids “Simian and Areola, cut it out!” Simian is perplexing enough, Areola? Really?" Their story then prompted others to share their own experience with body part-themed names.
One said: "I have posted about this before, but somewhere on Reddit a nurse posted a story about how she had to explain to a patient, who just had a baby, why she shouldn’t name her kid Clitoris." Another nurse then backed the theory writing: "Nurse here and can confirm the “name your kid after a body part” thing is real. Had a patient named “Rectus”. Like the muscle in your abdomen. Really?!"
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