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Is this an urban legend like La-a?

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A friend told me that her brother is a police officer and responded to a missing child or something like that. When he asked the name, they said what sounded like "fee-mal-E". The story was something that they did not have a name picked out so the hospital just put "female" on the birth certificate which they pronounced "fee-mal-E" and they thought it was pretty and kept it.

This reminds me of the La-a story, questioning the truth behind it. Anyone heard something similar?

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Re: Is this an urban legend like La-a?

  • FrecklesInsideFrecklesInside member

    Seeing as I've heard that story a number of times - it's not true... or was once but isn't true as widespread as told....

    I believe pp that La-a is real somewhere somehow, but it has become a legend because everyone knows someone who knows someone.. ya know?

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  • BlueRidge8BlueRidge8 member
    Yes, according to Snopes, Female is also a racist stereotype urban legend name.
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  • Aligator28Aligator28 member
    I'm sure it is - it sounds like the punch line of a joke.
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  • LadyXaverianLadyXaverian member
    https://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp
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  • TheWopTheWop member

    There were 28 babies named Female in 2010 according to the SSA "Beyond 1000" name list.  So it's not an urban legend. Yikes. 

    ETA: The story of how the name was given may be an urban legend, but there are children running around with that name.  Still yikes. 

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  • AohKayAohKay

    I heard a story once of a woman who gave birth and named her baby Placenta because she heard it after she gave birth and thought it was pretty...

    I think anything is possible. I went to school with a girl named iazQueena, pronounced JazzQueena. People will named kids anything.

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  • magdalyn317magdalyn317
    I work in a pediatric ER and neither of those names is urban legend...sadly, neither is "Lasagna," "Chlamydia," "Oven," or "Ari-Anna" (pronounced ahree-day-shawna). I always try to be respectfully and pronounce the names correctly, at least, but I fail most of the time!
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  • msmerymacmsmerymac member
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    Ok, I have to say, just because Snopes says it's an urban legend doesn't mean no one has ever named their baby that. Ever.

    That's all. 

    Did you miss the part about how the stories involve racist stereotypes?

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