I jokingly suggested a fungal infection as a baby name to my pregnant sister and shes using it

An uncle has become the butt of his own joke after his pregnant sister took a list of gag names a little too seriously. It means that one day his niece could Google a fungal infection and find out the hard way that it’s also her name. Taking to Reddit, the poster with the username Odd_Age1378 explained the situation.We’ll call him Matt. When his pregnant sister revealed she’d been struggling with finding a name, all Matt wanted to do was help. “In addition to the $900 wooden crib on her list that I got for her, I gave her a list of (obviously) joke baby names.

We have a really close relationship, and it was in line with both our senses of humor,” he explained. Both siblings have interests in the medical field.Matt is a biology student, and his sister is a nurse.

He wanted to stick to a theme when it came to crafting his list. “All the names were medications, infections, unpleasant animals.All sound like lovely girls’ names out of context.

Some of them were a little bit obscure, sure, but I included some obvious ones like ‘Viagra’ and ‘Hernia’ for good measure,” he explains. Two weeks later, his sister and her husband landed on a name inspired by his contributions.“Malassezia.The baby’s name is Malassezia,” he bluntly states.

(Well, at least it’s not the better-known Chlamydia.)I’ll save you the Google.According to the University of Adelaide, Malassezia is a form of yeast that naturally lives on human skin.

It can contribute to dandruff, atopic eczema, and fungal acne. No wonder Matt has several issues with the name. Firstly, it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. “Nearly impossible to pronounce on the first try, the “ass” smack dab it the middle of it, the first syllable being mal-, literally meaning bad or evil,” he listed. But the part that really makes his skin crawl is the fact that he and his sister are particularly familiar with the fungal infection.They’ve both had it. “My sister and I...