In one second I went from "Who names their baby 'Baby'?!" to "Who uses 'Baby' as a sentinel value for baby names?!" http://www.randalolson.com/2014/12/06/top-25-most-gender-neutral-names-in-the-u-s/ …
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@qntm often 'baby' and 'infant' are placeholder names for when the parents haven't chosen one yet but hospital must fill in a birth cert.
@hexapodium These are terrible placeholder names, though, because "Baby" and "Infant" are perfectly legal names
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@hexapodium Situation like that, you should use a sentinel value which is not a legal name, or signal "name not yet decided" out-of-band -
@qntm Absolutely. Though 'Baby Smith' + a deed poll a few days later is a good legal hack by midwives in the middle of the 20th century! - 3 more replies
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