Mother's 'idiotic' baby name leaves people in disbelief as people warn 'school will be hell' for her child
The bizarre moniker was revealed in a now-viral Reddit post by the expectant mother's cousin, from the US, who admitted they were completely baffled and felt compelled to share the name choice with the world.
Originally the mother had planned to call her baby girl Serena, but at the last minute done a U-turn and choose 'Vaselinea'.
The women sent her cousin a picture of a tube of the petroleum jelly Vaseline and asked 'like this thing?'
To which the mother-to-be replied: 'Yes, I wanted the nia sound at the end. Pronounced like Vah-suh-lee-nia.'
The cousin captioned the post, which racked up over 22,000 likes: 'One of my older cousins sent this to me…I'm sorry but Vaselinea??
'Is Vaselinea a tragedeigh? How do I convince her to go back to choosing the name Serena?'
People online wasted no time in voicing their opinions - which were scathing to say the least.
Many begged the cousin to step in and convince the expectant mother to reconsider, warning that little Vasalinea could face years of bullying and embarrassment.
One person said: 'Well, at least petroleum jelly is a completely innocent and innocuous product with nothing but robust moisture sealing applications, so you know, what's the worst that could happen? High school is gonna be real rough.'
Another added: 'For the love of everything please show her the subreddit. Even if it hurts her it will show her how idiotic that decision is about to be.
'Is the dude [referring to the father] an idiot too? Like there is no way this decision gets the green light by both parties.'
Another added: 'The moment my cousins started having kids we had this conversation before the kid was born. I wasn't going to have a family member end up getting bullied because their parents gave them a 'unique name'.'
A fourth person discussed the ways in which Vaseline can be used in sex - which would open up the child to ridicule in later life.
Another quipped: 'The pronunciation sent me! Yes, it's spelled like Vaseline with 'a' on the end, but it's pronounced like Vaseline with 'ai' on the end.'
The original poster added: 'I also tried suggesting a name like Sonia since she wanted a 'nia' sound at the end but according to her its not elegant sounding enough and she needs a name that will stick with someone when they hear it.'
It comes after an unsuspecting woman's decision to name her firstborn 'Jobie' has left Scots in hysterics as they pointed out the word's unfortunate slang meaning.
Last week, Laura Rogers, believed to be from the UK, shared a sweet video of her newborn on TikTok while announcing her son had been christened Jobie.
'Oh Jobie, mummy loves you so much,' the gushing mother captioned her clip.
She later shared her son's 'first outfits of the week' - with both videos racking up over 520,000 views at the time of writing.
A majority of these came from TikTok users based in Scotland who couldn't understand why Laura had picked the name considering that 'jobbie' is slang for faeces or a 'piece of excrement' in response to the viral video.
'So, somebody's named their kid "Jobie" and if you're Scottish, you'll know exactly what a jobbie is,' a woman from Scotland, @rachdeex on TikTok, reacted to Laura's name reveal video.
She added: 'I wasn't sure whether or not to comment and say that 'you do know that a 'jobbie' is a poo.'
The woman could also be overheard asking a toddler whether they knew what a 'jobbie' meant before the two-year-old confirmed it was, indeed, 'a poo-poo'.
The search for 'baby jobie' on TikTok returns multiple reaction videos from baffled Scots who can't understand why the name is trending in 2025.
'POV: you've woken up this morning to people calling their babies Jobie in 2025. Scottish descend,' one user, who goes by @viennicevero, captioned her post.
Another Scottish woman, Laura, said it was 'a bloody shame' that the baby name 'Jobie' was gaining in popularity.
She also claimed that the English woman, who went viral for her original post, was 'deleting' comments about the origins of the word.
'A jobbie in Scotland is a shite,' she explained. 'There obviously has been loads of Scottish people commenting on her post to say "By the way, I don't know if you've got time to change your baby's name but jobbie actually means shite."
'And she's been deleting all the comments,' she continued. 'The wee boy is absolutely beautiful, he just does not deserve a name like Jobie.'
In response, some suggested it was fair for Laura to delete any hateful comments about her son's name since she is a 'young mom who doesn't need any criticism' at this stage in her life.
Still another Scottish TikToker suggested they were just trying to be helpful by letting the new mum know her son's name has a double-meaning in their part of the world, adding there was no ill intent.
Several people, however, defended the British woman's decision to name her son 'Jobie' because the word means 'nothing outside of Scotland'.
'Ignore all the bored Scottish people giving you flack about his name,' one TikTok commented on the first-time mother's video. 'It's lovely.
'If you're not Scottish or living there, who gives a f,' they continued. 'He's beautiful.'
'Literally no one cares, it's not even pronounced like that,' another person said.
A school teacher in England also weighed in on the debate taking TikTok by storm as she declared: 'The word "jobbie" means nothing outside of Scotland.
'I work in a Catholic school in England and have taught three Jobes.
'Literally not a single kid has made fun of it because that word means nothing here.'
Some TikTokers pointed out that the newborn's name was pronounced 'joe-bee' and not 'jobby or jobbie' like it would be in Scotland, implying the baby's name doesn't really translate to its slang meaning.
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