Mother stunned after hospital legally names her newborn daughter ‘Korn’ by mistake

Kelsey Tate, from Seattle, Washington, said she wanted her daughter to be called 'Kora'

A mother was left stunned after the hospital made a mistake and wrote the wrong name on her newborn daughter’s birth certificate – meaning she’s now legally called ‘Korn’.

Kelsey Tate, from Seattle, Washington, was overcome with joy when she gave birth to a baby girl on April 10, but her happiness turned to panic when she realized the hospital she was born at made a mistake while confirming the birth documents.

Kelsey said she was left completely shocked after the error meant her child was legally named Korn – after a popular US heavy metal band – rather than the name she picked out, Kora.

The new mum insists she had not planned to name her daughter after the band, and took to Twitter to vent her frustration.

In her Tweet, Kelsey wrote: ‘The hospital messed up my baby’s name and we just got the birth certificate and it’s Korn. My baby’s name is legally Korn.’

Kelsey later added there was a chance that hospital staff checked with her first before confirming her daughter’s name, but she claimed she was ‘down a lot of blood’ at the time and can’t fully recall.

She added: ‘1. The name is supposed to be Kora. 

‘2. Yes this should be able to be easily fixed if we are fast!

‘3. There is a chance they may have had me double check this, but to be fair I was down a lot of blood at the time.’

She went on to admit that the hospital whiteboard had the name listed correctly, but she did notice an error with the surname on the first birth form.

Kelsey believes the accident may have occurred when the second form was written up – but she was not made aware until it was finalized and presented to her.

While the new mum comes tries to figure out how to fix the error, Twitter users attempted to cheer her up by making jokes, with many finding the blunder hysterical.

Some even shared their own horror stories where parents made mistakes or names had been recorded incorrectly.

One person wrote: ‘My parents called me Peter forgetting my elder brother is called Peter.’

Another commented: ‘I was born in the month of ‘Mary’, and no one noticed until I turned 25 and I had to get some paperwork filed that involved that birth certificate.’

A third tweeted: ‘The nurse when I was born messed me name up and we didn’t realize it until I was 18 and couldn’t get my license cause my social and birth certificate weren’t the same. 

‘;Took 6 months to fix since we moved states when I was a baby. My mom called every day to get it fixed.’

Many others compared the name to baby corn, the vegetable, and posted photos to illustrate.

Kelsey later said: ‘Kora/Korn does not know she was the main character this weekend. 

‘We just mailed the corrections form, which unfortunately was the back of the Korn certificate so we can’t put it in the baby book but we’ll put a scanned version in.’

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