In , a child support magistrate in East Tennessee ruled that a 7-month-old boy named Messiah must have his name changed to Martin.
The decision was overturned on appeal , and the judge was fired. In , 1, newborn boys and 33 girls in the U. One of the banned names was Robocop. After the court rejected the name Prince William, that same couple in Perpignan asked to name their son Mini Cooper. This request was also denied. In , a New Zealand family court took custody of a 9-year-old girl named Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii so that her name could be changed.
Twitter, Yahoo and Email were also on the list. Other countries appear to allow the name Facebook, however. In a opinion piece, San Francisco Chronicle writer Louis Freedberg lamented a California policy barring accent marks in birth name records. German authorities prohibited a Turkish couple living in Cologne from naming their baby son Osama Bin Laden in In the same vein, Germany has traditionally not allowed parents to name their children Adolf Hitler.
In this case, the father reportedly relented in the end and chose a different name. The country has since loosened its naming laws a bit. It's no surprise then that the names nixed most often since are "Justice" 62 times and "King" 31 times. Some of the other entries scored points in the creativity department -- but clearly didn't take into account the lifetime of pain they'd bring. Then there were the parents who preferred brevity through punctuation.
In , the country made made international news when the naming agency allowed a set of twins to be named '. Asked about those examples, Michael Mead of the Internal Affairs Department under which the agency falls said, "All names registered with the Department since have conformed to these rules.
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Unfortunately for the Harry Potter fans out there, these are two names that are banned by some countries around the world such as Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
This one comes from the UK. In Wales in , a mother tried to name her child after this deadly poison. Speaking of, this is naturally also a named banned by many countries around the world, including Germany. The same goes for other names such as Osama Bin Laden and Stalin, both of which are banned in many countries around the world. Single letter baby names are illegal in Switzerland, as one set of parents found out when they tried to give their baby this name.
In France, naming your child Prince William is apparently just as embarrassing as naming them Strawberry or Mini Cooper. According to a French court, these names have been banned as they could lead to a lifetime of mockery. Australia has a handful of rules for naming children, including laws banning names that are likely to cause bullying or be offensive, as well as ones that are really long, or are used as slang terms for genitalia.
Yes, someone actually tried to name their child this in Sweden.
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