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Author:  Ferocious Aardvark [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:47 pm ]
Post subject:  You want to call your baby WHAT?
It has taken, to me somewhat astonishingly, 15 years for an Icelandic girl to be allowed to officially use her given name, "Blaer". Although the government may yet appeal to the country's top court.

Apparently, in Iceland there are very strict official rules on what you can call you baby, and "Blaer" was "not feminine enough". So till now Icelandic officialdom has stubbornly officially referred to the poor lass simply as "Girl".
Quote:There are some 1,853 approved female names on the Icelandic Naming Committee's list.

"Icelandic Naming Committee"?? FFS. What sort of a job is that? How much does it pay? Name your own price?

Then I noted that similar restrictions apply in places like Germany and Denmark. WTF?? In this day and age, with all the problems in the world, have these people really nothing better to do? Or are they right?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21280101
It has taken, to me somewhat astonishingly, 15 years for an Icelandic girl to be allowed to officially use her given name, "Blaer". Although the government may yet appeal to the country's top court.

Apparently, in Iceland there are very strict official rules on what you can call you baby, and "Blaer" was "not feminine enough". So till now Icelandic officialdom has stubbornly officially referred to the poor lass simply as "Girl".
Quote:There are some 1,853 approved female names on the Icelandic Naming Committee's list.

"Icelandic Naming Committee"?? FFS. What sort of a job is that? How much does it pay? Name your own price?

Then I noted that similar restrictions apply in places like Germany and Denmark. WTF?? In this day and age, with all the problems in the world, have these people really nothing better to do? Or are they right?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21280101
Author:  Cronus [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
A friend of mine named her first two kids Tia-Sian and Maia-Shae - exotic names of Spanish, Welsh, Greek and Gaelic origin but a little eccentric when you consider she's just a bog-standard whitey Brit with no exotic connections that I know of.

But she then outdid herself by appearing to choose her next daughter's profession well in advance with the glamorous title, 'Talulah-Belle".

Rejecting baby names or even having a statutory list of accepted names is nothing new, though (to a non-Icelandic) Blaer seems entirely reasonable. But then most Icelandics I've met have been a bit loopy. And the Finnish. Lunatics, the lot of 'em.

Anyway, Other rejections are more understandable. To me it comes down to the child - if they're likely to be ridiculed, bullied, etc, the name should be rejected. To be fair a surprising proportion of parents are complete idiots, even when the welfare of their child is at stake.
A friend of mine named her first two kids Tia-Sian and Maia-Shae - exotic names of Spanish, Welsh, Greek and Gaelic origin but a little eccentric when you consider she's just a bog-standard whitey Brit with no exotic connections that I know of.

But she then outdid herself by appearing to choose her next daughter's profession well in advance with the glamorous title, 'Talulah-Belle".

Rejecting baby names or even having a statutory list of accepted names is nothing new, though (to a non-Icelandic) Blaer seems entirely reasonable. But then most Icelandics I've met have been a bit loopy. And the Finnish. Lunatics, the lot of 'em.

Anyway, Other rejections are more understandable. To me it comes down to the child - if they're likely to be ridiculed, bullied, etc, the name should be rejected. To be fair a surprising proportion of parents are complete idiots, even when the welfare of their child is at stake.
Author:  Ferocious Aardvark [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
Somewhere out there is a child officially named Number 16 Bus Shelter.

I'm just surprised two didn't come at once.
Author:  Mintball [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
When pregnant, my sister was planning to name her daughter Tamara.

How to solve this?

Walk around singing: 'The sun'll come out, Tamara ...' regularly. :D
Author:  JerryChicken [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
I think "Girl" is quite a good name, for a girl.

Obviously not for a boy, there would have to be rules.
Author:  Mintball [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
JerryChicken wrote:I think "Girl" is quite a good name, for a girl.

Obviously not for a boy, there would have to be rules.


:lol:
Author:  JerryChicken [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
And wasn't Tarzan's kid called "Boy" ?

And how the hell did that happen, what are the chances of two kids, a generation apart, being abandoned in the jungle and raised by apes ?
Author:  Ferocious Aardvark [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 7:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
JerryChicken wrote:I think "Girl" is quite a good name, for a girl.

Obviously not for a boy, there would have to be rules.


Yeah, like JerryChicken wouldn't fall fowl of any such rules.
Author:  Stand-Offish [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 7:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Somewhere out there is a child officially named Number 16 Bus Shelter.

I'm just surprised two didn't come at once.

Well, if the the Shelter bit was missing they might have.
Author:  Rooster Booster [ Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You want to call your baby WHAT?
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:It has taken, to me somewhat astonishingly, 15 years for an Icelandic girl to be allowed to officially use her given name, "Blaer". Although the government may yet appeal to the country's top court.

Apparently, in Iceland there are very strict official rules on what you can call you baby, and "Blaer" was "not feminine enough". So till now Icelandic officialdom has stubbornly officially referred to the poor lass simply as "Girl".
"Icelandic Naming Committee"?? FFS. What sort of a job is that? How much does it pay? Name your own price?

Then I noted that similar restrictions apply in places like Germany and Denmark. WTF?? In this day and age, with all the problems in the world, have these people really nothing better to do? Or are they right?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21280101



I feel you need to be a little more accepting FA of other country's rules. I mean, if your son gets taken away from you simply because you christened him Adolf Hitler like in the US. Where will it end?

I know of a child over here called "Star of the Sea" as his first name.
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:It has taken, to me somewhat astonishingly, 15 years for an Icelandic girl to be allowed to officially use her given name, "Blaer". Although the government may yet appeal to the country's top court.

Apparently, in Iceland there are very strict official rules on what you can call you baby, and "Blaer" was "not feminine enough". So till now Icelandic officialdom has stubbornly officially referred to the poor lass simply as "Girl".
"Icelandic Naming Committee"?? FFS. What sort of a job is that? How much does it pay? Name your own price?

Then I noted that similar restrictions apply in places like Germany and Denmark. WTF?? In this day and age, with all the problems in the world, have these people really nothing better to do? Or are they right?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21280101



I feel you need to be a little more accepting FA of other country's rules. I mean, if your son gets taken away from you simply because you christened him Adolf Hitler like in the US. Where will it end?

I know of a child over here called "Star of the Sea" as his first name.
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