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, [url=http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/03/20/banned-the-worlds-most-ridiculous-baby-names/Other rejections are more understandable.[/url 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.

I suppose you can be charismatic and rude?



Maybe her middle name was [iBitch[/i?

I suppose you could say she had a rude charm.

I used to work with a guy called Ricky Head.





Poor soul.

Or bypass?

this one is unfortunate for a German Minister





=#FF0000Johanna Wanka, the culture and science minister of the state of Lower Saxony, has been appointed as Ms Schavan's successor.