Would you give your kid an 'unusual' name?
 

Swedish couple barred from naming baby 'Superman'

A Swedish couple who wanted to call their son Superman have been told to find a new name by the authorities.

Sara Lindenger and Johan Leisten, both 28 from Gothenburg, wanted to call their son Staalman, the Swedish name for Superman, after their favourite comic book hero.

But authorities in Stockholm have disallowed the name saying it is not appropriate and could be unpleasant for the boy.

Lindenger said: "We only wanted to use it as one of his middle names. It would have been much worse to call him Phantom or Tarzan."

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_777847.html

Can government actually dictate what you can or cannot name your child ?

i wouldn't mind that name

"Seven Costanza.You're serious?"

Not in the US - you could name your child John D Rockefeller and there isn't anything the gov't could do about it. (Even if your last name isn't Rockefeller.)
But this is Sweden we're talking about; you know, the country that everyone says "move here to be a porn webmaster, we have the most liberal laws!"
Umm... sure.

i am going to name my son "scrotum"

... yes, you couldn´t name your child "yoghurt" either ... and I think it´s a good law and protects the little fellows of some braindead parents ...

Yeah, look at how fucked up Frank Zappa's kids turned out.

Swedish Nazi's.

I met a guy named Castle the other day....he was pretty odd.....

i know a guy who´s name was Ugly (and he doesn´t work for bangbus), he had a fucking terrible childhood! He had it changed as soon as he was 18, to John, just wanted something regular, and I guess John is as regular as it gets :glugglug

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

He will have to grow up tough with a name like that :1orglaugh

Fuck that fascist European Bullshit man, they can't tell you what to name your kid, off with their heads..

Is he really ugly?

hey i got an original name, well in this country its original



btw, what happened to Zappa's kids ??

I once met girls named Aspen and Sierra at the same party, and all i wanted to do was climb either mountain hehe

So did you hit those twin peaks some?

you should see the hell raised when a german mother tries to name her child Hitler in germany, do you abject to that right or agree with the law against it?

There's a conundrum if I ever saw one.

apparently the British gov't *can* do it too but don't very often.

My sister went to a hippy Quaker school for elementry (I was spared) and one of the kids in her class was honestly named Microwave and his little brother was called VCR. Hard not to want to slap those parents.

If they want to name their child Hitler, they should be able to.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA


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Stalinrocks, nope, but i did give them some "snow" :))

would you guys still love me if my last name was Schicklgruber ??

... as long as your middle name is not scheissenhausen, I would !

LOL :1orglaugh

I would call my son "Bukkake" :1orglaugh

So, completely disregard the safety of the child? A kid in Germany, or pretty much any country for that matter, named Hitler, is going to be ridiculed and/or beaten. No way in hell they should be allowed to name their kid that.

Why do people like to put words in others mouths ?
Did I say anything about the safety of the child ? Did I say anything about it being a smart decision ? Did I say anything about other than I think the decision should NOT belong to the government on what you can or cannot name your child ?

You said they should be able to name their child that! Naming their child Hitler would quite obviously cause ridicule towards the child. I'm not a big fan of government intervention into family matters, but that is abuse, in my opinion. Purposely placing their child in a position where they will most certainly be abused by their peers, whether it be verbal or physical abuse.

Where do you draw the line? A boy named Sue? Names that can easily be turned into taunts? Giving someone an Islamic name in an anti-Muslim society?

Is it just this one name?

shame on you! :1orglaugh

I graduated high school with a guy named Richard Allan Head. A few years prior, there was Jon Joe Johnson, and one of my best buds in school was Edgar Allan Poe.

I think I would have shot my mother for naming shit like that. As it is I already want her to die a miserable, slow, painful death.

I had planned on naming my kids Gwynhyvfar and Duncan. Glad I don't live in Sweden.:glugglug

In France you used to only be able to call your kids biblical names, when they changed the laws, some couple called their kid 'clitorus' hehe.


Spain takes the piss a bit aswell, I wanted my kid to have three names but they wouldn't register him with 3, wankers.

Englands pretty cool though, it's really easy to change your name
Some bloke got sued by a bank, so he changed his name to Barclays Bank are bastards, so when he went to court it was

Barclays Bank vs Barclays Bank are bastards.:1orglaugh

Hmmm. I grew up with a somewhat unusual name. I've never been given any problems with it, and often when I meet girls, they say "wow, cool name" and I think it helps me out a little.

I was thinking Zephyr might be a cool name for a kid.

My stepsisters moron of a husband wanted to name their son some stupid fucking name, I think it was Teag or something like that.

Poor kid woulda been getting picked on and had his ass kicked all through shcool if I hadn't chimmed in. That just aint right at all!

I will call my son juicylinks

Fuck let the kid be called superman :) I can see them not allowing some... but thats not even that extreme... ie. Hitler, assface, etc...


Here's the list of baby names in the US

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/


Some wierd ones.. in 1997

The name J was given to 154 boys...

writting out Jay or whatever else takes to long, or you watch too much Simpsons...

My name is Treasure Hunt.
How the fuck can superman be worse than that?

Harry Ballzanya :thumbsup

My friend is a teacher and she has a kid in her class named Precious. She says he gets his ass kicked constantly. Parents that want to do that kind of crap should change their own names instead of messing up their kids lives.

You know, I hated my name all elementary school, but as I got older, people started to tell me my name was cool, and now there isn't a person who meets me who forgets my name.

The family who lived in my house previous to me, had a daughter named "MyTrezsha"

Which I can only assume is ebonics for "MyTreasure".

I hear fucked up made up names nearly every day. I knew black folk liked to give their kids fucked up names, but the shit is out of control here. I think its gotten to the point where it a fucking competition to see just how fucked up and mispelled you can get them.

Who was it who had the radio show with the game called "Black baby name or house plant?" You had to call in and guess if the name they threw out was a real black kids name, or a fucking name of a houseplant. I think it was Mancow, it was funny shit.

We have these two dillholes in Detroit on the radio who have a game called "stump the white guy". They get some crazy ass hoodrat to call in and say a sentence, if the white guy from the burbs on the other end cant decode it, the black guy wins a prize.

If I had a dollar for every time I had to say "come again?", I would be filthy rich.

Define "unusual".

My name is Kaloyan. This is the name of a Bulgarian king Kaloyan who killed the 4 crusade and expanded the Bulgarian empire to it's mximum.

If some day I have children...
If it's a boy I will call him "Kubrat". Another brave Bulgarian king who killed all his enemies and drinked wine from the cut head of the Bizantine emperor Nikifor.
If it's a girl, I will call her "Elena" as Elena of Troya.

If I get more kids I would call them, Skeletor, Death, Pain, Disease, BA Barrakus, I Have The Biggest Cock (no one would offend himself by having this name), Give Me All Your Money, Mr President, etc...

So, what's unusual in these names? I also could call my children something like "www.put-your-site-here.com". It would be like a permanent advertising :)

i wouldn't advise him to fly to israel with elal. or go through passport control. or stay at a hotel. or pay at a restaurant. basically, if she calls him hitler he will only be able to visit belgium, austria and france. or stay home in germany.

here in the middle east, after the peace treaty between israel and egypt, quite a few egyptians called their child "begin" and after the peace talks between rabin and arafat, quite a few in the arab world called their son "rabin". these kids must be a bit unpopular today.

hell look at some of the names african american parents choose for their children!

shaniqua resida campo phonique jones

etc

devon love
etc

ROFL!

that would have to be the worst name iv ever heard of. i cant even imagine. maybe just plain 'nut sac' or 'douche bag' would be worse. :\

i had a friend named barney, which wasnt that bad till the big fucking purple fuckwit showed up on teh scene, went down hill real fast since then for poor barney. now we call him "barndolph"

Does Octavian is Unusual name?

Mom.....:mad:

And what does Swedens liberal porn laws have to do with what they're "allowed" or not to name their children? Mybe you think it's their name laws that is known as the Amber bill? :winkwink:

Names that could offend people or cause discomfort for the person himself (like hitler, fucker, cock) are not allowed, but also names of trademarks, protected literary- or art work names (like Asterix, Superman), some commonly recognized foreign surnames (like Donadoni).

This is just a few points, but it's mostly about protecting kids from getting trouble because of the name.


A few names that got refused recently:

Asterix
Lovejoy
Donadoni
Montana