Couple banned from naming baby 4real

[hermitlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Here's the link:

http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2007/06/21/695281.html&cvqh=itn_4real

Honestly I'm quite glad that they (the N.Z. government) stopped that name from being given. Can you imagine the ridicule that poor child would go through? *shudders*

4real?

Would you ever try to name your child something with a numeral in front?

Does the United States have something like that, the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages?

Comments

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

I think we do. It seems like it was one of the databases I had easy access to when I had an Ancestry.com account.

[cxtxc.livejournal.com]

That's foul.

Does the U.S have any naming laws? I've always wondered, given the ridiculous names American celebrities have given their children.

[krikette.livejournal.com]

I remember reading about it somewhere, and I'm wanting to say we do but they are very, very lenient because people protest the freedom acts.

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

I believe that you can name your child anything you want. I do know that legally you must give your child a last name. A former friend of mine and her boyfriend had legally changed their names to single names (like Madonna or Prince). They wanted to name their baby the same way - just one name. When they found out that the baby had to be given a last name they decided they would chose a random string of numbers for the last name. I believe they settled on giving the baby no first name, just a last name and they call him that. The name...is Quiet.

(FYI I think this is really cruel to the baby...)

[krosp.livejournal.com]

That baby isn't even going to learn to obey the command "Be quiet", because it's like... "Well I am, that's my name!"

[sevensevenfour.livejournal.com]

I know that my great grandmother worked in a doctor's office and they had a patient named T9C. The woman pronounced it really fast so it sounded more like a name and not like saying individual letters, so my great grandmother kept trying to spell it Teenincy. So, I know there weren't stiff regulations in the US when she was named.

As far as using numerals in names, why not just spell it Foreal or something? It's a terrible name either way, but at least there's no numbers to cause problems for the parents and the child down the road.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Stupid.. because it's not like they're even banning the name, they're just banning numerals, which makes sense to me. There has to be a line drawn somewhere about which symbols can be part of an official name.

So they can still call him that if they want! Forreal, For Real, For-real, etc, all would be legal names apparently.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Oh far out that is just plain mean!