Baby names rejected by French registrars

[ShadowPuppets]

Apparently in France the registrars have quite a strict set of criteria for baby names and this list has been published as names rejected by them in 2021...

Fraise
Nutella
Anomalie
Titeuf
Prince-William
Bob l'eponge
Excel
Metallica
Asterix
Spirou
CR7
Lucifer
Clafoutis
Manhattan
Anal
Mini-Cooper
Daisygual
Fleur de Marie
Folavril
MJ

Some of them seem quite innocuous to me after hanging out on this board! No Balonz, sadly . I do wonder about whoever tried to register their child under the French version of 'SpongeBob SquarePants'....

The main surprise for me was that I actually think Anomalie for a girl is quite pretty Thank god this pregnancy is a DS or DH might have been overruling me!

Source - quite interesting background on the French rules if Twitter's translate button is accurate! twitter.com/fenarinarsa/status/1493578412279087114

Whilst I don’t like the idea of people policing baby names, i can see why it’s needed. Imagine calling a baby Anal even if you pronounce it Ah-nal. The poor child would be badly bullied at school

Any French people or residents can explain whats wrong with Fleur de Marie?

To my unsophisticated English ears these all sound fabulous in French. "Meenee Coopehhrrrrr" even.

Historically France had a really limited amount of names that were permitted. That's why there are so many French people with hyphenated first names, it was used as a way to differentiate - rather than another Jean, they become Jean-Baptise, Jean-Pierre, Jean-Franc... I think for that reason too it is considered quite rude to shorten or drop the second part of the name without being invited to do so there, at odds with the British tendencies to shorten names automatically.

Asterix is a fab name!
I know someone in their 20s called Manhattan.

Gosh I feel sorry for these babies. I don't think anyone naming or trying to name a child anal or spongebob should be allowed to reproduce- its cruel.

Not my cup of tea but what’s wrong with Manhattan?

Well Anal is a name!

www.moonastro.com/babyname/baby%20name%20anal%20meaning.aspx

Wow! Fleur de Marie!

www.liberation.fr/vous/1996/05/22/les-malheurs-de-fleur-de-marie-depuis-13-ans-ses-parents-se-battent-contre-l-etat-pour-faire-accepte_170965/

Ooh I like Anomalie too.

Bob l'eponge

Clafoutis makes a lovely name!

Wow, that's funny, Anomalie sounds so pretty!!

I kind of like Excel I confess.

Fleur de Marie is a character in a series of books but we must be missing something because the couple who wanted to name their daughter fleur de marie, when they were told no, they appealed it but their appeal was unsuccessful!

[quote IShouldBeWriting]Wow! Fleur de Marie!

www.liberation.fr/vous/1996/05/22/les-malheurs-de-fleur-de-marie-depuis-13-ans-ses-parents-se-battent-contre-l-etat-pour-faire-accepte_170965/[/quote]

What's the reason? My phone won't translate it for some reason

I don't see how the names Fleur De Marie and Daisygual are that bad that they'd ruin a child's life.
Is the name Astrid allowed in France because it's not that different to Asterix?

Bob L'eponge though

Think it's something to do with having the middle name 'de' ??
The registrar suggested Fleur - Marie but that was not what they wanted.

Those are all terrible names, thank God the French have that law!

For those puzzled by Fleur de Marie, she's a character in a detective series. It'd be like naming your kid Hercule Poirot Smith or similar.

I wish they would do this here. Mind you we always have a good giggle going through the list of new pupils coming in to school and try to choose this year's most ridiculous one

@ofwarren

The parents have been fighting for 13 years to get Fleur De Marie's name recognised. They even took it to the European Court of Human Rights. The Court found that the French government had not violated any human rights by refusing the parents to register the name they wanted. That's the jist of it.

I can imagine Fleur de Marie (Flower of Mary) being a euphemism.

Mini-cooper is excellent. I was once chatting to a group of people we met on holiday, and one of them was quite reluctant to give us his name and I quote 'because then we'd know him' (although he eventually did).

We googled him afterwards obviously, largely due to his secrecy - turns out him and his wife had been rejected by the Swedish courts for trying to call their baby Superman and he was all over the news

I wouldn’t call this being strict..

Perhaps it's the French equivalent of lady garden, front bottom, foof

*Fleur de Marie that is

@RaraRachael

I wish they would do this here. Mind you we always have a good giggle going through the list of new pupils coming in to school and try to choose this year's most ridiculous one

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