Court blocks baby name..... thoughts.....

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Just been reading this article about a Brazilian couple and curious to know what others think

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13847419/amp/parents-banned-naming-baby-historical-figure-bullying-fears.html

Should the courts be able to step in and block parents from using certain names?

Sorry to those not able to open the article without paying, I think it must depend which country you are in

Well, I've got a very normal name that has become a slur so no-one can guarantee you won't be safe from bullying at any age because of your name whatever it is.

Yeah, my first thought was homophobia too.

Funnily enough years ago some of my extended family had issues with the name "Gabriel" I can remember one of my aunties telling me we were setting him up for a life of bullying as it might be shortened to "Gay". 😞

I'm not a fan of the state censoring names, it's a slippery slope to homogenisation.

Dragon though! 😄
See I think that would sound gorgeous with a Welsh accent!

I read the other day in a local paper that someone was going to call their baby son either 'Soon to be extinct' or 'going extinct'!
The article was a bit unclear which one it was, but I kid you not...

Lists of names are great until you have immigrants. How would you feel if John was banned because only Jean is a real name?

Oh god, me too.
Plus, what's with all the boys called "Sonny"? Why not just call him "Boy Child"?.

I do think the courts should be able to stop names involving expletives, Hitler, Devil, things with non-letter symbols etc.

I don't think they should be able to stop things like Piye which a) is an actual historical name, b) isn't the same word as plie, and c) even if it was, how many young kids know what a plie is? It would just be his name. It makes me think Pele more than plie.

Arabesque, Jete and Fouette could be nice names!

Many countries veto certain names

I disagree. It’s your child and your decision.

@SuziQuinto
I adore the name Sonny and associate it with some amazing people.

That is child cruelty.

It's a nickname or a general term for boys. Give a child a proper name.

One of my sister's new students is called Delight.

Personally I like it, it makes me smile 😊

I bet she's an Angel.

Not since 1993. The civil servant doing the registration can, however, still refer your name to the procureur de la République if there’s a case to be made that the child may suffer from your choice of name. I remember when our friends were registering their daughter (with a foreign name as her mother isn’t French), there was a case in the news because a French couple had used a name with a tilde in it (ẽ,ã,ĩ etc), which doesn’t exist in French and was thus problematic.

I think it's the same in Czechia too.

In some cases, yes.

Can’t really see the issue with this case, sounds ok to me. I’m not Brazilian, though.

Didn't Zowie Bowie give his dd the same name?

Me, too. Nothing wrong with it.

Dragon is quite a common name in some parts of the Balkans and eastern Europe though. Usually spelled Dragan. It means 'beloved'.

I think there were parents in New Zealand (?) who weren't allowed to call their daughter, wait for it...
Tallulah - does - the - hula- in - Hawaii.
I mean, really!
Having met some kids with stupid spellings of name, I agree with the decision.

Yes, which is weird because he goes by Duncan.

We were looking up names for our first child in 1994. Came across a list of the oddest names registered in the US that year in a newspaper. Among them, Cigarette and Nicey Horsey 😁

Would you call your daughter "Girly"?
Give them a name.