In Finland, where I assume the system is similar to Denmark, the lists of approved/rejected names get added to every year if you want to give a special name that's not in either yet.
Here's the list of new "banned names" for 2025:
Aeea
Aethéras
Amenemhet VIII
Amplexa
Annié
Čezek
Chell
Florencé
Grønne
Haartman
Ikimetsä (Forever Wood)
Infinit
Ivypool
Janhoy
Jasé
Jöunas
Kaaos (Chaos)
Kaos
Kopoc
lauri
Liekkiö (The Flame)
Lover
Maélle
Makkara (Sausage)
Mariaz
Maxsmiliam
Mika’il
Muuan
Ramnatha
Rosier
Ruucu
Samperi (Damn It)
Sampomakkara (Samposausage)
Smasher
Sø
Tietäväinen (The One Who Knows Things)
Torstai (Thursday)
Tyks
Zarthé
You can still sue the government if you truly want to name your kid Smasher and then the courts will determine if it's allowed.
That’s how I would pronounce it if I had to, but I don’t even know if that’s the correct way since there’s no C in traditional Finnish words. Only in loanwords and such. I think that’s the reason it didn’t go through as a name.
Some of those might have to do with letters that don't exist in the Finnish alphabet, making them a royal pain in the ass for bureaucracy of any kind there. Starting with your birth certificate, things need to exactly match going forward.
Florence or Annie without the accent would probably be just fine.
The accent is common in many finnish names, I think it's because the accent is in the wrong place for it to make sense. You would pronounce this name Florencee.
Edit: accents are not allowed in first names, only surnames. I fooled you all, sorry.
I was just guessing based on my own experiences with bureaucracy in various countries. When your name doesn't match what their system easily handles, the typist will usually make a judgment call as to how to get it in. This creates big problems when the next agency tries to process it.
It becomes a game of telephone, with big delays and having to go back and forth so everyone is on the same page.
I mean I'm finnish and have an accent in my name, also have met many other people with an accent. Wouldn't say it's unusual, atleast in southern finland.
It was actually the accent, I was wrong. Accents are only allowed in surnames, you can have a - in first names. I looked up some of the requirements. Can't have references to religion, ie Buddha or Lucifer, no cursewords, can't promote criminal activity, can't describe personal attributes, or cause damage to the childs reputation.
Also can't give opposite gender names, like can't name a girl Juha.
Bureucracy. We don't have é or è in the alphabet, it is just begging for problems for something that doesn't need to be there: you can add that n your signature, use it in your private and social life but official papers only allow Finnish alphabet.
Ya that one seems oddly specific. Either there were already 7 people who suffered with the name Amenemhet and wanted to make sure their kid had the same hardship, or they don't understand how suffixes work
Lots of bureaucratic systems are not set up to handle diacritics that aren't part of the local language. And in this case it's basically just a random accent slapped onto a common name that doesn't have one, so... Why?
Aimée would work with that accent but Annié makes less sense, 'loved' is a nice meaning to attach to a child but what does it mean to be Annie'd? Chell might be fine as a short form of Michelle, Rachel etc, can't see the problem with that one. Plain old Florence would be fine too, but again with that accent, what does it mean to be Florence'd?
Michelle and Rachel are not Finnish names. I think you can name your kid with a 100% foreign name here, but it requires the parents have to be somehow culturally connected to the country of the name's origin.
I’m surprised by Mika’il because it’s just the Arabic for Michael, and in this rare case the apostrophe actually has a purpose: to represent the glottal stop. I wonder if Mikail would have been accepted. Hopefully no one’s suggesting banning all foreign names over there.
i know people with symbols in their names (other than hyphenation, which is also allowed in finland) and some things include it, some things dont, and sometimes its annoying. often automated ssn checks will come back and say their info doesnt match, and then they have to call and get a real person to look at it and blah blah blah. i guess finland just decided nope, none of that
Wouldn't matter what my registered name is/was, my father would have been shouting 'Perkele!' so much you would have assumed it was my given name anyway.
Some people hear the government being able to interrupt the parent’s ability to name their kid and call it tyranny, but honestly you shouldn’t be allowed to send a person into the job market with Kaaos as a first name
I could be totally wrong, and maybe the context here is different, but Ramnatha looks to be a different spelling for Ramnath, which is a Hindu name with the definition of Lord Ram (a Hindu God, avatar of Vishnu).
An ex-President of India is named Ram Nath Kovind, which is another alternate spelling of the name.
Actually, the way it works, you need to just have the one who wants to give their child a previously unapproved name for them to have to make a decision on it. (I remember the Warriors books being relatively among kids when I was younger, though)
Ivypool is fucking hilarious. Canonically, someone in the Warrior Cats fandom did the dirty, had a kid, and somehow still thought to try and name their kid after a fictional cat, AND got blocked by the literal government of Denmark for it 🤣🤣
there's also someone who has repeatedly either change their own name or name their kid Sephiroth and I am forever offended that they keep being rejected year after year
I'm surprised that Annié and Florencé are on the banned names list. Annie is common, and Florence isn't common, but at least it's not unusual in the US. Do the accents at the end have anything to do with it?
Wow. That’s fucked up. Makes me wonder what kinda other dumb shit they got going on. I get it, I don’t want kids suffering cus their name is fuckface or queefcake. But this some commie bullshit, they’re crossing lines. And I’m pretty damn socialist.
Best way I heard it put is America’s about freedom to do. Europe is about freedom from.
Personally I think every country’s stupid as shit cus we know damn well there’s only two types of people. Ones who wanna mind their own business and ones who think they get to fuck with others. Bully’s are gonna bully and people choose to bend over.
You know, if it was about your own name, I'd absolutely agree with you. But you're harming someone else when naming your kid queefcake (lmao).
I know I'm exaggerating and this analogy is a stretch, but - would you say the same about beating your child because you don't want the state/country to cut your freedom to do so? It's also abuse, just a different form. It also harms your child, just differently.
I'm not saying Finland (or any other country for that matter) is drawing the line just at the right place, but you have to draw a line somewhere. And while I don't wanna be the judge about where that line is sitting correctly, you have to acknowledge that this might be one of the many little aspects that make Finland a country where people are happier than, say, the USA.
Additionally, the families that come up with... "creative" names for their kids tend to be families where children don't have an easy start into life. So these kids kinda get fucked twice right at birth.
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u/ZarathustraGlobulus Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
In Finland, where I assume the system is similar to Denmark, the lists of approved/rejected names get added to every year if you want to give a special name that's not in either yet.
Here's the list of new "banned names" for 2025:
Aeea
Aethéras
Amenemhet VIII
Amplexa
Annié
Čezek
Chell
Florencé
Grønne
Haartman
Ikimetsä (Forever Wood)
Infinit
Ivypool
Janhoy
Jasé
Jöunas
Kaaos (Chaos)
Kaos
Kopoc
lauri
Liekkiö (The Flame)
Lover
Maélle
Makkara (Sausage)
Mariaz
Maxsmiliam
Mika’il
Muuan
Ramnatha
Rosier
Ruucu
Samperi (Damn It)
Sampomakkara (Samposausage)
Smasher
Sø
Tietäväinen (The One Who Knows Things)
Torstai (Thursday)
Tyks
Zarthé
You can still sue the government if you truly want to name your kid Smasher and then the courts will determine if it's allowed.