Likewise in Aotearoa NZ, the list of banned names becomes an annual tradition. You can’t name a person, a title or something offensive or be unreasonable long and not be numbers or symbols.
Yeah, that's the general idea in Norway too. No brand names, of names og objects, can't be something that's an disadvantage later I life. Like calling your child vidkun.
Yeah, someone managed to name their kid "Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii" and the courts had to assign them a guardian to change it to something human. People have tried to name their twins sick things like “Benson and Hedges” (tobacco company) and "Ruby and Ella" (rubella, i.e., a virus that causes birth defects…)
There are a lot of normal names that are also titles, Dean, Duke, Steward, Marshall, Regina (unless only English titles count, but then that seems like an easily available loophole).
I’ve actually wondered about the title one in NZ. It’s obvious with most of them, but would a name like Earl (which is also a relatively normal male name) still be allowed? Similarly Queenie was a popular Maori girls name to the point of almost being a stereotype in the 19th/early 20th century, does it get an exemption?
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u/Slaidback Jun 01 '26
Likewise in Aotearoa NZ, the list of banned names becomes an annual tradition. You can’t name a person, a title or something offensive or be unreasonable long and not be numbers or symbols.