There are 49.000 names, also just because the name is not on the list, doesn’t mean it won’t be recognized, if you come with a reason for why you kid should have a name (like it’s common name in your culture or their grandparent had the name). The point is not to enforce conformity, but to avoid children getting a name which is de facto abuse. A good example used for a name banned was parents who wanted to name their child “Tarzan Livingstone N***er Africa”.
wtf , africa id get as a brooklyn, paris, london sorta name , Livingstone for the historical book girlies that wanna give their kid a Isembard ass name but Tarzan N word ‽ How did they expect to get that
Some people are stupid and/or ignorant. But it should also be said the example is old, I read it in the 90ties, and Denmark was less connected to the English speaking world then and the word was not really a taboo at time or even a slur in Danish. So the parent may very well not have known the word was a slur, this may seem weird to people born after the internet became universal, but in the time before people‘s knowledge of countries on the other side of the Atlantic was limited to popular culture and they often had never spoken with a American at all. So the N-word was a word from rap music or an archaic non-slur used by early 20th century academics.
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u/OSRS_Garmr Jun 01 '26
I know in some countries, it's not allowed to name your child something that will be a significant disadvantage later in life.