Sorry, I can't sleep so:

Teresa Green, good one

New Zealand and Australia have banned names.

You can't and it has been tried call your child:

Anal
Anus
->-bleeped-<-
Clown


Ah what names have you heard people call their kids?

Cindy !

Story goes of kids being named female.  Pronounced  with a short first e , short a and the last e is pronounced as an long a.

Fmlia?

Quote from: LordKAT on September 01, 2013, 10:53:48 AM
Story goes of kids being named female.  Pronounced  with a short first e , short a and the last e is pronounced as an long a.

like, fehm-ahl-ay?

a guy in my high school class used to talk about how he wanted to call his son dinosaur if he got one.

people in this area have nicknames. so many are not called their official name, my neighbor's just called "bror" (brother), i can never remember what his actual name is. my daughter uses and prefer the saami version of her official norwegian name.

How about religious names? Like "God" "Jesus" or "Moses"?
And how is "->-bleeped-<-" a name anyway?!? (or the others in the same list)

Quote from: Erik Ezrin on September 01, 2013, 10:59:31 AM
How about religious names? Like "God" "Jesus" or "Moses"?
And how is "->-bleeped-<-" a name anyway?!? (or the others in the same list)

Jesus is okay if you're Spanish. 

some people just like to test the boundaries of society and use their children as guinea pigs.

JesusChrist is banned
God is banned

Most obvious religious names are banned in ANZ

The idea  BTW. Came from a female columnist whose life was destroyed by being named Jordan

Her Mum named her after the female  in the book, the great gatsby.

Well, there's always the jokers that named their kids Adolf Hitler Campbell, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell.

i've a feeling jesus christ would be banned in norway, but i know of a guy who was called something very similar. it annoys him a lot to know that his parents really did name him after jesus christ.

i also know a guy called adolf who was interestingly born after wwii.

Quote from: Erik Ezrin on September 01, 2013, 10:59:31 AM
How about religious names? Like "God" "Jesus" or "Moses"?

religious names are not so wierd or uncommon I think.
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about strange names I once had a teacher from korea, he was called kho, whatever it mean in korea it means (cow) in my country which was abit strange to get used to,
a friend I once had also had a japanese teacher who was called something who in my country is a dirty word for vegina.   

Quote from: Alice Danielle on September 01, 2013, 10:58:20 AM
like, fehm-ahl-ay?

Yup

Religious names are usually done as an honor, though I don't agree with it. I see lot of people named Jesus, Mary, Joseph, etc., including Moses and Aaron.

Mary and Joseph are quite common yeah. But I yet have to find someone named Jesus.

Quotesome people just like to test the boundaries of society and use their children as guinea pigs.

Some people should just never become parents, imo. Giving a kid a name that will cause harassment and bullying throughout his entire life is just irresponsible!

I wouldn't name my kid Frodo, Sauron, Gandalf, Hermione (not sure if that is a normal name in the UK?), etc. either. If I wanted to name my kid after a book character I'd pick one with a sort-of normal name, or AT LEAST an not well known name. Naming your kid Sam (after Sam Wise Gamsee) would be completely fine, or Harry (after Harry Potter), etc. are perfectly normal names too. (heck, my dad's name is Harry! Lol )

Speaking of book names, a guy in my class had the nickname "Frodo" cause he was a lookalike, lol. (except for being tall, his face was just SPOT ON!). At some point everyone knew him as Frodo and didn't even know his real name, lol.

And do you guys know this transguy on YT named Echo? Anyway, I think his name is pretty neat, actually. Unusual, but neat.

Shi'thead

Latrine, unless you live in rottingham of course.

When we picked our son's name, the rule was no prior family member and I wanted him to be his own person and nothing that could be short formed to something dumb and it had to sound good with the last name. We avoided celebrities and famous persons as much as possible.

Took a lot of effort to finally end up with Colin.

my daughter ended up with four names. her first name follows the naming tradition on my mother's side, and is used in my father's family as well. the second is found in my father, stepfather and mother's family trees, and her third name is in my father and step father's families. the fourth name is the one her father wanted her to have, but just didn't fit right. the meaning is right, so she should have it though.

she's still her own person, and nobody expects her to be anything like any of the people she shares her name with.

I have that fella Echo on my facebook, actually. His first name goes very well with his last. I get so annoyed when people have messed up names. What kinda 'parents' would do that to their kid? Meh.

Destiny, Chastity, Neveah, etc kinda sound like stripper names.
My favourite banned name is Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced Albin).
One of my former friends in high school claimed she was going to name her future kid Hannibal Lector. Another former friend claimed, if he ever had a daughter, he would name her Arathelia (which I have probably spelt wrong).