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counting down our picks for the top ten
baby names that have been vetoed by the
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band baby names around the world in 2018
in France a judge ruled that a couple
couldn’t name their baby girl Liam on
the grounds that it would cause gender
confusion and that sort of thing happens
more often than you’d think we’ve tried
to present a variety of examples and
while some of them in our opinion should
not have been banned some seem fair so
it’s just McLovin yeah badass
number 10 terminator he may be arnold
schwarzenegger most iconic character
from one of the biggest sci-fi
franchises of all time but if you were
hoping to name your firstborn terminator
you will be sorely disappointed well at
least if you live in the state of Sonora
in Northwest Mexico I’ll be back after
looking through the registries of babies
born there state officials compiled a
list of banned names which they believe
may lead to bullying
all of which already belonged to Mexican
citizens hasta la vista baby and as if
banning the name of one cool futuristic
robot wasn’t bad enough you’re not
allowed to call your child Robocop
either your move crazy number 9 Damon
now we travel to France where one couple
decided to take their love of a
fictional character one step further and
named their son after one it’s a very
common thing people do and the character
they picked was Damon from the Vampire
hello brother the problem arose when
they added an e into the spelling after
the a to make the name quote more French
the authorities said it sounded demonic
the same argument the New Zealand
authorities used when they banned the
name Lucifer but the parents protested
and it went to court where it was
ultimately ruled the name had quote no
satanic connections so they were allowed
to keep it
number eight spat sued unlike other
Canadian provinces Quebec has much
stricter rules about what parents can
and can’t name their children and the
Quebec registrar of civil status reviews
each and every birth certificate to
check that they’re appropriate in 1996
the agency filed a motion to prevent a
couple from naming their child spat sued
or spatula one system however the
parents were so adamant that the name
was actually that of a bird the
marvelous spatula tail that they went to
court unfortunately for the parents but
probably not for the child the court
granted the registrar’s motion and they
had to choose something else number
seven Metallica in honor of one of their
favorite bands one of the most enduring
and successful ones of all time a couple
in Utah body Sweden decided to christen
their baby daughter this unconventional
name it was perfectly fine for a few
months but issues arose when they
applied for a passport for their
daughter and the Swedish tax authority
heard about it and stepped in to try and
spare a little Metallica tomorrow any
bullying later in her life surprisingly
the Swedish Administrative Court of
Appeals eventually reversed the ban on
this name so we have to assume she still
has it today number six
Nutella yet another couple couldn’t
escape the reach of a French court of
law when they were deciding what to name
their child in 2015 the parents wanted
to call their daughter Nutella in the
hope that she would embody the sweetness
and popularity of the world’s favorite
hazelnut spread but one French judge
ruled that the name would cause mocking
and bullying and would ultimately lead
to a lower quality of life for the girl
they were ordered to shorten her name to
the significantly more conventional and
less hazelnutty
Ella number five Tallulah does the hula
from Hawaii this name was so
controversial in New Zealand that the
government actually assumed guardianship
of the girls so that she could be
renamed something more ordinary the
parents lost custody of their daughter
that’s a ridiculous name it doesn’t even
sound real I’m like other names on the
list
this one was banned after the girl
herself who was nine when the government
intervened complained about being made
fun of and said she actually lied and
told people her name was Kay to try and
avoid ridicule the court said they were
severely concerned about the quote very
poor judgement shown by the parents and
her new name has not been revealed
number four Adolf Hitler it won’t come
as a surprise to anybody to hear that
this name is banned in many countries
around the world though a man in the US
was free to change his own name to
Isadora Heath Hitler and then also named
one of his children Adolf Hitler and
another Ava Braun though in 2008 Adolf
and his other Nazi name siblings were
taken into State care in New Zealand
however a judge was quoted as saying
that names like this are banned to stop
children suffering psychological trauma
while in Germany the name Osama bin
Laden has also been banned along with
Hitler for similar reasons
number three whatever this is it’s
actually pronounced Albin
but this 43 character name was submitted
for approval to the notoriously strict
Swedish naming authorities in 1996 when
a couple initially failed to register a
name for their son by his fifth birthday
and led to them receiving a fine of
around seven hundred and forty dollars
they said the long name was quote a
pregnant expressionistic development
that they saw as an artistic creation
submitting it in protest of the find but
the court rejected it in another bid to
avoid the fine the parents suggested the
letter a as the boy’s name also
pronounced Albin but this too was denied
number two
in China parents aren’t allowed to name
their children anything with non Chinese
symbols in it meaning no numbers no
punctuation and so on that’s why when
one couple tried to name their child the
@ sign they were promptly banned from
doing so the parents reasoning for their
naming was that in China at is
pronounced like ITA which sounds similar
to a phrase in Chinese meaning love him
so they thought the name was a proper
representation of how much they love
their child regardless of their
intentions however it still was not
allowed before we unveil our number one
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alone okay number one Linda yeah hi this
is linda litzke in the western world
this is probably one of the most
conventional names out there but it’s
actually a lot more controversial than
you might think in 2014
Saudi Arabia published a very long list
of more than 50 recently banned names a
list that also includes the names Lauren
Alice Sandy and Elaine the reason the
government gave was that the names were
quote blasphemous non-arabic non-islamic
or contrary to the country’s culture
meaning that linda was banned just
because it was deemed too foreign
sounding and too strongly associated
with Western culture do you agree with
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