From mental_floss:
Naming your baby Brooklynn, America, or Lindsee might be acceptable (if mockable) in the good ol’ US of A, but don’t try a stunt like that in Denmark. Of all the European laws regulating baby names, Denmark’s are the strictest. Danish parents must choose from a state-approved list of 7,000 names, which seems like a lot, until you fall in love with a name that isn’t on there. And bucking the system means months of slogging through a bureaucratic process to get your chosen moniker individually approved by the Names Investigation Department and the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs. Each year, those organizations reject 15 to 20 percent of the names they review—all in the, uh, “name” of protecting the baby’s dignity.
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My niece is named Brooklyn.. Her mother, who is limited on brain power, added "Utah" as a second middle name at the urging of her father who she isn't even close to. It seems he drives a truck and was in Utah at the time of her birth so he said she should add it to her name, and the little goober agreed.. My brother could have dropped a gold brick. I said that he should just be glad the guy wasn't driving through Idaho!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness we don't have any real weird names in our family. The Father had enough of a hard time remembering my first one's name--and she is named after me! :)
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I forgot to tell you that adding the "Utah" made her initials BKUM.. People have been calling her Bookum.. Isn't that awful?
ReplyDeleteOkay--now I REALLY almost peed my pants! Poor child.
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