Well, to be fair I first thought that this was a bit nuts, but after surveying the names that were rejected it is clearly needed! Rody's son and Alfred's daughter were particular highlights! Surely a piss take??

Are you in favour of government’s involvement in names? 

Some parents are very weird in naming their kids, people also continue to use their foreign names that no one can pronounce properly. 

Doesn't your wife work in a school? I bet she sees all kinds of crazy stuff. My wife and I do over here in the US. Not just crazy names, but crazy spelling of the names to. Since when does Henry have a P in it? I remember when I was younger there was a guy who legally changed his name to "trout fishing in the Midwest" or something like that.

I don’t understand how some parents name their kids weird ass things like carbon monoxide lol how odd. I’m glad that my wife and I were able adult able to choose the name for our son, your brother knows it and could tell you what it is, for we talked about it before. It’s nice and unique and we’ve only met a single handful of people with the same name as him and it fits well and will be a memorable name. Hopefully good memorable! Lol. 

It is odd to restrict names but I think we should probably do that a little more to some extent. God only knows what these ultra woke progressive People are going to call their kids. I can’t even imagine lol. I bet some poor unfortunate kid was called Pfizer or something. 

Funny, in Japan we have a very similar list of forbidden names. More uniquely, we have a list of kanji that aren't allowed in names because they are deemed to be too difficult to write or too uncommon for anyone to know. 

Anyway.

Unlike you, I may have one of the most common names in the West (David). It's hard to say how that affected me, besides being annoying that I was almost always one of many in every class all throughout school. 

But then you go to my family name (LaSpina) which is very uncommon in the States, and isn't much more common in its place of origin (Sicily). Nearly every teacher or official was always mispronouncing that one, forcing me to constantly be correcting them. Oddly they pronounce it more correct in Japan than they ever did in America. 

My kids we gave pretty normal (if a bit uncommon) Japanese names, but also gave normal but somewhat uncommon English middle names that they can use if they move to an English speaking country when they get older just to make it easier. 

You mention the pronouns issue at the end. I don't understand the whole pronoun thing. But I'm content to just step away from that and let these young kids duke it out. Caring about small unimportant things is a young person's game. 

I always preferred the single-syllable version of my name, which is both a boy and girl name - Sam. There's more also with biblical ties and that I was also named after my mom's dad from 1898 so I'm a fan. I guess there's always been a bit of a hassle with my full given name and the short version, but whatever, I know which situations needs my govt name vs my nick name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSVms6cT9nk

If I remember right a few years ago I saw the news that someone in Lithuania named their kid Ragnar. I wonder how many Gokus, Geralts and Gandalfs are roaming the earth...

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Lord Appelsiinikki is not bad:D I love oranges:D Also why Tanya is banned? quite strange.
Are double names popular in Finland?

I think I remember reading something about how strict the Nordic countries are about names.  In particular Iceland, I was amazed to learn about the naming convention of surnames.  I don't think, or am not aware that UK has a list, though the authorities can disallow stupid names. Many years ago some celebrities like Jamie Oliver and the Beckhams started giving their kids stupid names, and that seems to have caught on.  I mean, why the hell would you call your son Bear Gray? Probably a parent who is equally stupid.  And sad to say, I got a Duke in my family 😏  Maybe we should have name list

Whats in a name?
Toes by any other name, would smell as feet.
A nose by any other name, would smell as well.

I once worked with a man called Rustin Gauntlett. The number of people who asked him, “Is that really your name?” It was genuinely his name. Not a ridiculous name but a highly unusual one to say in the least. 

Yes, the name is basically a word.

Here in Italy it was once customary to put the name of the grandparents, this thing is being lost over time.

I think I follow an ancient rule about your last reflections... don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you.

I bear my grandfather's name and I confess that I like it and perhaps I am fond of it also because no, having met my grandfather it is something that binds me to him.

A friend of a friend worked in Human Resources for a Fortune 500 company. One of their employees was named **Pepsi Marijuana Jackson**.

In the U.S. you can name your kid at birth pretty much anything you want. But if you want to legally change your name as an adult, you need a judge’s approval. A few years back there was a guy in St. Paul who wanted to change his name to **1069** but the judge said no.

My father’s name was Kjell, a fine name in Norway where he was born but damn near impossible for Americans to pronounce correctly. He eventually gave up trying to correct people and went with a **Shell** pronunciation.

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If you read it in Russian, it's oranges. I don't know what it could mean in Finnish.)

>Buddha

Hmm, sounds like a good option to me)

>Taraz

If that's your real name, the Slavs have a similar one, only it ends in s instead of z. I like it.

I have the most common name in our lands. In my class alone, out of 30 people, there were eight boys with the same name. And I meet my namesake all the time in my life. But what's funnier is that we named our daughter the same name, although we chose it for a long time... 😜😅

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I like this. Since I have a rather common American name, I’ve been accepted? Perhaps even easily remembered, or forgotten depending on who the recipient or reader is. By contrast, my siblings received much more ethnic, distinguished names, which they report are often mispronounced and misspelled. 

My sister for a period wanted to change her name to Monica to stand out less, and put to rest the teasing. She grew out of that phase, but I don’t appreciate the needless name calling. I think she’s stronger for it- and of course, with a healthy dose of reassurance we reminded her, people who only seem to comment on the differences all have a certain characteristic in common. 

Dummies. Imagine me, Kyle. I like your name, and hope I say it right when I talk about you and read your work, Taraz. 

An odd committee to me, never heard anywhere in the world. If people choose those names, this is their choice, for awkard names, this is their silliness. Last year here, they let people to change their names appyling from electronic state. This might have been there as well.