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A naming law restricts the names that parents can legally give to their children, usually to protect the child from being given an offensive or embarrassing name. Many countries around the world have such laws, with most governing the meaning of the name, while some only govern the scripts in which it is written.
The inability to keep your kids’ or pets’ names straight doesn’t mean you can’t tell them apart, and despite what Freud might have said, there’s no subconscious meaning behind it.
The Baby Name Wizard author Laura Wattenberg explains that the practice became popular in the early 20th century as poor immigrants chose names they associated with the sophistication of English aristocracy and literature, many of them surnames. Regardless of origins, many names that are now considered first names in the U.S. have origins as ...
Some countries take active measures to save children from possible embarrassment due to an unorthodox name. For example, Iceland has a list of 1,853 female names and 1,712 male ones, and parents ...
TikTok user Savannah Walsh is a mom to 7 kids. In a now-viral TikTok video that's garnered more than 797,000 views, she discusses the unique names of her children and the stories behind them
The 2017 law states, in part: "First names shall not be approved if they can lead to discomfort for the person bearing the name, or for any other reason is unsuitable as a name" (§ 28). This text applies both when parents name their children and when an adult wants to change their own name.
There must have been at least 1000 names in there. But rather than endlessly flip through them looking for something we liked and making list after list, we decided to take a different approach.
The HuffPost/YouGov poll consisted of 3,000 completed interviews conducted May 8 to 29 among U.S. adults, including 124 women who are childless and reported not wanting children in the future. It was conducted using a sample selected from YouGov's opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population.