Venezuela may ban unusual baby names

[Carol]

This only has a tangental relationship to Self-Defense, but I thought I'd post it here anyway.

Some kids (and in some cases, even some adults...) get picked on for what their names are or how they sound.

This article (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295488,00.html) has an interesting, albeit slightly disturbing take on the matter.



CARACAS, Venezuela — Thinking of naming your baby Hersony, Nohemar — or even Superman?

Such odd names might be turned down by the civil registry if Venezuela approves a bill barring parents from giving their children "names that expose them to ridicule, are extravagant or difficult to pronounce," or that raise doubts about whether a child is a girl or a boy.


The National Electoral Council in the past week laid out that proposal in a draft bill circulated to city offices in Caracas.


If approved by the National Assembly, the bill could let authorities turn down names like some of the more unusual monikers currently on the voter rolls: Edigaith, Mileidy, Leomar and Superman.

[arnisador]

Yes, "names that expose them to ridicule" is well-intentioned but very vague and intrusive on parents' rights. What if it's a family name that is now out of fashion?

[arnisador]

Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler namesake denied (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_fe_st/odd_hitler_cake)


The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their flare-up over frosting.

[...]

The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.


Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because "no one else in the world would have that name." He sounded surprised by all the controversy the dispute had generated.


Change your own name...don't do it to your kids, jerk.

[pguinto]

Im glad that could never happen in the States or else i wouldnt have female friends named Kiki.

[citom]

Im glad that could never happen in the States or else i wouldnt have female friends named Kiki.

Or friends named "Pookie" as well... :D

[punisher73]

I think it is a good idea. My ex-wife used to work at the hospital and I was talking with some nurses that work in the maternity ward and some of the names that women tried to choose was assinine.

Examples...

Cash-Money
Vagina (the woman didn't know what it meant and thought it was a pretty name)

In those two examples, the nurses wouldn't let the woman name the child that and convinced them to name it something else.

Here are REAL examples of kids names in our county

LemonJello (pronounced like Lamont w/o the "t", Jah-low) followed by his brother....OrangeJello

Female (the woman didn't name her child and when she saw that, she thought the hospital picked the name for her. Pronounced like Tamale, the mexican food except with the "f" sound.

[blindside]

I think it is a good idea. My ex-wife used to work at the hospital and I was talking with some nurses that work in the maternity ward and some of the names that women tried to choose was assinine.

Examples...

Cash-Money
Vagina (the woman didn't know what it meant and thought it was a pretty name)

In those two examples, the nurses wouldn't let the woman name the child that and convinced them to name it something else.

Here are REAL examples of kids names in our county

LemonJello (pronounced like Lamont w/o the "t", Jah-low) followed by his brother....OrangeJello

Female (the woman didn't name her child and when she saw that, she thought the hospital picked the name for her. Pronounced like Tamale, the mexican food except with the "f" sound.

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.asp

[punisher73]

Interesting read. I never even thought to question it because it was never "so and so had a friend who", it was always people I knew who HAD them as a patient or student, or even court clerk.

[blindside]

Interesting read. I never even thought to question it because it was never "so and so had a friend who", it was always people I knew who HAD them as a patient or student, or even court clerk.

The only reason I picked it up was that I had heard of the "lemon jello/orange jello" names as if it was coming from a hospital in Wyoming, and figured that had to be too much of a coincidence. So I googled it. :D

[punisher73]

The only reason I picked it up was that I had heard of the "lemon jello/orange jello" names as if it was coming from a hospital in Wyoming, and figured that had to be too much of a coincidence. So I googled it. :D

I remember one of our deputies saying that she had seen the names on court paperwork, so I never questioned it either.

Also, these are ACTUAL names I have seen and are not second hand stuff, so it made the other names VERY believable to not question.

Dick Lick (one of my good friend's uncle, his family disowned him when he changed his name when he turned 18)

Peter Wacker (good friend's roommate in college)

Fantasy Luv (girl I went to college with)

Malaysia (studen at the school I am assigned to)

[Bahad Zubu-Florida]

I had a friend in elementary whose name was Apple and his little sister was named Cherry...

[arnisador]

Lisa Bonet Welcomes Baby Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa (http://omg.yahoo.com/news/lisa-bonet-welcomes-baby-nakoa-wolf-manakauapo-namakaeha-momoa/17356?nc)


Former Cosby star Lisa Bonet and her husband Jason Momoa welcomed their second baby, Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa, her rep confirms[...]

"He was born on the stormiest, rainy night, so Nakoa (warrior)...Mana(strength/spirit) Kaua (rain) po (dark)...." she wrote. "The name was always going to be Nakoa-Wolf, but Jason did the research on first [and] middle name. [The] 2nd middle name, as you know, is Jason's."

[arnisador]

Boys With Unpopular Names More Likely to Break Law (http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090128/sc_livescience/boyswithunpopularnamesmorelikelytobreaklaw)


Boys in the United States with common names like Michael and David are less likely to commit crimes than those named Ernest or Ivan.


David E. Kalist and Daniel Y. Lee of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania compared the first names of male juvenile delinquents to the first names of male juveniles in the population. The researchers constructed a popularity-name index (PNI) for each name. For example, the PNI for Michael is 100, the most frequently given name during the period. The PNI for David is 50, a name given half as frequently as Michael. The PNI is approximately 1 for names such as Alec, Ernest, Ivan, Kareem, and Malcolm.


Results show that, regardless of race, juveniles with unpopular names are more likely to engage in criminal activity. The least popular names were associated with juvenile delinquency among both blacks and whites.

[arnisador]

In addition to giving babies odd names, what about tattooing them:

Tattoo Artist Arrested for Inking 4-Year-Old (http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Tattooing-Kids-Not-Cool-.html)



Tattoos are all the rage, but there's something not right about the sight of a Batman symbol inked on the arm of a 4-year-old.