May 2nd, 2013 → 5:44 am @ Lea // No Comments

“I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.” – Merry Wives of Windsor

Yes, that screech of letters and numbers up there is a name someone in Sweden tried to give their baby.  They weren’t allowed.  Yesterday New Zealand released its own list of banned baby names, which include:  Lucifer, Messiah, Christ, King, Anal, and others.  After having done some research on this important and fascinating topic, it appears that the U.S. is one of the most liberal countries for naming babies; we pretty much don’t ban anything so there are apparently hundreds of people with the name Noun in this country.  (Don’t worry, Comma, Period, and Semicolon are represented as well.)  The one thing I did find odd is that New Zealand bans the name Justice.  Justice?  One of my son’s best friends at school is named Justice.  His dad is a polling worker on election day.  What’s wrong with Justice?