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I am surprised by the strict naming laws in some Northern European countries. > Parents are limited to choosing children's names from the Personal Names Regist
by ciarannolan 6y ago
I am surprised by the strict naming laws in some Northern European countries.
> Parents are limited to choosing children's names from the Personal Names Register, which is a list of about 1800 names for each gender.[18] The Icelandic Naming Committee maintains the list and hears requests for exceptions.
> At present, the Names Act of 1985 requires that all Finnish citizens and residents have at least one and at the most four first names. Persons who do not have a first name are obligated to adopt one when they are entered into the Finnish national population database. Parents of new-born children must name their child and inform the population registry within two months of the child's birth. The name may be chosen freely, but it must not be
> Under the Law on Personal Names,[6] first names are picked from a list of approved names (18,000 female names and 15,000 male names as of 1 January 2016).[7] One can also apply to Ankestyrelsen for approval of new names, e.g. common first names from other countries. Names cannot have surname character, and must follow Danish orthography (e.g. Cammmilla with three m's is not allowed).[8]
- Muromec 6y agoFinnish doesn't sound strict at all.
- howlgarnish 6y agoIceland, being a tiny island nation with only some 300k speakers of Icelandic, goes to rather extreme lengths to "preserve" the language from foreign influences, including names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_Icelandic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_Icelandic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee
- liversage 6y agoI don't think it's difficult to get a name approved in Denmark, thus extending the list of approved names, if it's a "real" name for example from another language/country. Made up names are probably not getting approved. My sister's name, while a perfect valid name in Denmark, has a foreign spelling so it had to be approved. In 1987 a boy was named Christophpher which is not a legal name. The mother was fined and fought in court until 1995 where she lost and was threatened with even heavier fines. The minister intervened and the boy was allowed to keep his name. However, the name was not added to the list of legal names. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffer https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffer