What NOT To Call The New Baby In Victoria!

[icyfroth]

In an age where the names of one’s offspring appear limited only by parental creativity, Victoria has reminded Australia there are limits on creative child-naming.

The state government’s latest list of banned baby names is a roll call of bad ideas of royal proportions.

Making the cut (or not, in this case) are Anzac, Christ, God, Saint and Seaman, along with a long list of other titles.

Joseph Heller fans will also be disappointed to learn Major is off the list, as are just about all other military, political and royal titles.

Prime Minister, Premier and President are also likely to have the Births, Deaths and Marriage Registry insisting you go back and try again.

Mister, Sister, Queen and King are no-goes too, and you can’t call your kids Satan or Messiah either.

Holden die-hards will be saddened to learn Commodore is banned, but Ford fans can breathe a little easier – Victoria does not mind if you opt for Falcon.

While the list may raise a few eyebrows about why governments are concerning themselves with such regulations, it is important to remember that several parents actually tried these before they made the list.

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I have a new Grandson due in January from my Son and Daughter-in-Law living in England. They're going to call him Lorenzo. Enzo for short. I think that's soooo cute!

DIL's Italian.

I did suggest Wolfgang, but they wouldn't have it!

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

My redneck neighbor's brother had twins........since the wife had a pretty strenuous labor, he took it upon himself to name the babies........he named the girl Denise, and the boy........Denephew.

[springyzone]

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@icyfroth wrote:

In an age where the names of one’s offspring appear limited only by parental creativity, Victoria has reminded Australia there are limits on creative child-naming.

The state government’s latest list of banned baby names is a roll call of bad ideas of royal proportions.

Making the cut (or not, in this case) are Anzac, Christ, God, Saint and Seaman, along with a long list of other titles.

Joseph Heller fans will also be disappointed to learn Major is off the list, as are just about all other military, political and royal titles.

Prime Minister, Premier and President are also likely to have the Births, Deaths and Marriage Registry insisting you go back and try again.

Mister, Sister, Queen and King are no-goes too, and you can’t call your kids Satan or Messiah either.

Holden die-hards will be saddened to learn Commodore is banned, but Ford fans can breathe a little easier – Victoria does not mind if you opt for Falcon.

While the list may raise a few eyebrows about why governments are concerning themselves with such regulations, it is important to remember that several parents actually tried these before they made the list.

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I have a new Grandson due in January from my Son and Daughter-in-Law living in England. They're going to call him Lorenzo. Enzo for short. I think that's soooo cute!

DIL's Italian.

I did suggest Wolfgang, but they wouldn't have it!

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I've got a new grandchild expected next year too-but in April. No idea what sex or name yet!!

It probably won't be one of the conventional names or anything like the sort we looked at back in the '80s but hopefully won't be one of those horrors the govt has banned.

Really, I wonder about some parents, I think it is all about them and they don't give much thought to the poor child. What child truly wants to be called God or Satan?

And the spelling!! I'm sure some parents think it is arty to change things so you get something like Deeaarrnna but all they are doing is making trouble for the child, who is going to have to spell it out (usually more than once) to everyone for the rest of their life.

[icyfroth]

Well it is his eighth baby! Sir Mick Jagger's newborn is named Deveraux OCTAVIAN Basil'... as daughter Elizabeth posts first picture of tot

• The name Octavian is a Latin baby name meaning 'born eighth' 
• Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick Jagger became a father again, aged 73
• He welcomed his son with 29-year-old ballerina Melanie Hamrick
• The rock star is said to have flown from London to New York to be at the birth 
• Sir Mick's eldest child, Karis Jagger, is now 46. Singer is also a great-grandfather
• The Rolling Stones' latest album is on course to be the official UK Number One 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4041316/Sir-Mick-Jagger-names-eighth-baby-Deveraux-Octa...

How cute! 

Wonder what those names will get shortened to. Probably just end up calling him Basil!

[*tippy*toes*]

Oh how I hate the changed spelling of names. Today I saw "Mychel" (Michael). I have no idea what goes through some parents heads.

[icyfroth]

I know.

I once saw a Timythy.

[*tippy*toes*]

I'm surprised they didn't go with Tymythy, just to be extra different.

A few clangers from my list of stupid names to call your kid:

Lulu Sunshine

Abola Thit (say what?)

Kyhianna

L'wren (WTH??)

Ky'Shae

Tashara

Kezawin (I think that one's pronounced Debbie)

Brazisisa (sounds like something you'd scrape off the toilet bowl)

Latrel-Arthur

Xzavyor (parents would have to be bogans)

Indyanah

Chiquita-Chevy

Maceson

Daxton

Akobra

And my favourite - Carlton Blue

This is just a small selection. I should point out that none of the parents of these children are foreign. They are all white Australians. They all wanted "something a little bit different". What they should have got was a punch in the mouth. Of course none of these kids will ever have to repeatedly spell their name for people. The parents will get upset when people do ask because everyone should be able to spell it without asking.

[lyndal1838]

I feel sorry for little Akobra.....s/he will spend the rest of his/her life being mistaken for a hat or a snake.  I am guessing it is meant to be a girl's name.

I am still wondering what a pair of English parents were on when they named their Canadian born son Wolfe Theodore....they were not family names and he was called Ted all his life.

[peteepie]

Our Australian cricket captain's middle name is Deveraux, and Mick is a cricket nut...

[springyzone]

The parents will get upset when people do ask because everyone should be able to spell it without asking.

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Haha that is so true.

I used to teach primary school and I still recall one year, on the first day as people were arriving I asked one set of parents (very politely) how to pronounce their child's name and they gave me a cold look and the father said-the way it is spelt, it is phonetic, easy to say. So.. in other words, they didn't tell me.

Then got all upset when I read out the roll and got it wrong.

[brerrabbit585]

Someone once told me about his best mate who was a teacher in one of the inner Melbourne suburbs where most of the kids were from newly immigrant parents and had unpronounceable names.  On their first day of school he went around the class and gave each kid a short Aussie name/nickname and gave them a label to stick on their shirts.  Apparently the names stuck and nobody ever complained. 

When I was at high school there were a few Albanian girls with unusual names in my class.  Most were pronounceable but we always used to laugh when fill-in teachers stopped at one girl's name when going through the roll.  Her name was Qasibe, pronounced Cassabay (cassa as in hannah).

In the course of one of my jobs I came across a lot of weird spellings in people's names and I'm sure a lot of them were simply due to the parents not being able to spell, rather than them deliberately wanting to be different.