SuZir
Well-Known Member
I think I'm glad our government sticks its nose to peoples private business and has decided that everyone should have a proper name. And clear female names can not be given to males and other way around (there are some quite common unisex names and some newer names are also allowed to both genders.) And names are to be spelled in the way that makes sense (of course we have much less difference between spelling and pronouncing anyway) and they should be make some kind of sense in reference of some of our local languages. Meaning new names should either be meaningful words that have meaning that is appropriate for a name or they are new versions of more traditional names or other groups of sounds that sound like a name. Or if the family is from somewhere else they can of course give a name that makes sense in their culture.
Some may consider it limits freedom of parents but in other hand it protects rights of the child. And it is not like there is not enough names to choose from. Even the most popular first name is given to only about 1,5 % of any age group. And for example my name (and it recognize as modern, nicknameish, but still traditional name) has ever been given for less than 200 people.
My hubby has a traditional name that has a character not existing for example in English in it. That has been bit of drag at times because he works in international workplace. So our kids got names that are traditional both in our own language, known if less traditional (or spelled and pronounced slightly differently) also other big local language and also international. Of course people in one big language started to use common nickname of other one's name as obscene or tauntword, and for some reason people in certain countries decided to start to use other one's, very old and traditional male name, mostly as girl's name. Well, you can't win every time!
But neither has complained or wished to start using either their middle names (both have three names and we made sure that one of those were so absolutely common no one could say anything about them.) Of course 99,9% of time they are called by their nicknames.
Some may consider it limits freedom of parents but in other hand it protects rights of the child. And it is not like there is not enough names to choose from. Even the most popular first name is given to only about 1,5 % of any age group. And for example my name (and it recognize as modern, nicknameish, but still traditional name) has ever been given for less than 200 people.
My hubby has a traditional name that has a character not existing for example in English in it. That has been bit of drag at times because he works in international workplace. So our kids got names that are traditional both in our own language, known if less traditional (or spelled and pronounced slightly differently) also other big local language and also international. Of course people in one big language started to use common nickname of other one's name as obscene or tauntword, and for some reason people in certain countries decided to start to use other one's, very old and traditional male name, mostly as girl's name. Well, you can't win every time!
But neither has complained or wished to start using either their middle names (both have three names and we made sure that one of those were so absolutely common no one could say anything about them.) Of course 99,9% of time they are called by their nicknames.