It's Illegal To Name Your Baby...

It's illegal to name your baby "Monkey" if you live in Denmark. Denmark's Law on Personal Names was designed to protect tots from the burden of having an odd name."It is the state's view that children should not suffer ridicule and abuse because of their parents' lapses in judgment or their misguided attempts to be hip." The state has a list of 7,000 names that parents can choose from, and if they wish to veer from that list, they must petition the government. Names must also be specific to each gender.

You may not name your daughter "Elvis" if you live in Sweden: In Sweden, children's names must be approved by the Swedish Patent Office, who have the right to"veto parents' choice of name for a new-born baby if officials decide the name could "cause trouble" for the child later in life." In 2008, a family was denied the right to call their daughter Elvis because it, "was 'of a masculine type' and therefore 'clearly inappropriate'."

Do not even think about naming your child "Schroeder" if you live in Germany. Germany's naming laws require that all names be approved by the Office of Vital Statistics to ensure that the name will not affect the well-being of the child. One rule that the office enforces is that, "children must be given names that clearly denote gender and they cannot be given family names as first names."

If you live in New Zealand don't think about naming your child "4Real." The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs oversees the country's Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act 1995, which forbids "names that resemble an official title or rank, names that are unreasonably long, and names that may cause offense to a reasonable person." The office forbade a family from naming their son 4Real in 2007. The family went on to name the child Superman.

In Italy, it is illegal to name your child "Friday." In 2008, the Italian Cassation barred a couple from naming their son Venerdi, which translates into Friday. The court ruled that the name referred to a servant in the classic Robinson Crusoe and that a child shouldn't be "characterized by his role of subjection and inferiority."
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