“I have a Dharma and a Kyrie Eleison.”
Really?
I like like Dharma (Dharma & Greg, remember that show?) and Kyrie too.
I tell you, I like the name the gal had in “The Matrix” Trinity, I like it.
And I like all those “quality” names, although I knew Chastity Bono was doomed. Temperance, like the gal on “Bones”, Honor, Prudence, these are all good names - they should make a comeback.
No, I would not really like the gov’t to control our speech, self-determination, and pursuit of happiness in that way.
However, if people cannot think up their own names for their children, I’d like guidance for those who will otherwise be charged with the task.
I do not “remember” Dharma and Greg. I had thrown out the TV well before that. Dharma was named long before it became a celebrity name. Were that show on when she was born she would NOT have got that name. I did not want my kids meeting four more with their names in first grade. I think it is an insult to a kid to name him after a celebrity or a TV character and an unfavorable indication of the namer’s intelligence.