Sweden Blocks Idea to Name Baby Superman

Yahoo! News ^ | Tue, May 06, 2003 | AP

[weegee]

I knew a girl in Ohio (high school cheerleader no less) who was the daughter of my dentist, his last name was Kane. He named her "Candy Kane".

Don't know if he had any other kids named Nova.

[weegee]

Wally Wood - Harvey Kurtzman BUMP!

[tiamat]

"Nova Kane" would be specially good for a dentist's kid!

LOL!

Tia

[AnAmericanMother]

Crystal Shanda Lear was the daughter of Bill and Moya Lear - of Lear Jet fame.

My favorite is still Positive Wasserman Johnson (a contribution by H.L. Mencken - who knows if he was telling the truth). More *documented* wacky names -- like Eucalyptus Yoho, Garnish Lurch, and Immaculate Conception Finkelstein, can be found here in John Train's Remarkable Names of Real People

[AnAmericanMother]

oops . . . I mean, here.

Sadly, it's out of print.

[LPStar]

Isn't anyone going to point out the parents have a few screws loose to want to name their child this? They can choose a better target for their government defiance.

[tiamat]

LOL!

You have to wonder what some of these people are thinking!

Worse than "The boy Named Sue"!
thanks for the link!

Tia

[NovemberCharlie]

This seems like an excellent time to mention the Institute for Naming Children Humanely.

At my high school, there was a football player named Ben Gay.

[Charles Henrickson]

Sara Lindenger and her live-in boyfriend, Johan Leisten

They should name their kid, "The Little B*st*rd Leisten."

The name they should be interested in is "Sara Lindenger," changing it to "Sara Leisten."

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Hey, I might know you!

[tortoise]

While we take it for granted in the US, many countries in Europe have strict rules about naming people or changing names. Some countries require traditional normal names, many countries do not allow you to change your name later, or if they do allow you to change your name, it must be something "appropriate" to your ethnicity as determined by the government.

In the US, anybody can change their name to anything for just about any reason. Just one of the many subtle freedoms that Americans enjoy that Europeans do not.

[rmlew]

Lindenger and Leisten appealed the decision to the county administrative court in their hometown of Goteborg, 296 miles southwest of Stockholm, but it was denied. They haven't decided whether to appeal.

Goteborg, aka Gothenburg, is the second largest city in sweden.

As for the name, I suppose it is better than having another Leif, Sven, Olaf, or Muhamet.

[rmlew]

Unfortunately, in Sweden, two-married parent homes are a minority. Of course, they also have negative population growth.

[Jonathon Spectre]

The tax authority, which oversees rules for names in the Scandinavian country of 8.9 million

Who regulates when you're allowed to take a sh*t?

[I still care]

Time to find out your Captain Underpants secret name. I am Booger Pizzabuns.

http://www.scholastic.com/captainunderpants/namechanger.htm

[montag813]

The authority said it wasn't suitable because it might "lead to discomfort for the person who uses it."

It is terrifying to even think of a government having the power to deny this to a citizen. No comfort is worth the loss of freedom.

[Charles Henrickson]

[Charles Henrickson]

. . . . . . . .

BABY KAL-EL WAS TAKEN IN BY A KINDLY SWEDISH COUPLE,
JOHAN AND SARA KENTSSON. THEY CLOTHED HIM IN THE
SWEDISH COLORS, BLUE AND YELLOW, AND PUT A BIG RED
"S" ON THE FRONT FOR "SWEDEN"!

[MrNeutron1962]

"A moose bit my sister "

"Was she carving her initials on it?"

No, but she was trying to feed it a big block of cheese.

[katana]

My daughters were born in Belgium and the names we gave them had to be included on an approved list in order to recognized and placed on the birth certificates. The ones we chose were in any case conventional and picked because they were the same as some respected ancestors, and because they sounded with a pleasing cadence when spoken with the family name, so we didn't have to change or adapt to the rule. But the fact that the local government had any say at all in this speaks volumes about the differences between America and Europe.