Banned names

[Oliver Hardy]

Chatting about banned names, I was surprised the name Adolf is permitted but read on a site that people have been stopped from using names like Starlin and Bin Larden

I was sure Adolf was on the banned list!

[Super Sonic]

Oliver Hardy said:

Chatting about banned names, I was surprised the name Adolf is permitted but read on a site that people have been stopped from using names like Starlin and Bin Larden

I was sure Adolf was on the banned list!

Don't you mean Ardolf?

[Oliver Hardy]

Super Sonic said:

Oliver Hardy said:

Chatting about banned names, I was surprised the name Adolf is permitted but read on a site that people have been stopped from using names like Starlin and Bin Larden

I was sure Adolf was on the banned list!

Don't you mean Ardolf?

Yes your right, Ardolf

Edit and off topic but Surprised names like Jenny, Jimmy, Heidi, Bruce, Bryan, Charlotte is banned in Portugal!

Edited by Oliver Hardy on Wednesday 22 March 23:12

[Doofus]

Super Sonic said:

Don't you mean Ardolf?

As well as Orliver.

[TUS373]

I met an Adolf last year. South American living in the USA. First Adolf I have heard of....other than...you know.

[manracer]

My father in law is called Adolf, but the thing I find the strangest is the he was born after the end of WWII.

[markjmd]

How is it that Jizzelda and Minjeeta are not also on this list? It's an outrage!

[Panclan]

We have a chap at work called Bismarck, just end up going around in circles trying to help him.

[deja.vu]

I was expecting another thread on welshbeef.

[Zetec-S]

TUS373 said:

I met an Adolf last year. South American living in the USA. First Adolf I have heard of....other than...you know.

Was he very very old? Say about 130ish. Spent a lot of time in Argentina. Hint of a German accent. Little grey tash…?

[Geoffcapes]

TUS373 said:

I met an Adolf last year. South American living in the USA. First Adolf I have heard of....other than...you know.

I've a business associate in Chile called Adolf. It's not an unusual name down there by all accounts.

[steveo3002]

Zetec-S said:

Was he very very old? Say about 130ish. Spent a lot of time in Argentina. Hint of a German accent. Little grey tash…?

bit of a chip on his shoulder?

[BertBert]

What list is this?

[Riley Blue]

BertBert said:

What list is this?

No idea though some countries have a listed of approved names from which to chose, Denmark is one.

[donkmeister]

Riley Blue said:

BertBert said:

What list is this?

No idea though some countries have a listed of approved names from which to chose, Denmark is one.

New Zealand doesn't have a list of approved names, but the registry office can decline the parents' choice of name of it's stupid. E.g. it's symbols, or likely to get the kid bullied.

But we don't have that in the UK, AFAIK. However you do need to tell the registrar directly so perhaps that takes the wind out of people's sails when they attend with the intention of calling their kid "Sir LMAO ROFLCopter ".

[alfaspecial]

The popularity of the name Jason always amuses me.

It became popular in the 1960's as a result of the film Jason and the Argonauts. And then in the 1960's / 70's as a result of this character:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_King_(TV_serie...


My younger brother, born in 1973 had 5 (yes, 5) classmates called Jason........ (teachers referred to them by their second initial eg JasonP.

Statistics showed 'Jason' as being one of the most popular boys names in the early seventies.


Until: The titular character, actor Peter Paul Wyngarde (born Cyril Goldbert) was prosecuted for activities that Withnail (Withnail and I) would have referred to as ummm 'toilet trading'.....
Daily Mirror
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/ho...


And the name's popularity 'dropped off a cliff'. Until the rise of Neighbours and Jason Donovan.

So there you are, 80's hear-throb Jason Donovan was (presumably) named after Department S / Jason King.

[QJumper]

Apparently iin the UK in 2020 there were no babies names Nigel, but 15 called Lucifer.

[DodgyGeezer]

TUS373 said:

I met an Adolf last year. South American living in the USA. First Adolf I have heard of....other than...you know.

there are quite a few South Africans called Adolf (including several Springboks)


IIRC Iceland has a requirement to call their children something 'Icelandic' and are quite strict about it. Over here Gary is dying out as a name

[Koyaanisqatsi]

QJumper said:

Apparently iin the UK in 2020 there were no babies names Nigel, but 15 called Lucifer.

We had a Lucifer in our year at school (late 90s to early 2000s), almost always just shortened to Luci.

[poo at Paul's]

In the 90's, we had a lady at work called Pearl Nicholas (honestly!) and when she was being paged for a phone call, you could always hear this awesome dull giggling from the whole building! She never really understood why!