SC - Re: OT: Naming - was ,Zabaglione

[Siegfried Heydrich]

     My mother used to be a social worker, and told the story of one of her
clients who had a baby girl named Female (pronounced Fee-molly). When my
mother asked how she had come up with such an unusually sounding name, the
girl replied that she hadn't named the child, the hospital had . . .
    I knew a pair of twin boys named Romeo and Juliet (worse than being
named Sue, I'll bet), and the minority (afro/french/creole composite) names
people are coming up with nowadays are going to be the despair of
onamasticians in future ages. Ya gotta wonder if, say, 500 years from now,
there will be a society devoted to re-creating 20th-21st century culture . .
.

    Sieggy

> And yes, we do have a list of approved baby names. So do the other Nordic
> countries, I believe. But people will in the majority of cases get
approval
> for a name that isn´t on the list. We used to have a system that was very
> much like the SCA naming rules, as I´ve understood them - if you could
> document that the name you wanted had been used a number of times within a
> given period, it was approved. Now it is much easier to get approval.
>
> Nanna