New Zealand Bans Strange Baby Names

It is not just in the United States where young parents continue to give their children weird baby names. You have Track, Tripp, Trig, and Bristol Palin; you have Adolf Hitler Campbell of Holland Township, New Jersey; and finally, you have Kal-El Cage, the son of actor Nicolas Cage. So why are so many people bestowing weird names upon their children? Why, to designate them as being special, unique, and one-of-a-kind. However, there are special problems with kids who grow up with weird names.

I went to college with a girl at the University of Arizona. She had a very strange name, despite the fact she was a few years older than me. I could not figure out if she made up her own name as an adult and got it legally changed, or if her mother and father christened her with this particular name. Well, it was much to my surprise to discover she owned and operated a porn site, and unlike sharing your name with someone else, you cannot come out and tell your friends and family, "Sorry, that is not me." Of course, this is an extreme example. Guys with weird names like Kal-El Cage may not have that problem, but they will have a problem in getting a job later on in life. Parents who give their children weird names are not doing them a favor at all.

But New Zealand has recently decided to make it illegal for new parents to give their children certain names which can be regarded as weird or unsuitable for a child. Among these names include: Bishop, Baron, Judge, General, Knight, King, and Mr. The nation has also disallowed parents from using weird symbols in their children's weird names, such as asterisks, tildes, commas, apostrophes, and dollar signs. Good for New Zealand in telling young, inexperienced parents that giving their children weird names is a bad idea. Most corporations will not hire someone who has a weird name, thereby rendering the next generation unemployable, unless the girls go into the porn industry. The guys may not be lucky enough to get jobs flipping hamburgers at McDonalds.

To top off the subject on a light note, I once knew a teen mother named Liberty, and her child was named Trinity. The child's name may seem blasphemous to some people, but to the rest of us, well, they are just more weird names.

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