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Martha Barnette
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2007/12/19 - 5:49pm

From Reuters:

An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son "Friday" and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was born on..."We named him Friday because we like the sound of the name. Even if it would have been a girl, we would have named her Friday," the boy's mother, Mara Germano, told Reuters.

When the boy was about five months old, a city hall clerk brought the odd name to the attention of a tribunal, which informed the couple of an administrative norm which bars parents from giving "ridiculous or shameful" first names to children.

Really. Talk about ridiculous. I like the name, too. What do you think? (Thanks to shpilkes for pointing this one out and supplying the headline.)

Emmett Redd
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2007/12/20 - 8:47am

What would you think of a family named Pankey naming their son Henry?

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2007/12/20 - 9:28am

My Italian is non-existent. After checking a dictionary, I presume they really wanted to name the kid "Venerdì."

Martha Barnette
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2007/12/20 - 4:22pm

Then, of course, in keeping with the season, there's Mary Christmas.

dhenderson
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2008/01/03 - 4:38pm

martha said:

From Reuters:

An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son “Friday”...

Really. Talk about ridiculous. I like the name, too. What do you think?


I like the name, too, largely because it is the name of one of my favorite Robert Heinlein characters.

Dan

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Martha Barnette
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2008/01/05 - 9:04am

Ah, a Girl Friday, then!

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2008/01/08 - 12:40pm

martha said:

Ah, a Girl Friday, then!


If you are going to bring girls names into the mix, do you think they would allow Wednesday?

Martha Barnette
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2008/01/09 - 7:27am

Or Tuesday, as in Weld! Or hey, how about Bastille with the middle name Day?

Emmett Redd
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2008/01/09 - 3:30pm

And let us not forget Thursday Addams.

Emmett Redd

Martha Barnette
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2008/01/13 - 8:46pm

Uh, Emmett, I'm afraid I've forgotten Thursday Adams.

Well, actually, I guess I never heard of him or her.

Who's Thursday?

(And those of you in the peanut gallery will kindly refrain from answering, "I am! Gimme a beer!")

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2008/01/14 - 6:01am

I think Emmett meant "Wednesday," as the Addams daughter was called in the TV series. (I don't believe she was ever named in the Charles Addams cartoons.)

Dieverdog
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2008/01/14 - 8:07am

A good friend of mine, not given to telling tales... says she went to school with a girl name Vagina (no, not Virginia... I clarified that)... and it was pronounced just the same as the part of the female anatomy.

Another acquaintance of mine knew a child that came into the library and the name on his library card was spelled Shithead... but the family pronounced the name "shi-tay." Honest to God.

So, you know, Friday just doesn't seem that bad, really!
Pam

Martha Barnette
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2008/01/15 - 7:49am

Dieverdog, I'd say those stories have urban legend written all over them.

Although I am happy to learn from the wonderful urban legends site, snopes.com, that the family responsible for the eponymous Lear jet had a daughter named Shanda. So I thank you for sending me there!

Guest
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2008/01/16 - 9:24pm

Urban legends, perhaps.

On the other hand, as a physician who has takes care of newborns, I have had to supress a cringe on more than one occasion at names that have been given to children in my care. Confidentiality precludes specific examples, but I have often been tempted to grab the parents, shake them and shout "What were you THINKING!!!".

Grant Barrett
San Diego, California
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2008/01/17 - 4:16am

For your reading horror: The Bad Baby Names Blog. This post is particularly good, in an awful way.

Joie de Vivienne
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2008/06/10 - 11:13pm

I have a second job doing fundraising for fine arts organizations and had to call Mr. & Mrs. Schickendanz today, nice couple, imagine they hate attending weddings 😛

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